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Influencer with 6-figure income as social media star gives it all up
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 เม.ย. 2023
- Lee Tilghman is a former wellness influencer who gave up her 9-to-5 job for a lucrative social media career. But behind the scenes, pressures and criticisms began to affect her mental health and led her to give it all up. Tilghman talks about walking away, how she found her own voice again, and shares advice to those with dreams of becoming an influencer.
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Treating this woman like she’s a “trend-starter” for realizing what most sensible people already know, which is that there’s more to life than social media…? wow, we live in a weird time.
😂😂😂🤣 facepalm
Yeah, so weird.
so strong and brave!
Do young women know this?
Everyone doesn't know this. This generation grew up in the social media age where older people did not. So you won't understand the addiction or need for acceptance these kids are obsessed with. Parents have to teach their kids how to value life.
yes, most people so know.- in theory only. When I'm on a train I see everyone around me spend their day scrolling. Those people don't seem to know it enough.
Love how she mentions she "lost the ability to talk to someone in person". It's healthy for young women to realize this in the "social media world" we are living in!
Probably someone who gets so into that already has in person problems.
If you think about it, never in the history of the world did someone have to hear or see so many negative comments about themselves....you only knew so many people in your community face to face throughout your life....social media really is not good for your health and it can breed narcissism and being out of touch with reality. :(
we need a reset button for humanity
How do you know that?? I think the issue is the most insecure people are the ones who have these channels so when those kinds of people are bombarded with negative comments there are negative consequences. Presidents, teachers, actors, lots of people have been exposed to so much negativity from people and still are and they're fine.
I used to follow her and then her content start getting to wellness extreme but SO happy she finally found herself again!
Life is a gift. You are only on earth for a short time why waste in on social media. So happy for you that you got your life back!!
Content creation can be an all consuming hamster wheel. Kudos to her for breaking free and being aware.
Happy she’s found her happiness again.
I can't imagine living my life in the public eye. Not keeping things to myself and sharing all of myself. I like my calm peaceful life.
She would be a great consultant for other women trying to become content creators
Exactly what I was thinking!!
Good for her that she's found more balance in her life. I wonder if it's hard for influencers (or maybe even kids who want to be influencers) to talk in a way that doesn't seem like everything they say is a 'pitch.' It makes me wonder if they're somehow terrified of their humanity, which can't be concealed by filters.
I remember watching Lee. She had great content ❤
But at the 2:55 minute mark, that’s not Lee. That’s actually Ingrid Nilsen, another influencer who was on TH-cam for a decade and decided to stop doing it full-time as well. She’s actually the creator of The New Savant candles.
I noticed that. I used to watch Ingrid’s videos back when she talked about lipgloss and nail polish.
Good eye!
I’m glad she came out and shared this message. Good for her!
I would not want to be a successful influencer if they told me today they would make me one and pay me well for it. Even as just a social media user it was bad for my mental health, I cannot imagine how damaging it would be for your brain and how you see the world to spend as much time on social media as you do as an influencer. I'm off all social media now and have been for a while and finally I have arrived in real life again. And I'm saying this knowing I spent relatively little time on social media compared to many other people. Having a huge following must be incredibly overwhelming, even though it sounds like a dream come true to many people. I would pick my life any day over that of an influencer, I have trouble understanding my students want to become influencers.
Never heard of her, but I’d prefer being an influencer than 9-5 grind. That’s what working for yourself is. Work never stops but you set your own hours.
I hope she’s doing well.
Good for you. I prefer the 9-5. As an influencer, you lose your right to privacy and anonymity, the lines blur between life and work, your hours are longer, you’re potentially working nights and weekends, “setting your own hours” isn’t realistic because to build a brand you do need to grind it out and most won’t succeed due to over saturated market. Until you succeed, no stable paycheck or health insurance. Yikes!
