{"id":29716,"date":"2017-04-30T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=29716"},"modified":"2017-04-30T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T13:51:17","slug":"dont-irresponsible-online-exhibitionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=29716","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t be irresponsible with your online exhibitionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, there was planking, then nutscaping, now Cheeky Exploits is taking Instagram by storm.<\/p>\n<p>Their mission is a simple one, \u2018making the world happier, through butts\u2019, encouraging travelling millennials to submit pictures of their backsides in exotic locations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt&nbsp;as the account grows you\u2019ll start seeing more of it, maybe even have a bit of a giggle.<\/p>\n<p>But before you get too excited I\u2019d like to remind you that an account like this is actually problematic in practice.<\/p>\n<p>Completely ready to embrace the account as a bit of light-hearted fun, I began scrolling down the feed looking at the butts (an average day on the Metro Lifestyle desk). There were butts in idyllic&nbsp;rainforests, tanned bodies with blindingly white butts on mountain tops, sculpted butts attached to tanned bodies holding surfboards\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"box shadow  \"><div class=\"box-inner-block\"><i class=\"fa tie-shortcode-boxicon\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BP4kNJDB62t\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@cheekyexploits \u5206\u4eab\u7684\u5e16\u5b50<\/a> \u00b7 <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2017-01-30T09:41:00+00:00\">2017-01-30\uff0c1:41 PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p>I had scrolled for a good five minutes before I realised something. Bar one or two slightly (and I stress, SLIGHTLY) curvier women, I\u2019d just been looking at the same backside over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>All of the women could be models&nbsp;in some kind of hot, hipster travel magazine or an Instagram celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>The only place there seems to be any real diversity on the account was in the men featured, and even then it\u2019s pretty sparse \u2013 maybe one or two larger men, a few flat dude butts dotted throughout, but that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts like this, that claim to be an aspirational, fun way of helping to spread the body positivity message can actually cause a lot more harm than good when they only show one kind of body over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, online accounts which fall into a category of \u2018spreading the love\u2019 need to start being more responsible with their online exhibitionism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-align-none wp-image-6606870\" src=\"https:\/\/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/giphy-114.gif\" alt=\"Don\u2019t be irresponsible with your online&nbsp;exhibitionism\" width=\"604\" height=\"344\" data-orig-id=\"6606870\" data-orig-w=\"500\" data-orig-h=\"285\" data-max-width=\"620\" data-rsz=\"no\" data-rewritten=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p>Any picture featuring a woman has at least double the likes of those pictures featuring a man.<\/p>\n<p>One commenter acknowledges this, saying \u2018Cracks me up how the female butts get 6k-10k likes, and the male butts get under 1k. You gotta take a page out of Tina\u2019s book on Bob\u2019s Burgers: all butts are beautiful! Free the butts!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Free the butts, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the account has no control over who will like what photo and perhaps in time this sort of reaction will balance out. However, it serves as a reflection of the (intended or not) sexualisation of the women\u2019s backsides pictured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cheekyexploits\/\">Read the comments<\/a> for yourself, and you\u2019ll see the difference in the way people react depending on which&nbsp;gender is being shown, meaning there are still some kinks that need to be worked out in the accounts message and so many others like.<\/p>\n<p>Showing nothing but the backsides of cookie-cutter travel hipster types is not enough to, \u2018spread the love.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>As curators of an account that is growing quickly in popularity, Cheeky Exploits have a responsibility to make sure their message is coming across clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Having the ability to personalise your message is one of the best things about starting a campaign or project on social media, you have the power to affect change. If you want to be celebrating butts \u2013 celebrate all butts.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m all for butt positivity, I don\u2019t think this is it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"metro-factbox  full\">\n<h3 class=\"metro-factbox-title grey no-icon\">A reply from Cheeky Exploits<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"box shadow  \"><div class=\"box-inner-block\"><i class=\"fa tie-shortcode-boxicon\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BTeNMDNFEHp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STARRY | STARRY | BUTTS This is a pretty #magical butt photo under the stars in #kauai! Thanks, @alexseichter for the #cheeky submission! #cheekyexploits #butt #butts #belfie #buttsofinstagram #spreadthelove #hawaii #polihalebeach<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">@cheekyexploits \u5206\u4eab\u7684\u5e16\u5b50 \u00b7 <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2017-04-29T14:05:11+00:00\">2017-04-29\uff0c7:05 PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p>I am cheeky exploits, and I would prefer to remain anonymous, but I am a 31-year-old married woman living in London.&nbsp; I have from the beginning run this account on my own and I continue to do so!<\/p>\n<p>The entire account was started as just a fun thing that I did with my husband and friends and was never meant to have anything to do with travelling or the \u2018trend\u2019 that it seems to have evolved into since the media picked it up.&nbsp; We did it just as a funny, thrill and for a very long time I can remember saying, \u2018my dream is for a stranger to send me a picture of their butt,\u2019 and the first time it happened I was over the moon!&nbsp; Since that first butt was sent to me I have not had a shortage of content to post and continue to occasionally do ones of me because it\u2019s just fun!<\/p>\n<p>It has been slightly upsetting to see that it has been typically stricken as a page with, as you worded it, \u2018\u2018hot, toned, yogi types.\u2019&nbsp; I have tried incredibly hard to convince many types of butts to participate but at the end of the day I can only post what content I actually have and these are simply the type of \u2018butts\u2019 that are sent to me.<\/p>\n<p>I always wanted this account to be for everyone!&nbsp; Butts are butts and the only photos that I turn away are not because of their size or colour but simply because I do have a certain aesthetic look that I want to keep with my photos (I have always enjoyed photography and also use this page as a way to showcase photos that I take) so I don\u2019t post photos that are blurry, grainy, too up close, sexual, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I was inspired to start it after a friend showed me their friend\u2019s&nbsp; account, which was a similar light-hearted account about butts in public.&nbsp; I loved the idea so much I thought I would try it with my own spin.<\/p>\n<p>Butts for me have always just been funny and literally, everyone in the world has one so I have never seen it as overtly sexual or inappropriate so that is really the reason behind it being my focus.&nbsp; It\u2019s all about fun and being a bit daring.<\/p>\n<p>As far as where I want this page to go, I want to spread as much love and body positivity as possible and literally just try to add a bit of joy and happiness to this very scary time that we are living in!&nbsp; I would love more than anything to start receiving more diverse photos so if anything comes from this article I hope it is that people understand that the entire purpose of this page was spreading love and body confidence and body positivity and that the media has assumed that I have not included more diversity on purpose, when in fact I would love nothing more than to receive more of it!<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>And I haven\u2019t really put too much thought into who I would love to feature on my page but I would say off the top of my head people I love right now that would be really cool to get a photo from would be Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy and Tina Fey because I am absolutely obsessed with these women and think they are about as funny as it gets and think they would come up with a great one!&nbsp; I also admittedly have a girl crush on Ruby Rose so that would be pretty cool!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, there was planking, then nutscaping, now Cheeky Exploits is taking Instagram by storm. 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