Robert Downey Jr has criticised influencer culture and dismissed the idea that content creators can become “stars of the future” as “absolute horses***”. In an appearance on the Conversations for our Daughters podcast, the Avengers star looked back on how fame and celebrity had changed since his childhood. “In the late ’70s, early ’80s, dangerous though it was, there was this sense that the competition wasn’t so stiff that you shouldn’t even bother trying,” Downey Jr said. “Whereas nowadays, people can create celebrity without ever doing much besides rolling a phone on themselves.” He said he didn’t necessarily view that shift “as a negative thing”, but that it created more of a challenge for younger generations to distinguish themselves beyond “a self-aggrandising kind of influencer type thing”. “Hopefully the grosser part of our youth is going to say, ‘Yeah, but that’s not my thing. I want to go do something. I want to make something. I want to build something. I want to educate myself,’” he said.…