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How do youtubers make money? 1:55
(CNN) - You shouldn't believe everything you see on the internet. A popular youtuber proved, once again, that this is true.
Natalia Taylor posted a series of photos on her Instagram in which it seemed she had traveled to a distant exotic destination. In one I was resting in an elegant bathtub. In another, he posed in front of a mirror with floral print.
"The queen has arrived," he wrote in the caption. Your location: Bali, Indonesia.
But in a video that he later posted on YouTube, he revealed that the photos were a staging on an Ikea.
Instagram photos were all fictional. And that, Taylor said, was the point.
"Sometimes, people want to lie about who they are," he said in the YouTube video. "This is not difficult to achieve."
Taylor and photographer Ally Amodeo held a photo shoot in different sections of a nearby Ikea.
The first set of photos featured a flower-print mirror, which surely looked like an elegant hotel room. The light blue wall phone only helped set the scene. The following shots showed Taylor posing in a sunny chair and in a bathtub, dressed in a white bathrobe and a towel wrapped around his head.
At the same time, he also posted videos of Bali in his Instagram story. Some were sent by friends who had gone. Others found them online.
His fans, who are more than 300,000, believed it.
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"She is really living the best of her life," observed one. "Our princess of Bali," said another.
There was someone who noticed something strange: a price of Ikea in a chair in the mirror reflection. It did not matter. The photos got tens of thousands of likes.
Bali, Taylor explained, was "the perfect place to pretend a vacation to influence and lie to all my followers."
But I wasn't trying to trick them and charge. I wanted to establish a point.
“Today it is easier than ever to become whoever you want. That's wonderful! But with great power comes great responsibility, ”he told CNN. "As we all know, not all are transparent online."
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"We could all use a fun reminder to take social media less seriously," he added. "And don't believe everything you see online."
So be careful: that i nfluencer that you are jealously watching traveling the world might not tell you every detail of the story. There is a possibility that he has never left home.
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