Bethany Hamilton and Alana Blanchard are certified social media influencers, these days, wiht 2.6 million and 1.5 million followers on Instagram, respectively.
Which makes them some of the most famous surfers in the world, by today’s standards. (For reference: the current world champ, molly Picklum, is carrying a noble, yet trivial by comparison, 109,000 followers.) One’s feed is filled with faith-based mommy vlogging; the other’s features skimpy bathing suits and occasional surfing. Take a guess which is which.
Those millions of eyeballs make Alana and Bethany prime targets for a staple of social media influencer-ism: paid partnerships. Their latest? The longtime friends got together too promote the newest iteration of Fear Factor, by putting venomous Vietnamese centipedes on their bodies, and seeing how long each could endure the creep crawlies.
