Spencer Pratt Won the Internet. Here's How He Lost Los Angeles
The influencer-turned-mayoral candidate built one of the strangest coalitions Los Angeles politics has seen in years by mastering the attention economy. But when the ballots arrived, Pratt discovered the limits of a strictly-online movement fueled by AI-videos and outrage.
The influencer-turned-mayoral candidate built one of the strangest coalitions Los Angeles politics has seen in years by mastering the attention economy. But when the ballots arrived, Pratt discovered the limits of a strictly-online movement fueled by AI-videos and outrage.
On Election Day, Spencer Pratt made a final pitch to voters in a social media video: a crash course in the laws of supply and demand paired with an attack on the city’s “G-Wagon Brigade”—his term for the affluent elite he accused of running Los Angeles into the ground.
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