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I somehow knew this was going to be about “rich kids of Instagram” before even opening it. The part about renting and posing with the Lambo is tragic.

dagnabbit 6y ago
somehow it had never occurred to me that they were renting those. i had assumed they were leasing, and I still thought that was a sad flex.
cookie_monsta 6y ago
Apparently there's a whole side industry around renting out sports cars and other bling to people making hip hop videos. Now there's a growth market
- cmdshiftf4 6y ago
  There's even services that let you rent private jets when they're grounded to take instagram photos on. NYMag but there's other sources - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/you-can-rent-a-grounded-private-jet-to-take-instagram-photos.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/you-can-rent-a-groun...
- hckr_news 6y ago
  Speaking of which I used to watch MTV Cribz back when I was a kid. The cars were rented, and the homes apparently never even belonged to the celeb. Was all manufactured, which I understand given the amount of crazies, celebs would not want to show off their homes. And the cars being rented to maintain their status.
  - roel_v 6y ago
    I was watching an episode a while ago (forgot which one) where it was obvious the two rappers had never even been in the house before, like having to look around what sort of room it was before saying 'this is the lounge' or whatever. There was a picture of a sail boat that they looked at for a bit, slightly perplexed, and then said 'yeah this is a picture of a boat because we like boats' or something like that. It was hilarious.
    - Uhhrrr 6y ago
      The Cash Money Millionaires episode was totally like this. Big empty mansion with generic decor and the requisite shiny cars parked outside.
  - ijidak 6y ago
    Sadly, this is not new. Even in the Bible it warns: "There is one who pretends to be rich, yet has nothing;" - Pr 13:7 https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1001070124/16870 https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1001070124/16870
- beefalo 6y ago
  From stories I've heard from exotic car rental companies, it seems they end up renting to people basically at cost and the real money is made when they ship out 10 cars at once with a full time handler for a photoshoot.

dagnabbit 6y ago

somehow it had never occurred to me that they were renting those. i had assumed they were leasing, and I still thought that was a sad flex.

cookie_monsta 6y ago

Apparently there's a whole side industry around renting out sports cars and other bling to people making hip hop videos. Now there's a growth market

cmdshiftf4 6y ago
There's even services that let you rent private jets when they're grounded to take instagram photos on. NYMag but there's other sources - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/you-can-rent-a-grounded-private-jet-to-take-instagram-photos.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/you-can-rent-a-groun...
hckr_news 6y ago
Speaking of which I used to watch MTV Cribz back when I was a kid. The cars were rented, and the homes apparently never even belonged to the celeb. Was all manufactured, which I understand given the amount of crazies, celebs would not want to show off their homes. And the cars being rented to maintain their status.
- roel_v 6y ago
  I was watching an episode a while ago (forgot which one) where it was obvious the two rappers had never even been in the house before, like having to look around what sort of room it was before saying 'this is the lounge' or whatever. There was a picture of a sail boat that they looked at for a bit, slightly perplexed, and then said 'yeah this is a picture of a boat because we like boats' or something like that. It was hilarious.
  - Uhhrrr 6y ago
    The Cash Money Millionaires episode was totally like this. Big empty mansion with generic decor and the requisite shiny cars parked outside.
- ijidak 6y ago
  Sadly, this is not new. Even in the Bible it warns: "There is one who pretends to be rich, yet has nothing;" - Pr 13:7 https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1001070124/16870 https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1001070124/16870
beefalo 6y ago
From stories I've heard from exotic car rental companies, it seems they end up renting to people basically at cost and the real money is made when they ship out 10 cars at once with a full time handler for a photoshoot.