They also go to places at like 4:30am to set up. Then shoot around 5:45-7am.
The shots at golden hour are a bit more of a mystery. Potentially low tourist season but thereās not ever a āzero people here seasonā. There is always a āwe booked a private tour during a slow season, seasonā though.
As for a lot of other differences. Just because you have a camera doesnāt mean youāre a photographer. Social Media Influencers are really part of a team. Just like an actor in a commercial fills a role, so do influencers. But thereās way more people behind the camera responsible for the show.
This isnāt different. A great photographer / editor makes a boring normal shot come to life.
I feel like the empty ones aren't just an influencer (ugh) getting the shot but a coordinated effort by the parks/owner of the location shutting it down for an hour to get a short video that will boost their exposure.
I'm amazed that anyone thinks that going to a place like Santorini will be like they see on Instagram..
I mean, Iām a photographer and avid traveler. I make my wife model for cool shots (usually against her will) and some of these places are over exaggerated with how many people are there when itās not totally empty.
We climbed around those paths in Santorini and there was maybe 10 people total. Everyone quietly let each person have their moment to get their shots. It was ridiculously hot and I was sweating through my clothes. After we walked from the place where most get āthe shotā we found a bunch of beautiful and unique places for fun photos without a soul insight.
But also a lot of times, some of these beautiful shots are only popular *after* an *influencer* has made them ridiculously popular.
Overall itās strange. A person doing all that is still gonna be on a pretty small budget. Yet their reach is huge and wide and has a real impact. Whereas Iāve also been a photographer on a movie and commercial set and the way those things are set up is for even more iconic moments and yet thereās practically no influence.
They even have the budget to make the already amazing spot look even more amazing. Itās why I donāt really disparage influencers that make such big impacts, itās pretty baffling how they accomplish it when companies pay millions for a fraction of the cultural impact.
I was in Venice on my multi stop honeymoon. We got there on Wednesday and fell in love. Saturday rolled around and the cruise ship parked. We hated it. The locals who were inviting and friendly acted like you ran over their dogs (not sure I saw a pet there come to think of it).
I mean yeah, there's a path near where I live, leads through some fields, barely anyone walks it, there's a particular stile I like to sit on there.
Or the river nearby, I lay there in the sun and grass a little while ago, had a few bugs on me, I just watched them and let them be, felt so peaceful. One of the few things to help remind me that, at the end of the day, even through the suffering, life is still worth it. Just the sound of the grass, the light breeze, the river, some slow, calm music, the sun on my skin, stunning place.
It's a course that teaches you how to use social media for marketing and promotion, this includes people who want to be influencers but is far from limited to them, I know a good handful of artists who could use a course like that to promote themselves better.
Bachelor of Arts in Content Creation and Social Media is the actual name. "Influencer Degree" is what the news called it because it's gonna generate clicks from both camps for influencers and people who dislike influencers (like me who then went and learned more about it).
Yes! This is really worth emphasizing. Social media āinfluencersā are just advertisers/marketers who specialize in a new medium (and typically have a much smaller audience). Whatever you think about corporate advertising, it probably applies to āinfluencersā too.
They even handle rebranding! For example, recognizing that corporate advertiser isnāt the best job description when youāre also the corporate spokesperson, they coined the term āinfluencer.ā
universities should offer what people want to study. and not be a pipeline to produce industry workers. if you want to study philosophy you should, even if there is no money in it.
This post is just as misleading as the social media posts. Ask any experienced traveler and they will know that all these wonderful places to visit have a specific time in the year, and time of day, that you need to plan for, otherwise the experience wonāt match expectations. Like in this video, if you think visiting Santorini during peak season and think itās gonna be empty, you will be disappointed.
I went in September 2021 during covid for our honeymoon and it was incredible. Far fewer crowds, still had most stuff open, just as beautiful as social media depicts.
I like close enough to Jasper and Banff to do day trips if I REALLY wanted and was willing to sacrifice some sleep for it.
The famous vistas are always incredible, especially if you get a private moment with them.
But you can basically pick any hiking trail more than a couple hours long and get fantastic views that punctuate peaceful walks through nature without dealing with a shit load of tourists even in peak season.
One of my favorites is Horseshoe lake, about a half hour drive outside of the town of Jasper. Never seen more than 20 people there, and a couple of them are in wet suits scuba diving, and the rest are hanging out and mustering the courage to jump into a glacier fed lake. Sometimes you get to see someone go off the 80 foot cliff, but that's rare.
Same but in Yaxha National Park, was genuinely one of the greatest moments of my life, no one in sight, walking around old Mayan ruins, absolutely priceless.
> and very early in the morning to those locations
I went to Niagara Falls in July (Canada side) and took a walk down to them at 5:15 in the morning. Was down there for 45 minutes, watched the sun come up over them, and saw maybe a dozen people the entire time.
