'Sponsored Selfies' Are Here

Everyone is officially a spokesperson now.

Today in things that we TOTALLY saw coming, people have finally commoditized the technique Kim Kardashian uses to make money on social media.

In case you want to lose a little bit of whatever faith you have left in humanity, influencer marketplace Tomoson has launched a feature by which brands “can invite influencers to post selfies to Instagram” and make the process easier by basically automating it for them.

Here’s the dashboard:

selfies

…and here’s the end result via makeup influencer Maria Isabel-Gridley:

selfies 2

On the one hand, this sort of thing was inevitable.

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