I’m sure you all have seen these posts where a young person or young couple (mainly around 20-25) posting themselves in places with extravagant views. They go by the beach and stay in a hotel with a wonderful view, go over to the northern lights, and so on. My question is, how do they afford it?
How do these young people on Instagram posting themselves in exquisite sceneries afford it?
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My gf goes into debt for it. And I’m pretty sure most just put their money towards vacation.
Parents, credit cards and jobs.
i work 80 hours a week, supposed to only work two days a week but i pick up 16 hour overnights monday-friday. the weeks i was to go out and do shit i don’t pick up the extra shifts and i’m off friday- tuesday with enough money to go somewhere fun.
most people go into credit card debt tho honestly
Some of them are faking it. They don’t actually stay in the suite, they just ask management for a tour (management likes it because it’s good PR for the room). The fancy cars are rented, the plane tickets are the cheapest they can get (and probably booked several months in advance and/or the trip takes place during a slow season), the clothes and jewelry are used or good knock offs, so on and so forth. There’s also digital fakery. It’s not all that hard to edit yourself into places you’ve never been, or even into clothing you could never afford.
For some of them, it takes off enough that they actually can afford that stuff. Or they build up a reputation and establish a lot of business relationships with luxury brands so they can get deep discounts and/or free product and services. They’re never gonna pay nearly as much as you or I would have to pay for the same trip. They’re basically walking commercials, and you know what they say: never do something you’re good at for free.
OnlyFans,
Escorting,
Sugar dating,
Debt.
The only things I can honestly think that would make sense (because I know exactly what you mean, how do these fresh out of college people afford such things?) Is:
● Parents are rich and pay for everything.
● They have a sugar daddy/money pig.
● They have an anonymous OF account where they make money.
● They literally just take out loans JUST to get clout on social media.
Either way, I’ve also wondered that before.
They lie. They go into debt. Mommy and daddy.
Jobs, Debts, Parents’ support and many more
Yeh I wondered does being an influencer actually pay that much because most don’t have jobs /careers. It’s a risky business – what they going to do in 5 years when no one’s interested
My wife and I spent our honeymoon in the Canary Islands, and I sunk almost my entire bonus into it, which included a five star resort on the oceanfront in the presidential suite.
Twice I got approached by influencers asking to take videos from inside the room.
Never seen any of it
I totally get where you’re coming from! Those views are breathtaking! I wonder if they collaborate with brands or use social media as a way to fund their travels? Either way, it’s fun to dream about visiting those places someday!
Sex work.
I was recently staying at a Spa Resort. Whilst rolling my eyes at a young couple doing a full-on shoot outside. The staff let it slip that they only stayed for one night at the hotel (mid weeks rates) and were living out of a Van.
Apparently it’s pretty common, Influencers will stay one night spend the whole time taking photos and then drip feed the photos over several days or longer to give the illusion they’ve had a long stay.
Not all is as it seems.
I know lots of people can’t imagine regular people doing it and I’m sure some are rich kids.
I travel a lot and have met a lot of people. I can tell you that I’ve seen amazing pictures from people that barely have a cent to themselves.
A guy I met traveled one year in southeast Africa starting with 1000 USD. He saved it working at a store in Brazil.
I met a UK girl that works menial jobs 1/2 of the year, saves a lot and then travels. I’ve picked up hitchhikers in the carretera austral in Chile, who sleep on their tent on the side of the road if no one picks them up.
An Alaskan fisherman who works seasonally a gruelling job, but gets to travel the rest of the year.
I’ve also met digital nomads making modest earnings and I know there are digital nomads making a killing. I usually don’t meet them because I travel frugally.
Once I started traveling I realized that one can travel with little money.
Since 2019 I’ve traveled to 30+ countries spending barely more than what I spend at home. My pictures, if I were a good photographer, could match those amazing pictures you’ve seen: an empty great wall of china, the Avatar mountains in Zhangjiajie, glaciers and volcanos in Chile. Mountains and lakes in Argentina, the Iguazú falls in brazil, Beautiful places in Europe. Picture perfect towns in Mexico, etc. With a relatively low budget.