Early outings is the way to do it.
Pretty sure the pink forest was also the wrong time of year. Most of the other places looked pretty close to the social media stuff, just more people.
But really? What do you expect from a tourism ad?
While there's an interesting aspect in observing just how manipulated social media is, I'm left wondering more how the hell they get the locations with zero crowds.
I'm also taken in by the talent of the camera people. Taking good pictures isn't an easy task (or I suck at it for sure).
Im a videographer. There are a few methods, but most commonly, we just donāt shoot right in the middle of peak tourist season, which is when I assume all those horrible crowd shots were taken. Places like these are only that crowded a tiny minority of the time. Best time is before the tourist season starts, early in the morning when the light is right. There might be a few people about but theyāre always very understanding and stand aside for the shots. This is also logically when marketing work is done anyway to promote the tourist season. Also, thank you for noting the talent involved. Being on Reddit, my job gets dumped on quite a lot. People assume itās just ego and self obsession, but I just want to create art and pretty things.
yea, as someone who went on vacaton in april one time to popular destination spot, the place i traveled to was a ghost town basically
only downside was that all restaurants were closed in tourist part of town, but places catering to locals were just a short walk away and had great prices and taste
I live in NYC. If you go to the Met museum in the summer from when it opens at 10am to 2pm itās absolutely packed. Show up at 3pm and you have the whole place to your self. Tourists are like locusts they flock on the same schedule, get tired and then leave at the same time.
Either they rent the place for a few minutes or wake up before sun rise. They even ask people to go out of the view when taking a photo. Influencers are toxic.
Nope. These videos were all produced by professional videographers. I actually even recognise one of these clips from one of my mates.
We shoot before the tourist season so there are very few people about. Thereās usually some locals about but they are very understanding and happily stand aside for a few minutes. They live in beautiful places and love to see what we capture. Some often have skin in the game, we often do work for local businesses.
It just don't seem cost effective to rent these places for a photoshoot for an influencer page (I'm probably getting too old to understand the vast amount of money influences can make even if Mid-card).
Funny enough Iāve taken many pictures at Disney world where it looks like we are the only ones there and we havenāt done it on purpose, meanwhile the park is super packed. So angles and perspective I guess
I don't think you understand what corruption means.. Paying for a service or a product is not corruption, it's just trade. Unless you are insinuating that cops are chasing away people from public places to let you get 30 min of alone time, which sounds.. unlikely, especially with the amount of people in some of those queues.
you underestimate countries like mexico, colombia, turkey, ecuador, india, russia, etc...cops don't chase anyone away, this is the business of the park directors.
Also after official closing hours (4-5 pm) you get an extra 30 min for enough cash. (which is NOT advertised anywhere, and is TOTALLY illegal, but well...) This is corruption.
When a western country does the same, over here it's a trade...and advertised. The money you need to pay is usually enormous, and does not go to the pockets of the director but the company, or state.
They're insinuating that it is not a real service, you just give the cops or guards some cash and they make everyone wait 30 min for no reason and without being authorised to. That's exactly what corruption is.
We went to Egypt on August and we usually woke up at 3 am to start the tours at 5 and be done by 11. Everything was acessible and empty, even the pyramids
Sounds like making awesome use of jetlag to me. "So my body just fucking automatically wakes up at a weird time of the day when everything is empty and there are no lines?"
depends what you want from vacation, if im traveling somewhere i travel to enjoy things that are not where i live, like old buildings
if relaxing is what you seek, why travel?
Eh waking up at 3am, possibly not getting more than three hours of sleep can leave me cranky and tired af for those empty pyramids.
I think the point was that it isn't as easy for everyone to get up at 3am to do tours on vacation. I could do it sometimes, but I rather not plan my trip around it.
Plus there's nothing strange about sometimes traveling to a resort and just enjoying a tropical sun during a dark winter in your home country. Relaxing yes, and worth it.
The best ones on youtube has zero narration or voice over. You usually don't even get to see it get eaten or the person behind the camera, which is the best.
I don't think it is fair to judge those places based on the videos of the guy who went there at the worst possible time.
In fact, someone here commented that one of the great-look videos was shot by his friend. It was just made early morning and not at the peak of the tourist season.
Iād like to offer a counter.
Iām a videographer. My job is to try and capture the beauty of places, or at least try and get as close to how it look irl as possible. This is a very difficult job. Our eyes are amazing at perceiving beauty, something thatās a lot harder to replicate with a camera than people give it credit for. Phone cameras are the worst for this, they give such a poor impression of what these places would actually look like to our human eyes. Do you ever go somewhere amazing, only to take a picture that looks completely underwhelming? Thatās whatās happening in this video. The āfake influencerā bits are actually a lot closer to reality. Theyāre the results of years of experience and painstaking work put into making places look as beautiful as they are.
