Does every restaurant have to appeal to the Instagram generation now?
"I don't like it, and therefore others should not like it either"
Tokyo's 2D Cafe
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#12Does every restaurant have to appeal to the Instagram generation now?
I believe you mean any instead of every
I'm amazed by the number of restaurants I walk by in Vancouver. That you happen to see the internet photo worthy more often than the straight forward venues is a side effect of the internet photo worthy restaurant essentially self selecting itself to be shared online
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#13there is a "restaurant with rooms" in Turin in which the rooms are designed by local artists and one of them is "2d"
The restaurant is also very good.
https://r-cf.bstatic.com/images/hotel/max1280x900/187/187002...
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#14Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21322807 EDIT: I was wrong, the previous discussion was for a similarly styled cafe in Korea, whereas this one is in Tokyo.
These are two different cafes that use these visual effects (one in Tokyo, Japan, and one in Seoul, Korea.)
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#15Does every restaurant have to appeal to the Instagram generation now?
Taking pictures and sharing them with friends is not a generational thing. It has been a cornerstone of human culture since the concept of photography was invented. Are we not allowed to enjoy what we see anymore?
Even before photography, we were painting portraits of our food (https://twitter.com/neilgupta/status/1183559136467922951). This is not remotely new behavior, humans like to tell stories.
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#16Does every restaurant have to appeal to the Instagram generation now?
This seems entirely consistent with long-standing Japanese quirky fun, established well before IG and FB existed.
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#17Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21322807 EDIT: I was wrong, the previous discussion was for a similarly styled cafe in Korea, whereas this one is in Tokyo.
These are two different cafes that use these visual effects (one in Tokyo, Japan, and one in Seoul, Korea.)
Shoot, I didn't read the titles correctly enough; you're absolutely right, they're two completely different cafes. Thanks for the correction!
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#18Does every restaurant have to appeal to the Instagram generation now?
Japan raised comics to an art form long before Instagram. Akira volume 1 was published before Instagram's founders were even born. This isn't generational.
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#19Is the quality of a place only dictated by instagrammability, today?
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#20Does every restaurant have to appeal to the Instagram generation now?
Taking pictures and sharing them with friends is not a generational thing. It has been a cornerstone of human culture since the concept of photography was invented. Are we not allowed to enjoy what we see anymore?
However sometimes it feels like it is being hijacked. Sometimes it feel that the main experience is "sharing a picture", rather than having an experience (view, sound, smell, all senses plus emotions) and then trying to share it with pictures. Sometimes it feels that people are too focused on being the directors of their lives rather being the (ad-lib) actors.
The gamification and addiction-inducing practices of certain social media probably has something to do with this trend. This, I think, is the generational thing.