I Acted Like A Famous Model On Instagram And Lost All My Followers
BUY quality bulk Yahoo Twitter Hotmail Google Voice Facebook Accounts
kvv202020 23yo Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
I’ve had body image issues my whole life and wanted to see if this would help change the way I saw myself.
Hey! I'm Spencer, and I have a confession to make: I've been working on a version of this article for almost two years now.
And that's not because I'm lazy — it's just taken me that long to start getting comfortable with my body.
The truth is, I've always had body image issues. My low self-esteem and anxiety were primarily rooted in the fact that I saw myself as too skinny. The media's portrayal of men played a huge part in this, and my confidence suffered.
instagram.com / John Shahidi
My new goal was to have as much fun with this project as possible.
I went into this knowing that I wasn't a professional model, so I shouldn't compare myself to one. Those people, like Cameron Dallas, who has over 20 million Instagram followers, literally get paid to look the way they do. It's their full-time job.
I also didn't want to take this project too seriously, because that would just leave me frustrated. So I had a few personal rules before starting: I would only spend a few minutes re-creating each photo, and I wouldn't look at any of the pictures while shooting. Here's what happened.
Instagram: @camerondallas / Instagram: @spenceralthouse
Taylor Miller
The most unfortunate part about this project was that I had to copy Cameron's Instagram captions exactly... and his were usually pretty weird.
His caption was "Is there a better way to start off a night than this ? Probably not..."
That was so out of character for me (and the random space between the word "this" and the question mark KILLED me to publish), but luckily none of my followers figured out what I was doing.
instagram.com / Teen Vogue
And apparently people believed that I was actually going to be in Teen Vogue.
I got a lotttttt of comments, DMs, and texts from people who seriously thought I was going to be in Teen Vogue. To be honest, that felt pretty awesome.
I've looked at that picture of Cameron Dallas hundreds of times over the last few months, but I honestly don't get what he's doing.
Why was he sitting next to a refrigerator while playing a video game? And what was he even sitting on? A mini workout bench? A skateboard? I don't know! The whole thing confused me.
One commenter asked if the people looking at my picture were actually part of the game, meaning I controlled them. I had no idea if that was the true intension behind Cameron's initial photo shoot, as if it were social commentary on how people consume media, but honestly it fucked me up and I knew it was time to stop this project.
Being a model — even a pretend one — is not as easy as it looks. And if you're dying to act like one on Instagram, be prepared to lose some followers (I lost over 400 followers from start to finish).
This project taught me to put everything into perspective. Comparing myself to Cameron Dallas or anyone else in the media is not a healthy way to measure my own success or progress. That's why I suffered so much when I initially started this project two years ago.
I'm extremely happy with how the pictures turned out, and I truly love the way my body looks in most of them. However, I am embarrassed that it took gaining a bunch of muscle for me to start appreciating my body. I should have been able to do that no matter what I looked like. But I think this is a small step in the right direction.
Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed
more on Geo altComjessicaNY84 27yo Forest Hills, New York, United States
totalcocktease 27yo Brooklyn, New York, United States
Комментариев нет:
Отправить комментарий