It’s the truth universally acknowledged that kids who start social media accounts to showcase their wealth probably have more money than sense.
First came the Rich Kids of Instagram: a narcassitic account which showcased some of America’s most privileged.
Mashable is reporting that the Iranian government has blocked the site, relying on reports from several Twitter users and a news website tied to Iranian conservatives and hardliners.
There has been some concern that the rich kids in the images might be putting themselves at risk in light of the arrest and sentencing of young Iranians who made a video of themselves dancing to Pharell Williams’ song “Happy”. But as one Iranian woman told The Times, these kids are children of Tehran’s elite and are unlikely to be punished: “If they get in trouble, it will disappear.”
Instagram is one of the few Western social media networks still available in Iran. Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have long been blocked — although many wiley Iranians use various tech tools to circumvent the censorship.
Here is the clip of “Happy” that lead to the arrest of its Iranian performers.
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Top Comments
The way people have been acting, you'd think wealth disparity doesn't exist in Australia/America....
Shhhh... Don't tell anyone. We're trying to distract them...
(Whispering) Are we winning yet, Iggy?
Yup. The plebs are almost convinced that everything about Australia is perfect. If you get rid of the all the poor and all the brown people, we'll be golden! Golden, I tell you!!
Don't forget the gays and trans people. They can go, too. Heaven forbid we accept people who are different from the pallid, pasty, doughy face we see in the mirror every morning.
There is an amazing Facebook page. Allied My Stealthy Freedom which is based in Iran, it has 1000's of women without their hijabs. It is brilliant because these women know it's illegal to do this but they all feel strongly that wearing it should be a choice. I find it incredibly inspiring, they make me appreciate my own freedoms.
Rich kids with flashy cars...,meh.
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Let me get this right Jackie . Women who live in a Muslim country , created a web page as a protest against this enslavement , showing their faces, and this action may result in severe punishment but meanwhile in Australia , non Muslim women have crested a web page showing them wearing a veil? The fact that women who live amongst this suppression are protesting, kind of shows how naive we are in the west.