Instagram Influencer Fakes Going To Coachella To Show How Easy It Is To Instagram Influence
NY POST – A social media influencer has copped to using a little magic to fake an entire trip to Coachella.
Instagram model Gabbie Hanna came clean Monday about how a photoshoot seemingly at the Palm Springs, Calif., festival grounds last weekend was part of a social media stunt.
The blogger — — who has 3.8 million followers — changed all of the captions to the photos, saying “OOPS i faked it all!”
All you need to make a living in 2019: a camera phone and Adobe Photoshop.
In a YouTube video, Hanna explained she didn’t want to attend the music festival because it “feels like a lot of work for something you’re not enjoying.”
Though the snaps can help influencers get noticed, Hanna said the trip can take “weeks of preparation and thousands of dollars.”
Instead, she decided to “get the best of both worlds” by using PhotoShop to get social media content at Coachella. The blogger took pics at a pal’s house and lawn in Marina del Ray, California, wearing festival-style threads.
Gabbie Hanna is an internet personality and former Vine star with 3.8 MILLION followers on Instagram. She has a poetry book, an official music single, and has acted in YouTube premium movies.
She also didn’t go to Coachella this year.
It’s tough to hate on something like this when it’s just someone being smart taking advantage of the stupidity of others. That’s basically how capitalism works in every industry. If you can save thousands of dollars in travel and expenses and just simply fake being at Coachella instead of actually being at Coachella, and people will buy it and eat it up, well that’s just making a smart business decision.
Not to mention she brilliantly decided to avoid being one of the 1,100+ people who got the herp at the show.
Hanna insists she really “taught everyone a lesson” though.
“I know people who double up their outfits on the first weekend and take photos so they can pretend to go to both weekends,” Hanna said. “So what I’m doing is not that far from reality.”
Hanna said she wants the prank to be a reminder that everything on social media might not be what it seems.
“People look at people on Instagram and social media, and they think, ‘wow their life is impossibly perfect,’” she said. “That body, that vacation, that car – so much of it’s fake, and that’s ok.”
Strip off the “and that’s ok” part and you’ve got a very insightful look at social media culture and professional influencing.
(via NY POST, Gabbie Hanna)