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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Influencer Natalia Taylor faked her Bali vacation on Instagram by taking photos at Ikea to see if her followers would notice.<br><br>Natalia Taylor/Instagram<br><br><br>Visitors to [ Instagram influencer Natalia Taylor]'s page earlier this month might have felt a bit envious upon seeing all the [ glamorous photos and videos] of her enjoying a vacation in Bali. But the exotic trip was all a lie. While pictures showed her [ relaxing in a fancy bathtub], [ drinking champagne] and [ ordering room service] inside a [https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=wood-paneled%20hotel wood-paneled hotel] room, Taylor took the photos at her nearby Ikea. <br>With photo captions like "The queen has arrived #bali," it was easy for her more than 330,000 Instagram followers to think the model was living her best globe-trotting life. But in an age when social media can lead people to think every one else's lives are better, Taylor wanted to prove not everything on Instagram is real. <br><br>"Life on the internet isn't always what it seems; especially in this day and age where it's so easy to pretend to be anyone you want to be," explains in a [ video on YouTube], where she has 96 million followers. "So many influencers have actually been caught in the act pretending to be at a destination when they really weren't; it's just either Photoshop, or it's not even them."<br><br><br>[  View this post on Instagram]  [ The queen has arrived 🌊💖 #bali]<br> A post shared by [  Natalia Taylor] (@natalia__taylor) on Feb 6, 2020 at 2:51pm PST<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>window.CnetFunctions.logWithLabel('%c One Trust ', "Service loaded: script_instagram with class optanon-category-5");<br>        <br>    <br><br>    <br><br> Taylor dressed up and went to Ikea to take convincing vacation photos with the help of her photographer friend Ally Amodeo.<br>