‘People are feeling the real impacts’: influencers use humor to make fun of the private equity industry
Skits and parodies making fun of the trillion-dollar industry have taken over social media, racking up millions of views Johnny Hilbrant Partridge kept getting stuck next to the same kind of finance guy at weddings – the one bragging about his family’s full-time nanny and lavish vacations while name-dropping elite club memberships and private schools. To Partridge, a former fitness instructor, their shameless knack for self-promotion felt ripe for comedy. Using a filter that puts an exaggerated…


