A lot of social media influencers especially vloggers and YouTubers are promoting gambling usually at the end of their vlogs or videos.
I could see a huge contribution and spread of information that they made especially during this time where the majority are using smartphones already. In fact, we've been seeing a massive increase in gamblers and online gambling sites. But how this could affect the mindset of the kids when they are also seeing these ads/promotions from the social media influencers they followed? I could be wrong but this has a mental effect on them and at a very young age, they are exposed to gambling already which is supposedly not the right time.
I think these influencers must know their target audience before accepting the offer or should not be included in their vlogs or videos?
We are in a computer age now, when I say computer age am talking about an easy and fast period of life such that information and awareness are spreading rapidly regardless of who is being exposed to them. Literally, in the past there were contents that are restricted to the exposure of children but now social media has made it easy for anybody to get access to things in the Internet be it something that should be known by only adults or not and for me since there is no way we can completely restrict children from getting access to some contents that may affect their reasoning ability so what we need do is only to guide and educate them about those things, tell them the advantages and disadvantages so that they will not be misguided outside.
Social media influencers like the contents creators are mostly the people that gambling companies uses to advertise their sites because they know that most people prefer watching videos and funny contents online now so most of the time they usually advertise gambling casinos and other gambling platforms just to convince their followers and viewers to place bets on those gambling sites and have a chance of winning.
There is no way those influencers or celebrities can know their targets audience since everyone can easily access their contents without any restrictions.