Will We Ever Be Rid of Influencers?

[@vonwux]

I can't believe 'JIMMY'S Lamp & Plant Emporium' is back sponsoring videos after the... incident at their Coldhaven store. Half of the car park is still off limits and you can see the glow from miles away on cloudy nights.

[@dariuszzukowski5244]

I always thought the incident was caused by the lady who boiled her kettle while on a boat.

[@djoakeydoakey1076]

Coffeezilla and Moistcritical have both covered this drama. Michael Spicer should know better not to work with them. No, I'm not taking being dead as a decent excuse don't @ me

[@christinavuyk2026]

We all have to do our bit 🧐

[@annemariefrank]

Ooohhh that's what this glow is about.... Thanks for clarifying.

[@duncanparsons]

It's the Triffids I'm worried about. What was Jimmy even thinking stocking those seeds?

[@smooth4553]

That morning routine skit nearly killed me

[@XXC0Y]

Does get his steps in though.

[@-xirx-]

So true too!

[@charliewatson9615]

Amen. So good!

[@piccalillipit9211]

*I GENUINELY GET UP AT SUNRISE EVERY MORNING* make my bed, get an ice cold shower, do Tai Chi on the balcony overlooking the sea *AND I HAVE NEVER ONCE MADE A VIDEO OF IT* Maybe I should do videos about how I DONT do videos about it? How MY routine gives me the superhuman strength to NOT post a video about my routine - which is in itself seemingly unique

[@smooth4553]

@@piccalillipit9211 sadly it didn't give you the restraint to not make a KZbin comment abt it. Better luck next time

[@rossnwilliams]

Long ago, the comedian Dave Allen told the following joke, which seems relevant to this video. The Pope was in his chambers when his secretary said that there was someone to see him. The stranger was ushered in and addressed the pope: 'I'm from the chicken industry, and we have a proposal for you. We would like you to change just one word in the lord's prayer. Instead of "Give us this day our daily bread." it would be "Give us this day our daily chicken." For this small change, we will pay you one billion dollars per year!' The pope thought about for a short while and decided that that was a pretty good deal, so he signed an edict to amend the Lord's Prayer. Just then the chief cardinal came in and, after finding out what had happened, in a state of exasperation said to the pope "What are you thinking your holiness. Have you forgotten about our bread deal?!". :-)

[@rossnwilliams]

I looked for Dave Allen telling this joke in KZbin, but couldn't find it.

[@reprobate337]

@@rossnwilliams Thanks for sharing, Dave Allen was one of the very best

[@Biosynchro]

😆😆

[@gmonkman]

@@rossnwilliams Aye, and google draws a blank so i'm sure this wasnt Dave Allen .. but, I can picture the great man telling it and I was happier when I thought it was Dave Allen!

[@TheBearAndHer]

Possibly the most influential video I have ever watched. Thank you.

[@thami.rubushe]

You're the man Michael. Your sketches leave me in stitches.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The most famous TV influencer : Hi I'm Barry Scott!

[@Tom-sq2yy]

In fairness the man's a legend

[@DanChippendaleMusic]

Think you'll find Barry Bethell was the first TV influencer. Did you see him after he lost 40 Lbs on the Slimfast plan?

[@ChrisFranklyn]

A man who didn't even exist, he was an actor! Nobody called Sara Lee made a gateaux either. I don't even know who I am now.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

​@@DanChippendaleMusic he may be the first but Barry Scott is the best

[@Alex-cw3rz]

​@@ChrisFranklyn what! my life is a l ie

[@MrChatternatter]

😂Dear Mike. I loved your "Pope" costume. Shirt on backwards and a coffee filter on your head- GENIUS!

[@AirplaneBoss1]

6:25 could you say…. a beana colada? I’ll show myself out sorry

[@n3ffo]

this was a good video, but I'm unsure what you want me to buy

[@JHatLpool]

Love it. The Pope telling someone to ' .... push off !'.

[@ianrod1969]

If Lidl and Aldi have taught us anything - it's that the difference between a Cadbury's '99' Chocolate Flake ice cream cone, and a Lidl Gelatelli Chocolate Flake 'Crumble' Cone is negligible in terms of everything bar the price - £4.50 for 4 vs £2.50. So that extra £2 can only ever be going into Cadbury's margin and marketing, cos it's certainly not going into the product. Whack the cost of an influencer into the mix and the marketing costs must increase. So logically - avoiding buying all influenced products like Jimmy Choo's Lamps, Plants & Perfumes would be the way to go....

