People Shame Influencers Doing Dumb Things For A Pic And Here Are 35 Of Their Posts (Best Of All Time)
Have you ever wondered what it takes to get the perfect shot for Instagram? When it comes to influencers, it seems some will quite literally go to great heights to take a good selfie. Sometimes risking it all for the "money shot" does pay off. But other times, doing dumb stuff for "the gram" can land you in deep trouble. And you could even end up paying with your life.
If you ever needed a reason to think before you shoot, look no further than Instagram page Influencers In The Wild. With over 5.3 million followers, it's a place where "the creators are the content". A wicked wall of posts from people who spotted others posing in weird, funny, silly and sometimes dangerous positions. Bored Panda has put together our all time favorites from the page. Keep scrolling, upvote your faves and let us know what you think these influencers were thinking.
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Good Morning Sunshines
The last pic is my new all time favorite. -influencer fails-
This Video Was Doomed From The Start
I Don’t Know What’s Happening Here, But I Love It
Now, this one I like! Who's a good influencer? You are! Yes you are!
It seems a lot more goes into taking the "perfect" selfie than we might realize. From stopping traffic, to posing naked in the snow, influencers have been caught in various precarious positions. All in the name of the gram. While some of the pics here are funny, others are no laughing matter.
Selfies can be deadly. You're actually more likely to die taking a selfie than from a shark bite. That’s if the statistics from a 2021 study are anything to go by. According to the study, published in the Journal of Travel Medicine, there were at least 379 selfie-related deaths worldwide between 2008 and 2021. In comparison, 90 people died in shark attacks during the same period.
I’ll Ask You Again, Are You Willing To Die For Your Content?
Do not underestimate neither the weight of water nor the hardness of rocks.
Hope She Remembered To Make A Wish
Be Careful Out There Y’all. Know Your Surroundings, Respect Your Surroundings
India had the most selfie-related deaths, followed by America and Russia. While the top causes of death were falls from height, transport and drowning. "Travellers are often affected because of the desire to ‘be cool’, i.e. to post photos on social media and get rewards in the form of likes and comments," said the researchers.
They warned against wreckless behavior when trying to get a great shot for social media. “In this era of experiential travel and the urge to take a selfie that outdoes the rest, travellers are taking dangerous risks that cannot be justified in terms of the number of Instagram followers that they might gain in the process.”
Literally An Influencer In The Wild
This Could Not Have Gone Any Better
There’s Stupid. And Then There’s Stupid
In one of the most recent incidents, a 24-year-old TikTok star had their final moments captured on camera. Arina Glazunova died after tripping over a low wall in Tbilisi, Georgia while filming a video for social media. The Russian was filmed by her friend skipping and singing, before plunging into a subway. She died in hospital shortly after the incident.
Influencer In The Wild
* Alien Voice* What Is A Foodie
Nah, they’ll sell ring side tickets to our inevitable self destruction.
Sir This Is What The Zoom Feature Is For
A few months earlier, a 27-year-old travel influencer fell to her death in India. Aanvi Kamdar had been filming footage of a 300-foot waterfall in India during monsoon season. She slipped down a gorge before she could share the video to her Instagram account.
Rescue workers struggled to get to her, and described the conditions as "treacherous". "She fell on the hard, slippery patch of rocks around 300 ft into the valley and couldn't be spotted initially," said one of the rescuers. "She was sent up using a stretcher attached to rappelling ropes. Six rescuers climbed down the hill, while another 50 assisted atop the hillock." Kamdar was taken to hospital after the 6-hour rescue mission. But died shortly after being admitted.
Was She Watching Old Seinfeld Episodes??
Cold Plunge Time
Babe Just Got Baptized
Yet another content creator died in April, after slipping off a viewing platform while taking a selfie in Georgia. Inessa Polenko had climbed over a barrier at the Gagry viewing point. The 39-year-old fell onto a beach below and succumbed to her injuries in hospital.
Pole. Glass High Heels. Low Tide. Garbage Truck. Yep, This Is A Perfect Video
Influencers In The Wind
And another one gone, and another one gone. Another one bites the dust (yeah).
lets see if the cape of good hope lives up to its name and her insurance covers the hospital bill
This is the point of Cape of Good hope, should she have sat on it; I'd say "NOPE", fell over backwards and feels like a "DOPE"; thank you , thank you very much!!
It’s A $4 Hamburger Dude
In Indonesia, a 43-year-old man fell to his death while taking a selfie on a cliff in Bali. "The victim arrived at the Broken Beach tourist attraction at 16.30pm, then the victim took a position on the edge of the cliff to take a photo with his back to the Broken Beach photo object," read a police statement.