Yes its a bit crazy. Some people get lucky n get famous doing literally the bare minimum. Like this girl Glamzilla would show a lipstick or two everyday after the pandemic n got famous off it made millions through product collaboration n sponsorships. Even now she creates content sparingly. This motivated her to lose weight she was near about 300 lbs depressed n unhealthy when it started. This is an exceptional story. There are thousands if not millions of women putting their bodies n faces online everyday looking to get the same kind of success and exposing more about their life n it can be difficult emotionally and very stressful
@@SL-lz9jr Not to mention, influencers have completely turned their leisure/fun/vacations into work. No thanks! I like busting a fat chill on vacation.
Much prefer 9-5.
I think some people become influencers and don’t set boundaries that allow them to have longevity in that industry. It has to be hard to share EVERYTHING. It takes a lot of intentionality to be restructure social media businesses so you can still separate it from real life. I wish her continued success.
I'm glad she got a grip. Michelle Phan was one of the first social media person to blow up and she had to quit for similar reasons. The same is true all these years later. I don't like that these people are labeled influencers. Influencing someone is subjective it's not a concrete job function. Content creator is better.
So she didn't "give it all up". She just reduced her amount of content to 2 hours instead of 8.
Michel Janse has a Vlog and she use to do it every day but she has a therapist who helped her to see she doesn’t have to Vlog as much and allow herself to have me time. She openly talks to her viewers about comments, how they make her feel she is just genuine and open about how she feels what she’s going through and so she now may do two days a week and it may be short and simple. We don’t care we just enjoy her content and genuineness. It’s about not allowing yourself letting others put to much on you and you putting yourself in check and keeping you healthy. Other’s who have opinions and love to criticize will do exactly that when it comes to comments, and it’s terrible the things they say but not everybody has a heart.
I love her too!
Michel is so in love with herself.
Good for you! I have an IG account AND a FB page and one thing I NEVER wanted to be was ain influencer. Just the word alone, sounds wrong, to me. I want people to make up their own minds about things.
I understand why she had to quit wish was the correct choice for her. However, the perks of being a full-time influencer, and that you are your own boss. If you know you’re making lots of money, the wisest thing was to get help. You get to choose how many brand deals you want to do. You get to choose how often to post. It seems to me that she became obsessive and it took a toll. She could’ve done many things to prevent this. Also for the comments, you can also filter out comments through Instagram settings. So you won’t ever see these comments.
Your not really your own boss because you have to always create content that your fans want to see not really what brings value to you
Truly. The reason why she lives in that cute NYC apartment and was able to take almost a year off to “recalibrate” was all the savings she built from her influencing career. She will probably end up working in a job in marketing that reimburses her well for her time. But, please put her in a thankless low wage 9-5 or shift work, and she’d be RUNNING back to influencing 😂
@@Cozy_L921 lol facts bwahahaha
Def have to pace yourself to avoid burnout but I was a nurse before and no comment can hurt my feelings after working that job. 😂I love being an influencer
She loved it at some point too.
Love the clothes being so coordinated.
Yes! I got off all social media ( some here for tutorials/news) I feel a complete shift in my life
i still dont see how being an influencer is the same "job" as being in service to the public. taking videos and pictures of your life is not a job, its a hobby. what makes it a "job" is the money.
It becomes a job when brands pay people to post about their products and “influence” then to buy them. It’s basically advertising and product placement that gets them paid.
You need to look at the definition for "hobby."
Any activity moves out of the definition of "hobby" and into the definition of "profession" when someone makes money at it.
For me, Genealogy is my beloved hobby. I don't get paid for it, I do it in my spare time, and it costs me more than it brings in to the bank.
One of my friends shares the same passion, but makes money at it. So for her, it is a profession-- albeit a part time one.
I know writers who can only spend a dozen or so hours a week writing, but have ended up making money at it. So for them, their "hobby" gradually became a "profession"-- again, just a part time one. Only one of the writers I know has made enough to dive into it full time.
Working part time at something for money does not equal "hobby."