Rich people who have the most “shareable” trips get all the attention. If your vacation is to the local six flags those photos aren’t going to be seen by anybody but immediate friends and family, they are depriotitzed by the engagement algorithm that controls every social media site.
I think they must have a secret stash of gold bars hidden under their beds… or maybe they’re just really good at convincing their parents to fund their ‘educational trips’!
Their parents
I’ll offer a slightly different POV. When I was 18 I did 6 weeks in Europe, went to some pretty awesome places with beautiful landscapes (Isle of Skye, stayed in Paris, London, Rome, skydived in Switzerland, blah blah) and it was because I was still living at home and saved 70% of my crappy paycheque every month. Didn’t go out at all with friends, super single mindedly saved as much as I could to have a good time.
In my early 20s I continued travelling a fair bit, I’d come back and work jobs staying rent free with my brother, who didn’t mind because we have a great relationship. The years I moved out and paid rent were kind of a pain, but I’d still travel to closer places with less of a budget and as far as my friends were concerned, I was ‘living the life’.
The result? Well I’m almost 29 now, still travelling, 0 savings pretty much. I’ve been in a lot of uncomfortable situations and scenarios that most people wouldn’t want to be in, but that has always been my top priority and I’ve given up a lot of stability and am pretty much ‘useless’ in the eyes of a productive society lol. Do I mind? Nah, I’m good. I’m having a great time.
So yeah I probably am not the kind of person who you’re talking about, but I always get questions on how I got the money to do what I did, and truth is I never had a lot of it. I’m just super budget conscious at home and save as much as I can so I can go out there. I’ve heard my friend tell me one of their friends said when they were talking about me being somewhere that I ‘probably have rich parents’ (spoiler: I don’t even have parents) which was funny to me, because I earned less money than that guy and he didn’t even pay rent either, he just spent his money on partying and unnecessary shit. Granted I do have a great level of privilege, but people tend to think it’s way harder to get on the road than it is. There’s so many more budget friendly options to travel, but if you want to be all luxury 5 star resorts everywhere you go, obviously it’s gonna cost more.
I’ve spent less money travelling 4 months in Europe than some of my friends did going to Japan for just over a week, it’s wild.
What, you mean you haven’t been given $20k to fly to Dubai and have someone denigrate you sexually and shit on your chest?
I travel almost full time as a photographer – yes I’m in the “influencer” world a good chunk of the time – not usually by choice.
It’s actually a lot easier than you’d think to stay in these incredible hotels around the world if you know how to use a camera.
Hotels and other travel brands are desperately in need of content for their own social media pages, so they will often set aside a few rooms to give to photographers or influencers in exchange for content of their hotel (the same goes for rental car companies, campervans, tours, etc).
Most of these hotels have content agreements that the influencer or photographer signs before being allowed to stay in exchange for content.
All that being said, it’s usually more about your photography skills than your follower count. Most of these hotels will gladly offer up a room for a few nights in exchange for 10-30 photos or maybe a handful of reels that they can post. Shoutouts of their hotel on your personal instagram page isn’t as important to them.
My advice? If you know how to take photos, start taking photos of every hotel you stay in and slowly build a “hotel media kit” that you can send out to hotels in places you want to travel. Also, look for hotels that have a presence on Instagram, because those are the hotels who know the value of having good photography. That saves you the time and headache of trying to convince a hotel that you’re bringing them value.
It doesn’t always work, but it’s worth a shot, and it cuts down on your travel costs like crazy.
I hope this helped show you how some of us do it! There are definitely still rich kids and fakers out there, but it’s actually a lot easier than you’d think if you know how to use a camera.
honestly. if you live in germany netherlands uk or scandinavian countries, travelling is cheap, because practicly everywhere you go to is cheaper than your own country, flights from europe can be cheap, same with hotels i have stayed in 4 star hotels in jordan,qatar, uae, russia that costed less than 30$ a night, if you travel with someone else that is just 15$ per night! key is to search for a good price drop somewhere ( they happen more often than you think)
and for food, there is lots of coupons in delivery apps for first time users,
it is all about looking for good deals, travelling can be cheap ( if you are from a rich country,)
When I was 22 and had no proper job I stayed for 3 days in Dubai in a hostel near the airport as a stopover……one evening I went to a 5* hotel for a cocktail. Just because you can do some nice things on a trip doesn’t mean you’re spending your whole trip doing that fancy thing.
