India, May 7 -- The debate around the rise of social media influencers as film stars has been raging for years, and now Robert Downey Jr. has joined the conversation with a sharp take. The Hollywood star recently threw shade at influencer culture, calling it "absolute horses**t" to crown influencers as the "stars of the future."

Recently, Robert Downey Jr. appeared on the Conversations for our Daughters podcast, where he took a subtle dig at social media influencers.

The Iron Man star mentioned that "nowadays people can create celebrity without ever doing much besides rolling a phone on themselves", adding that he doesn't look at that as a negative thing but more as a challenge for "individuation being upped".

"Hopefully the (larger) p...