Turns Out, Influencers Are Using Studio Sets To Make Them Look Like They’re Flying On Private Planes And Here’re 6 Examples
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The coronavirus pandemic has hit the travel industry hard and wrecked a lot of people’s plans for this year. Now, our adventures mostly consist of heading to the exotic realm of The Kitchen or visiting the fabled lands of Netflix-on-the-Couch. Sometimes, we even head to the local park. [Gasp.] I know—daring, right?
However, some influencers and travel bloggers are far from happy that their revenue is drying up and that their ability to travel is restricted. So some of them are actually using studio sets to make it look like they’re jetting off to glorious adventures on private planes. One of these sets is in Los Angeles, California, and costs 64 dollars per hour to rent. Now, people are taking note and warning others that what they see in their social media feeds could all be fake.
Sergey Kostikov, founder of FD Studios, told Bored Panda more about the private jet studio for rent. Read on to see what he had to say.
People have noticed that some influencers are using a studio set in LA to pretend they’re flying on a private jet
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Here are some examples of influencers who appear to have used the same set
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Found another one. I really thought that they were jetting of somewhere 😭 pic.twitter.com/dcwAosBK9p
— Shante😗✌🏽 (@thorkiebabyz) September 26, 2020
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Here’s what the inside of the studio set looks like. It’s not too expensive to rent out
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Kostikov said that he had the private jet studio on his mind for a couple of years before they built it and opened it in December 2019. He revealed that the studio is quite popular and gets around 2 to 3 bookings each day.
“Since it’s such a unique set, people don’t even search for it, and they usually find out about this ‘private jet’ while visiting one of the other studios in the same building. We have 5 studios total there with artificial rain, LED tunnel, boxing ring, and large rustic garage,” Kostikov shared.
He said that the price to rent out the studio is higher on Peerspace because of their fees. “Regularly this studio available for $34.99-$54.99 depending on the day and amount of hours needed.”
Kostikov explained that they were closed during the pandemic to make sure their employees and clients were safe. However, once LA started to loosen regulations, the studio opened back up. The private jet studio got “super busy right away” and the founder of FD Studios believes that people evidently missed flying and being on an airplane.
“I plan to open similar private jet studios in NYC and Chicago, probably next year,” he gave Bored Panda a sneak peek into his plans. “Before 2020 ends, I’m planning to open the first underwater photo studio in the US where photographers can stay dry while models or artists are underwater.”
Influencers are adapting because of the pandemic
The influencer industry has been hit hard by the pandemic and people have had to adapt. Fashion and travel influencers in particular aren’t doing as strongly as before. Meanwhile, fitness, gardening, cooking, and other categories have taken off and influencers are doing very well with them as the public’s priorities change.
Bored Panda previously spoke about the changes the pandemic has brought upon the influencer industry with Brooke Erin Duffy who is an associate professor at Cornell University.
Most of the influencers she’s interviewed think of their careers as profoundly unstable. That’s because they believe they’re at the whims of advertisers, audiences, and social media platforms’ algorithms.
Duffy said that the pandemic has exacerbated issues within the industry and caused some influencers to branch out and develop “different vestiges of their brand persona.” Especially on TikTok.
This could help explain why some influencers decide to fake their travel photos, in order to keep their followers’ attention. However, this is also risky because once found out, the influencers could lose a large portion of their fans (and, more importantly, revenue).
In Duffy’s opinion, the pandemic has sparked two interrelated responses in the influencer industry, neither of which is entirely new.
“The first involves ringing the death knell on influencers because of brands’ dwindling advertising budgets; the second stems from the belief that aspirational imagery and markers of privilege are less and less relevant in a moment of widespread social and economic upheaval,” she said.
“The latter response, crucially, seems to be especially gendered. Indeed, while women influencers have long faced backlash for being what audiences deem inauthentic, excessively self-promotional, or ‘fake,’ the critical blowback seems to have intensified in the wake of the pandemic.”
And here’s what people said about influencers who fake their photos
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I'm aghast and devastated to discover that not everything on the internet is 100% true.
Yeah, I'm laughing about the shock, aswell. Is this generation really that dumb or are we getting a skewed picture? My nieces and nephews (in their early 20s) seem normal and smart but then they don't follow this type of 'influencer'
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Oh God, the one with the red lingerie is so hilarious, I'm still laughing. 😂
Frankly...these pictures have 10 000s of likes. Possibly many but not all can be faked or bought. Who follows these persons, who is interested in this nonesense, and for whatever reasons? I think watching grass grow in Winter is more entertaining.
The nearest I can figure is that perhaps some believe these are real pictures portraying a life style they wish they had?
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I don't know whether it's just me or my upbringing/culture, but flexing wealth is obscene and ugly to me. Not something to be impressed by.
The funny thing is that REAL wealthy people don't do any of that c**p. You don't stay rich by burning through your money on stupid things. The most popular vehicle among millionaires in North America is the Ford F150 pickup truck.
Load More Replies... The effort they appear to put into begging for free lodging, meals, clothes, etc. could go into college classes, internships or apprenticeships and get them a real skill set.
The expensive part of owning a private plane is running it. A used plane can be purchased relatively inexpensively. But you need a hangar, a pilot, maintenance, and fuel. That is the real $$$. The idea that some influencer would have money for a private plane seems implausible. Only the very richest celebrities have their own planes. Planes are more for businesses/royalty/uber rich.
I think they're implying someone is jetting them to a fabulous vacay.