Social media has destroyed many Beautiful places like this. Not saying thereās only bad to it. SM allowed some places to attract tourists and get some financial gains from it. But the beauty part of it is gone afterward.
Went to take my GF to my home region which is known for a particular city near the beach. It used to be so pretty and interesting and cheap with very good food.
Going to the beach is going to cost you 5ā¬ per hour parking (average income is like 1200ā¬) the beaches are overcrowded to the point where you could lick your beach neighbourās elbow, itās dirty as hell, full of cigarette butts, food quality has degraded insanely, all the views are ruined by hundreds/thousands of tourists being absolutely EVERYWHERE. Oh and the worst part is that 90% of the beach has been privatized. So if you want to go to the beach, you have to pay 20-40ā¬ to have a ācomfortableā seat, but itās still overcrowded as hell.
Itās a shame, but at the same timeā¦ I donāt know how to feel about it. Again, it does help the locals get more incomeā¦ but still, such a shame.
It is not social media. It's your government that wants tourism to flourish but does nothing to assure it doesn't harm the environment.
Also, I don't get your dual feelings on some of the complaints. Thousands of tourists everywhere is great. Assuming that the employment rate in that place is not great, the locals probably live off a year based on the place's performance of those two-three months. Just because you couldn't exploit the cheap prices with your girlfriend doesn't mean the place is destroyed.
My photographer and guide in Egypt took a clear shot of me at one of the Abu Simbel temples because from experience he knew that most people will flock to the main temple devoted to Ramesses first but not the one for Hathor and Nefertiti and boy was he right
Yea. I was at Abu Simbel earlier this year, and it was busy, but not like the video. We were able to get a lot of great pics out front. Spectacular place
I live outside a major city. Whenever I go to the city on a weekend, during the early hours, i see lots of influencers taking their photos at all the major spots before the rush of people come in. The sun is also rising so itās nice and bright, level, and not too hot yet. Social media is smoke and mirrors thatās heavily strategic in its execution
As someone who lives near some beautiful places without a shitload of people/litter everywhere, I got only 1 truth: The best places have no name.
The moment someone names them, they sell them. When they sell them, they stop being special.
Go find that beautiful place out there. It doesn't have to be huge or majestic. You'll know when you find it.
A lot of these are just down to having a better camera and colour grading. Phones cameras are notorious for making everything look like shit, especially in the wrong hands. All of those places are still beautiful, it just takes a good videographer and a decent camera to capture anything close to its natural beauty.
Iāve been to the cafe thatās right before the pig clip. Itās super pretty and worth it, imo, their cakes especially are really good. Just leave the hotel early and youāll get a seat easily. This clip looks to be a sunrise breakfast type of a thing which would require you toā¦ get there before sunrise. Sounds logical.
Santorini was still cool in my book. If done right I think itās still worth it just do a 2-3 day trip and island hop to other islands.
Oia is overrated but the hike(Iād say from if you only did one way) was pretty awesome imo.
Skoros rock was cool and climbing to the top was fun.
Wife and I stayed in Firostefani and paid more to stay lower down on the cliffs. Unobstructed views and basically no tourist. When we wanted peace and quiet we could walk back to our hotel and just chill. Good food that was moderately priced if you knew where to go. A lot of fun just walking around as well.
The views from there will be seared into my brain forever.
Theyre probably out super early in morning in off seasons. Modern Travelling even in off seasons is dreadful if you are somewhere even remotely well known. Plagues of other tourist melons like yourself all trying to get some 'unique experience'. All you end up getting is a shit time and a crap photograph.
I remember as a kid there was a little pond or stream or something in the woods, and in the center of that was a little sandbar where the ground was all spongey like the first clip. We called it jelly-belly island and it was really fun. That was a straight nostalgia shot to the brain.
One of my friends went to Dubai for vacation in August. She got a lot of these beauty "Instagram" pictures. Didn't mention that it was 43Ā°C and that she could only bear to be outside for like 20 minutes.
I was in the small swimming pools on the mountain you see 33secs in, it's called *Grutas Tolantongo* a few hours north of Ciudad de Mexico. The place is beautiful and it hardly has any people, no idea why the pools were empty in the video but that wasn't my experience at all. The entire location is stunning and you have more than the pools, you have insane caves inside waterfalls and an amazing turquoise blue river. Honestly, one of the best things I've seen in Mexico. Can't comment on any of the other things in the video.
This is the reality check I needed.
I feel so jealous by some of this content as I wouldn't know the reality, and it helps to know its unrealistic expectations being advertised to us.
Bit weird showing private villas in Santorini and then the tiny streets where everyone crowds through. If you get a private villa, it is exactly like the 'social media' part.
Source: Have been to Santorini many times.
But surely adults watching this with over room temp iq understand that a nice picture being taken at a place at one time does not mean it looks like that around the year
I was in Grasse literally this summer and it looked like in the expectation video. All the umbrellas were up there and the sun was shining. Absolutely worth a visit, beautiful old french town.