People with larger followings be it on youtube, tiktok, instagram whatever make a lot of money. Sponsors will throw money at them and probably pay for an entire trip just for them to mention their product/brand for 30 seconds.
I guess it’s a lot cheaper than the traditional methods of advertising and is guaranteed to get millions of views in most cases.
Look at the comments on these posts, they’ll be full of people saying what is that you’re wearing/drinking etc.
Fakery, tricks, “sponsorship”, rich parents and the big ones make a lot of money when they get millions of views.
We booked a really nice hotel in Thailand. The restaurant was on top of a hill overlooking the beach with an infinity pool in front of it.
Over breakfast we would watch a steady procession of influencers go out to the pool, spend 15min taking shots and then leave.
There’s a few different options:
1). They ask for a tour of the room and just get content.
2). They usually only stay for 1-2 nights.
3). If they’re a big time influencer then many hotels will let them stay for free for a few days.
4). If they’re a small or mid-sized influencer then they can actually get a discount on the room by reaching out to the hotel. They’ll usually create a promo vid and give the hotel the rights to it.
There are a lot of wealthy people in the world. Some have trust funds, some just get money straight from their parents, some work in tech or other extremely high paying jobs.
It’s the rich person’s club, and you ain’t in it
Lot of them go into extravagant credit card debt hoping to build a following and attract sponsors.
They can’t afford it. They just ain’t paid yet.
Some people prioritize their spending like that.
My cousin and his wife don’t go out much, but they go on nice vacations like 3-4x a year. Bali, Japan, etc.
I prioritize weekly activities so I go out all the time and party etc. I’ll still go on 3-4 trips a year, but they are mostly long weekend getaways to the Caribbean or visiting friends across the country.
I have friends who have spent months travelling and friends who haven’t left the country in 10 years. It’s all about where you focus your budget.
They don’t. Sure, some do. But for the majority, it’s all a facade.
either they don’t (lmao you figure out what that means) or they get paid for travel blogging.
AI
Hey I post this sometimes. I have more than 12k followers. We get invited to this type of things
Many live with their parents or with several roommates.
I have been asked by influencers if they could wear my designer sunglasses or hat or whatever for a quick few photos. Lol.
They can’t afford it.
Most of the people who post that kind of stuff have mounds and mounds of debt
Sneak in, make video, scram
Or rent a huge house or exotic car for a day or few hours
We went to Positano Italy and walked the Path of the God’s as part of our 1st Wedding Anniversary. Amazing views my wife posted to instagram. Someone messaged her and asked if she could send them the video… a while.later they reposted it themselves pretenting it was their own views on their morning walk.
Well we work (at least me)
They just have more money. It’s very common for rich families to just give money to their children that they’re never making back. Is it a good or bad thing? Who’s to say. What’s definitely bad is when those people post their extravagant trips and pretend they’re regular Joes with regular income which gives a false impression on others.
They also take 1000s of pictures, all of which are planned in advance, carefully curated. They also don’t post them when on location. 4 weeks away can be a very long campaign of luxury.
Angles are everything, so is a boyfriend who feels lucky to be there.
Dubai
I’m pretty sure a lot of people rent out a “backdrop” like those fake private jets, or just rent out a photo studio type thing at a 5-star hotel room. There’s a whole business around influencers trying to take these kinds of pictures or short form videos.
I think it’s important to understand that these influencers, their whole job is to create an image. If they pay a bunch of money for a great view, fancy restaurant, first class flight, etc. they are going to be taking pictures and videos the whole time. Besides the lucky few, most of them aren’t doing these extravagant things for fun but for money. They are models and actors at the end of the day. They wear the fancy clothes for the photoshoot and return them after. It’s all a facade for the image. They do it for the paycheck just like any other job, their job is just to look aspirational so someone can feel inspired watching it. That’s not their real life.
If both partners work you have quite a bit of money to spend(if you earn well). Combine that with lots of couples not wanting children and perhaps having parents that are well off and you have one reason.
Most men have rich parents and for women it’s either that or sex work
Sugar Daddy…or promoted by some 3rd party media company.
All in the name of getting you to toss money into their patron account.