Police said the man's tour guide grabbed Abhishek Bhatia's leg but "because of the victim's body weight" they could not hold on and the man fell to the bottom of the cliff. His body was retrieved later that evening.
Beware Of Moe’s Horns. It Says It Right There On The Sign
If You Hold Up NYC Traffic To Get A Pic For Instagram, I’m Not Saying The Driver Should Be Allowed To Hit You. I’m Not Saying That At All. But Maybe A Little Bump?
One Wolf Approaches One Human 40,000 Years Ago In Hopes Of Some Food And Companionship, And Here Is Where We Wound Up
The researchers made recommendations in their paper on how they believe "death by selfie" can be avoided. "Travel medicine practitioners should routinely counsel travellers on responsible self-photography during international travel and should include this advice in printed material provided," they said.
"The travel and mobile phone industries should reinforce these health promotion messages. Future research should offer greater insights into selfie-taking behaviour among travellers."
Influencers Are Returning To The Ocean. Nature Is Healing
I can’t mock this picture. Only a man confident with his masculinity would wear a mermen costume, especially in public. Kudos to them for having the confidence.
How Was The Vacation? It Was Great, We Went To The Beach, Kailee Got Like 35 Pictures Of Her Butt, We Went To Dinner, Oh We Went Jetskiing
The Girl Has Her Priorities Straight, I Know That Much
Police officer: Hands behind your back, please.
Woman: Can I post this first?
Police Bodycam videos on YouTube, standard script: "Ma'am, place your hands behind your back" "NO! You can't take my PHONE! I NEED IT RIGHT NOWWW!"
Samuel Cornell has conducted a separate study on the issue, focusing on Australia. He agrees that there's not enough awareness. "Selfie-related injuries and deaths may be a relatively new phenomenon, but data suggest they are a public health hazard that is not going away," said Cornell.
"Emergency medicine practitioners may have a role to play in the primary and secondary prevention of selfie incidents, including delivering opportunistic behaviour change messaging to those who are at risk of being injured or killed in a selfie-related incident, particularly young (14–25 years) males."
Why Else Would You Have Kids?
I once accused my mother of having kids just to get her dishes done. At the time, I didn't understand her hysterical laughter.
Camera Always Eat First!
I mean never judge a book by its cover but I think the hints of what type of person you were getting involved with were pretty obvious
How Do You Say “No” In Italian?
Whether you're taking a quick snap to share with friends, or you're an influencer raking in thousands for your content, think carefully before posing for a photo in a precarious position. Ask yourself what the "money shot" you're after is really worth. And remember, there's no point in clocking up likes, shares and follows, if you aren't around to reap the rewards.
“So A Lot Of You Guys Have Been Asking About My Flight Routine”
Every Day We Stray Further From God’s Light
If they want to be idiots that's fine, but that poor dog could get hit by a vehicle.
The Mountain Ranger Had To Go Over And Ask Her To Stop Because There Were Kids Around Because Its A Public Mountain
*Waze Voice* Influencer Traffic Up Ahead
I Literally Demand To See The Final Shot
That’s A Big Nope
Making Montreal Look Good
*Pilot Over The Loud Speaker* “Sorry Folks We’re Gonna Be A Little Delayed For Take Off. We Have An Aspiring Influencer Who Is Willing To Die For Content In One Of The Jet Engines.”
Tell me more about this thimble. I am interested in that. :)
Load More Replies...A lot of these people aren't bothering anyone, defacing property, or being inappropriate. There are plenty of truly awful ones that the picture-gone-wrong doesn't really fit the theme here.
The title I see is “influencers doing dumb things.” Do you see a different title?
Load More Replies...As always, some of these are just pictures of people on vacation? I take pictures on vacations and events. Does that make me an influencer? At this point y´all just hating on people for the sake of hating.
Taking vacation pics is absolutely normal holding up traffic and going nude in front of kids for a couple of likes is not
Load More Replies...Where's the "No. Not at all. Ever." option on the poll? All those people make me want to do is stay far, far away from their content and whatever they're selling.
I was at the Grand Canyon last month. Cannot tell you how many idiotfluers we saw clambering over the safety fences and going riiiiiight out to the edge to get the perfect shot. I was sorely tempted to throw rocks at them.
Do these people hold the future of the free world in their hands?
Probably not. They are too busy holding selfie sticks or their phones.