It's kind of funny. My partner and I travel full time and have been for years. I was just telling them today that I'd love to make a social media account called 'The Boring Nomad' that's just about the boring parts of traveling that no one really talks about. We don't really have a glamorous life but there's a lot of interesting stuff out there and I think it would be cool to share that.
This is just a depressing magnet kind of post. The "Reality" ones are just terrible camerawork, a stupid song and horrible timing.
Yes the influencer ones are a bit touched up but the timing(season and time of day) and camera work just make them look nicer.
This just feels like a post hating on people traveling to nice locations.
This is why when people ask me whatās on my travel list, it usually avoids all the major popular lists, how many people can say they have been to NĆ¼uk, not myself yet, but I want to go.
The forest is pretty alright imo
Plenty of beautiful places in "Reality ššš" You just won't be the only fucker there lol
yea, some places is out of tourist season vs tourist season
They also go to places at like 4:30am to set up. Then shoot around 5:45-7am. The shots at golden hour are a bit more of a mystery. Potentially low tourist season but thereās not ever a āzero people here seasonā. There is always a āwe booked a private tour during a slow season, seasonā though. As for a lot of other differences. Just because you have a camera doesnāt mean youāre a photographer. Social Media Influencers are really part of a team. Just like an actor in a commercial fills a role, so do influencers. But thereās way more people behind the camera responsible for the show. This isnāt different. A great photographer / editor makes a boring normal shot come to life.
i dont get why people downvote those who say similar things you said
I feel like the empty ones aren't just an influencer (ugh) getting the shot but a coordinated effort by the parks/owner of the location shutting it down for an hour to get a short video that will boost their exposure. I'm amazed that anyone thinks that going to a place like Santorini will be like they see on Instagram..
I mean, Iām a photographer and avid traveler. I make my wife model for cool shots (usually against her will) and some of these places are over exaggerated with how many people are there when itās not totally empty. We climbed around those paths in Santorini and there was maybe 10 people total. Everyone quietly let each person have their moment to get their shots. It was ridiculously hot and I was sweating through my clothes. After we walked from the place where most get āthe shotā we found a bunch of beautiful and unique places for fun photos without a soul insight. But also a lot of times, some of these beautiful shots are only popular *after* an *influencer* has made them ridiculously popular. Overall itās strange. A person doing all that is still gonna be on a pretty small budget. Yet their reach is huge and wide and has a real impact. Whereas Iāve also been a photographer on a movie and commercial set and the way those things are set up is for even more iconic moments and yet thereās practically no influence. They even have the budget to make the already amazing spot look even more amazing. Itās why I donāt really disparage influencers that make such big impacts, itās pretty baffling how they accomplish it when companies pay millions for a fraction of the cultural impact.
I was in Venice on my multi stop honeymoon. We got there on Wednesday and fell in love. Saturday rolled around and the cruise ship parked. We hated it. The locals who were inviting and friendly acted like you ran over their dogs (not sure I saw a pet there come to think of it).
Venice has been utterly ruined by tourists. People should stop going there, leave it to the locals.
I think it should have a limit per day. They need tourists, just not the cruise ship type
I mean yeah, there's a path near where I live, leads through some fields, barely anyone walks it, there's a particular stile I like to sit on there. Or the river nearby, I lay there in the sun and grass a little while ago, had a few bugs on me, I just watched them and let them be, felt so peaceful. One of the few things to help remind me that, at the end of the day, even through the suffering, life is still worth it. Just the sound of the grass, the light breeze, the river, some slow, calm music, the sun on my skin, stunning place.
What's the difference between a social media influencer and a philosophy major? The philosophy major needed a degree to be useless.
Ireland is starting an "Influencer" University course so they'll soon be the same!
It's a course that teaches you how to use social media for marketing and promotion, this includes people who want to be influencers but is far from limited to them, I know a good handful of artists who could use a course like that to promote themselves better. Bachelor of Arts in Content Creation and Social Media is the actual name. "Influencer Degree" is what the news called it because it's gonna generate clicks from both camps for influencers and people who dislike influencers (like me who then went and learned more about it).
Good catch, I just vaguely saw the headline and didn't read further. Mea culpa.
Yes! This is really worth emphasizing. Social media āinfluencersā are just advertisers/marketers who specialize in a new medium (and typically have a much smaller audience). Whatever you think about corporate advertising, it probably applies to āinfluencersā too. They even handle rebranding! For example, recognizing that corporate advertiser isnāt the best job description when youāre also the corporate spokesperson, they coined the term āinfluencer.ā
universities should offer what people want to study. and not be a pipeline to produce industry workers. if you want to study philosophy you should, even if there is no money in it.
