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Re:Turquoise Siberian lake loved by Instagrammers turns out ... by mfer on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:00PM (#20413203)
A lot on social media is staged to look good. Now we see where people are using toxic and unsafe environments to stage pictures. What does this say about us? Those of us who build the tools leading people to do this and those of us who do go to places to do selfies like that?
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Re:Turquoise Siberian lake loved by Instagrammers turns out ... by samirm on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:06PM (#20413258)
How is this a staged picture if it's actually an interesting location and view? It's not like they're pretending they're actually at the maldives.
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Re:Turquoise Siberian lake loved by Instagrammers turns out ... by brokensegue on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:38PM (#20413588)
they are definitely pretending they are somewhere they are not
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Re:Turquoise Siberian lake loved by Instagrammers turns out ... by samirm on Thursday July 11, 2019 @02:45PM (#20414236)
mmmm no they are not. The place is literally (colloquially) called "Novosibirsk Maldives" and many of the posts acknowledge their location and even tag the power station in the post: https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/199067307495333/...
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Re:Turquoise Siberian lake loved by Instagrammers turns out ... by rgoulter on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:05PM (#20413256)
Sure, "so fake just to appear so cool" is one aspect to it. There are surely users who scroll by and don't see a caption that the pretty lake is toxic.

But "do something stupid/dangerous to show how brave you are" is part of human nature.

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