Robert Downey Jr. Compares Influencers to ‘Evangelical Hucksters,’ Thinks It’s ‘Horses-t’ That They Are the ‘Stars of the Future’
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Por Just Jared | 07/05/2026
Getty Images Robert Downey, Jr. is sharing his strong opinions on social media influencers, and even revealed how it impacted his own family. “In the late ’70s, early ’80s, dangerous though it was, there was this sense that the competition wasn’t so stiff that you shouldn’t even bother trying. Whereas nowadays, people can create celebrity without ever doing much besides rolling a phone on themselves,” he said on the “Conversations for our Daughters” podcast recently. “I don’t look at that as a negative thing. I just look at it as more like the challenge for individuation is being upped,” he added. “Hopefully the grosser part of our youth is going to say, ‘Yeah, but that’s not my thing. I want to go do something. I want to make something. I want to build something. I want to educate myself,’” he added. He had a strong opinion about how influencers will be viewed in the future, too. “When I hear people talk about, ‘Oh, the stars of the future are going to be influencers,’ I go, ‘I don’t know what world you’re living into, but I think that that is absolute horses***,'” he added. He then revealed a personal anecdote with his son Exton Elias Downey , 14, saying, “He kind of got caught up in this whole influencer thing and next thing you know it’s like, ‘Hey, if you like the way I’m playing this video game, do you want to send me a donation?’” “And really it becomes a religion. There’s something about the influencers today [that] are almost like the evangelical hucksters of the information age,” he added. See some of the latest viral news about influencers. The post Robert Downey Jr. Compares Influencers to ‘Evangelical Hucksters,’ Thinks It’s ‘Horses-t’ That They Are the ‘Stars of the Future’ appeared first on Just Jared - Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment .