If you are trying to get a local that you are making friends with, to be a prop in your stories for social media… you missed the point. You should be trying to

If you are trying to get a local that you are making friends with, to be a prop in your stories for social media… you missed the point. You should be trying to focus on learning about the culture and the places and people, not some followers you’ll never meet and making sure to get ig photos the whole day. That’s not connecting, it usery, to grow your internet fame. No surprise you can’t find willing participants. Are you projecting? Maybe you haven’t met locals that wanted to take you around because that is the way you are treating them? I lived abroad for over a decade and I never had problems meeting locals or making friends with them. Generally I tried to avoid the selfie taking crowd of loud American tourists and brash military guys out on leave, like the other locals did.