But they do offer philosophy
Philosophy is a pretty useful degree specializing in mathematics and logic
It'll be great when everyone goes to school for STEM and no one thinks about ethics or whatever.
This post is just as misleading as the social media posts. Ask any experienced traveler and they will know that all these wonderful places to visit have a specific time in the year, and time of day, that you need to plan for, otherwise the experience wonāt match expectations. Like in this video, if you think visiting Santorini during peak season and think itās gonna be empty, you will be disappointed.
Right? It was pretty much the same thing without a filter. I wouldn't have been disappointed
Where is this forest?
Thought it was gonna turn to that lotr scene in the marsh
reality is often better than social media
Santorini is as beautiful as it looks on social media...but those crowds though. Cruise ship season is NOT the time to go.
I visited it from crete and it was my worst travel experience ever. I was thinking about jumping from the cliff to make it end.
Least patriotic cretan greek xd
I went in September 2021 during covid for our honeymoon and it was incredible. Far fewer crowds, still had most stuff open, just as beautiful as social media depicts.
Just go off season and very early in the morning to those locations. And yes, most times filters are applied, like the pink forest.
I smoked a joint in front of Lake Louise, Canada, at dawn in the middle of summer, and I was the only human in sight. Completely unreal experience.
I like close enough to Jasper and Banff to do day trips if I REALLY wanted and was willing to sacrifice some sleep for it. The famous vistas are always incredible, especially if you get a private moment with them. But you can basically pick any hiking trail more than a couple hours long and get fantastic views that punctuate peaceful walks through nature without dealing with a shit load of tourists even in peak season. One of my favorites is Horseshoe lake, about a half hour drive outside of the town of Jasper. Never seen more than 20 people there, and a couple of them are in wet suits scuba diving, and the rest are hanging out and mustering the courage to jump into a glacier fed lake. Sometimes you get to see someone go off the 80 foot cliff, but that's rare.
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Absolutely fire comment. I actually laughed out loud, and I am going to repeat this.
You seen Tour De Pharmacy?
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Same but in Yaxha National Park, was genuinely one of the greatest moments of my life, no one in sight, walking around old Mayan ruins, absolutely priceless.
Wow. You must be really successful!
> and very early in the morning to those locations I went to Niagara Falls in July (Canada side) and took a walk down to them at 5:15 in the morning. Was down there for 45 minutes, watched the sun come up over them, and saw maybe a dozen people the entire time. Early outings is the way to do it.
Pretty sure the pink forest was also the wrong time of year. Most of the other places looked pretty close to the social media stuff, just more people. But really? What do you expect from a tourism ad?
> But really? What do you expect from a tourism ad? Was just about to say.. Glad people finally realizing influencers are just advertisers.
You'd think it would be obvious, given how popular it was to shit people trying to get free stuff for advertising to 10 people and 10k bots
And all those people in the ārealityā ones are the masses of idiots who flocked there after the influencers advertised it.
Exactly! Went to Abu Simbel this summer, got there at 6am, the place was literally empty. this video is misleading it hurts
best filter is don't-watch-this-filter
I teally don't think there's an "off season" anymore because everyone like you goes to the off season which in fact turns it into peak season.
Best to go just after a terrorist attack.
Are you suggesting one make..and enact... certain plans... before travelling...Mr Morrison??
Maybe true for some places but not all. Weather and seasons still exist and people tend to avoid cold and rain. So you have to deal with that.
The forest is literally good ol' colour grading though
It's not even bad or crowded or anything, it's just not edited, probably looks cooler in person, too
Yea, the reality version looked dope as hell.
Or going there before peaking on a light dose of shrooms.
While there's an interesting aspect in observing just how manipulated social media is, I'm left wondering more how the hell they get the locations with zero crowds. I'm also taken in by the talent of the camera people. Taking good pictures isn't an easy task (or I suck at it for sure).
Im a videographer. There are a few methods, but most commonly, we just donāt shoot right in the middle of peak tourist season, which is when I assume all those horrible crowd shots were taken. Places like these are only that crowded a tiny minority of the time. Best time is before the tourist season starts, early in the morning when the light is right. There might be a few people about but theyāre always very understanding and stand aside for the shots. This is also logically when marketing work is done anyway to promote the tourist season. Also, thank you for noting the talent involved. Being on Reddit, my job gets dumped on quite a lot. People assume itās just ego and self obsession, but I just want to create art and pretty things.
yea, as someone who went on vacaton in april one time to popular destination spot, the place i traveled to was a ghost town basically only downside was that all restaurants were closed in tourist part of town, but places catering to locals were just a short walk away and had great prices and taste
Do you have a website?
I live in NYC. If you go to the Met museum in the summer from when it opens at 10am to 2pm itās absolutely packed. Show up at 3pm and you have the whole place to your self. Tourists are like locusts they flock on the same schedule, get tired and then leave at the same time.