Work like the rest of us minions..
You can hire cars, airbnbs etc by the hour/day for this reason there’s also fake private jet set-ups etc. So that plus a lot of debt.
Whoring themselves and faking it.
No kids, job and all of those options are cheaper than buying a house.
Key point is having a job, no kids, which is easier said than done in 2025.
If they’re on Instagram they’re probably influencers who are paid to be there and snap pics
We were recently approached by someone wanting to just film a short video at our premises. We said no.
It’s all illusion and bullshit . They rent or borrow picturesque backgrounds and homes
People under 25 have always travelled? Work and save money, go into debt. Some people have been working over a decade by 25, and not everyone in the world is broke.
Kind of a dumb question tbh. Everyone has different circumstances, some rich, some poor. Some grift, some work hard play hard. Letting this kind of thing niggle on your brain is a big red flag to turn off social media IMO
My daughter’s Instagram is filled like this. I know when she goes she’s not doing extravagant meals and stays in a modest hotel. I think they’ve also slept in their car in a campground.
I backpacked after finishing my education and what i learned was you can travel really cheap and still see all the great sights and some more.
You can travel cheap if you
Live in cheap hostels or rent a room at locals
Travel slowly
Use local transportation
Night busses for long distance will save you a night Eat street food
Cheap food from the supermarket – you can cook at hostels
On top some people save on living by taking some shifts at bars and hostels
A bit of remote work
Rent the luxury hotels in the cheap period with a deal for one night a lot of other people write. Sometimes they split the bill with other influencers or even rent the rooms or hour.
There’s two options:
They can’t really afford it and it’s for show.
They can afford it and have more money than you.
Choose whichever one makes you feel better.
This image always springs to mind.
If it’s young, attractive women, it’s being paid for by (elderly) men in exchange for “favours” in almost all cases
Nature is free
These are the same people that when in their 30’s complain that they can’t possibly afford a house
Once had a boss years ago who in her 20s racked up 30 grands worth of credit card debt on travelling. This definitely still happens today. But travelling folk have always been a mixture of the hates and have nots
It’s fake.
They rent the cars, they go to open houses or air bnbs… none of it is real
i think a lot of people forget just how rich a LOT of people are. yes there is cost of living all over the world and poverty. and there are the celebrities flying PJ that everyone shouts about they want to eat them. but you guys don’t really understand that there are A LOT of very wealthy people in upper-middle class that no one really sees. they arent on instagram in any real way like influencers. they just live their lives and never have to think about money. there are SO many elite institutions/schools where tuition is 30-50k or up. that is normal for a lot of people and their parents pay out of pocket. just think about the millions of millionaires and billionaires who made it big between the 70/ 80s and 2010. don’t you think they all have children? but if it makes you feel better to assume they’re faking 🤷🏽♀️
Only Fans, Payment Pigs and Fraud
Some may be funded by family, sponsors, or influencer work, while others might be sacrificing a lot in other areas to make those trips happen.
I live in a high influencer area. There are airbnbs, hotel pools, and parts of private jets all set up for people to reserve for a 1 hour photo shoot. I regularly see these places on IG and it is comical and depressing.
I saw a video from a guy who owns exotic cars and rents them out. He said groups of people will ask pitch in on a one day rental so they can take turns posing with the car. They might find a way to rent a private jet for an hour or two. Probably cheap if it doesn’t take off. Point is, most of it’s probably fake.
I work a lot of trade shows featuring luxury aircraft and cars. The “influencers” are on these things like white on rice. The goal seems to be a multi-hour photo shoot inside a small jet. You can’t chase them away fast enough, they are obnoxious, rude and entitled. Can this whole sector experience a mass die-off, please?
It all fake man and set up
Especially influencers, they treat it like work because for the successful ones it is work
So they will set up a single day or a weekend with multiple outfit changes throughout the day and just take pictures all day with different outfit and different backgrounds
Sometimes they travel in groups and split the hotel cost when they at restaurant eating they will all take turn taking pictures from different angels of the food.
They will turn 1-2 day come out for a few dozens of good pictures and drip feed post them to make it seem like they go out every weekend
Having dated some people who did this:
One college girlfriend was juggling credit cards, private loans, and just going full on traveling. She was fun and hot but tons of debt hoping she’d get an MRS degree or high paying job later.
