Locals are sick of Instagram influencers flocking to this Parisian street

Give them an aesthetically pleasing backdrop and Instagram influencers will run, not walk in hopes of capturing the perfect shot.

Rue Crémieux, a charming multi-coloured cobbled backstreet in Paris, France has quickly become one of the most popular Instagram hotspots in Europe, with the hashtag #Ruecremieux ticking up more than 30,000 posts.

There’s no doubt the shots are stunning, but the increase in influencers flocking to the pastel-coloured streets is making life not so fun for locals, and they’ve have had it.

The people living on Rue Crémieux are so mad that just last week, the street’s residents’ association demanded that the city of Paris protect their privacy by building gates and closing the street to visitors on evenings and weekends.  

“We sit down to eat and just outside we have people taking photos — rappers who take two hours to film a video right beneath the window, or bachelorette parties who scream for an hour,” a resident told local radio station Franceinfo. “Frankly, it’s exhausting.”

To demonstrate just how annoying the crowds can be, an unknown person has created @clubcremieux, an entire Instragram account devoted to the “shit people do [on] Rue Crémieux”. As you’d expect, it’s hilarious.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Finding an aesthetically pleasing backdrop and raking in the likes from your Instagram followers is all well and good, but not at the expense of the sanity of locals.