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by yayadarsh 2908 days ago
This is a strange comment, to me.

What should they have done? Reached out to the family of the anonymous follower? What does the "popular Instagram influencer" owe to someone who enjoys his/her photos?

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Maybe no one sees anything wrong with it, and perhaps there is nothing wrong with it, hence the downvotes.

What's depressing though is not that people post pictures of a life you wish you had, they do it while not giving a shit about you, no matter how much you might admire them. If you have millions of followers, or maybe even a couple hundred thousand, then statistically a few die everyday, without even so much as a passing thought.

And yet we waste so much time looking at these people's content and letting it depress us, and not enough at those around us who matter more.