What is Internet celebrity?
An '''internet celebrity''' (or '''social media celebrity''') is a person who becomes famous on the [[internet]] or [[social media]]. They are also called '''social media influencers''' or '''internet personalities'''. Social media allows people to quickly become famous around the world. Today, internet celebrities are found on social media [[website]]s such as [[Facebook]], [[YouTube]], [[Instagram]], [[WeChat]], [[TikTok]], [[Tencent QQ|QQ]], [[Snapchat]], [[Telegram (software)|Telegram]], [[Twitter]], [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]], and [[Reddit]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Most used social media 2021|url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/|access-date=2021-08-23|website=Statista|language=en|archive-date=2019-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917142233/https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/|url-status=live}}</ref> Many internet celebrities such as [[Charli D'Amelio]], [[Addison Rae]], [[Bella Poarch]] and [[Lil Tay]] also have careers in music or acting. Some internet celebrities promote a particular [[lifestyle]] or activity. They can help create trends/[[fad]]s in fashion, cooking, technology, traveling, video games, movies, [[Esports]], politics, music, sports, entertainment, etc.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Schouten|first1=Alexander P.|last2=Janssen|first2=Loes|last3=Verspaget|first3=Maegan|title=Celebrity vs. Influencer endorsements in advertising: the role of identification, credibility, and Product-Endorser fit|journal=International Journal of Advertising|issue=2|pages=258–281|doi=10.1080/02650487.2019.1634898|issn=0265-0487|year=2020|volume=39|s2cid=198608820|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02650487.2019.1634898|access-date=2020-09-24|archive-date=2020-08-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809025537/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02650487.2019.1634898|url-status=live}}</ref> Some companies will pay them to [[advertising|advertise]] products.