They don’t afford it. Consumer debit (credit card debt) is at an all time high. As are defaults on this debt.
It likely gets put on a credit card (also likely with a high interest rate) with minimum payments each month because very few people have financial literacy.
My sister runs in high society circles because her career requires it. She hates wasting money. her lifestyle is pretty similar to influencers.
So she got herself a used bag, wore it, and resold it. ashe does this on a monthly to bi-weekly basis. Same with jackets, coats. she only has two to three pieces at a time. it’s really quite some effort, but instead of dpending thousands each month she really only swaps stuff for -/+100€. Pretty break-even.
The truly rich also don’t wear brand names on clothes, so she easily gets by wearing stuff from H&M as long as she mixes them with lesser known stores. Considering Hermes pruduces their stuff in the same factory it is really not a visible difference as long as you match clothes to look nice.
As for vacations: She does a ton of raffles and does win a stay here or there. And her traveling is done off season, so a 5-star resort is as cheap as a camping site on high season.
She is als really charismatic and can talk herself into VIP lounges for free. Going out with her is… a ton of second hand embarrassment due to her haggling, but in the end you will end up with way better tickets for the least price…
So yeah… faking a lifestyle is really easy.
They come from rich families. Mom and dad pay for their lifestyle.
Some airports will rent time on parked private jets for influencers to pretend they are traveling on them.
Some use green screens to fake locations.
I’ve seen people filming in parking lots of festivals, but they drove away when the event started because they didn’t actually have tickets
I have a friend who fits this except he’s not an influencer. He lives with his parents, drives a crappy car and saves his money to go on trips to amazing places around the world. He will look for a great bargain on air fares and travel there. He will stay in hostels or a cheap hotel or even find a room to rent for a night. He is highly personable so he makes friends easily.
Their parents.
1% that’s their job, they get paid for it.
99% they’re trying real hard to make it their job, however they can: spending daddy’s money, going into debt, making destinations look way more expensive than they actually are…
By paying for it with their incomes…
Seeing the beach or northern lights is not expensive. It’s just nature. Go outside and see for yourself.
I’ve met influencers on my travels and the ones I met were all spending a day here a day there, etc. They’re not actually having a relaxing vacation.
They don’t. Many of them are thousands in debt
My wife and I went up to Iceland 2 years ago. As it turned out, some friends of our’s were also going at the same time. Plans were made without us knowing that the other was going. Anyway, the husband is a videographer. They wrote off their entire trip as a business expense. We all ended up going to the same sites and we all took pics. But he posted all of this his pics on Shutterstock and sells the right for people to use them. So all of his pics were “business” and he “hired” his wife as his assistant.
Both couples spent about $7K in total cost for our trips but all of their’s was a tax write off.
Travel costs can be very low or very high depending how you do it. Scenery is free generally. If young people on Instagram are showing luxury hotels it was paid for somehow. I have met lots of backpackers that buy a nice room at the end of a trip. Can also meet parents or get as a gift or use credit card points. Posting to Instagram your nice villa makes more sense then a grotty hotel room or dorm.
I’ve seen photos taken in what were clearly nice hotel lobbies. I travel a lot for work and feel like I can spot a hotel lobby a mile away. Anyone can go in places like that and snap a picture.
It’s all a farce. A facade. A fugazi. Don’t believe everything you see.
Credit cards
They live in Europe and have stable jobs in their twenties lol. My husband and I work for the state and have a regular income, after studying for 3 to 5 years.
A flight to Finland was 100€, our cabin was 1200€ for 5 days. We went with our friends and only paid 300€ each. A car was also only 250€ for 5 days. I think we paid ca. 700€ each which is about 1/5 of our monthly income.
There are also many last minute vacations in Europe, you often find deals for a week in Greece or Turkey for only a few hundred euros, flights included.
We don’t have kids;)
Also in Scandinavia, most people can afford this form time to time.
I think a lot of those are prostitution service dogwhistles, advertising or whatever.
