This awakening hasn’t just made us tolerant of one another’s self-indulgent posts, it has made us enthusiastic double tappers who welcome even the most self-absorbed of plandids. I posted one at the end of last summer and let me tell you, it is liberating. If you’re just beginning the journey, welcome. And sometimes we want to post pictures of our outfits while looking down and slightly to the left!!! What a relief it is to say out loud that yes, it would be nice to date a photographer just so that someone talented was on call at all times to catch us in our best light without having to ask, who doesn’t hoard his or her pictures but instead uploads them to our mutual share folder in a timely, organized and preferably filtered manner. (Please tag and tap for credits.) After following celebrities and bloggers for so long that they feel like our friends, we have finally realized we are just as worthy, just as “allowed” as they are to do whatever we want on social media. We have finally accepted that it feels good to have others validate our taste. We have finally admitted that we all like attention. What the proliferation of the plebeian plandid tells us is that narcissism is no longer the human race’s dirty secret. Civilians have just recently gotten in on the super-selfie act, and this summer, they took the tripod, found the right angles and just fucking ran with it.Ĭheck your IG feed now: All of your friends are posting these. Instagram bloggers have been doing the plandid forever, except their photographers likely are professional, or their husbands. I assume their personal assistants take the shots or something. Highfive selfie trend professional#An oxymoronic portmanteau brought to my attention by my friend Trent (turns out it’s been on Urban Dictionary since 2010), the term has come to mean, more than anything, a carefully calculated solo shot that appears to have been taken by a professional photographer, posted without a hint of shame or irony, and for no apparent reason other than, Why not?Ĭelebrities have been doing the plandid for as long as they’ve been allowed to run their own social media accounts. This is the summer of the plandid.Ī plandid is a planned candid. The answer is not important because it’s most likely “a patient friend or steady timer,” but this kind of photo - where the subject stands alone and full-on, unabashedly poses - is part of a social media trend that came to head just recently. Who took this photo for her is my second. How come Ashley Graham’s Instagram handle isn’t Ashley InstaGraham, is my first question.
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