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If social networks were people, Facebook would be your embarrassing mom, Twitter would be your annoying brother, Snapchat would be your best friend, and Instagram would be your shamelessly basic friend who you love to hate. For better or worse, those are facts.
I don’t care what anyone says – you go through a thought process when posting a photograph and you sit on the edge of your seat waiting for likes to come in. Doing something “for the ‘gram” is frowned upon on the surface, but you’re lying to yourself if you think people aren’t traveling with likes in mind.
Case in point – the top-Instagrammed design destinations in the United States.
L.A.’s Angel Wings
Miami’s Wynwood Walls
Seattle’s Pike Place Market
New Orleans’ French Quarter
New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge
Las Vegas’s Bellagio Fountain
Niland’s Salvation Mountain
S.F.’s Golden Gate Bridge
New York City’s Grand Central Station
Austin’s HOPE Outdoor Gallery
L.A.’s Urban Lights At LACMA
New York City’s High Line
San Diego’s Balboa Park
Chicago’s Cloud Gate
NYC’s Times Square
L.A.’s The Broad Museum
NYC’s Guggenheim Museum
San Diego’s Geisel Library
M.I.T.’s Stata Center
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art
New York City’s Cooper Union
Millennial scum. That’s the only way to describe the people we are, because each of us can pinpoint one of our friends who have posted from one of these locations in the last calendar year. While they do need to replace Austin’s HOPE Outdoor Gallery with Austin’s “I Love You So Much” graffiti, the list is truly spot on.
As self-proclaimed basic scum myself, I’ve been to the following in the age of Instagram: Brooklyn Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Grand Central Station, HOPE Outdoor Gallery, High Line, Times Square, Cloud Gate, The Guggenheim, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and Cooper Union. While you won’t find them on my Instagram feed because I’m self-aware enough not to post them, you could scroll through my Photos app on my laptop and find photos from all of the above.
But hey, you have to do what you have to do for the likes, am I right? Just kidding, I hate myself. .
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They’re missing that one mural in Nashville (all of you know what I’m talking about).
I live in Nashville and god damnit do I hate that mural
^right there with you
”I Believe In Nashville.”
Came here specially to mention the I believe in Nashville wall. I’m glad I’m not alone
Specifically, fuck
or that statue of elvis that is near all the stores that sell boots (lol not helpful or descriptive at all, i know)
FYI – Chicago’s Cloud Gate = The Bean
Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington
Bobby, my man, you clearly ride-or-die for Pittsburgh but c’mon now….
That’s like when people post anonymously online “I went to a great school (think Dartmouth/MIT/Penn St.) and…” One is not like the others. We know you freakin went to Penn State…
The best part about this is I did go to Penn State lol
We Are
I know this is US based list but when if they did international #1 would have to be the letters spelling out Amsterdam. Think every friend I know who has been to the Netherlands has taken a picture with it.
Appreciate the to-do list. No shame here.
Philadelphia’s LOVE sculpture should be on here.
How did Austin’s “I Love You, So Much” mural not make it on here? I could find that picture on every Insta I follow.
why didn’t you read my commentary, man
Well, damn, skimming abilities not on par today. My apologies. If it’s any consolation, I had to send the same document to a client 3 times because of lack of reading comprehension… It’s a Monday.