Essena O’Neill is the Australian Instagram users with more than 600,000 followers on her account who recently shook up social media after deleting more than 2,000 photos of herself and leaving only a few, changing the captions and all that was posted about her photos when they were originally put on Instagram. Then, she quit. She told her half million plus followers that Instagram is not real life and that she is not the kind of person who wants to show others that they have to be perfect, that they have to be amazing; she wants them to know that her photos took hours every single day of her life to create, that she was paid for them and that they are not her. That’s left her more popular than ever before, and more people now want to follow her and see what she is all about. So, what is Essena O’Neill all about? We break it down right here.
She Wants to be Real
Essena O’Neill no longer wants to be the beautiful blonde we saw on Instagram. She wants to be her own real person. She does not want the world to think that her clothes, her photos and her presence on social media are real. She wants us to know her stomach is sucked in, her breasts are pushed up and her photos are editing heavily to make her appear a certain way; and she is tired of that.
She Called out her Sponsors
Everyone knows that the more likes you have on Instagram, the more followers that come to our account, the more likely you are to be approached by brands to put photos up of your kids wearing them, you wearing them and everyone else wearing them so that you can earn money per post and become wealthy, famous and gainfully employed for yourself. It’s a game that many women and men want to play, and it’s a good one if you can get into it. However, Essena O’Neill has called out her sponsors, the people who paid her to wear their clothing and accessories, and she’s not interested in it anymore.
She Called out Social Media Users
Not only did Essena O’Neill quit social media herself, she also called out all the people who do the same thing that she did, claiming that they are fake and not real, and that they are setting a poor example for young girls everywhere. Apparently, she’s had it with social media.
She Made $2000 per Post
When Essena O’Neill posted a photo to Instagram in the past – before she quit – she wasn’t doing it because she thought she looked cute and wanted to share; no, she was getting paid. When she posted a photo of something, she earned a very impressive $2000 per post. That’s a lot of money for a teenage girl who isn’t working any form of real job.
She’s Vegan
When she said she would take money from advertisers to post social media photos, Essena O’Neill said she would still continue to do so if the people asking her were brands such as vegan food manufactures because that is something she believes in. She, apparently, has an issue showing off clothing to young girls who she does not want to influence, but she has no problem showing off her own beliefs that we should all forgo foods that are not vegan.
There’s a Rumor this is a Publicity Stunt
It does fall into question whether or not Essena O’Neill is playing some sort of publicity stunt game since she did decide that social media was no longer for her right about the same time her new website launched. It could be her way of gaining new followers and a new revolution of people to want to spend time reading her work and promoting her business.
She Lived a Dangerous Lifestyle
Essena O’Neill admitted that part of her lifestyle included eating a very unhealthy diet that limited her calorie intake to virtually nothing and left her unable to eat some meals because she was terrified of gaining weight and not looking perfect in her Instagram photos. She would print photos of models from the internet and hang them in her bedroom at home to look at every time she was hungry to remind her not to eat.
She was Pursued by a Man Looking for Followers
Essena O’Neill states that one man she thought she might be interested in was not actually interested in her, as well. She thought he was because he inherently pursued her and wanted to date her, but it turns out that he only did that because she had a bunch of followers and he had a bunch of followers and he thought that the two of them together might be able to have a bunch more followers if they were to begin dating on social media.
She’s Still Using Social Media
Despite deleting some of her social media accounts, Essena O’Neill has not deleted them all. In fact, she is still posting videos to a site called Vimeo and she is still posting videos to YouTube and even photos on Instagram. Only this time, she’s not posting them because she wants people to see her perfect life. She’s posting them because she wants to tell people how fake they are, from her looks to her clothes to her free outfits and her pounds of makeup put on her face so she looks perfect in every photo.
She Took Hundreds of Photos a Day
Essena O’Neill often used her little sister to take her photos on social media, and she claimed she would yell at her to continue to take photos so that she could look good in them. She would take photo after photo after photo so that she would look good in them in every angle so that she was not embarrassed to post them online. She claims she would not eat in them, and she would not eat at all those days so that she would be as thin as possible.
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