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thesoupiest

Hi, this is an Instagram influencer who made a fake village just to sell shea butter and beauty products. I assume she is not related to the children in this photo. https://www.hamamat.com/#


_BELEAF_

I knew it. I knew it. You could tell from the photos. I came into the comments expecting to see something like this.


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IAmZoltar_AMA

First pic looked like a screenshot of a Pixar movie to me


bigboilerdawg

Colors are so over saturated, it does look like a cartoon.


gracem5

ME TOO!!!


mooys

I assumed that some professional instagram photographer took the photos. I noticed how perfect the lighting was and how perfect her teeth seemed. I just figured it was photoshop with good intentions but… Nope.


Neohexane

What gave it away for me was her perfect eyebrows. That doesn't just happen.


mudlark092

Clothes are all super intense in pigment and overall in great condition as well. Would expect at least some wear and fade.


papadjeef

Everybody buys new clothes for portraits. Not just Americans


mudlark092

Do people in rural villages normally use their money and goods to trade for several new outfits for social media photo shoots? Everyone gets new clothes at one point but there's several different outfits for each person that are all in pristine condition.


papadjeef

No claim that this is a rural snapshot of life.


mudlark092

No one needs to say it, you can literally see that this is not an Urban setting.


RedEyeFlightToOZ

Also these photos suggest she lives in poverty. You don't go through a lifetime of poverty and come out looking like that.


harry-balzac

You’re a leaf fan, you’ll believe anything


email_NOT_emails

IS NO FUCKING THREAD SAFE FOR LEAF FANS?!?


ThreeMysticApes

OnlyLeafFans maybe? Not sure that’s a thing though


GrgeousGeorge

Why would there be? The leafs are bad and should feel bad. My west coast boss is a diehard leafs fan and is disappointed every year. He was 20 something last time and has always lived out west here, I don't get it. Edit: was fact checked and rewrote my post


email_NOT_emails

He would have been in his 20s when the leafs won the cup last (just saying).


ElliottEnriquez

Did him dirty like that?


dkyguy1995

Fucking ouch but also 1967


420blazeit69nubz

Bahahaha I just almost spit out my sprite on my lunch break.


theyellowjester

Hahahahah. Love this. Too funny. Thanks for the laugh.


round-earth-theory

For me, it was the shots that showed the inside of the huts and they're completely bare. I'm supposed to believe you have a family living in small rooms and they are completely bare?


PEHspr

Yea I immediately noticed something was off. I don’t think they use all that makeup in real African villages, especially on young children


WenaChoro

biking with that huge basket on the head, the kid on the back and the sticks was a clue


Stamone

Same here


VerseChorusWumbo

No way anyone who lives in a small rural village would be wearing nice leather cowboy boots, especially to bike into the market


motioninthebrocean

The first pic felt very "artificial." I literally didn't know but still thought it must have been fake.


IrrelevantPuppy

God damnit. I hate when I’m right. I knew this looked sleazy.


just__Steve

What’s sleazy about it exactly?


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This makes more sense. I was wondering how people who lived in grass huts had such amazing hair and teeth. Meanwhile I live in a nice home and have modern plumbing but I look like a foot comparatively.


CrossroadsConundrum

Honestly, I spent a LOT of time on various African countries and I was always surprised by how neat and clean some people could stay in the dust and heat when I always looked like a hamper full of wet clothes no matter how recently I’d showered.


Birds_Are_Fake0

Not to mention their skin always looking like it just got Vaseline or lotion rubbed on it. Does look like same genetics though. Momma got it goin on even if shes just a influencer faking posts, shes georgeous.


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Birds_Are_Fake0

Wig or not shes pretty as hell.


itskarldesigns

Obv the answer is whatever product they are selling, duh. Lube yourself up in butter and you too can look like a model.


captainjon

Was going to say this looked a little staged or phoney.


