Influencer criticized for editing the same clouds into her travel photos says she never tried to keep it a secret

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• Instagram influencer Tupi Saravia went viral after social-media users realized that she had the same cloud formation in many of her travel photos. 
• Saravia admitted to Insider that she sometimes edits the sky in her photos with the camera app Quickshot when it looks "burned or overexposed." 
• The travel influencer said she has always been open about editing with her 292,000 followers and was the first to "joke about the clouds following me around the world." 
• While Saravia is far from the only influencer to edit her photos, travel blogger Stephanie Van Hoeijen told Insider that she believes editing is misleading and contributes to "the culture of fakeness."
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A popular Instagram influencer has admitted that she edited her photos to add clouds in the background of her travel shots after comparisons of the pictures caused a stir on social media. 

Tupi Saravia went viral this week when Matt Navarra, who is a social-media industry commentator according to his Twitter account, posted a side-by-side comparison of four of the influencer's Instagram pictures. Two of the photos were tagged in Maya Beach and Koh Rok in Thailand. Another image shows Saravia driving a boat in Italy's Porto Santa Margherita. The fourth image, which doesn't have a location tag, showed her walking through green fields. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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