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Cindy Landolt. She has been at ~750K IG followers for like three years now, and has posted markedly less fitness content since upsizing her implants. It's all just selfies that focus on her breasts now, with little variance.
She isn't going to disappear, but in my opinion this is the precise moment her career can be said to be over. Plastic surgery can be a major confidence boost, but can also seriously get to one's head, and this has clearly happened to her.
Edit: Actually I would say she started to burn out about three years ago - that's approximately when she started focusing on glamor/sex appeal vs. fitness. The fact that she has gained no relevance whatsoever after her second boob job is basically the death knell. Sort of like Ronda Rousey - a streak of dominance, a loss, then a second, bigger loss after already having lost it.
Edit: Actually I would say she started to burn out about three years ago - that's approximately when she started focusing on glamor/sex appeal vs. fitness. The fact that she has gained no relevance whatsoever after her second boob job is basically the death knell. Sort of like Ronda Rousey - a streak of dominance, a loss, then a second, bigger loss after already having lost it.
Is this a "loss", though, or just catering to a different fan base that may even be more lucrative than the female muscle one?
I mean from her point of view, of course, not ours.
@Chainer - She was gaining followers at a rate of about 100k/year when she was posting fitness content, even after she got implants. When she switched to glamor about three-four years ago, she leveled off at 700K and has been there ever since. Just check any instagram stats site.
In theory sex should sell better than female fitness. In practice, she failed to make it work. Her new photos are just... boring. Repetitive. With the bigger implants they are still boring and repetitive, and is why her profile has not grown at all since getting them 8 months ago.
I don't even think she cares about money. It's all about her self-image. Same exact thing with Cass Martin, just with implants instead of makeup. They both 'made it' and are now posting content that makes them feel confident and comfortable. Power to them, not so much their careers.
I don't see it so much as "falling into mediocrity" as much as, well, plateauing. Influencers in other areas (fashion, tech, auto, etc.) have an endless field of content to explore. Someone like Julia, whose entire shtick is being a cute, buff girl, doesn't really have a way to take things to the next level without getting bigger, stronger, or cuter, of which the first two would be extremely hard to do.
Someone like Julia, whose entire shtick is being a cute, buff girl
Influencers don't need to do anything different to continue growing. It's the opposite - they need to do their 'thing' well, and stick to it.
Bakhar Nabieva's account is still gaining followers at around 300k/year, and she does nothing but post pictures of herself, notable for her fitness, tattoos, and eyes. I guarantee you this would stop if she downsized.
The only people who really plateau are those with 200M+ followers. At that point, they cannot go further only because almost everyone knows about them already.
For smaller influencers, lack of growth on modern platforms means they are circling the drain. You don't generally lose followers either - people don't unfollow often. Instead, an even worse thing happens - you get ignored. People stop talking about you, or reposting your content.
Consider Stampy, a Minecraft player. He has 10M subscribers, but often only gets 50K views a video. This happened to Cass, and I believe is happening to Cindy right now.
With Julia Vins, I get the sense she isn't super into being an influencer. She's still posting to Instagram obviously, but she doesn't make any other content. She stopped vlogging years ago, her Twitter is inactive (not that it had much of a pulse to begin with), and she's refused to do OnlyFans or anything erotic like that. On top of that, she almost exclusively advertises Bang Energy rather than marketing other products.
Of course, this is all her own choice! But given that being a "successful" influencer nowadays requires maximising content production, farming engagement, and promoting your own/others' products. Either she's not very good at that, or she isn't bothered and I'm leaning more towards the latter.
Everything we've seen from her shows she has a very nonchalant, almost blasé personality so I'd say she's making enough money to live comfortably and feels she doesn't need much more than that.
Kiki Vhyce may be losing popularity. All her photos are the same, and she barely has muscle to write home about. Alessandra Alvez may be another one, but she's still got those rippling quads in her favor. Even that isn't saying much because that curvy, yet muscular look is becoming quite common now that more Wellness girls are popping up.
Vladislava could have another year or two of popularity in her. She says she's working with her coach to figure out how to maintain a tighter look all year 'round. She already looks great, but imagine if, for instance, she got more defined abs. This would become a Vladislava fansite.
Chainer's right, though, in so far that a lot of these girls just start appealing to a different fanbase. I can imagine a reality where Cass went down Vladislava's path, refining the look she was already building, and we'd be going nuts for her.
What about Liza Renlund? She started to be big but now I haven't seen anything of her
She looked this ripped this past year but she never showed any competition pics and videos.
I mean, unless the girl wants to invest an absolute ton of energy constantly monitoring and cultivating their image/brand then they will always eventually plateau. Julia Vins' popularity started to take off around 2015. It's been 7 years since then, she's had her time and inevitably people started turning their attention to newer models. There aren't many YouTubers who remain relevant for that long let alone one-note Instagram models. She doesn't seem like she minds the drop in attention, not everyone feels the need to be constantly scrambling to stay in the limelight.
To be clear, what kind of popularity are we talking about? Are we talking about popularity in general or popularity with schmoes?
Kiki Vhyce may be losing popularity. All her photos are the same, and she barely has muscle to write home about. Alessandra Alvez may be another one, but she's still got those rippling quads in her favor. Even that isn't saying much because that curvy, yet muscular look is becoming quite common now that more Wellness girls are popping up.
Agreed. Amazona has surpassed Alexandra as the main Brazilian here. Similar for April and Kiki
I would like to add Kristen to the mix
She posts the same content. All her pics are very similar. But I think she is ok with not growing on social media
Samara Buckler also disappeared very quickly. Jennie Roosa too
Iirc Samara Buckler "disappeared" because they were under going treatment for FtM gender reassignment. I recall there was ALOT of negative responses to Samara when they first came out as gay, then announced they were going to become a male.
Discussion thread for women who seem to have lost the popularity they once had. This is separate from "women who were once great but quit," in that the women to be featured here haven't quit yet. These are women who have lost, or are at least in the process of losing, their popularity. You are welcome to speculate, as this thread will likely be 99% speculation anyway. Agree, disagree, but as always please keep things civil.
I started writing about Julia Vins in another thread, but I feel like what I wrote would be more appropriate here. As someone who manages the "Most Subscribed Names," thread, I would have expected to see her break 1,000 a long time ago... that is if she had maintained the popularity she once had. I preserved what I wrote about her in that other thread and pasted it here. The following are my thoughts on why her popularity is declining (she's not losing subscribers, but she's gaining them at a much slower rate than before):
Do you agree? Disagree? Who are some others you feel like have recently lost (or losing) their popularity?