Who is your Instagram boyfriend?

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Vox.com’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and The Verge's Ashley Carman give the people behind the camera some attention. We’re talking about Instagram boyfriends, or simply, the photographers who take everyone’s Instagram photos. The unsung heroes. We want to know how these people feel and how influencers decide who to ask to take their photo. We chat with Meredith Haggerty about the time she hired an Instagram boyfriend for Fashion Week in New York City a couple years ago. She wrote about the experience for Racked— I highly recommend it. Then Kaitlyn talks to a verified influencer couple, Rachel Hope and Alex Sunshine. Rachel is the face behind The Concrete Blonde, and she and Alex have had to navigate their relationship in both a romantic and business way. We’re now obsessed with them and their mutual support for each other. Finally, we chat with Mae Karwowski, the founder of influencer marketing company Obviously. Karwowski walks us through the world of influencers and how they really get their photos taken. Turns out, they love to date within the creative world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	Hi, my name is Matt and I dated an Instagram influencer. One of the first things we did
0:34.6	together was go to this house party like 30 minutes outside of LA.
0:38.3	Usually he would introduce me to people by mentioning their name and their Instagram handle,
0:42.3	and if they didn't mention how many followers they had, him and I would usually discuss it later.
0:46.3	We even went outside at one point so he could take photos with other Instagramers.
0:51.3	Because I wasn't super into Instagram and only had about a thousand followers,
0:55.0	I was either the one taking the photos or sitting by watching him take selfies with everybody.
0:59.0	I was never really invited into the friend group and I think it's mainly because I didn't have a presence on Instagram.
1:05.0	They would meticulously watch to find out who unfollowed them or who didn't like a specific post with some third-party app
1:11.7	and I really couldn't care less.
1:13.4	But I even ended up changing the clothes that I wore and how I did my hair in order to be more
1:18.3	Instagramable and try to fit in with his friends, which was extremely toxic.
1:22.9	And as you can probably guess, it didn't last very long.
1:26.8	Hello, welcome to Why'd You Push That Button, a show where Ashley Carmen,
1:31.7	That's Me, and Caitlin Tiffany, that's me, talk about the choices technology forces us to make.
1:37.7	Caitlin and I are having a first-time experience here.
1:41.2	I am not in the studio with Caitlin right now, as we usually are. Instead,
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