Never heard of her. But honestly this sounds like too much money for any “influencer” to make!?!? Glad she did what she needed to do to feel better. And why do people have to be so mean!
crazy so many have never heard of her yet she made this much. goes to show it’s the truth, many out there we never heard of and still making a killin
Grow a set
There's a TH-cam girl that said she makes $50k a month, how do you get to say what too much money is??
People are mean because they’re anonymous and they just say the first thing that pops into their head. I’ve been guilty of that in the past too. It’s an art to be an influencer but it’s also an art learning how to comment respectfully.
Wait, what was the event she got backlash for? I feel like that’s important info.
She tried to put on workshops called “Matcha Mornings” with tickets that cost $500+. Some of her followers thought that was her being greedy. 🤑
New goal: live the Angie attitude! I love this. It was just the motivation I needed. Thanks ❤ Ps why dont enough people say dudes?! My husband always judges me but everytime I watch your videos I feel at home
It is not considered ladylike to use words like "dude" and "bro"
It was good to support yourself and buy a home. Now you can do other things.
They are wearing the same blazer 🤔
"Influencers" are the least important people in life.
I'm SO over people trying to influence/sell me things online in subtle and organic ways as she stated. If it is a normal and obvious ad, I get it - businesses want/need to sell and promote their products and services (may still be annoying) but at least you clearly know the objective. I have been so off put by people I like/followed on social webs and then they start doing this to their audience and it just seems so deceitful, ungenuine and an exploitation of the audience they have built (even when they disclose it). So over it.
A question I wish they would’ve asked us. Is she living off of the money she made from Instagram? Or is she working another job?
She’s still influencing just not in the way she was before. I remember when I followed her and she was on everyday all day. Now she’s promoting her book and ways to balance social media in your life.
Sounds painful. I think other influencers have hired staff to deal with the negative comments that is so rough.
The two women seem to be wearing the same jacket in the same color.
😢
Never heard of her until today. Calling that a strange win.
She should write a book about quitting being an “instagram”. I would definitely buy the book. Just saying….
This is newsworthy? What’s wrong with our media!?
They really color coordinated 😉
I love you beautiful Jenna ❤️
this is so. funny because I have never heard of this girl and i watch youtube a lot. i wonder when she left.
There are tons of TH-camrs. You will never see them all. I find new ones all the time.
She was on Instagram. She made a lot of PCOS content so it was kind of niche
She was on Instagram, not TH-cam
There's so many TH-camrs just because you haven't heard of someone doesn't mean anything.
Tbf, TH-cam is a huge universe of content with BILLIONS of viewers, and topics for all of them.
I focus my viewing on several topics, none of them beauty products, dieting, "self care," or other female-oriented subjects. So I've also never heard of her.
Our lives don’t need to be on display ; we need quiet time for our spiritual well being . You won’t meet God unless you get quiet 🤫. Peace comes when we are not on display .
I hope you find your peace ☮️ and well being .
Amen ❤
I’m completely sick of these self centered “ influencers”.....
54%?? @0:49
If true it’s the scariest statistic I’ve ever heard!!!!!
She just marketed herself on TV by saying “she is going away” 😂😂
I can’t be influenced.
Who saw ingrid!
Influencer has to be the dumbest buzz word in history.
I hate to be this person but it’s so interesting how a white woman gets to speak so freely about her decision, emphasis on her decision to step away from social media. While there are so many POC influencers, who 1. Don’t get enough opportunities 2. Who don’t get platforms and brand deals and 3. Who are shunned for expressing tough times. . I also want to add that I’am not ignoring this women’s experience. As someone who also creates content, you have to set big boundaries. But my boundaries are seen as quitting and not a much needed break if that makes sense. Also she’s very smart for mentioning what she’s learned from content creation. She will now be afforded jobs that allow her to use her skills. While again an influencer of color, will still have to work 20x harder for the same job.
