# The Follower – Dries Depoorter

<https://driesdepoorter.be/thefollower/>

- Host: [driesdepoorter.be](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/driesdepoorter.be/)
- Saved: September 15, 2022 (2022-09-16T01:26:02Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a6d9831c46b5/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a6d9831c46b5.json

## What Jamie wrote

This is a bit mind-blowing. 🤯 Depoorter used publicly available webcams and then used ML to match it to Instagram photos. What you get is surveillance footage of the Instagram shot. It is creepy to watch, highlights the ridiculous "gloss" of Instagram, and is a reminder of how connected data can get. Take a moment to think through all the Door ring bells out there capturing video. Creepy…

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT226: Weekly Thing #226 / Patagonia, Merge, Walrus](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/226/), Notable

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://driesdepoorter.be/thefollower/