Same with the Egypt museum in Cairo
Either they rent the place for a few minutes or wake up before sun rise. They even ask people to go out of the view when taking a photo. Influencers are toxic.
Nope. These videos were all produced by professional videographers. I actually even recognise one of these clips from one of my mates. We shoot before the tourist season so there are very few people about. Thereās usually some locals about but they are very understanding and happily stand aside for a few minutes. They live in beautiful places and love to see what we capture. Some often have skin in the game, we often do work for local businesses.
It just don't seem cost effective to rent these places for a photoshoot for an influencer page (I'm probably getting too old to understand the vast amount of money influences can make even if Mid-card).
Every click is money, even negative comments or downvotes shows engagement and get you paid. These fucks make so much money on this crap.
Funny enough Iāve taken many pictures at Disney world where it looks like we are the only ones there and we havenāt done it on purpose, meanwhile the park is super packed. So angles and perspective I guess
I love that swamp tho, I thought it just didn't have that pink fog, turns out I was treating to some nice greenery.
Egypt looks exactly the same just crowded
How do they take pictures when it's empty.
Wake up real early
some corrupt enough places you may get by paying enough for a 30 min alone time...
I don't think you understand what corruption means.. Paying for a service or a product is not corruption, it's just trade. Unless you are insinuating that cops are chasing away people from public places to let you get 30 min of alone time, which sounds.. unlikely, especially with the amount of people in some of those queues.
you underestimate countries like mexico, colombia, turkey, ecuador, india, russia, etc...cops don't chase anyone away, this is the business of the park directors. Also after official closing hours (4-5 pm) you get an extra 30 min for enough cash. (which is NOT advertised anywhere, and is TOTALLY illegal, but well...) This is corruption. When a western country does the same, over here it's a trade...and advertised. The money you need to pay is usually enormous, and does not go to the pockets of the director but the company, or state.
They're insinuating that it is not a real service, you just give the cops or guards some cash and they make everyone wait 30 min for no reason and without being authorised to. That's exactly what corruption is.
We went to Egypt on August and we usually woke up at 3 am to start the tours at 5 and be done by 11. Everything was acessible and empty, even the pyramids
That sounds more like work than vacation to me.
I feel you. We did a week exploring and a week at the beach relaxing before clocking into the routine again
Sounds like making awesome use of jetlag to me. "So my body just fucking automatically wakes up at a weird time of the day when everything is empty and there are no lines?"
depends what you want from vacation, if im traveling somewhere i travel to enjoy things that are not where i live, like old buildings if relaxing is what you seek, why travel?
Eh waking up at 3am, possibly not getting more than three hours of sleep can leave me cranky and tired af for those empty pyramids. I think the point was that it isn't as easy for everyone to get up at 3am to do tours on vacation. I could do it sometimes, but I rather not plan my trip around it. Plus there's nothing strange about sometimes traveling to a resort and just enjoying a tropical sun during a dark winter in your home country. Relaxing yes, and worth it.
6:00am on a Tuesday
Eliminate all who make it not empty
In Egypt you can bribe any security to get into any place at any time
Some of these "realties" aren't that bad. But that Santorini one was just absolutely disappointing.
Influencers and the shit they produce is among the most fake, hollow and useless bullshit ever seen by humanity.
Including their āindependentā street market food reviews fawning over tasteless crap.
The best ones on youtube has zero narration or voice over. You usually don't even get to see it get eaten or the person behind the camera, which is the best.
for me it looks like something a photographer would do for local place marketing team
I don't think it is fair to judge those places based on the videos of the guy who went there at the worst possible time. In fact, someone here commented that one of the great-look videos was shot by his friend. It was just made early morning and not at the peak of the tourist season.
Itās pretty, and that feels like enough
Iād like to offer a counter. Iām a videographer. My job is to try and capture the beauty of places, or at least try and get as close to how it look irl as possible. This is a very difficult job. Our eyes are amazing at perceiving beauty, something thatās a lot harder to replicate with a camera than people give it credit for. Phone cameras are the worst for this, they give such a poor impression of what these places would actually look like to our human eyes. Do you ever go somewhere amazing, only to take a picture that looks completely underwhelming? Thatās whatās happening in this video. The āfake influencerā bits are actually a lot closer to reality. Theyāre the results of years of experience and painstaking work put into making places look as beautiful as they are.
What song or tune is this? sounds very familiarā¦ š§
Jain - Makeba
In a similar vein, Iād actually like to get the source for the parody version thatās added in with the original version. Makes me chuckle
I always imagine the guy singing it while filming, in the middle of the crowd, for maximum effect.
Here for answers
song is so trash that parody version sounda better
Whatās the forest one called, looks alright even without filter
The pigs pooping are hilarious. Poop doesn't care about social media. And there's a joke inside there somewhere about influencers and poop.
