Fake Off-Grid: How Instagram Turned Survival into a Performance in 2025 The loudest voices shouting “off-grid” are still on the grid — and the real rebels vanished without a trace.
Prologue: The Reel That Broke the Spell
Fake off-grid has become Instagram’s favourite performance. October 2024, coastal British Columbia. A golden-hour drone shot glides over a cedar-shingled tiny house. A woman in linen pours coffee from...
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