[@It-Is-What-It-Is.]

Yep, the morning routine. Up down with laptop, phone, chargers. Then I finally get my breakfast and sit down to watch the "How to cure your knee pain with Apple cider" AI advert.

[@tonytoo9999]

You should convert your daily routine into an e-course so you can charge $99

[@EpicMEF]

I have never felt more represented then in that morning routine skit 🥲

[@endarior]

The AI video ending was PERFECT

[@gregnoon9234]

You've influenced me to never again watch influencers

[@OutragedPufferfish]

I don't think I've ever watched an influencer. Maybe I'm too old.

[@benwherlock9869]

Bits of plastic and Kardashians mentioned in the same breath. 😆

[@frankowalker4662]

Is there a difference ?

[@addie_is_me]

@@frankowalker4662 Plastic has value.

[@frankowalker4662]

@@addie_is_me Oh, you're right. And it's useful.

[@ArifGhostwriter]

I love your stairs carpet - very George & Mildred!

[@DazBaldwin]

This is literally the greatest video on our current society!🤣

[@MatthewCharmanadventures]

I love that the Pope is a bit of a geeza.

[@peterrenn6341]

"wot chew wont?- I'm old!" ;-)

[@Ron-Ayres]

Latest member of The Chigwell Massive.

[@RachelLouiseSwann]

I reallly like how Michael says 'stairs', like 'stee-airz'...that's how I will say it from now on. Oh no....Michael has influenced me!!! This channel is boss :D :D :D

[@raystewart3648]

The stairs sketch = crying, laughing and nearly falling of my seat. Best sketch ever.

[@macklee6837]

I've never used, nor will I ever use tiktok.

[@bn5055]

My one point of pride in life is that I've never had a Facebook account.

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

It's like never having tried crack. You have dodged a bullet. I tried it once and have been ashamed ever since. TikTok, I mean, not crack. I wouldn't judge crackheads. You don't have any crack, do you? Not for me, you understand, but since you mentioned it. Ha ha, I'm kidding. Unless you have some. Look, here's my phone number.....

[@obscurum6]

​@@bn5055 😆

[@obscurum6]

TikTok is a cesspit of insanity.

[@Google_Does_Evil_Now]

Tell us you're old without telling us you're old.

[@chasidahL]

That morning routine totally finished me off! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cornparade6874]

I love the idea of the Pope sounding like someone out of Snatch

[@guyincognito461]

As much as I loathe influencers, unboxing videos are acutally usefull if I'm trying to see what a product I want to buy online looks like out of the box.

[@frankowalker4662]

I need a lamp and a plant now.

[@mmurcott8464]

Heading straight to the lamp and plant shop 😂

[@paolamura3497]

The daily morning routine is beyond hilarious...this guy is binge watch worthy!

[@SikhDestroyer]

Morning routine bit had tears rolling down my cheeks

[@shrimpoffthebarbie]

I remember channel four starting. By the time five came out I no longer had a TV.

[@squiremuldoon5462]

The unboxing I do enjoy is Steve MRE when he opens the really old army rations.

[@chriswalford4161]

But Steve also pastiches himself brilliantly too and funny self-referential jokes.

[@squiremuldoon5462]

@@chriswalford4161 nice !

[@levio1314]

I got a TikTok ad halfway they the video, haha, and it was telling me how to make a wallpaper. 😂😂😂

[@kgrand447]

Michael, I adore you. You always make my day ❤️

[@IngieKerr]

That green thing with flappy bits in the weird brown bowl behind your left shoulder! WHAT IS IT! WHERE CAN I BUY ONE!

[@tobyandertonstudio]

Yes, the Morning routine was hilarious in it’s actual reality. 🤣😂

[@wildman2012]

After years of watching TV ads of people eating yummy food, I now eat all my meals in slow motion, with my eyes closed, and a stupid grin on my face.

[@scottmoyle879]

I hope I live long enough to say “what do you want? I’m old!”😆

[@toddie3910]

I came here to find something to make me laugh today and you did not disappoint. 😂 Thank you

[@MrSicdaniel]

Is that a „backwards white shirt and covid mask on the head“ pope costume?

[@retrogiftsuk4812]

Ah, I couldn't work out what the hat was. Thank you.

