Critics enhance the culture, influencers peddle it. Both have their place, neither should remove the other. www.thewrap.com/film-critics...

Who Needs Critics When You Have Influencers?

A shift is taking place in Hollywood, taking power away from established media and putting it in the hands of social media influencers.

100%. I'm much more of a hype man than a critic, but without legitimate and hopefully constructive criticism then praise and hype is meaningless because I could just praise anything and everything for any number of external reasons. I'm not equipped to do that which is why critics are so important