Instagram has become a whole social network in which photography, and the video, is the main protagonist leaving the second in a secondary plane. There are millions of photographs that are shared and published on this social network that has been able to exponentially increase its users since it was added to Instagram Stories as a novelty.
It is not easy to gain a horde of followers on Instagram, although Bill Young, father and pilot, has been able to obtain 500 thousand followers in a week by taking pictures of all kinds of rugs that you find in the hotels you visit. A person who has always had a passion for photography and who has been able to surprise friends and strangers by reaching such a large number of users in such a short time.
From floral patterns from Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel in Japan to the kaleidoscope corridors of the Choctaw Casino, each of the folders represented in their photographs on Instagram are able to match the personal taste of each of the users who have been following this pilot.
The story comes from the first photograph he published on August 27, 2015 with the account @myhotelcarpet. Since then he has gained about 83 followers. But everything changed when his 19-year-old daughter named Jill shared his father's account on Twitter. He requested the help of the network with this message: "All I want for Christmas is for my father's carpet Instagram to go viral, please help make this happen."
In just a few days, Young's Instagram account exploded into the viral, so that I even had to put the phone in airplane mode being about to explode from so many notifications that came to him. Today he has 614.000 followers who are lovers of patterned rugs.
Here you have your Instagram account. Not the first to portray familiar objects for all, as it happened with this artist who photographed a good number of doors.