The Spring Festival has just started 2 days, and there have been more posts on the Internet about lightning avoidance, weeding, and stepping on pits in Internet celebrity attractions.
Many friends want to take advantage of the holiday to "special forces tourism", so they are full of longing, under the pressure of not being able to grab a return ticket, risking the temperature and heavy snow, to come to the beautiful Internet celebrity attractions on social media.
turned out to be disappointed, and wrote a lot of "anti-fraud strategies".
Some netizens joked that the first "new type of fraud" will appear in 2024!
Recently, because of the popularity of a travel variety show, Iceland has become a tourism vision for many people.
However, Iceland has been popular in China for a long time, and there are even many "Iceland flat" destinations in China.
These places claim to have similar Icelandic beauty, but are more cost-effective?
(Black Sand Beach, Iceland)
Who would have thought that on a certain book, netizens who were deceived by the "Xiaoice Island" gimmick and filter to check in to wild attractions have begun to huddle on the Internet to warm up.
Someone rushed to the dark gothic black sand beach on the online post, hoping to take the same ascetic photo, only to see a bare sand and gravel on an abandoned quarry.
Some people are obsessed with the alienated and cold atmosphere of "Xiaoice Island" in the filter, and want to find a sense of relaxation outside of urban life here, but the excavator parked in the open space is shocked to travel back to reality in a second.
There are also people who fall in love with the heavy metal industrial style of "Xiaoice Island", and they come here thousands of miles away, but only look at the garbage and the barbecue crowd on the ground.
One thing to say, how is this not another kind of cyberpunk?
Source: Xiaohongshu @ Xiao Wu who loves carbs
There are also people who simply covet the vastness of the original nature in the photos of "Xiaoice Island", vainly trying to come here to breathe fresh air, but only a rockery and swimming pool are left on the scene.
In the "Xiaoice Island" Internet celebrity scenic spots across the country, they are crowded with college students who have come and returned from disappointment.
But it doesn't matter, this is not the first time that the special forces have been deceived into checking in the scenic spot.
Once upon a time, on Chinese Internet social media, there were at least 63 "Little Santorini", 62 "Little Kyoto", 61 "Little Kamakura" and 59 "Little Nara" in 34 provinces and cities across the country.
Source: NetEase Digital Reading
There are countless college students and special forces who have been deceived by these mass-produced "Little Kyoto" and "Little Kamakura" networks, but they can't stand the "clear and simple" check-in party regardless of their previous suspicions, even if the Internet celebrity scenic spot abuses TA thousands of times, they can still change the filter and continue to love TA like their first love.
Source: Xiaohongshu @rabbit
It is precisely because of the foreshadowing of the predecessors and scenic spots that the first wave of online celebrity attractions in 2024 will be transferred from Japan to the five Nordic countries, the "spiritual hometown" of young people?
(Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland)
Various filter check-in photos of "Xiaoice Island", "Little Sweden" and "Little Denmark" scenic spots have warmed up on social media before the start of the winter vacation, waiting for the arrival of the Spring Festival passenger peak.
There's no way, there are too many scenic spots, and there are not enough college students!
Seeing this, some people may ask, if I don't go to join the excitement of the "domestic overseas scenic spots", will I be able to avoid lightning and avoid pits by just following the classic route of the large army to check in?
Unfortunately, the water of influencer photo deception is far deeper than you think.
Before the TV series "Flowers" caught fire, Shanghai Wukang Building drove thousands of netizens to take a trip to find flowers because of a few tulip check-in photos.
But when the friends arrived at the bottom of the Wukang building, they found that the so-called tulip field was a potted plant.
Source: Xiaohongshu @ Shanghai Trend Intelligence
There is also the so-called "Sky Ladder to the Secret Realm in the Clouds", which is fairy, beautiful and aura.
Source: Douyin @ Farm Scout
After checking in in person, I realized that it was just a wooden staircase that was photographed once for 20 yuan.
(Source: "Sichuan Observation")
If influencer attractions are just a scam on our wallets, it doesn't hurt to drain our expectations and enthusiasm for travel.
What is even more worrying is that in recent years, there have been many personal accidents caused by Internet celebrity attractions, such as the accident that occurred in Ya'an, Sichuan last year.
Source: Sichuan Watch
Since January this year alone, there have been a number of safety accidents caused by "check-in strategies" and "film mecca".
On January 11, Xiong, a junior at a university in Nanjing, saw an "Internet celebrity check-in strategy" on the Internet and planted a project to tour Nanjing West Railway Station at night.
After that, he and two friends made an appointment to enter Nanjing West Railway Station at 9 o'clock in the evening.
While climbing the train car to the top, Xiong was hit and fell because he accidentally touched a high-voltage arc, causing burns to 50% of the skin on his body, and he is still being rescued in the ICU ward.
On January 21, another blogger posted a photo strategy on his social account about the rock revetment of Huaishan Mountain in Wuhan, teaching netizens to climb over the railing, and "simple and fast" check-in is an unpopular scenic spot with little interference from tourists.
And this so-called unpopular scenic spot is the local military restricted area in Wuhan, and there are warning signs on it that read, "Military important places, no entry".
Crossing such a check-in place is tantamount to endangering the safety of military installations and violating laws and disciplines.
However, after reading these confusing photo scenic spots, you don't have to be extremely disappointed with the domestic scenic spots.
Behind the whimsical filter, there are really plenty of other attractions across the country that are both human and scenic to discover.
As the saying goes: "It's not that Hokkaido can't afford to go, it's that our Yokodo River is more cost-effective."
Source: Xiaohongshu @Ms. Brainless and Mr. unhappy
Hengdao Hezi, which is only an hour and a half drive from Harbin, has Russian-style buildings everywhere, and its pale yellow exterior looks quiet and romantic under the cover of snow.
Source: Xiaohongshu @ Fanfan Travel Diary
There's also a gothic-style train station with a pointed roof, and the snow is thick with snow that looks like something out of the movie "Love Letters".
Source: Xiaohongshu @in
If Hengdao Hezi is China's Otaru, then Hulunbuir's Linjiangtun should be China's Swiss town.
Located in Linjiangtun on the border between China and Russia, the scenery of the four seasons is different, there are green waves surging in spring, there are flowers all over the field in summer, there are golden eyes in autumn, and the snow in winter is piled up to a paradise wrapped in silver.
Source: Xiaohongshu @ Xiao Jun
Linjiangtun is also home to a large number of ethnic Russians, and the architectural style of the local houses also retains a bit of exotic style.
In particular, the wooden house called "Mu Kelen" is very similar to the wooden house in Grimm's fairy tale.
Source: Beauty @ Prosperity and Prosperity
Come here in winter to take pictures and check in, there is no need to advertise any "little Switzerland", this is the beautiful scenery of our Inner Mongolia.
Source: Xiaohongshu @ Tuanzi E Fei
Therefore, China already has so many unpopular and extremely natural beauty attractions, so why bother to chase those artificial check-in places that have been blessed by filters?
I hope that those Internet celebrities who are good at using "technology and hard work" to write check-in strategies can be less routine and more sincere when recommending scenic spots.
At the same time, it is also hoped that the local cultural and tourism bureaus will seize the good opportunity of the winter vacation to do a good job in tourism supporting services, so that tourists from all over the world can truly feel the beauty of the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.