How one woman is changing lives, one hashtag at a time!
Updated | By Danny Painter
Instagram, a heavily filtered space on the internet that we are all guilty of spending too much time on.
I spend hours scrolling through perfect layouts of azure or pink aesthetics and the Xpro filtered, fabulous lives of the people I wish to one day emulate with their 50 000 followers.
I spend even more time carefully curating the world I allow people to see, you know, the flawless, thinner, always happy world where my make up is always done and I always have good lighting. It's really not true.
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One woman is taking a stand and asking us to share just one post that shows our truth for that one moment in our lives.
View this post on InstagramA post shared by Jo Lurie (@thejolurie) on
I had no idea how much influence I had until I was tagged in an Instagram post in June by Jo Lurie talking about something called #TheGramSham.
View this post on InstagramA post shared by Jo Lurie (@thejolurie) on
"Born out of a deep concern that our Youth are being set up for massive failure by the fake dreams being sold to them by their role models on Instagram, #TheGramSham came to life for Youth Day 2018." Jo explains; "A few days before Youth Day, an appeal was made for people to share their truth with the youth. We needed at least one day of truth-telling on Instagram and no dream selling. The response was phenomenal. #TheGramSham made an enormous impact and exposed a much bigger truth to a much bigger audience than anticipated. The collective truth was that we all struggle with something and it doesn’t mean you’re failing, it just means you’re living."
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And the response was incredible! Even our very own Kriya Gangia and Rozanne Mackenzie took to their Instagram to share their moments!
View this post on InstagramA post shared by Kriya Gangiah (@kriyag) on
View this post on InstagramA post shared by Rozanne McKenzie (@rozmckinsta) on
Because of the incredible response, and the way these truths touched me personally, I invited Jo Lurie, the creator, into the studio to tell us more about it!
Will you join the movement? Let me know below! And use the # #TheGramSham!
Image courtesy of Jo Lurie. Instagram courtesy of Jo Lurie, Rozanne Mackenzie and Kriya Gangia.
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