In October 2015, teenager and model Essena O’Neill quit social media. Despite having over 500,000 followers, she shut down her Instagram account. She began the conversation on the fake-ness of the platform.
She deleted more than 2000 photos and edited the captions of the remaining posts so that they were more honest. Photos of her in a bikini were suddenly captioned with statements like “stomach sucked in, strategic pose, pushed up boobs.”…