00:00Just chin down, tongue at the roof of your mouth.
00:03What?
00:04Yeah, it just brings everything up.
00:06What? Show me?
00:07Hey guys, I'm Michael Brown, social innovation editor here at Refinery29.
00:11Today, I'm going to be exploring the differences between who people are on Instagram and who they are in reality.
00:16I'm going to give my honest thoughts on some of my coworkers' Instagram accounts.
00:20The only catch is, I'm not going to know who it is until they reveal themselves to me.
00:24This is IRL versus URL.
00:26I have no idea what I'm really looking at.
00:30A lot of, I'll call it related things.
00:33There's one of Taylor Swift and it says,
00:35and the Theta's going to thet, thet, thet, thet, thet, thet.
00:38What is thet?
00:39Is that a sorority?
00:40They love some white girl rosé.
00:43I think this girl hangs out with a lot of frat guys.
00:46The word I would probably use is douchebag.
00:50Okay, so I'm really excited to meet Miss Theta's sister.
00:55Oh no, I'm so sorry.
00:57I just feel really bad now.
00:59I was not nice.
01:00You really came for me, but it's fine.
01:01I was not expecting this side of you.
01:03I would love to see it one day.
01:05And I want you to teach me how to shotgun a beer.
01:07I think you think I'm way more lit than I am.
01:08Yeah.
01:09Can you just kind of explain the general theme of your Instagram?
01:11Um, I don't really know, but I think that's really indicative of like where I am right now.
01:16Like I don't know what I'm doing.
01:17Okay.
01:18So like I don't think my Instagram shows that I know what I'm doing.
01:21Okay.
01:21Okay.
01:22So I just grab things from wherever.
01:24Okay guys, I'm going to go through another feed.
01:26Initial reactions, I feel like I'm looking at like a travel blog.
01:28They are traveling all like all the time.
01:32What do they do at this place for work?
01:35Because I want that job too.
01:38I actually am not getting a good read of like, is this a male or female?
01:42Yeah.
01:43I'm feeling a little disconnected from this person.
01:45So can the wandering distant spirit, please come here now?
01:50What?
01:52Distant?
01:52This is my coworker, Nicola.
01:54She's on my team.
01:56That's why I was laughing when you were like, what does this person do here?
01:59Don't be mad at me.
02:00I just, I didn't know.
02:02What did you think about like my assessment of you?
02:06Was it close?
02:07Um, yeah.
02:08I'm in certain aspects of it.
02:09Definitely.
02:10I really do value experiences.
02:12Yeah.
02:12It's definitely an extension of your personality, but it doesn't show the whole thing.
02:16Like that's crazy to think that just like a few curated pictures can entirely show your personality.
02:21So like, yeah, maybe you're missing a bit of the more like personal side and, and this is more like
02:27outside in.
02:29Oh, that's a good way to look at it.
02:31Okay guys, I'm going to go through another feed.
02:33First impression, it's a selfie.
02:35I see another selfie and another selfie.
02:38Seems like really confident in the way she looks, which is, I think is awesome.
02:41I think she wears glasses too.
02:43No, she doesn't.
02:45Her leg is up at the same time she's leaning.
02:48Maybe she's doing a tree pose.
02:50Okay.
02:51So I am so ready to meet this Kim K in training.
02:55Hi.
02:56Hi.
02:56I'm Michael.
02:57How did you do the leg up?
02:59It was what you said.
03:00It was, it was the tree pose.
03:01Can you actually, well, you don't have to demonstrate.
03:03Okay.
03:03Fine.
03:04Fine.
03:04What are your opinions on selfies?
03:06During the time that I've taken like my most selfies, it was when my confidence was starting to come up.
03:11Because I've always had like really touch and go, mostly go confidence, like not really so great.
03:18All last year I was like, I'm feeling myself.
03:20I'm going to post a picture.
03:21I don't care if people think that this is annoying.
03:23Because if you like yourself enough to capture it and share it, that's probably like the most pure you can
03:28be with your confidence.
03:29Cause you're like, I want people to see this.
03:31Yeah.
03:32I look nice.
03:32I like that answer.
03:34You can't judge a book by its cover.
03:35I came in here today thinking I could tell who these people are based on their feeds, but I quickly
03:41learned it's not that easy.
03:43Instagram is a vastly complicated medium that people use in so many different ways.
03:48Clearly there's more to someone than just their URL, which is why I'm glad I got to meet them in
03:52real life.
