Emily In Paris has seemingly split the internet in half. There are those - like me - who binge watched the entire series in a day, and then wanted to move to Paris and grow eyebrows as glorious as Lily Collins. There were also those, in and out of France, who hated the series, thinking it was tired, dated and cliched - and just not very entertaining either. However, there is one thing that everyone is finding funny: this Emily In Parasite Instagram account.
OK, so we wouldn't first associate Emily with the award-sweeping black comedy thriller film by directed by Bong Joon-ho. But we're into this very clever crossover, which really draws attention to the materialism that Emily is guilty of, and the obliviousness with which she approaches her social media presence. You just know she'd live tweet the dramatic birthday party at the end.
The account appeared on Instagram shortly after the series aired, and 'Emily Cooper' has since gained more than 7,000 followers. OK, so not quite the number our heroine had on Emily In Paris. But the photos from the account have been widely shared on Twitter and it's building by the day.
'Just moved to Seongbuk-dong,' Emily's bio reads. 'Yeoboseyo, @Netflix!' Emily only follows the official Netflix and Parasite accounts, but Grazia got in touch via DM and discovered that the creative concept is a collaboration by LA friends Russell Brown and Mark Jacobs.
'It started as a text exchange and became an aggressively dumb meme account during the Supreme Court hearings as an alternative to doom scrolling,' they tell us, adding that they haven't actually seen the whole series: 'we've seen four episodes, and we really like Sylvie's hair.'
The fusion, they explain, works for a specific reason: 'Emily's success narrative, the White-American-abroad-marketing-influence-princess-fantasy, is a fresh take on an expired trope that really shines in 2020 when it's imposed on Korean class horror. It's all horror. The world is hard and getting harder and if our nonsense makes anyone smile, we're glad.'
'Please vote every fascist out of office', they add.
Follow Emily In Parasite here.
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