If anyone has a spare couple of minutes and fancies having a go at getting big on Instagram then I'm going to let you in on the easiest gap in the market to fill, ever.
Instagram accounts parodying the travel world are remarkably few and far between. It's remarkable because travel is almost certainly when we're at our most basic. Remember that picture a few weeks ago when a guy managed to capture three separate men taking the same image of their three separate girlfriends on a Thai beach? Remember hot dogs or legs? Remember this video, made just six months ago, which proves beyond all doubt that we are incapable of going on holiday without taking pictures of the exact same thing as everyone else? Parodying Millennials and Gen-Z in travelling mode on Instagram has got to be the easiest thing to do ever... right?
It is for this reason that a fairly new (established in June now with 152k followers) account Insta_Repeat has made such a splash. Taking pictures from various outdoorsy type travel bloggers, the anonymous owner pulls the images together to show how many similar pics are taken and posted over and over again. From the Girlfriend Taking In The Stunning View Wearing A Fedora Hat shot to the Unattended Campfire On National Park Land snap, it's enough to make any Instagram user check themselves.
The truth is of course that most travel Instagram accounts are SO SERIOUS. We're meant to go on holiday to have fun, to explore, have the time of our lives and yet, as a generation we're cementing our legacy as travellers who can't go to the beach without waxing lyrical about how #blessed we are to interact with Mother Nature in her purest form, or take a trek in the mountains without posting a picture comparing the peak to the infinite highs this journey called life can give us.
There are, of course, other accounts like @Insta_Repeat that poke fun at the earnest traveller – click through to find the best ones here – but do let us know if you're aware of any others, or if you start one yourself. Goodness knows we need it.
"Wander. Roam. Replicate" says this account's bio that was created by a 27-year-old Alaskan woman. The account is "meant to spark critique and dialogue about originality, art, photography and the role of the social media influencer."
The brainchild of copywriter Euzcil Castaneto is more about Instagram as a whole but, considering how much of Instagram is dedicated to travel, a large portion of his posts poke fun at the travel community. According to him, SatireGram "forces you to face yourself every time you take a selfie."
Like Insta_Repeat, YouDidNotSleepThere also focusses on outdoorsy travellers - specifically those who appear to have set up wildly unfeasible sleeping arrangements for the sake of an Instagram picture. See: perching a sleeping bag next to a 1000ft drop. Cute pic, not so cute when you roll over in the middle of the night.
Elnar Mansurov's captions won't make sense to you (unless you speak Russian), but the pictures of him travelling the world wearing a polar bear head speak a thousand words and are as pure and wholesome as a summer's morning.
According to Culture Trip, Elnar blogs about affordable travel and now travels with a backup polar bear head after an unfortunate incident where he left one in a pool in Iceland.
The gift that keeps on giving. Videos and images of men and women either coaxing or being coaxed by their other halves into creating that perfect Instagram picture, the vast majority of which are on hols.
She's gone off the grid now, but last year's BarbieSavior followed the earnest travels of a 20-year-old white woman on a mission trip through Africa (exact location later revealed to be Namibia once she realised Africa was more than one country), saving babies or promoting love...or something.
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