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> "how to live your dream by becoming an Instagram Influencer while travelling"

Gosh, imagine how that traveling looks like, documenting every moment of it, creating all these fake, yet real looking spontaneous stories. I doubt that one can actually enjoy traveling like that, but maybe that's just me.

I feel sorry for these people.

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I was in Zermatt 2 weekends ago walking around the town when I suddenly heard behind me "Hello and welcome to my channel".

Turn around, see a posse of people around a guy pointing a serious camera at his face. I immediately felt bad for him, it felt so unnatural and the realization that this "vacation" was a job for him did not make me envious at all.

My wife and I instead found a bar inhabited by the local service workers and had a great time hearing their stories.

Similar experience yesterday in Coco Rico in Val D'Isere. There seemed to be two types of people: those who were there to have a good time, and those who were there to look good on Instagram or YouTube. (I was in the latter category, obvs.)

I don't think that GP meant that the travelling is fake, but that the house of cards is bound to fall down or is already falling down, because only so many people can make vlogs about making a living making vlogs. For many of them, the end result might simply be having lost their savings/racked up debt, going back home and then considering themselves a failure. And many others dreaming of this lifestyle, feeling that it should be attainable, but not being able to get there themselves.

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