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The pervasive influencer culture is making all travel experiences "less aesthetically pleasing."

In June, I went to Aranya with my family. I ordered coffee and sat at a scenic spot. Before I could finish my coffee, I was asked to leave because I was "obstructing someone's photo." While walking along the beach near the auditorium, I might have accidentally wandered into someone's shot and was met with a barrage of complaints. Aranya, a place known for its relaxing atmosphere, suddenly made me feel very anxious. I consider myself to be quite observant, but there were still people urging me to hurry up, move away, or even speaking to me rudely. The same camera angles, the same compositions, and the same poses... sometimes, the overwhelming influencer culture does lower our aesthetic standards, making all travel experiences feel less aesthetically pleasing. I remember Jiang Fangzhou saying in a talk show: "The essence of a single aesthetic is our single channel for cultural acceptance. When we lack the experience of appreciating 'beauty' from art forms like reading and movies, and rely solely on influencer culture to define our aesthetics, it leads to a high degree of conformity in our aesthetic concepts. This kind of aesthetic lacks independent experience and is merely a blind pursuit of current trends." The scenery along the way and the feelings of travel shouldn't be uniform, and neither should our judgment of "beauty."
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Posted: Mar 5, 2025
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