Symeon Brown is a reporter and journalist at Channel 4 News and has been hailed as 'the future of journalism' and 'imaginative, original, thoughtful [...] a one off' by Jon Snow. His Guardian long read on the 'Wolves of Instagram' was nominated for a 2019 Orwell Prize and shortlisted for a 2018 British Journalism Award. He won a 2018 Medical Journalists' Association Award for his story on knife crime and the public health crisis facing the major trauma wards in London and was named as one of '30 to Watch' in MHP's Young Journalist Awards.
Symeon has written for a range of publications including Vice, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, CNN, the New Statesman and The Voice. His essay on the commodification of culture in East London was published in Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space (ed. Derek Owusu) by Trapeze in 2019.
His first book is Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition & Deceit in the New Influencer Economy (Atlantic, 2022).
'Compelling.' Reni Eddo-Lodge
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More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic uncertainty by winning the internet's attention? What if you could turn the adoration of your social media followers into a lucrative livelihood?
But as Symeon Brown explores in this searing exposé, the reality is much murkier. From IRL streamers in LA to Brazilian butt lifts, from sex workers on OnlyFans to fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes, these are the incredible stories that lurk behind the filtered selfies and gleaming smiles.
Exposing the fraud, exploitation, bribery, and dishonesty at the core of the influencer model, Get Rich or Lie Trying asks if our digital rat race is costing us too much. Revealing a broken economy resembling a pyramid scheme, this incredible blend of reportage and analysis will captivate and horrify you in equal measure.
Título : Get Rich or Lie Trying
EAN : 9781838950293
Editorial : Atlantic Books
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