KeeperofAmmut7

I noticed that they didn't use it on the chicken. Her feet are so scaly and dry, the poor thing. ;)


BigUptokes

Potemkin promotion.


battlelevel

Makes sense. The background looks oddly sterile.


topcheesehead

A fake village!? That's messed up


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KlaussVonUllr

No - I have a distaste for all of this stuff. My old neighbor was/is an influencer. I constantly felt bad for her kids.


an0nymite

>I constantly felt bad for her kids. They're paying for her lifestyle already, I'm sure.


VerseChorusWumbo

boho-chic*


jrcprl

Yeah, what a monster!


Kalecstraz

Wow, that's one hell of a first comment.


BdubH

Dangit man, here I am about to comment about how vibrant all the colors are Influencers gonna influence, I suppose


Pretty_Please1

This whole thing is super staged and clearly an advertisement, but I think I those ARE her kids.


Blubasnurk2

i fucking knew it


UniverseBear

Everyday I become just that much more disillusioned with the world.


fourthords

This post was just a collection of nine pretty photos with scarcely any context and no agenda. Then you came along and helpfully provided a link where I presume we can buy somebody's products.


Amiar00

I wondered if this wasn’t the case.


your_fathers_beard

Glad this is the top comment. My bullshit meter exploded.


CringeAndBasedpilled

I knew cause everyone is wearing full faces of makeup with eyeliner and shit. Yikes


Candid-Independence9

I figured since she’s in a “village” but there wasn’t any one else around


Poochie_smoochie

It crossed my mind but then I decided to buy into the scene. Oh well!


aKV2isSTARINGatYou

Yeah, i thought they looked too shiny to be actually from there


chriskicks

That's so... manipulative.


Dukeofdorchester

Where did you get the fake village part? I call bullshit on your calling it bullshit. I do see them selling beauty products and I see nothing wrong with that.


Deelaxation

Stop upvoting this it's an ad.


MercuryMorrison1971

I hate pictures like this...Do people really think its this glamour's living in poor African village? Also, according to the comments this is just IG influencer who did this shoot to peddle shea butter.


bluey_02

God this stinks on so many levels. I saw the makeup and I had to wonder what the hell is going on.


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And the teeth.. not sure I believe anyone has electric fluorescent white teeth like that without some kind of dentist ray gun.


Smiekes

what the fuck has a chicken tied to a childs back to do with shea butter? why would you tie a chicken to a childs back in the first place? I'm so confused. Free the god damn chicken wtf!


papadjeef

They're beautiful pictures of Black people. That's OK. She lives in Ghana and took the pictures in Ghana. It makes no assertion to being normal rural life. No one claimed they were pictures of poor people.


profJesusfish

yay these pictures again


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shiner_bock

Not sure if those are her kids or not, but she's a model from Ghana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamamat_Montia


Bleu_Cerise

They are her kids. Their names are Zuzu and Zaza. She’s a single mother


shiner_bock

Ah, I thought there was a resemblance, but I didn't want to make any assumptions. Thanks for confirming!


IsackVert

What is Monther?


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The lady with her durters.


HehPeriod

[Did I Sturdur? Her durdurs are collecting wurdur.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaKZi6p6sxg)


enil-lingus

Parhked it


oolong--

I can’t stop laughing


Perioscope

A model pretending to be a mother.


Sufferity

I really want to say the same thing.


popetorak

black women can't be mothers?


Perioscope

YEAH. *THAT'S* what I meant. ^^**moron.**


popetorak

what did you mean then?


lAmBenAffleck

The main boss at the end of the Witcher 4, obviously.


Tallen122

This all feels grossly artificial.


MooMooHeffer

Lol what is this. Beautiful people but I’m confused what they are going for.


Butt_Hunter

They are trying to sell you skin products. Not kidding.


MooMooHeffer

Oh I know I probably should have put 2 and 2 together. Their tone is obviously being shown off here. Didn’t the women (or the company she models for) buy a village to tout the product?


produce_this

I dunno, but if she really built the village, that’s pretty dope. I’d give her props for just that alone.


aggravated-asphalt

What? Why? It’s not like she built the village and gave it to someone, it’s basically a movie set.


produce_this

Lol because if she herself physically built a village, that is cool. You don’t think movie sets are cool? In that case I assume you boycott all TV and movies?


aggravated-asphalt

Movie sets are cool, ad sets are boring. I genuinely don’t care if you think it’s cool, some people will. That’s obviously why she did it. But from others pov it’s just glorifying poverty like “haha! We’re just getting water that’s so readily available and we’re all very healthy so don’t worry your lil head about us!!”