[@scottishsamba]

😂😂😂😂 Michael is brilliant in costume design as well! Multi talented indeed❤❤❤❤

[@benjaminmugabi7003]

That ending clip on Michael's passing was hilarious!

[@evphex]

Only Michael Spicer could make me lol by simply saying “snail mucous” 😂

[@IncomeBoost42]

Unfortunately, I think the problem is getting worse and I don’t see that changing anytime soon

[@swanronson173]

I see you managed to get the Pope from a Guy Ritchie movie.

[@cern1999sb]

I keep being told to "smash" the like button, but I'm only capable of clicking it

[@RankinMsP]

Indeed. The last time I tried, I needed a new phone.

[@duncanparsons]

I always rather liked the "Inspirations" catalogue that would come with weekend newspapers. Sort of passive influencers.. tho' in retrospect they were probably Cold War tools for connecting with sleeper cells, messages embedded in the banality of it all.

[@margueritehann-syme5137]

Excellent up n down stairs sequence.

[@and3583]

Hideously true 😮 I like looking at the stars through a telescope, and I've watched a lot of youtubers who made videos about this. Now most of them make videos about buying telescopes and taking them out of boxes. Depressing 😮😮

[@MrDowntemp0]

You need a multicharger! That'll optimize your mornings!!

[@naynaynay324]

Just going to steal that greeting: What do you want, I'm old. Edit: Wasn't aware of the concept/reality of AI & virtual influencers. Looks like the machines are winning in a way not anticipated by doomsday prophets; not by waging war but numbing humanity into even more mindless consumers.

[@pdlagasse]

Thanks for the reminder to renew my subscription to Spicer Weekly. I had let it lapse and kept forgetting to send the card in

[@LimeyRedneck]

As Philip K Dick said, we can all just stay home and endlessly sell take-out food to each other.

[@LimeyRedneck]

We all gotta eat...

[@obscurum6]

​@@LimeyRedneck Not take aways though. 🙄

[@LimeyRedneck]

@@obscurum6 Agreed, even if they were affordable. (I think Dick named a specific brand which I was avoiding doing.)

[@obscurum6]

@@LimeyRedneck The time has come for the human race to decide if it wants to keep letting big pharma and the food industry poison them. At some point people have to put their health before 'entertainment food'.

[@Lirretobb]

You had me for a second. But that's not a real PKD quotation, right? It's a good match for his glib aphorisms. It would be eerily precise in this era of JustEat/UberEats/etc

[@MMBY93]

I've never used Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok but everything I hear about them makes them seem like absolute brain cancer.

[@katrinabowker5805]

In stitches over here. It just gets better and better! But man I worry for humanity. I often wonder if Influencers are even aware that they’re just puppets to corporations and consumerism. It’s one of the reasons I’m really starting to dislike Instagram. Everything is an ad. I’m still there for the photography, like some dinosaur 😂 But then I suppose we’ll all just “tryna get paid too”. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@ReeTM]

At 7:35 I haven't laughed so hard in weeks, it just gets better and better. Absurd as you like, thank you!

[@1292liam]

the bit with the stairs was the best

[@obscurum6]

Hey Michael, how about a "Room next door" on the election debates? You could do one for each side of the debate.

[@loganhurley5456]

Did anyone else’s like button glow up purple at 14:18?! Like is that old news for all KZbinrs and I’m slow to the news, or how did you do that?!

[@grumpygranny724]

I love these talks.

[@ethzero]

Michael should do a travel program. Probably call it, Spice World.

[@JoeJigsy]

The Spice Man

[@chriswalford4161]

@@JoeJigsyOld Spice

[@arunbupathy]

3:44 🤣"For f..."

[@teresapaskell5459]

Your killing me😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sjzara]

It’s a kind of infection that can sometimes be serious and keeps changing each year. Sort of like influenza.

[@MrRosebeing]

According to Doctor Who recently...it doesn't end well...so there is hope...

[@j.b.w.]

Excellent papal clothing of a shirt on backwards and coffee filter hat.

[@beingsshepherd]

Why do _like_ buttons always have to be either hit or smashed?

[@Avg_Janitor]

Thanks for making these

[@dom.b1972]

A cockney pope with a shirt on back to front 😂

[@RoyAntaw]

RIP and looking forward to the next video...

[@JZsBFF]

Thoughts, prayers and anticipation.

