Your Travel Instagrams Are Derivative As Heck

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This hyperlapse video shows just how often Instagrammers take strikingly similar photos in the exact same location

If you have an Instagram account and have never once — not even in those early days before anybody knew how to Instagram with decent aesthetics and used the Kelvin filter far too liberally — posted an uninspired, so-called basic, photo … congrats. If you’re like the rest of the Insta-world, particularly the Insta travel world, chances are good that you’ve posted at least one image that looks strikingly similar to photos other Instagrammers have taken in the exact same location or scenario.

Using public photos sourced from travel hashtags, photographer and artist Oliver KMIA created a hyperlapse video to show just how often this happens. There’s something mesmerizing about watching the Eiffel Tower remain constant and watching as a slew of different people flicker in and out, reaching their fingers to the top. Same with the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, and a zillion different kangaroo-crossing signs Down Under.

On your next vacation, maybe consider deleting Instagram altogether. Or don’t. I’ll still like your travel Instagrams, if only because I want you to like mine the next time I take a trip, too.

 

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the planet is on fire but at least you all have a handle on what's important

You did exist before Instagram, right? These are not new picture ideas.

People have been doing same for decades

If you went thru family photos at Disney from the 90s they’d be the same too 🤷🏾‍♂️ so what’s your point?

This video is over a year old yet still perfect in so many ways. Nothing has changed

There is nothing new under the Sun. Solomon knew that 3k years ago.

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