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thinkfluencer en · NOUN

Etymology

From thinkfluence + -er, or equivalently, a blend of think + influencer.

Meanings

1. (Internet, derogatory, informal, sometimes) An influencer who posts their thoughts and analysis.
   • It would be easy for an ungenerous observer to conclude that their parliament is little more than the entrepreneurial initiative of a few TED-style thinkfluencers – just another half-formed idea coughed up by smooth talkers with books to sell and consulting gigs to line up. 2014 September 18, Adam Greenfield, “A global parliament of mayors? Just what cities need – more bureaucracy”, in The Guardian:
   • The emotional underpinnings of this economy have been best theorized by Venkatesh Rao, a 46-year-old writer and business consultant, who has become something of a negative futurist, a thinkfluencer’s thinkfluencer. 2020 January 19, Kyle Chayka, “How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted”, in The New York Times Magazine:
   • That's why the first rule of any revolution is to wipe out the intellectuals. Trump is surely already dreaming of the vast logging camp he will fill with the Republican thinkfluencers who are at the moment making a show of being the last holdouts. 2017, Matt Taibbi, Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus, New York, NY: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, page 180:

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