[@RC83]

Irony is that you could be called an influencer now 😅

[@soundscape26]

Well but tbh he's not selling anything.

[@JohnPreston888]

Not really. And that's not the correct use of "irony", just the mutilated version. But the point is that "Influencer" is now a specific designation. Michael Spicer could properly be called an "entertainer", because although he might put across an opinion, it is not to direct you to spend cash on a product, or adopt a particular lifestyle. That's the difference.

[@chrisbos101]

How many likes?

[@jonahblock]

@@soundscape26he is selling his point of view

[@juliewake4585]

He definitely influences me (or maybe he just entertains?😂)

[@TGWazoo1]

It’s certainly a psychological phenomenon. The number of views most internet influencers have indicate niche. Yet there must be some data to indicate their marketing value.

[@Fatspurios]

Jimmie's plant & lamp Emporium sounds like somewhere you'd have to visit, just to satisfy your curiosity.

[@pierrerienier3214]

you forgot an important aspect here: because a lot of consumers are tired of PAID endorsements, many of them now lie and don't disclose their financial links. So on top of being annoying, many are deceptive

[@chriswalford4161]

I love the shirt on backwards!

[@sprobablycancr4457]

HEINZ beans? Alright for some.

[@J03L-]

Unboxing can be useful. If the person isn’t lying about the product then it’s a good way of viewing a product before buying it.

[@palefire]

Even post mortem my favorite!

[@berryXjerry216]

7:36 I died not gonna lie 😂😂😂

[@christinelloyd8775]

I really, really enjoyed this!!😂😂

[@FelineFurKin]

Seems one needs a nice branded tote bag to carry all that stuff down in one go 😅

[@anreoil]

Rest in peace, Michael.

[@grantbartley483]

Only by watching your video have I realised that Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds are different people, so you certainly influenced me. I just thought there was one famous Ryan.

[@karenn8260]

Oh my! I did not realize they were different people.

[@grantbartley483]

@@karenn8260 It's a Ryan revelation

[@JimmyOibruv-dv8jc]

50% sale still on at the Coldhaven store!

[@mityaboy4639]

bean-a-colada 🤣

[@markmarsden9459]

Lamp and plant! Chortle

[@boiledelephant]

I just realised, there's basically zero chance of AI ever replacing my job. Because I'm a tree surgeon. Permission to look smug?

[@dfishpool7052]

Priceless!

[@andRubymakes2]

Gone too soon 😭😭😭

[@Silsoe123]

Please can you link me to purchase a Jimmy's lamp.

[@MontagoDK]

Do you have a link to that William Survey ?

[@from.memories]

You nailed the Japanese pronunciation of IKEA. Well done.

[@whatever0007]

Or most of the world except English speaking?

[@honeycheerios42]

Backwards shirt for a papal cassock 😂

[@MrRosebeing]

Infomercials were for those back in the day that weren't watching Babestation...I was an infomercial addict...obviously...

[@emilyrobinson1327]

Snail mucous 😂

[@pirlie]

7:41 At least he got his daily steps in that way, as told by another tech gimmick.

[@billkingston4402]

Excellent content,I started thinking, if only Hunter S Thompson was on tiky toky

[@juliewake4585]

“What do you want? I’m old.” That sounds like me. Btw I’ve never seen TikTok .

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I can't help thinking there was a missed opportunity for a dodgy Italian pope accent during this video. I know he's Argentinian, but even so...

[@Radagast-]

That spectacular cod Italian accent that Jim Broadbent did in the 2nd episode of Blackadder would be perfect. Not least because he was portraying a Spaniard! *The Blackadder

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@Radagast- Again, please!

[@Radagast-]

@@FatNorthernBigot My lad had never seen it, so his brother got him the boxset for his birthday... My fave is "No, no, no, no... What. Is. Heeeee. Like?"!

[@Andrewjg_89]

It’s bit like on TikTok that you see lots of people posting videos and getting lots of followers and are being called influencers. And I don’t use TikTok because I have tried it and it’s pointless.

[@assininecomment1630]

Hang on... 🤔 I spend way, waaayy too much time on social media _and_ am too backward to have filters, blocks, or protective account settings - but I never see any influencers. How can they be so damn unavoidable/ubiquitous, if a 'sitting duck' gumby like me, seems to be free of any influencers? 🤷‍♂️