its the internet equivalent of the stripper pole.
get on Instagram and expose yourself, and they will throw dollars at you.
I don’t pretend to know who qualifies as an “influencer”, but my understanding is that at least some of them are guys and a lot of them just do a lot of travel (or even fake travel using backdrops). For some reason, people become obsessed about these peoples’ daily (fake) lives and this somehow leads to fame?
If it were just pretty girls showing the goods, I wouldn’t expect that to get them very far. Of all the things you can find on the Internet, free and abundant pornography seems to be among the easiest. I’m just thankful it no longer appears in my email spam folder.