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Woman fed-up with Instagram fakeness sets up account poking fun at pretend campers

Amy Nelmes Bissett

Peruse through Instagram and it won't be long until you're faced with a shot of someone, often very beautiful, camping against the most incredible backdrop. Often, with the tent lit up, taken from afar. It's so #lifeofadventure

Well, a fed-up 28-year-old woman from Portland, Canada, has set up her own Instagram poking fun at these faux campers, called @youdidnotcampthere

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Essentially, Luisa - who doesn't want her surname out there – says she finds these photoshoot-style pictures, which attract thousands of likes, "ridiculous".

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She told Field Mag: "I went on a trip in the Grand Canyon with some friends and we had a bunch of tents from Poler and my friend was like, 'Let’s set the tent up over here and take a picture.'

"And I was like, 'What? Why are you doing that?' And she was like, 'People do that all the time!' And I was completely caught off guard and thought it was just the most ridiculous thing ever, but when we got back home I started noticing how much people really do do that, and I started looking at photos wondering if they were actually legit."

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And already, she's attracted 50k followers since setting up the account. 

She added: "I had I stumbled across the Instagram handles @YouDidNotEatThat and @YouDidNotSkateThat previously - they’re both super funny - so I decided to put together @YouDidNotSleepThere to sort of call people out, because it’s crazy. It's just crazy."

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