They drive around in luxury cars and use 50-euro notes as toilet paper.
Their daily life struggles include choosing between eight different brands of luxury watch and having to employ a maid to clean their enormous mansions.
No, they’re not oil barons or A-list Hollywood celebrities. They’re just teenagers of filthy-rich families, who document their daily life on a series of social media accounts — and the results make for some pretty unbelievable viewing.
Mamamia has previously reported on the teenagers behind the images, known as the ‘Rich Kids of Snapchat’, but now their photos are being collated by new social media pages, and the photos are more plentiful and eye-waterfingly expensive-looking than ever.
A Twitter account called FilthyRichSnap with 300,000 followers has collated the posts of the rich teenagers, as has the Rich Kids of Snapchat Facebook page, which now has more than 194,000 likes.
Most of the posts follow a familiar formula: they involve giant magnums of champagne, fast cars, and private planes, paired with a tongue-in-cheek humble-brag, as news.com.au reports.
It’s the same formula used by the social media pages collating photos by the Rich Kids of Instagram, which was so phenomenally successful, it’s now been made into a TV show. (You can see some of those images here:)
That series was so successful that it sparked spin-offs, like the Rich Kids of Morocca and the Rich Kids of Tehran, whose photos you can peruse right here:
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any successful "blogger" or "instagrammer" is usually from an affluent background. this story is not new, it isnt offensive, its just meh. Got to know someone to get somewhere in that stratosphere.
In a way I really don't see this as any different to what my "less well off" social media friends post - they're posting (bragging?) about the most exciting and impressive parts of their lives - which is what so many people do from all walks of life.
Except if anything I feel better about these posts because I know they're lucky enough to be in a situation that they have too much money to know what to do with. Compare that to my social media friends, and when they post about their excessive shopping trip which covers their bed - there is that tiny creeping feeling that you also need to break the bank or post something exciting or crazy soon to show that you have an equally great life.
Not necessarily a good or bad thing - just a reflection of our times.