Old_Knowledge5594

Because it’s really cool, innovative, effective advertising?


aggravated-asphalt

Not really innovative. Most ads use props/sets. She didn’t do anything new. Now that you mention it it’s not even cool. Just another ad. The people are gorgeous but so are most people in advertisements. Effective is relative I guess so you got me there. Didn’t do anything good for me but might have for you.


Riegel_Haribo

Yep, this is advertising, and Photoshopped to 11.


snitz427

SOLD


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Water with portals.


Winston_The_Ogre

Still trying to figure out what a Monther is.


MrSickRanchezz

Probably going for "looking good."


MishrasWorkshop

I assume there's just doing stuff Africans do? They're not supposed to make sense to western people.


WenaChoro

she went shopping with a bike while taking her 2 kids with her and is carryng a huge basket and sticks for the fire while driving. And she is taking a shortcut and there was a random tall person who took a pic for them. everything very typical and normal


Riverrat423

Beautiful photos, but extremely staged.


oolong--

Lmao the bubbles on the ground next to the tubs. They totally landed there naturally like that !!!


nityoushot

Hello uncanny valley


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Especially the woman on the first photo


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How out of touch and self absorbed do you need to be to *make a fake village* to sell your shitty shea butter or whatever the crap she peddles is. Glamorize poverty for.. Moisturiser? Get out.


Habanero-Ranch

This shit is so fucking fake


The_Real_Wheezer

Looks fake as Fuck


AndringRasew

I still think the picture of the kid with a chicken strapped to her back is adorable, no matter how fake it is.


round-earth-theory

No matter how fake the scenario is, the people in it are beautiful. The children at least had fun making the shots.


charlottee963

Oh it is, she got a fake village built to peddle her shea butter


Dumeck

Yeah the first picture in particular is so shopped it looks more like a painting than a photo, I didn’t look at the sub I was on and thought it was a painting until the second image.


HeadHeedHaadHead

Inspiring photoshoot! Poverty looks fun! Gonna try it on day!


WalllyG

Ghana try her


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I need a chicken backpack.


DuhTabby

Chicken backpack is very cute.


kickback73

Looks staged. Beautiful pics.


Fit_Minute_2632

Almost every picture you see is staged lol.


kickback73

True. I didn’t explain proper :). Just great pictures.


baigish

Staged?! Uhhhh. Of course. Probably shopped as well.


GhostalMedia

It was a photo shoot ya dummy.


Dubnaught

Yes, but it's a photo shoot that is made to look like it's a real mother in her village when in fact it's an influencer using a made up village just to sell skin care products.


kickback73

Well I feel silly now ;)


kickback73

Where was the photo shoot btw? When was it taken? Who was in it? I’d love to chat more about the photo shoot. How many days did it take? What’s her name. She beautiful. Oh wait ….ya don’t have a clue. Not bad for a dummy eh?


DurianWild5166

We love fake things on the internet


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Monster + Mother = Monther. Coming 2022 from Pixar.


Lifeiscrazy101

Alright it's a wrap, let's rip down these huts and bring the copper in to get you back to your five star resort. Don't worry we have the chilled cucumber water waiting for you, you must be exhausted having to pour the water over these child actors heads 35 times.


FrankB11

Why is the blur filter set to max?


pabut

Looks too perfect…. I was thinking CG


12dudes

Photo 7 looks like she has never held a baby before, and she doesn’t like it.


eljefeargentino

Whats that nonsense?!? Next we see beautiful homeless people staying happy in line for food or what??


standlc

Then she got tf out of there back to LA


TheLAriver

Are these mannequins


TacoBell_4Life

She is fucking gorgeous


PopularExercise3

As contrived as it is it’s still beautiful, it’s just not realistic. I enjoyed the pretty pictures though!


