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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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MoonChild 8 years ago
Immediately after I saw this the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme started playing in my head... Anyone else? Haha
Giulia Betke 8 years ago
stupid man camped on a rock stupid man fell through a crack all the paramedics and government men couldn't resuscitate the stupid man again
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Hamdhaan Hassan 8 years ago
im sure its a great view from there, but what if it gets really windy
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Tyler Anne Solum 8 years ago
My toes curled just thinking about me up there !!! I'm dying or at least i would be if I was up there!!!!
Raymond Borenstein 8 years ago
The only way to learn to fly, is throw yourself to the ground and miss.
offline 8 years ago
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;)
offline 8 years ago
ah s**t;D i didn't read first what it's all about- taking my analysis all back haha
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Thomas Es Thomas 8 years ago
Back of a Land Rover in the parking lot of the Canyonlands National Park overlook.
Darryl Kerrigan 7 years ago
I do this. Though sadly in a ford Fiesta rather than a 4 by 4 with a tailgate. And only in the UK so far :(
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The Cube Cat 8 years ago
I thrash and twist in my sleep, so if that was me and not fake, I'd be pretty dead.
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Rainbow Unicorn 8 years ago
It could be that they climbed up over the back and secured their tent from above before climbing down into it.
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Auburn Skies 8 years ago
one of the only photos where i think, "no. thats not a good place to sleep." in about a few hours the tide will rise and drown both of them.
offline 8 years ago
yes but that's why it's only reasonable that they left for their hostel above the cave eventually, after investing hours designing this setting.:D
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Echo 8 years ago
Not sure if you meant to make a quote there, but it very funny.
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Panther_Wiles 8 years ago
I'm going to give props to the photographer too... that's a beautiful picture!
Hamdhaan Hassan 8 years ago
i just realised how are they going to get down from there
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Janet Clarke 8 years ago
Yeah, my sleeping bag slides off my air mattress on flat ground.
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Felicia McRaney 8 years ago
I hear the childhood song playing in my head... "rollover, rollover, so they all rolled over and one fell out..." whoops!
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Rinske van Mensvoort 8 years ago
I've slept like this in a tent in Sweden, definitely possible this ons 😊.
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Alyson Sylva 8 years ago
Too flipping copy. Who camps in the snow? Aside from the whole 30 million feet off the ground thing.
Hamdhaan Hassan 8 years ago
i envy the people who can go on adventures like this, i think this is really cool
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Nadine Ducca 8 years ago
This one isn't so bad. At least it's not about to dangle off the edge of something!
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Janet Clarke 8 years ago
When you're sleepy first thing in the morning and forget you camped on top of a cliff.
Hamdhaan Hassan 8 years ago
seriously what if it gets really windy.. do people just keep the tent there for the pic or do they actually sleep in there
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Dawn Soehren 8 years ago
Hummm the bottom 2 or 3 people get to deal the the bears and wild cats first.
Janet Clarke 8 years ago
As well as being squished when top person's hammock comes loose.
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The Cube Cat 8 years ago
There's no safe way down, but the smell of urine attracts animals, so if I were there, I'd take an empty bottle up when I went up, and pee in there.
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Alyson Sylva 8 years ago
Bears, and that nice green grass is marsh grass and cattails, very wet
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Alyson Sylva 8 years ago
Pretty flexible to reach those coffee cups...Oops, hubby just fell off...I was getting a little bored of marriage anyway
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The Cube Cat 8 years ago
The person is so small and positioned weirdly so I can't find his heead
Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
people these are fake!! It's an Instagram to poke fun at the people who set up staged scenes! God doesn't anyone read the words???
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Hamdhaan Hassan 8 years ago
maybe he couldnt find any other place for the sleeping bag or maybe he want to die in an amazing place
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The Cube Cat 8 years ago
People actually do camp under the northern lights, just not in such thin tents.
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Hamlets twin 8 years ago
until you or your partner jerk awake slightly and a comedy of errors later you're spending the rest of the next day drying everything you have with you.
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The Cube Cat 8 years ago
Ow my back hurts just thinking about waking up after a whole night on those rocks.
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The Cube Cat 8 years ago
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.
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Alia Gail 8 years ago
looks like the tide might come up and wash out the tent
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11 o'clock news: and this just in...a sneaker wave washed a camper out to sea when he set his tent up on the beach...will he survive or drown...tune in at 5 am to find out.
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Qwertykeala 8 years ago
Me in the morning: “i gotta go to the bathroom brb” *walks out falls into water*
Amelia Collins 6 years ago
endded up in the middle and you dont know how deep it is!?!?!
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Hamdhaan Hassan 8 years ago
that looks cool, i wouldnt do that but i do love her for doing that
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The Cube Cat 8 years ago
Here we see two sea spirits trying to imitate humans. Despite the protests of their parents, young adult sea sprites adore humans and copy everything that humans do.
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The Cube Cat 8 years ago
At least these people put the door on the side that's NOT over a cliff.
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Heather Moritz 8 years ago
It's fed by a glacier, making it that awesome color :D
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Amelia Collins 6 years ago
it must be so cumfy tho, the sand moves to fit your body.
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bill nye 8 years ago
This is a well known abandoned rail bridge in Washington state, there is no risk of trains. It is however illegal to be on the property/bridge.
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Hamdhaan Hassan 8 years ago
i havent, are they doing this just for the pic
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Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
you have a keen eye. It IS hard to discern but possibly
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ADHORTATOR 8 years ago
followed by "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh........!"
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Dan H 8 years ago
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.......
Hans 8 years ago
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)
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Sansa Blacktyde 8 years ago
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!
Bunzilla 8 years ago
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.
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Ok Ha-Neul 8 years ago
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"
Katie Smith 8 years ago
That's the point. They didn't sleep there. They just staged the pictures so they could pretend to be hardcore.
Load More Replies... Allison G. 8 years ago
"Quick! Get the picture so we can move the tent someplace safe!" These are awesome pictures though.
Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
Doesn't ANYONE read anything other than comments? I can't believe how many people think these are real. I am shocked. Wow.
Dan H 8 years ago
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.......
Hans 8 years ago
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... Sansa Blacktyde 8 years ago
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!
Bunzilla 8 years ago
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... Ok Ha-Neul 8 years ago
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"
Katie Smith 8 years ago
That's the point. They didn't sleep there. They just staged the pictures so they could pretend to be hardcore.
Load More Replies... Allison G. 8 years ago
"Quick! Get the picture so we can move the tent someplace safe!" These are awesome pictures though.
Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
Doesn't ANYONE read anything other than comments? I can't believe how many people think these are real. I am shocked. Wow.
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