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>>kaeruc+(OP)
Is there even such a thing as a github influencer (people living just from github)?

>>siva7+H6
People working in DevRel often aggregate developer oriented content and gain popularity that way, an example would be "swyx" for example. I'm not taking a dump on his work, but you can see the Github influencer effect over there.

>>supriy+Y6
Never heard of swyx.

Self proclaimed GitHub star. But still only 5000 followers and projects max out at 8000 stars.

I don’t know what I had expected but I think it was bigger numbers than that.

https://github.com/sw-yx

>>wodeno+x8
The "github star" claim links to the source (it's some github program where you can nominate people to be accepted into some promotion campaign). Saying self proclaimed makes him sound pretentious, it's actually awarded by github.

>>delusi+d9
You can be factual and still sound pretentious and cringey. Like the medical doctors who insist on being called “doctor”, to the point of smuggly “correcting” strangers in a social setting.

I don’t know this user and won’t assume his intentions, but I can see how having “I’m a GitHub star [star emoji]” as the first sentence on the profile is doing him a disservice: it makes it seem like it’s the most impressive thing he’s achieved and diminishes everything else.

>>latexr+Zc
FWIW a smug doctor usually corrects people that they are a Physician.

>>newmac+Gd
Maybe in English, but in my native tongue there’s no word for physician.

Also, I meant in the sense that you call someone “mister McSmug” and they reply almost angrily with “doctor McSmug”.