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Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities by pjc50 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:52AM (#16754653)
Reminds me very strongly of "Idoru" (1996) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru

> “If you think about social media, Instagram isn’t you. It’s just a digital version of you – one that shows photographs, sometimes videos, and comments on specific things,”

"Ceci n'est pas un pipe.": the image is not the thing, and there may be images without referents.

Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities by analogmemory on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:55PM (#16758971)
Thank you, I was trying to remember which sci-fi book touched on the same idea.