Rethinking the Standards: Who Gets to Influence What?

📏 Rethinking the Standards: Who Gets to Influence What?

By Pastor Lucy Paynter
www.pastorlucypaynter.com

Somewhere along the way, we quietly handed society’s measuring tape to social media—and now we wonder why everything feels distorted.

We started calling them influencers, but we forgot to define what they should be influencing.

We never asked:
➡️ Should influence be based on integrity or attention?
➡️ Should it be measured by impact or impressions?

And now, likes speak louder than wisdom, trends overpower truth, and virality replaces virtue.

💡 Influence Without Direction Is Just Noise With a Following

When anyone with a platform becomes a pattern, and every viral voice is treated like a vision, we risk raising a generation that measures their worth by curated illusions rather than cultivated character.

It’s not too late to course-correct.

🔄 It’s Time to Reclaim the Standards

Not every popular voice deserves a pedestal.
Not every aesthetic life is an authentic one.
Not every platformed person is a purposeful one.

Let’s recalibrate:

📏 Let wisdom be the weight.
📏 Let integrity be the influence.
📏 Let purpose be the platform.

And maybe—just maybe—we’ll raise a generation that lives well, even when no one is watching.

Let’s stop outsourcing influence to algorithms. Let’s start shaping it through truth.