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But now the truck driver or cashier or lawyer or doctor can make TikToks about their profession and become a minor celebrity.

These people are much more interesting than traditional celebrities because they usually have a few good stories or insider tips they can give you. Like "Mr Rice" giving you cleaning tips from his 20 years of experience running a dry cleaning business, "Mechanic Link" doing showing you how involved some car repair tasks are, or the clinical pathologist that tells you about different kinds of carcinomas.

Is this really true about cashiers and truck drivers? I would have guessed the most common jobs are retail and fast food worker. But maybe that's just because I eat too much fast food.

Many of those in the first category will likely work jobs in the latter category before, during, or after their influencer 'career'. C'est la vie.