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The funny thing is the term "influencer". What do they really influence besides people that are not smart enough to be of any value anyways
Why? 😔 If you’re rich, you don’t go wear fancy costumes on private jets and taking photo shoots. 😖
Every single one of my Instagram posts have been real. Maybe that's because I am happy with my minimum wage delivery driver life and don't pretend to have things that I can't afford. That's what makes these influencers sad is that they are so unhappy with their real life that they create fake ones.
#2: someone needs to tell her that hose (stockings) do come in longer lengths. looks like over the knee hi socks with a garter. can't help laughing at these wannabes...just why?
Well, the time I did use here, before I fast forwarded, was a total waste of time!!
What are 'influencers' actually? Who do they need to influence? Those 2 on the plane set look like a pair of prositutes!
That set doesn't look very convincing. And just who are these idiots influencing?
It proves 2 things. 1. the person who made the private jet "set" has never been in a private jet. 2. Not 1 of those influencers has either. Credit to the people renting the set though. A fool and their money are soon parted and it's apparent these influencers are a bunch of pathetic fools.
Influencers are the most useless vapid waste of flesh on the planet
The two worst thing that happened to humanity recently are COVID and influencers...
Of someone can't realise that those pictures are faked that person apparently never was on board of a plane
The romance and glamour is part of their brand. People follow them to get an escape from their own lives even for a little while. Yeah, a lot of them are fake. Some of the best stories humanity has ever told were a fiction.
So they have no life of their own. I don't know if they're pathetic or getting what they deserve for being too stupid to breathe.
Useless generation, useless lives of people that follow and useless future of lying and begging to live...when (and if ) they grown up life will eat them alive
I was going to comment on how sad this is, but why waste any words at all on it? -___-
I was not as surprised by this as just how many people follow these charlatans. But that is also the culture of the latest generation: ignore the talented, the skilled and the dedicated. Love: the average, the manipulative and the shallow. The tried and true method that keeps Pop Music alive.
Whining about how bad/awful/mirally corrupted the “latesr generation“ is, is as old as humanity itself.
Load More Replies... I'm aghast and devastated to discover that not everything on the internet is 100% true.
Yeah, I'm laughing about the shock, aswell. Is this generation really that dumb or are we getting a skewed picture? My nieces and nephews (in their early 20s) seem normal and smart but then they don't follow this type of 'influencer'
Load More Replies... Oh God, the one with the red lingerie is so hilarious, I'm still laughing. 😂
Frankly...these pictures have 10 000s of likes. Possibly many but not all can be faked or bought. Who follows these persons, who is interested in this nonesense, and for whatever reasons? I think watching grass grow in Winter is more entertaining.
The nearest I can figure is that perhaps some believe these are real pictures portraying a life style they wish they had?
Load More Replies... I don't know whether it's just me or my upbringing/culture, but flexing wealth is obscene and ugly to me. Not something to be impressed by.
The funny thing is that REAL wealthy people don't do any of that c**p. You don't stay rich by burning through your money on stupid things. The most popular vehicle among millionaires in North America is the Ford F150 pickup truck.
Load More Replies... The effort they appear to put into begging for free lodging, meals, clothes, etc. could go into college classes, internships or apprenticeships and get them a real skill set.
The expensive part of owning a private plane is running it. A used plane can be purchased relatively inexpensively. But you need a hangar, a pilot, maintenance, and fuel. That is the real $$$. The idea that some influencer would have money for a private plane seems implausible. Only the very richest celebrities have their own planes. Planes are more for businesses/royalty/uber rich.
I think they're implying someone is jetting them to a fabulous vacay.
Load More Replies... The funny thing is the term "influencer". What do they really influence besides people that are not smart enough to be of any value anyways
Why? 😔 If you’re rich, you don’t go wear fancy costumes on private jets and taking photo shoots. 😖
Every single one of my Instagram posts have been real. Maybe that's because I am happy with my minimum wage delivery driver life and don't pretend to have things that I can't afford. That's what makes these influencers sad is that they are so unhappy with their real life that they create fake ones.
#2: someone needs to tell her that hose (stockings) do come in longer lengths. looks like over the knee hi socks with a garter. can't help laughing at these wannabes...just why?
Well, the time I did use here, before I fast forwarded, was a total waste of time!!
What are 'influencers' actually? Who do they need to influence? Those 2 on the plane set look like a pair of prositutes!
That set doesn't look very convincing. And just who are these idiots influencing?
It proves 2 things. 1. the person who made the private jet "set" has never been in a private jet. 2. Not 1 of those influencers has either. Credit to the people renting the set though. A fool and their money are soon parted and it's apparent these influencers are a bunch of pathetic fools.
Influencers are the most useless vapid waste of flesh on the planet
The two worst thing that happened to humanity recently are COVID and influencers...
Of someone can't realise that those pictures are faked that person apparently never was on board of a plane
The romance and glamour is part of their brand. People follow them to get an escape from their own lives even for a little while. Yeah, a lot of them are fake. Some of the best stories humanity has ever told were a fiction.
So they have no life of their own. I don't know if they're pathetic or getting what they deserve for being too stupid to breathe.
Useless generation, useless lives of people that follow and useless future of lying and begging to live...when (and if ) they grown up life will eat them alive
I was going to comment on how sad this is, but why waste any words at all on it? -___-
I was not as surprised by this as just how many people follow these charlatans. But that is also the culture of the latest generation: ignore the talented, the skilled and the dedicated. Love: the average, the manipulative and the shallow. The tried and true method that keeps Pop Music alive.
Whining about how bad/awful/mirally corrupted the “latesr generation“ is, is as old as humanity itself.
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