What makes a place Instagram-worthy?

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What makes you post a photo to Instagram? What space is truly worthy of a post? Are we willing to destroy nature for a good pic? This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and The Verge's Ashley Carman discuss the characteristics that create an Instagram-worthy place. First things first, we talk to former social media manager at The Verge, Zainab Hasnain, about all of the Instagram-oriented pop-ups she’s visited. We also chat with Kristina Alaneisse about parties she hosts at local cool-kid spot China Chalet. Then, as a special treat to wrap up our Instagram mini-series, we have two expert guests. The first is Eliza Brooke, a freelance writer who has incredible design sensibilities. The second is Piera Gelardi, executive creative director and co-founder of Refinery29, about the media company’s 29Rooms exhibition where visitors can play in 29 different rooms and snap some photos while they’re at it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.7	So have you guys ever been to a, like one of those Instagram pop-ups?
0:34.8	You know what I'm talking about?
0:35.3	The museums.
0:37.1	Yeah. I just went to the, it was like Boba T one. Yankee candle pop-ups, you know what I'm talking about, the museums? Yeah, I just went to the, it's like, boba tea one.
0:40.7	Yankee candle pop-up shop was one of the best experiences of my life.
0:44.5	It was weird to see so many people on Instagram, like, go to the Happy Museum or the Refinery
0:49.6	29 one.
0:51.2	Honestly, it's kind of disappointing because you go in and it's just like you throw these pink boba balls into like the hoops.
0:56.0	10 to 15 different individual rooms that were all themed around the candle and each one was photo worthy.
1:02.0	They were definitely just there to get a good picture and it was so weird to see how many people all fell into the same like I need to go to experience this.
1:10.0	And it's cool like the concept of it but by the time you get to the end, it's like,
1:13.4	oh, I just spent $25 to, like, walk a U-Shhape in, like, a small building.
1:17.8	Hello, welcome to Why'd You Push That Button, a show where Ashley Carmen,
1:22.5	hello, and Caitlin, that's me, examine the choices technology forces us to make.
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