Load More Replies...I have an Instagram account, because it is the best way to see what my grandson is doing. I have hundreds of followers waiting for me to post something, anything so they can comment on it. I post craft ideas for my daughter, recipes for my grandson, nothing else. I do look at my cousins daughter-in-laws crafty page because she is the best artist.
the poll at the end needed an option for "i literally do not care about anything influencers do and am in fact violently repulsed by most of them"
On the poll, I had to honestly say that influencers do affect how I view social media content: I actively stay away from anything that looks like an influencer.
Should have had a fourth choice: I don't ever watch so called influencers.
Yikes, I think “influencers” are annoying too, but a lotta folks here agreeing they should be run over…
Sorry, but I think we need to herd them all on an island and leave them to fight it out to the death for the only phone camera available. The last one left to figure out how to feed itself.
Influencer? More like influencing your intrusive thoughts and using them for content.
Influencers do nothing for me, its fake, and i cannot see how people get sucked into this s**t. So many at the gym, cameras everywhere. However they have created an income for themselves, and for that i congratulate them.
Now I wonder who pays them to produce that. I had no idea this is what influencers did. What will they be doing in ten years; if they survive.
Al Gore (inventor of the internet, doncha know) has a lot to answer for. And to think his wife was worried about a few song lyrics!
Where's the survey response for "I detest Influencers and want them all to reach painful endings" ?
Women have been fighting for over 100 years to be viewed as more than bodies and on earth for mens pleasure. To be taken seriously. Now we have influencers and only fans. We are going backwards.
I thought we were fighting for freedom and respect. Perhaps we are not going back but have come so far forward that women can enjoy a right long relegated to men, the right to moon people and act like an a*s in public. It's a small step, and there are many more steps to go, but when I see ladies misbehaving in public for their own gratification and not at the demand of some man, I don't see regression, I see self expression! Freedom and equality attained. Respect... er um I respect her freedom.
Load More Replies...Tell me more about this thimble. I am interested in that. :)
Load More Replies...A lot of these people aren't bothering anyone, defacing property, or being inappropriate. There are plenty of truly awful ones that the picture-gone-wrong doesn't really fit the theme here.
The title I see is “influencers doing dumb things.” Do you see a different title?
Load More Replies...As always, some of these are just pictures of people on vacation? I take pictures on vacations and events. Does that make me an influencer? At this point y´all just hating on people for the sake of hating.
Taking vacation pics is absolutely normal holding up traffic and going nude in front of kids for a couple of likes is not
Load More Replies...Where's the "No. Not at all. Ever." option on the poll? All those people make me want to do is stay far, far away from their content and whatever they're selling.
I was at the Grand Canyon last month. Cannot tell you how many idiotfluers we saw clambering over the safety fences and going riiiiiight out to the edge to get the perfect shot. I was sorely tempted to throw rocks at them.
Do these people hold the future of the free world in their hands?
Probably not. They are too busy holding selfie sticks or their phones.
Load More Replies...I have an Instagram account, because it is the best way to see what my grandson is doing. I have hundreds of followers waiting for me to post something, anything so they can comment on it. I post craft ideas for my daughter, recipes for my grandson, nothing else. I do look at my cousins daughter-in-laws crafty page because she is the best artist.
the poll at the end needed an option for "i literally do not care about anything influencers do and am in fact violently repulsed by most of them"
On the poll, I had to honestly say that influencers do affect how I view social media content: I actively stay away from anything that looks like an influencer.
Should have had a fourth choice: I don't ever watch so called influencers.
Yikes, I think “influencers” are annoying too, but a lotta folks here agreeing they should be run over…
Sorry, but I think we need to herd them all on an island and leave them to fight it out to the death for the only phone camera available. The last one left to figure out how to feed itself.
Influencer? More like influencing your intrusive thoughts and using them for content.
Influencers do nothing for me, its fake, and i cannot see how people get sucked into this s**t. So many at the gym, cameras everywhere. However they have created an income for themselves, and for that i congratulate them.
Now I wonder who pays them to produce that. I had no idea this is what influencers did. What will they be doing in ten years; if they survive.
Al Gore (inventor of the internet, doncha know) has a lot to answer for. And to think his wife was worried about a few song lyrics!
Where's the survey response for "I detest Influencers and want them all to reach painful endings" ?
Women have been fighting for over 100 years to be viewed as more than bodies and on earth for mens pleasure. To be taken seriously. Now we have influencers and only fans. We are going backwards.
I thought we were fighting for freedom and respect. Perhaps we are not going back but have come so far forward that women can enjoy a right long relegated to men, the right to moon people and act like an a*s in public. It's a small step, and there are many more steps to go, but when I see ladies misbehaving in public for their own gratification and not at the demand of some man, I don't see regression, I see self expression! Freedom and equality attained. Respect... er um I respect her freedom.
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