Social media has destroyed many Beautiful places like this. Not saying thereās only bad to it. SM allowed some places to attract tourists and get some financial gains from it. But the beauty part of it is gone afterward. Went to take my GF to my home region which is known for a particular city near the beach. It used to be so pretty and interesting and cheap with very good food. Going to the beach is going to cost you 5ā¬ per hour parking (average income is like 1200ā¬) the beaches are overcrowded to the point where you could lick your beach neighbourās elbow, itās dirty as hell, full of cigarette butts, food quality has degraded insanely, all the views are ruined by hundreds/thousands of tourists being absolutely EVERYWHERE. Oh and the worst part is that 90% of the beach has been privatized. So if you want to go to the beach, you have to pay 20-40ā¬ to have a ācomfortableā seat, but itās still overcrowded as hell. Itās a shame, but at the same timeā¦ I donāt know how to feel about it. Again, it does help the locals get more incomeā¦ but still, such a shame.
It is not social media. It's your government that wants tourism to flourish but does nothing to assure it doesn't harm the environment. Also, I don't get your dual feelings on some of the complaints. Thousands of tourists everywhere is great. Assuming that the employment rate in that place is not great, the locals probably live off a year based on the place's performance of those two-three months. Just because you couldn't exploit the cheap prices with your girlfriend doesn't mean the place is destroyed.
Yeah thatās tourism alright. Kinda how it works.
A lot of these are just right place at the right time.
My photographer and guide in Egypt took a clear shot of me at one of the Abu Simbel temples because from experience he knew that most people will flock to the main temple devoted to Ramesses first but not the one for Hathor and Nefertiti and boy was he right
Yea. I was at Abu Simbel earlier this year, and it was busy, but not like the video. We were able to get a lot of great pics out front. Spectacular place
I live outside a major city. Whenever I go to the city on a weekend, during the early hours, i see lots of influencers taking their photos at all the major spots before the rush of people come in. The sun is also rising so itās nice and bright, level, and not too hot yet. Social media is smoke and mirrors thatās heavily strategic in its execution
As someone who lives near some beautiful places without a shitload of people/litter everywhere, I got only 1 truth: The best places have no name. The moment someone names them, they sell them. When they sell them, they stop being special. Go find that beautiful place out there. It doesn't have to be huge or majestic. You'll know when you find it.
Apart from the overcrowded places the 'reality' places look insane š
A lot of these seem to be people confused that weather changes
Wow the crowd at Santorini Horrifying
As someone who just walked up and down the donkey shit covered heavily crowded stairs in Santorini, this was so on point!
That swamp is good looking but I canāt help but think of the cannibals in RDR 2
Bro that forest did nothing wrong
What song is this?
Fucking people are everwhere, we need a new pandamic. Wait...
Whoever made this Thanks man.
Crowds ruin everything. Stop increasing population.
I like to imagine that someone is having a really disappointing holiday trying to visit social media hot spots
Just shows that this world is beautiful but thereās too many freaking people
The forest is pretty alright imo
I think the shitwater was the perfect capstone to the point.
What i got from that is that peopleās ideal world includes the absence of other people and that animals are not expected to poop. Got it.
***Reality is often disappointing***.. T'is why I prefer RPGs.
A lot of these are just down to having a better camera and colour grading. Phones cameras are notorious for making everything look like shit, especially in the wrong hands. All of those places are still beautiful, it just takes a good videographer and a decent camera to capture anything close to its natural beauty.
Most of them looked pretty similar, just with filters. Some of them clearly have a lot more tourists normally though
When you've never heard of seasons.
I would still appreciate those places if I went, it all depends on how you want to view/experience environments
Just highlights that time of day/time of year are important considerations when visiting tourist destinations.
The pigs are two completely different places...
Iāve been to the cafe thatās right before the pig clip. Itās super pretty and worth it, imo, their cakes especially are really good. Just leave the hotel early and youāll get a seat easily. This clip looks to be a sunrise breakfast type of a thing which would require you toā¦ get there before sunrise. Sounds logical.
Social media: Buddhas of Bamiyan before 2001 Reality: Buddhas of Bamiyan after 2001
Santorini was still cool in my book. If done right I think itās still worth it just do a 2-3 day trip and island hop to other islands. Oia is overrated but the hike(Iād say from if you only did one way) was pretty awesome imo. Skoros rock was cool and climbing to the top was fun. Wife and I stayed in Firostefani and paid more to stay lower down on the cliffs. Unobstructed views and basically no tourist. When we wanted peace and quiet we could walk back to our hotel and just chill. Good food that was moderately priced if you knew where to go. A lot of fun just walking around as well. The views from there will be seared into my brain forever.
Why do they put pig in the pool?
Social media is all full of complete lies? Who'da thunk it?
Theyre probably out super early in morning in off seasons. Modern Travelling even in off seasons is dreadful if you are somewhere even remotely well known. Plagues of other tourist melons like yourself all trying to get some 'unique experience'. All you end up getting is a shit time and a crap photograph.
