Socality Barbie Is Leaving Instagram

"It's been a blast running this account but I believe SB's work here is done."

21 March, 2018
Socality Barbie Is Leaving Instagram

Socality Barbie, Instagram's trendiest hipster Barbie with an Instagram feed that will put yours to absolute shame, will no longer be posting to the social media platform. Socality Barbie's creator, Darby Cisneros, announced the decision Wednesday. 

The parody account, which started in June and has since amassed 1.3 million followers, takes jabs at all the things that make Instagram ridiculous yet addictive: still-life outfit photos, artsy candid shots, and, most recently, pumpkins and fall foliage. The captions contain dozens of hashtags and cheesy lines such as, "I believe in the person I want to become," which was the caption that accompanied Socality Barbie's first post. 

In her most recent post, Cisneros explains her reason for leaving the app and her many followers behind. 

"I started SB as a way to poke fun at all the Instagram trends that I thought were ridiculous. Never in 1 million years did I think it would receive the amount of attention that it did but because of that it has open [​sic​] the door to a lot of great discussions like: how we choose to present ourselves online, the insane lengths many of us go to to [​sic​] create the perfect Instagram life, and calling into question our authenticity and motives. It's been a blast running this account but I believe SB's work here is done.​"

And so it would seem another one bites the dust — or does it? Socality Barbie leaves Instagram at a controversial moment: On Monday, 19-year-old Essena O'Neill quit all of social media, declaring that it wasn't real life. Is Socality Barbie parodying yet another social media moment? Or has O'Neill's movement really spread this far? 

While I wait this out, here's a look at some of Socality Barbie's most memorable 'grams. 

[instagram ]https://instagram.com/p/9rFl36HjIc/?taken-by=socalitybarbie" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);" >

[instagram ]https://instagram.com/p/491WxKHjA3/" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);" >

[instagram ]https://instagram.com/p/8y7cETHjCA/?taken-by=socalitybarbie" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);" >

[instagram ]https://instagram.com/p/7MNrjuHjIK/?taken-by=socalitybarbie" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);" >

[instagram ]https://instagram.com/p/5BGRQmnjEf/?taken-by=socalitybarbie" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);" >

[instagram ]https://instagram.com/p/4Fg1KonjMW/?taken-by=socalitybarbie" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);" >

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