They have money, obviously
This is the laziest question commonly repeated on Reddit
I mostly go with my parents haha, nothing fancy but we budget travel to nice sceneries
We are good friends and theyre happy to bring me as their travel buddies (they are divorced so 2x as many trips)
Short answer is as others are saying it’s a facade and not real life. A girl I dated had a friend who tried to be an influencer. The “influencer” was constantly showing travel locations, her having light hearted fun, going to nice bars, restaurants and spas, etc. it was all a facade. When she was with us she was tired, depressed and broke. She’d put on some sort of a filter to her posts to hide the bags under her eyes and to appear many years younger. And as for the restaurants, etc she’d post, she had a running thing where she’d con some business into giving her free stuff in order to promote the business, which would eventually run out because the business would never see a return on investment from this supposed influencer. But for a month or so, she’d always be at X bar, Y restaurant or Z spa. Second story I was at a nice tropical resort one time for a conference and at the pool I saw a young couple doing exactly as others stated and play pretending. He’d snap her with a glass of champagne, she’d snap him, they’d take all of these poses around the pool where I was sitting, and then they left. It was all completely staged.
They get pooped on. Look it up.
A girl I went to high school with would stop her beater of a car and have her son get out and take pictures in front of Bentleys/front doors of mansions….then she’d post them on SM and say “love my new car…”
If you’re deemed “hot enough,” you can have anything you want.
Some influencers are even gifted these stays by the resort, but it’s rarer.
If you’re not out drinking every week like the older generation and you work in a professional job, have no kids this is very much affordable. Most of this age group don’t have any ambitions to buy houses because it’s near impossible and pointless anyway. Many are willing to flatshare and a lot of this age are still living at home. No one is waiting until 65-70yrs old to live life they’re doing it now.
I am a few years older but this is exactly how I’ve been living my 20s. I have a degree, life savings, live alone and completely debt free. The people I meet on my fairly lux holidays tend to be the same. Some may have come from money but I’d say most studied and work.
Creditcard / loc baby
I think others hit the nail on the head… Stay a night and drip feed a bunch of photos over several days. The sad part about being an influencer is you constantly have to come up with new content or people stop following you. So your life really becomes little more than that. And half the people they hang out with are only hanging out with them so they can appear to have a well known friend.
Staying anywhere in Europe is a great starting point as flights get much cheaper.
We stayed in a 5 star hotel did oslo and tromso flying economy with British airways in October with private transport to and from the hotel.
Total Cost me £1500 for 2 people. Even on minimum wage saving for a couple months, not partying or drinking allows us to go on more fancy holidays
I’m early 20s so is my partner.
Parents money
They join together as a group, rent a place for a short while and split the bill. They take selfies with nobody else in the picture and post them over the course of multiple days. Boom, looks like they had the place to themselves for a week.
Smoke & Mirros
I’m 24 and my bf is ab to be 22. We go out of the country on vacation almost every year. How we afford it is we don’t, my mom pays for like 50% of our trips. She always pays for my flights my half of hotels and she always gives us pocket money before a trip too. So me and my bf will split the cost of his half of the hotel and flights. My mom is a single mom and in a lot of ways us three have all become one account. So the splitting of things in reality doesn’t matter because it’s all on big pot 🙂 but yeah that’s how. I wouldn’t be able to even go down the street without my mom and bf lmao I’d be so broke.
You can book cheap hotels and stuff and spend the big money on locations. Not everything has to be a sugar daddy, or escort, or whatever – you can simply just save good money and get up and go.
Our kids is an influencer and he runs like a hamster on a wheel. Constantly has to push out content and doesn’t make much money even though he has tons of followers and gets recognized on the street. Influencing has gotten so diluted—it’s hard to get sponsors and contacts anymore so you have to pay for yourself now. He still gets free stuff sent to him, but rarely a big contract from a major company.
All this to say- it’s expensive to look like you are doing well and to keep your followers. It’s a constant race.
A lot of my friends get cheap holidays with Wowcher and other coupon sites
It’s an illusion.
If you’re creative you can make mid places look super impressive.
The northern lights look better in photos than real life. You could be under them and not even know unless you’re somewhere dark enough or you use a camera to check. In the camera screen it’s all pink and green but IRL you’d have to stand still in the dark for a few minutes to maybe notice a slight colour in the sky.
I work and plan and save and then go globe trotting.