Keri, a travel influencer currently based in Poland, has ignited controversy after sharing her grievances about the picturesque seaside town of Positano on Italy’s Amalfi Coast. In a recent viral Instagram Reel, Keri articulated that disappointment. She argued the town had failed to live up to the best laid plans of Instagram influencers. In fact, her comments immediately resulted in intense backlash from the online audience, many calling her elitist and out of touch.
In her Instagram clip, Keri shared her anger at the lack of nightlife options in her small town. She noted that there was one decent rooftop bar and one club with a cover charge to pay. One amazing rooftop bar that packs a ridiculous crowd, and then one club you have to pay cover at. And bar-hopping just didn’t seem like a vibe,” she elaborated.
Keri slammed Positano’s beach, calling it “small” and “overrun.” So you have one small, very congested beach,” she went on. It’s the opposite in that it’s great, like, oh, it’s almost like you need to do a beach club, but they’re all pricey. We were really hoping to check one of these out and I just didn’t think the one we went to lived up to the hype. Her comments reveal that she expected the little town to bend to her will. Rather, to do it justice, she should have celebrated its merits as an anomaly.
During one of our recent episodes, Keri got real about how her annoyances with her countrymen while in an idyllic Positano could be pretty hypocritical. As she revealed in her Crazy Cat Lady rant… “This next one is going to sound so hypocritical.” Yet, she did it fully aware that it would be misinterpreted. She lamented about all the obnoxious, ugly American tourists who were ruining the atmosphere of the narrow streets. It’s because there were so many Americans, she said. Then there are the short-sighted and often less well-traveled tuners, who scream at the top of their little side streets. They defiantly root-root-root for the home team.
Keri said she was expecting the backlash on her remarks, which as any T.V. Many described her as “tone-deaf” and “ungrateful.” One fierce critic had a particularly stinging comment as his parting shot. She explained, “If you visit the Amalfi Coast and ask where the bar hopping is at after booking a hotel in Positano, girl you done goofed.”
Many others agreed, arguing that her high standards showed a much larger problem. This is like the most peak I’m-an-American-tourist-and-the-world-should-adjust-to-me energy ever,” one user commented. They countered that Keri’s attitude was a big factor behind the superficiality she was lamenting throughout her clip.
Keri additionally received tailored advice about her upcoming trip itinerary. One viewer commented, “If you want a city to do rooftop bar hopping, go to Nashville. This serves to underscore the contradiction between her aspirational wish and the lived experience of vacationing in a storied hamlet like Positano.
The backlash didn’t stop there, it ultimately resulted in deeply personal comments aimed at Keri. I understand the message you are trying to convey, but it is still tone deaf,” one viewer insisted. Another critic even called her “the US’s new chief tourist everyone loathes,” hardly helping the backlash against her comments.
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