Influencer Fakes Extravagant Bali Vacation by Going to IKEA

It is no secret that the lives of influencers can be a bit, well, manufactured, but sometimes, we need a reminder of that. One influencer showed just how easily people can buy into all the hype by faking an entire trip to Bali by doing nothing more than going to her local IKEA. 

Natalia Taylor is a influencer with over 300,000 Instagram followers and almost two million YouTube subscribers. She recently decided to shine a light on how easy it is to fake an entire life on social media by pretending to take an entire trip to Bali by going to her local IKEA. 

Said Taylor: "...it’s so easy to pretend to be anyone you want to be. And today, I’m putting that to the test to see if I can fake an entire vacation by posting false photos and Instagram stories." Taylor and her photographer, Ally Amodeo, even left IKEA tags in the photos on purpose, but that did nothing to stop her followers, with comments like "Please let me travel with you," "I’ve been to Bali! It’s amazing! 😍 Where are you staying?," and "Welcome to Bali Indonesia❤️❤️❤️." 

Personally, I found the whole saga quite fascinating. It is a great reminder that not everything is as it seems on social media, so don't get too sucked into it.

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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Petapixel....

I thought Fstoppers was Petapixel + 1 day, they used to at least sort out the dribble such as this, but I guess not anymore

Wasn't always this way...I come back out of nostalgia mostly. It's like the "light" went on autopilot when they did the Peter Hurley tutorials....and dimmed ever since.

Every now and then I see a flicker..

Cool idea, but clearly I'm not the target audience for this channel. I skipped and skipped until about 3 minutes, when I gave up in frustration...

What tha hell is wrong with those "influenzas"? This girl cannot talk normal to people, behaves like a monkey on crack.

While it is o.k for about 10 seconds, this wild gesturing spoils everything. It is seen a lot these days in every other video, not just in those of influencers. I cannot stand it (any longer). It is horrible. (Edit: typo)

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Instasham 😂😂😂

I get a kick at the superficial society using a real camera and call themselves "trending people". I thought phone cameras had taken over the world!?!?

Holy moly, it's like Jim Carey over acting without any of the humor

She looks like she's trying to mimic Peter McKinnon's affect...the cadence, the gestures, the expressions.

Except that's how he really talks whether on camera or not, her, not so much it seems

Time I'll never get back. Please stop these postings, FStoppers. We deserve better.

Funny. But ,Oh My God, this girl needs some sedatives

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