Photographer's Unfiltered Video Shows the Real Way to Get Thousands of Likes on Instagram

Earlier this year, Instagram star Essena O'Neill famously quit the platform declaring that social media was a lie and created unrealistic physical goals for young women. Photographer Chompoo Baritone has the same idea, but has taken a lighter tone about it.

The video above shows how Baritone actually achieved the shots that got likes on likes on likes on Instagram. Of course, it's not as seamless or as pretty as you'd think. In order to get basically anything to look nice, the photographer had to take tons of dumpster shots and edit the shit out of them. For example:

This effortless basketball shot? Yeah, no, that was a whole debacle:

And this ~*smoldering*~ young man? He wasn't always smoldering with the camera all up in his face:

The whole thing is hilarious. Who cares how your goddamn photos come out (...besides you, your followers, and the Internet in general)? Everything is a silly filtered lie! See for yourself in the video above.

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