Fact – not everything you see on Instagram is actually true. Many people these days try to convince others how amazing their life is by spending hours trying to choose the prettiest filter, the best angle and get as many likes as possible. And this Instagram account, called You Did Not Sleep There, makes fun of them.
It was started in 2015 by Luisa Jeffery from Portland, Oregon, who then went on a trip to the Grand Canyon with her friends. One of them suggested to set up a tent just to take a picture for one outdoor retailer. Jeffery was surprised to learn that people did it all the time just for pictures and that it was actually “a thing." Once back home, she was inspired to start an Instagram account to point out the ridiculousness of this campers’ trend.
However, Jeffery perfectly understands that there might actually be some people who did sleep in those locations and not everything is staged. “But it’s not about being wrong or right at all, it’s just about calling out clichés and making people laugh. I have never taken this that seriously,” the author told National Geographic.
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My toes curled just thinking about me up there !!! I'm dying or at least i would be if I was up there!!!!
The only way to learn to fly, is throw yourself to the ground and miss.
mmh this shot must have been taken from another surface right below the cliff? They just edited until it seemed like is was the brink above gaping abyss..nice example for how real experience is shifting into optimised self representation. Still could also be considered as a very nice magic trick;)
ah s**t;D i didn't read first what it's all about- taking my analysis all back haha
Load More Replies...I think you don't understand what this whole thread is about or you didn't read the article.
Load More Replies...Back of a Land Rover in the parking lot of the Canyonlands National Park overlook.
This one isn't so bad. At least it's not about to dangle off the edge of something!
Hummm the bottom 2 or 3 people get to deal the the bears and wild cats first.
You just had to put it right on the edge. Nooo not the slightly more believable middle that's still a cliff, HAD to be the edge.
Me in the morning: “i gotta go to the bathroom brb” *walks out falls into water*
that looks cool, i wouldnt do that but i do love her for doing that
At least these people put the door on the side that's NOT over a cliff.
Fact – not everything you see on Instagram is actually true. WAIT!! WHAT!! I thought the rule was that anything placed on the internet was true......... I need to take some time and wrap my head around this.......
Debunking Instagram would be a lifetime job. Wait...probably tagging pictures showing realistic situations, not just taken to be placed on the Internet would be more easy. Takes a few days. Oh, also do not include anything altered, optimized, filtered? Really just keep real pictures of real people doing real things for real fun? Looks we're done in an hour. You can download those five pictures now. (/cynicism)
Load More Replies...I'm confused. Where do they make fun of them? The pictures are all breathtaking and though I wouldn't dream of camping in any of those places, well each to their own!
Because a lot of them are plain ridiculous, and unapologetic about it. None of us would actually camp in these places, and that's the point; Many of them look like one wrong move would lead to your death. They didn't actually camp there, they just took pictures. Which is apparently the norm on Instagram.
Load More Replies...I can't even imagine what people are thinking when they do this "yay i'm gonna sleep on a ledge because i want to take some good Instagram pictures before i fall to my death"
That's the point. They didn't sleep there. They just staged the pictures so they could pretend to be hardcore.
Load More Replies..."Quick! Get the picture so we can move the tent someplace safe!" These are awesome pictures though.
Doesn't ANYONE read anything other than comments? I can't believe how many people think these are real. I am shocked. Wow.
Posed or not, I'm not inspired. I see no evidence of room service, breakfast buffet, or in room coffee. And who the hell is going to make my bed?
Never underestimate just how stupid humans can be. Some of them probably DID sleep there, and if they survived it, it was because they swallowed a horseshoe before they left.
It looks like some people spent more time setting up the shot than actually enjoying being outdoors.
Are those tents somehow attached to the rock? Because I imagine that one strong gust of wind would blow them over those cliffs.
I say BS on people's s**t on BP and all I get is this. And I slept at many awkward places. Capture-5a...eaa8b0.jpg
Fact – not everything you see on Instagram is actually true. WAIT!! WHAT!! I thought the rule was that anything placed on the internet was true......... I need to take some time and wrap my head around this.......
Debunking Instagram would be a lifetime job. Wait...probably tagging pictures showing realistic situations, not just taken to be placed on the Internet would be more easy. Takes a few days. Oh, also do not include anything altered, optimized, filtered? Really just keep real pictures of real people doing real things for real fun? Looks we're done in an hour. You can download those five pictures now. (/cynicism)
Load More Replies...I'm confused. Where do they make fun of them? The pictures are all breathtaking and though I wouldn't dream of camping in any of those places, well each to their own!
Because a lot of them are plain ridiculous, and unapologetic about it. None of us would actually camp in these places, and that's the point; Many of them look like one wrong move would lead to your death. They didn't actually camp there, they just took pictures. Which is apparently the norm on Instagram.
Load More Replies...I can't even imagine what people are thinking when they do this "yay i'm gonna sleep on a ledge because i want to take some good Instagram pictures before i fall to my death"
That's the point. They didn't sleep there. They just staged the pictures so they could pretend to be hardcore.
Load More Replies..."Quick! Get the picture so we can move the tent someplace safe!" These are awesome pictures though.
Doesn't ANYONE read anything other than comments? I can't believe how many people think these are real. I am shocked. Wow.
Posed or not, I'm not inspired. I see no evidence of room service, breakfast buffet, or in room coffee. And who the hell is going to make my bed?
Never underestimate just how stupid humans can be. Some of them probably DID sleep there, and if they survived it, it was because they swallowed a horseshoe before they left.
It looks like some people spent more time setting up the shot than actually enjoying being outdoors.
Are those tents somehow attached to the rock? Because I imagine that one strong gust of wind would blow them over those cliffs.
I say BS on people's s**t on BP and all I get is this. And I slept at many awkward places. Capture-5a...eaa8b0.jpg