There’s a vending machine in Russia where you can buy likes for your Instagram pics
Just in case you were thinking that Black Mirror episode about social media was far fetched, check this out.
Russia takes the worst excesses of capitalism to the extreme, so here's a vending machine in a mall for buying Likes for your Instagram pics pic.twitter.com/ZZt189opgd
— Alexey Kovalev (@Alexey__Kovalev) June 5, 2017
For $850 (£650) you can buy 1,500 Instagtram followers guaranteed to deliver up to 1,500 likes for each post.
Instalike vending machine is for cheapskates. For $850 you can buy 150,000 followers guaranteed to deliver up to 1500 Likes to each post. pic.twitter.com/5V3HTQ4kfl
— Alexey Kovalev (@Alexey__Kovalev) June 6, 2017
And that’s not all. For $17 (£13) you can rent a giant bouquet of roses for 10 minutes, just long enough to look as if you’re popular on your social media feed before handing them back.
It’s easy to lose sight of what’s real, isn’t it?