{"id":2397751,"date":"2026-05-01T14:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2397751"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:01:12","slug":"robert-downey-jr-says-influencer-culture-is-not-future-of-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/robert-downey-jr-says-influencer-culture-is-not-future-of-celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr. Says Influencer Culture Is Not Future of Celebrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->Influencer Piper Rockelle, 18, Claims She Made $2.9 Million After One Day on OnlyFans<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/robert_downey_jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Robert Downey Jr.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0doesn\u2019t think influencer culture is endgame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, while <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/influencer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">influencers<\/a> grow more ubiquitous across the pop culture zeitgeist, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/marvel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Marvel<\/a> actor still doesn\u2019t see them changing the celebrity landscape in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hear people talk about, \u2018Oh, the stars of the future are going to be influencers,\u2019\u201d Robert said during the April 26 episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FmcnCj-_uLA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><em>Conversations for our Daughters <\/em>podcast<\/a>. \u201cI go, \u2018I don&#8217;t know what world you&#8217;re living into, but I think that that is absolute horses&#8211;t.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the 61-year-old is aware that today\u2019s landscape for being an up-and-coming star today is much different than the one he grew up in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the late &#8217;70s, early \u201880s,\u201d he said, \u201cthere was this this sense that the competition wasn&#8217;t so stiff that you shouldn&#8217;t even bother trying. Whereas nowadays, people can create celebrity without ever doing much besides rolling a phone on themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he doesn&#8217;t necessarily \u201clook at that as a negative thing,\u201d he said. \u201cI just look at it as more like the challenge for individuation is being upped.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source de.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influencer Piper Rockelle, 18, Claims She Made $2.9 Million After One Day on OnlyFans Robert Downey Jr.\u00a0doesn\u2019t think influencer culture is endgame.\u00a0 In fact, while influencers grow more ubiquitous across the pop culture zeitgeist, the Marvel actor still doesn\u2019t see them changing the celebrity landscape in the long run. \u201cWhen I hear people talk about, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2397752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Robert-Downey-Jr-Says-Influencer-Culture-Is-Not-Future-of.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397753,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397751\/revisions\/2397753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}