A tweet about influencers flocking to Chornobyl to take selfies made the rounds the other day, quickly racking up thousands of retweets and at least as much eyerolling. It didn’t seem to matter that only one of the screengrabbed accounts actually had a legit influencer-worthy following, and that two seemed to belong to everyday tourists from different parts of eastern Europe. The fourth photo was such a doozy that it cast a disreputable pall over the others — even though a quick look over the rest of the account, which belongs to a woman who writes in Russian, suggests it was a calculated grab for internet notoriety. She appears in two shots, in lingerie and sheer coveralls that look a little like a hazmat suit — a radioactive thirst trap so hilariously tasteless it deserves a round of applause. Hers is the only one of these photos that hasn’t been deleted following the deluge of “kids these days” scorn the viral tweet prompted.
Chornobyl
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A tool for measuring radiation levels, Geiger counter, is held against a backdrop of the new sarcophagus covering the Reactor Four of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant destroyed by an explosion in 1986. The new safe confinement replaced an original crumbling dome at the end of 2018.