You are right. I think she's hiding something.... It's not the entire story
Let's remove color from this. If you were the same race as her what would your excuse be then?? Sometimes it's not because you are a "person of color" which you don't say what color you are but black people are actually people of color everyone else is not. But let's just say you authentically are a "person of color", is your content unique, who are your competitors, what is the quality of your content? Do you a team of people working for you? Are you getting in contact with the right brands? Are you persistent? Are you professional? What is your personality or attitude like? Are you on the right platform? In business, we can sit there and whine about whether it's our race which we can't change and many others of our same race as more successful than us, or we can focus on being quality people who give quality work and change the things we can. In real life, in this time, it's not everybody else, sometimes it's those "people of color" are not people people want to work with and have no clue about how their field works and gets upset at the success of others who do because they happen to be white not even seeing all the rejections and hardships that people went through but they continued to be diligent. There are many social media wannabe influencers of all colors who have quit or stayed and they weren't interviewed either, so have your team or yourself pursue these opportunities and then once you get rejected then come back whining. But it's ridiculous to whine when you are not pursuing such things and therefore don't have the opportunity. Just because you are a "person of color" doesn't mean opportunities are just going to fall out of the sky into your lap, even if they did you would just ignore them anyway because you'd just convince yourself they would reject you because of your "color". So, like I said, it's not everyone else.
@@ASmith-jn7kf I totally understand what you are saying. As someone who worked as a freelance entrepreneur for 11 years, how you work and who you work are very important. But we can not ignore or act like, the color of our skin, requires us to work twice as hard for very similar opportunities. This isn’t a conversation of laziness. This is a conversation of privilege.
🤔INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE FROM THE TWO NARRATIVES.
Im going to become the next Elvis Presley & Luis Miguel 🎤🎤🎤 that’s my dream job. I want to be a entertainer
AI is going to disrupt this space…large! (…any all products will be able to create their own ‘influence’ twice as good, twice as fast, twice less the risk and twice as cheap… whereby ad & marketing dollars for these ‘never heard of humans’ will dry up….)
It just mean too much pressure and she is not worthy
Being an influencer seems like selling your soul to the devil 😈
💙💜💙
Then words “organic and authentic” have taken a different meaning. Megan Markle uses them a lot.
The host with the blue jacket forgot how to dress modestly.
lol, scram troll
There’s no cleavage troll
Did you actually watch what this content is about? Or are you a funny troll?
Her problem was that she got GREEDY that $300K per year wasn't good enough.
Did anyone else notice @ingridnilsen just popping up randomly in the b roll? 😂
That’s BS that someone can make $300,000/year. I was an advance practice nurse with a doctorate. Having to act to save a life with a moments notice. No where near that pay. No way should a you tuber make that. It is sickening. No wonder all the teens want to do that.
Agreed! You should be paid more. YT & socmeds are not all glam and money pit, they have a dark side and negative effects too..
Wow bitter and jealous
@@katiel1979 maybe not jealous, but just realizing they should get more pay for their position?
The entertainment industry has always been an industry that pays based on interest and demand. A TH-camr/ influencer can attract an audience, and their audience drives their income. As she said, it is sales and marketing. Look at how much actors or even sports figures make. (and it has always been this way) This is all about popularity and the ability to draw in an audience. Although her platform did not save lives, obviously enough people valued her and her messages to follow her, which allowed her to be a success in this field. But as she also noted, it comes at a price, and she eventually decided to walk away from it. She lived, she learned, and she is happy. I am happy for her that she has experienced this journey and is better for it.
The economy doesn’t prize those who contribute to other’s wellbeing. It never was meant to. It prizes those who can limit the resources being given to others and funnel it to themselves, like the middle men industries of insurance companies, investors, weapons, etc. $300,000 is pennies compared to what the really powerful make, who are happy with us fighting amongst ourselves and ignoring them. Also…if you worked a while ago and are retired, inflation has since raised salaries and cost of living. I’m a caregiver who makes $115,000 without an advanced degree. And I’m not rich by any means.
clown world
WHAT EVER.....SAD THAT ITS CALLED A JOB. inFLUENCER JOKE.