Lets import Nantuckets cheeky no influencers signs to other cities including NYC

There’s big influencer drama on the little island of Nantucket — and there’s a reason we’re all invested.Because most lifestyle content creators are simply insufferable.Over dinner this week, a friend who is a regular on the quaint New England isle asked if I was up to date on the brouhaha.“All you see on the cobblestone streets are people with their ring lights filming content,” she said, noting that locals in the tony but laidback town have had it with the annoying interlopers.The relentless influx of the camera wielders and posers led John Sylvia, the owner of Four Winds Craft Guild, an antique store opened in 1948, to hang a “No Influencers” sign in the shop.True to the island’s quiet luxury ethos, it wasn’t a blaring neon sign meant as an official edict.Made in a nautical style, it’s a cheeky and subtle commentary on the invasion of the quaint enclave by these intrepid cultural explorers.The store posted an image of the sign on Instagram.

And it didn’t go over well with some.One thin-skinned influencer — with millions of followers but not a ounce of self-awareness — took great offense and, bizarrely, attempted to turn the sign into her great feminist moment.“Mocking women when they become powerful in a new industry isn’t new,” wrote Paige Lorenze, under the shop’s post.She recently hung her own shingle there, selling items from her Dairy Boy brand.“It’s just a strange message coming from a store that celebrates a craft with such a rich history of women shaping the island and its economy,” Lorenze added.She is truly missing the point: Male influencers can be just as annoying as the women.Lorenze has done a great job of turning her good looks and slim build into an online moneymaker.But she’s so vain, she definitely thinks that sign is about her.Or about women in general.

However, when you have no real argument — or ability to laugh at yourself — you reach for victimhood.By the morning after my dinner, the back-...