Influencer work framed as a gateway to exploitation and transactional relationships
The article conflates influencer marketing with sugar dating and implied sex work, suggesting the profession itself leads to moral and physical danger.
“She's over there working in influencer marketing, though she's cagey about what she does specifically. I don't like to pry, but she told me on WhatsApp that she had signed up to sugar daddy websites because 'it's expensive here'.”
