Instagram fans ruining special places, says Gwynedd caver

5 comments

1. I don’t think instagram is to blame.

   Social media is to blame. I go to the zoo fairly often with my wife and kids.

   We see parents constantly taking selfies and videos then going back to ignoring their kids.

   People go to these places so they can tell everyone they went there. Not to experience the animals and educate their kids on different species etc. no. It’s for clout.

   We are two decades into this experiment and it’s ruining the world imo. He says as he uses social media.

2. “The people that go to these places, influencers they call themselves… they go because they’ve got inherent value to them. Why destroy it for everyone else?”

   Fully agree, but this is becoming a common theme for any tourist spot: Smartphones with Dumbowners

3. I get the point and it sucks, but it’s also quite funny that cars and old TVs are good rubbish and miners scrawling their names is good graffiti.

4. People have been like this before social media. If the May bank holidays are nice then come to Bournemouth beach on Monday evening/Tuesday morning to see the literal ton of rubbish left behind. People are generally arseholes when it comes to nature, like when people ‘discovered’ the countryside during lockdown. All social media does is draw people to such sites in greater number.

5. It feels odd seeing Instagram being blamed, it’s usually TikTok getting the blame for things over the last few years.