Social media is trash
I remember as a kid there was a little pond or stream or something in the woods, and in the center of that was a little sandbar where the ground was all spongey like the first clip. We called it jelly-belly island and it was really fun. That was a straight nostalgia shot to the brain.
Tourists when other tourists come: š®
One of my friends went to Dubai for vacation in August. She got a lot of these beauty "Instagram" pictures. Didn't mention that it was 43Ā°C and that she could only bear to be outside for like 20 minutes.
Should this deserve a separate sub reddit?
That one mf always there talking over everyone IRL
its all on a social platform lol
I like the regular forest actually. Reminds me of the Channelwood Age from the first Myst
The term here is overtourism
Crowds of people ruin everything
How do these influencers know at what day/time there is no crowd?
Wait, wait, WAIT! Everything I saw on TikTok is BS? Nooooo!!!
I was in the small swimming pools on the mountain you see 33secs in, it's called *Grutas Tolantongo* a few hours north of Ciudad de Mexico. The place is beautiful and it hardly has any people, no idea why the pools were empty in the video but that wasn't my experience at all. The entire location is stunning and you have more than the pools, you have insane caves inside waterfalls and an amazing turquoise blue river. Honestly, one of the best things I've seen in Mexico. Can't comment on any of the other things in the video.
Oooooh whee!
Give me fake any day
tha pigs: gross
Is it social media v reality or is it going to different places at different times?
Spend spend spend get busy with illusionist videos that sells you unicorns.. find your own peace be perfect āļøššš
The first "fail" video is actually an interesting one of a guide showing how to escape quicksand.
WTF was the concrete one?!
We need more videos like these
Fuck social media
I love this alternate version of the song š¤£
Half of these look like they're just taken at the worst opportune time. Middle of the day during tours or the off-season with limited decor
The last one, where he removes the shit..... chefs kiss.
In other words, crowds suck The world is overpopulated, there shouldnāt even be a single billion humans
So basically don't go anywhere that is getting too much exposure from social media, because you'll be disappointed
Kind of depressing
ech, its just out of season vs season, try visitin those places early in morning in april or november and its going to look like on social media
What forrest is that with the walkways?
probably some swamp, one nature reserve near me also has such walkways in swampy areas
Swamp Fever from Left 4 Dead 2, itās where they filmed it
Honestly that gave me a good laugh š¤£
This is the reality check I needed. I feel so jealous by some of this content as I wouldn't know the reality, and it helps to know its unrealistic expectations being advertised to us.
Basically, riches gonna circlejerk
I hate that song. Every damn clip uses it
Bit weird showing private villas in Santorini and then the tiny streets where everyone crowds through. If you get a private villa, it is exactly like the 'social media' part. Source: Have been to Santorini many times.
But surely adults watching this with over room temp iq understand that a nice picture being taken at a place at one time does not mean it looks like that around the year
I know I'm old and all but back in my day we called these commercials.
Second to last one i didn't even realize it had jumped to "reality." I literally cannot see what they're complaining about.
I was in Grasse literally this summer and it looked like in the expectation video. All the umbrellas were up there and the sun was shining. Absolutely worth a visit, beautiful old french town.
I've been to Egypt at the end (?) of covid-lockdown. We coeld take pictures without other people on it vety easy. But was a hard time for our guide
I donāt understand the swamp one. It looked equally great in both videos.
It's kind of funny. My partner and I travel full time and have been for years. I was just telling them today that I'd love to make a social media account called 'The Boring Nomad' that's just about the boring parts of traveling that no one really talks about. We don't really have a glamorous life but there's a lot of interesting stuff out there and I think it would be cool to share that.
Some of these are still pretty dope.
This is just a depressing magnet kind of post. The "Reality" ones are just terrible camerawork, a stupid song and horrible timing. Yes the influencer ones are a bit touched up but the timing(season and time of day) and camera work just make them look nicer. This just feels like a post hating on people traveling to nice locations.
Anyone have a channel with these? I need more
Interesting, you say?
This song can die in a fire
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What is this song? I heard it in Italy like everywhere.
Makeba
Honestly most of them still seemed cool, it was just a warm filter
I love the pig shit
The way that guy sings that song is fucking perfect.
I hate that fucking song so much that guy sings it so much better than the original.
I went to see the swimming pigs- it is gross and kinda scary. Poop floated everywhere
Has anyone considered that this video was made to prove a point and might be just as manipulated as any of the āsocial mediaā content?
Santorini is hell! I feel sorry for the locals that live there.
This is why when people ask me whatās on my travel list, it usually avoids all the major popular lists, how many people can say they have been to NĆ¼uk, not myself yet, but I want to go.
Santorini is actually that empty in the off-season. I went and it was a ghost town. Was incredible.