We’ve all heard of Rich Kids of Instagram, and when we’re looking to bring a little more life-envy to our day, we’ll have a thumb-scroll through the #rkoi hashtag. But now it’s being tagged ironically with photos of ugly food and boring selfies, we’re looking to move on.
That’s where the ‘What Happens At Private School Goes On Snapchat’ Facebook group comes in. Featuring images of expensive drinks, Rolexes, fast cars, jetplanes, designer labels, wads of money, bank statements, school fee statements (plus some more bizarre events, such as someone cutting through a birthday cake using an iPad, and a shisha pipe made using a bottle of Dom Perignon), it’s dripping with money. That said, we’re not sure whether the skinny boy hanging off of a basketball net next to a castle-like school building really meant the caption ‘looking down on the plebs’, or whether, in the photo of a castle with the caption ‘back at home ☺’, the castle is actually the home of the child and not just a school trip to a National Trust site.
For the few that are undeniably genuine – you probably don’t have access to lots of bottles of Grey Goose, stacks of money too large to fit into wallets and Rolexes if you’re not pretty well-heeled – the best part is they’re on Snapchat. What places these photos as truly British (or, at least, taken by British-born people who’ve subsequently attended a few international boarding schools, yar), is that for all of the posturing and the showing off, the images are temporary. Unlike their Rich Kids Of Instagram peers, they almost don’t want to be seen to be showing off as much as they are. They know it's crass, so they put the photos up on a site where they can almost get away with it. That is, until, a rightfully annoyed ‘friend’ screengrabs them and forwards the image to
. With 230,000 members and rising, join this group if you want to have a little giggle at these rich people’s wild hubris.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.