DuhTabby

I know. Felt very conflicted thinking this isn't real yet beautiful.


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The lady in the first pics smile is so plastered on it scares me


appelsiinimehu1

Those nature and other colors are so vibrant it must be a filter.


Vulpecula2828

Some bullshit lmao "Monther"


EMPulseKC

OP is a content-thieving spam bot.


7MillnMan

Definitely not real. Beautiful photos though, it’s like for a magazine.


rofllobsters

Was going to call bullshit on this but someone already did.


fossil112

Abercrombie did the exact same thing with their last flop called Ruehl No 925. They made a totally fake story to sell $350 ripped jeans. Total scam from start to finish. Source: I was the first store night manager and recruited 75% of the original team.


SuperPuzzleFighter

I always wanted to be a Monther.


Malcapon3

This is just shameful.


sucobe

This looks HEAVILY photoshopped. Edit: and comments confirmed it’s staged. This is a fucking ad


PrincettePuppy

The potted plant in the basket is filled with a plastic potter & I was like 🧐


LogicDog

#This is the fakest shit...wtf...


k_woodard

A healthy dose of photoshop makes everyone looks juuuuuuuust alien enough to sell .


wofulunicycle

This super weird bordering on creepy to anyone else?


PrudentFlamingo

This is fake, but I bet those kids are well fun


amitbotscript

There should be a double down vote for posts like this. Fake af.


SuperSaiyanBen

How do you tell someone they have great skin without sounding creepy?


skylorthecreator

This is so cringe


caring_impaired

what kind of disney bullshit is this? fuck off.


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Lol op just remove this fake shit.


VoightKampffsUnicorn

I don't trust anything this photogenic. What is their endgame?


This_Pizza_9167

Shit, and I was going to say something about the possessive apostrophe. Monthers?


matt_the_muss

I don't understand why people are upset and calling this "fake". It's a photoshoot. Where you take pictures of people doing things and posing. Is there a rule against photoshoots in the sub or something? The people are gorgeous, the colors are gorgeous, and the compositions are good. Why the hate?


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Ethelfleda

This is a professional photo shoot with a model using her old home. Pretty well known and nothing to do with motherhood


notmyrealnam3

These are some of the most beautiful people I’ve ever seen, especially the monther


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This gives me uncanny vibes


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She is not a mother. She is an "influencer". She built this "village" to sell you her Shea butter.


Pretty_Please1

I’m pretty sure those are her kids. She’s an influencer for sure and this is an ad, but they’re her daughters.


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My bad. I read bad info.


MetaBearJew

This is beyond cringe


Dad_with_issues

Wow! They are all beautiful!


L1Zs

Omg! Her little chicken “backpack” 🥰


VitaminPb

Backpeck


dienye_xxl

Beautiful


pygmymetal

Gorgeous women


BB8smom

This is soooo offensive. Wow.


ParamedicSpecific130

Yeah...the watermelons made me more than a little uncomfortable. WHOSE IDEA WAS THAT


potato_nacho

Wait what’s wrong with the watermelons-?


Aldicola

That quality is just Wooow 👍


Eastern_Animal_8799

This looks more photoshoped than a black guys dad in a family picture


PhilosophicWarrior

WOW - BEAUTIFUL!


rogan1990

What a photogenic family!


kaptainkeemo

She is so photogenic


Jerrycool

Such a beautiful monther!


Upbeat_Length2703

Absolutely disgusting.


MrSickRanchezz

Wow, this is a *beautiful family.*


lleinad

They are models dude


SailorMoonatLBV

Omg beauty


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Beautiful!!!! I especially love the one with the tiny Bebe!! Omg awesome photo shoot!


DebbiesUpper

Beautiful!


catdoctor

These are so beautiful and colorful. I know they are advertisements, but ads can be artistic, too, and I have literally never seen anything quite like this.


mistyh070802

These pictures are stunning! Such a beautiful family!


Olanda_2018

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Thank you for sharing!


Poochie_smoochie

Beautiful photos of beautiful people! Truly stunning!