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Can we all agree that this travel influencer trend has gotten a little bit out of hand?

Sure, some of them are interesting and informative, but there seem to be a whole bunch of these folks who are misleading people and/or posting truly pointless content.

The woman who wrote this story got sick and tired of her friend posing as a travel influencer, so she decided to give her the business and call her out about it online.

Check out what she had to say about this situation.

AITA for sharing the truth about a friend’s ‘solo travel’ page?

“I have a friend who is into ‘side hustles’.

Her latest hustle is as a wannabe travel influencer.

She’s linked up with a travel MLM, and is billing herself as a travel expert who can also act as an agent for itineraries and routes.

Her niche is presenting everything as an affordable solo travel opportunity.

Oh, boy…one of those people…

She’s posted nearly a hundred posts on Instagram of her all around the world, and more or less every post has a mention of it being a great solo trip, or X restaurant is perfect for dining alone etc.

Every single place she has posted however is from a holiday she’s either gone on with family, friends, or past boyfriends.

This should be obvious to a layman (there are selfies where people are clearly cropped out, and table settings with two meals, despite the copy saying she’s eating alone), but she’s actually gaining a small audience, as I know solo traveling is becoming more popular.

This is pretty shady…

The big issue is that the prices she is quoting are disingenuous. Say she’s on about a weekend in the south of France from last year, and how it was ‘only’ around £200 for her flights and accommodation.

She went on that holiday with her last boyfriend, and the cost was £300 alone for the hotel they stayed in.

She’s halving or portioning her share of the cost, and acting like this was her ‘solo travel’ spend.

She called her friend out on it.

I work in travel, and keep on dealing with people who are coming with itineraries like this, and are shocked when the cost is sometimes more than double of the social media claims, which bums them out as it’s over their budget.

When she did this the other day with a holiday I actually went on with her and two friends (‘spend a week in Croatia with me for only £350!’).

I couldn’t help but comment that the Airbnbs we actually stayed in were at least £100 a night, and she was portioning off £25 a night as her share, which couldn’t get you a private room in the places we visited.

That didn’t go over well!

Within the hour, I was blocked from her travel Instagram, and she sent me a voice note saying that I was jealous and trying to disrupt her ‘business’.

I said that she’d probably do just as well if she was just honest, but did not get a response.

Friends are split – some have admitted they were close to anonymously exposing her themselves as they had the full photos they’d been cropped out of, but others have said to keep the peace I need to apologize.

I do want to keep her as a friend, but don’t know if apologizing is best when she was objectively misrepresenting herself.”

Reddit users spoke up.

This person said she’s NTA.

Another individual agreed.

This Reddit user weighed in.

Another person spoke up.

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And this person also said she’s NTA.

She wasn’t having it!

And you can’t really blame her…

This is pretty annoying!

These fake travel influencers need to be called out!