

And that he did: "Hey guys, can u guys comment RIP in my most recent pic because i want my gf to think i'm dead, my family and i recently moved and she wants to keep that relationship, i really want to move on, it was a toxic one." That comment from Simrin has turned into a trend that's being copied and you can see variations of it all over Instagram, especially on celebrity accounts, which are heavily trafficked and give users the sense that their prank has a higher chance of succeeding. His hope, he told Engadget in an interview, was to go viral. He just thought it would be fun to trick people into thinking he was, so he decided to start leaving comments on dozens of Instagram accounts telling others to go comment RIP on his pictures. "RIP, you'll be missed." "RIP, bro." "You died way too young." "I can't believe you're gone." The list goes on and on.

There are thousands of users telling him to rest in peace. His viral picture, posted in October 2017, isn't anything out of the ordinary, either: It's Simrin simply standing next to his friend, each staring directly into the camera, with a caption that reads "Fresh out the oven." But then you look at the comments, and it would appear that poor Simrin is no longer with us. This type of engagement is typically only seen on accounts from celebrities. That doesn't make him a social media influencer, by any means, but his Instagram page quickly stands out when you realize one of the photos has over 22,000 comments and 4,000 likes. He doesn't post pictures on his page every day (there are two total), yet somehow he's managed to get nearly 3,000 people to follow it. To turn this calamity to his own advantage by plunder and rapine, he promised to remove the bodies of those who had perished in the fire, and clear the rubbish at his own expense: suffering no one to meddle with the remains of their property.īut he not only received, but exacted contributions on account of the loss, until he had exhausted the means both of the provinces and private persons.Ahmed Simrin, 15, is one of the millions of teenagers who uses Instagram. Sung a poem on the ruin of Troy, in the tragic dress he Said, "with the beautiful effects of the conflagration," he House of Maecenas, and, "being greatly delighted," as he 1 This fire he beheld from a tower in the In ashes as well as the temples of the gods, which hadīeen vowed and dedicated by the kings of Rome, and afterwards in the Punic and Gallic wars: in short, everything that was remarkable and worthy to be seen which The houses of generals celebrated in former times, andĮven then still decorated with the spoils of war, were laid Meanwhile, a vast number of stately buildings, Obliged to fly to the tombs and monuments for lodging and Nights this terrible devastation continued, the people being Were battered as if with machines of war, and set on fire, Granaries, the site of which he exceedingly coveted, they With tow, and torches in their hands, but durst not meddle


Rank caught his own household servants on their property He set the city on fire so openly, that many of consular "Nay," said he, "let it be while I am living" Īnd he acted accordingly for, pretending to be disgusted “ When I am dead let fire devour the world. He spared, moreover, neither the people of Rome, nor the capital of the country.
