{"id":436149,"date":"2026-05-07T02:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436149\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:49:07","slug":"robert-downey-jr-shades-social-media-influencers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436149\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr Shades Social Media Influencers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRobert Downey Jr.<\/a> recently appeared on the \u201cConversations for our Daughters\u201d podcast and shaded social media influencers by saying it\u2019s \u201cabsolute horseshit\u201d to declare them the \u201cstars of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cIron Man\u201d icon noted that \u201cnowadays people can create celebrity without ever doing much besides rolling a phone on themselves,\u201d adding: \u201cI don\u2019t look at that as a negative thing. I just look at it as more like the challenge for individuation is being upped.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHopefully the [larger] part of the youth of \u2013 let\u2019s just call it America for locality\u2019s sake \u2013 is gonna say, \u2018Yeah, but that\u2019s not my thing. I want to go do something, I\u2019m going to make something, I want to build something, I want to educate myself and I want to have more inputs, so whatever my output is, it isn\u2019t just a self-aggrandizing kind of influencer-type thing,\u201d the Oscar winner continued.<\/p>\n

\n\tDowney himself has a sizable social media footprint with an Instagram account that has amassed 58.1 million followers, largely due to the legions of Marvel fans from his tenure playing Tony Stark\/Iron Man in the Marvel <\/a>Cinematic Universe. Downey is returning to the franchise later this year as Doctor Doom in \u201cAvengers: Doomsday<\/a>,\u201d in theaters Dec. 18.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I hear people talk about, \u2018Oh, the stars of the future are going to be influencers,\u2019 I go, \u2018I don\u2019t know what world you\u2019re living in, but I think that that is absolute horseshit,’\u201d Downey said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[My 14-year-old son] kinda got caught up in this whole influencer thing, and next thing you know, it\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, if you like the way I\u2019m playing this video game, do you wanna send me a donation?\u2019 And really, it becomes a religion,\u201d the actor continued. \u201cSo there\u2019s something about the influencers today that are almost like the Evangelical hucksters of the information age. At the same token, it\u2019s different because we\u2019re playing in this new territory and so it\u2019s a little bit of a frontier and I don\u2019t really have a judgment on it. I also know when I am promoting a film now I\u2019ve gotten to know a few of these influencers, and I find many of them grounded, accomplished, cool people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite his own large social media following, Downey said he tries \u201cnot to get too deep down the rabbit hole\u201d because \u201cI don\u2019t wish to be consumed.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know, like people say, \u2018Robert, they just love it when you\u2019re just kind of like seeming off the cuff, and they\u2019re getting a glimpse into your life.\u2019 And I go, \u2018But yeah, but I\u2019d be manufacturing that aspect for them, so it\u2019s B.S.,\u201d Downey said. \u201cBut I remember Jon Favreau, when we brought the teaser for \u2018Iron Man\u2019 to Comic Con, he was tweeting on stage and I saw the audience\u2026 This is the new hue where the audience is going to feel like they\u2019re on the steering committee of this thing. Ok, so that\u2019s the new landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Downey\u2019s full interview on the \u201cConversations for our Daughters\u201d podcast in the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr. recently appeared on the \u201cConversations for our Daughters\u201d podcast and shaded social media influencers by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2561,321,93,61,60,26953],"class_list":["post-436149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-robert-downey-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}