Getting naked seems like a pretty small insignificant thing imo. It’s not like there’s other people around them.
anyways, I’d say China killed travel, Air BnBs were thriving and I much prefer them over hotels. A lot of times the money goes to locals who own the house. If people are buying properties to turn them into Air BnBs and that jacks prices up, I don’t see how that’s any different than gentrification.
Getting naked is trivial in itself, but it represented a gross over-consumption point of travel: that people were so bored sh*tless with the commodification of everybody traveling everywhere that the only way they could top themselves for FOMO attention was to splay their gonads on holy mountains and fook on temples.
This apex moment paralleled the peak Dot-com 1.0 before the bubble for me. I remember standing on the balcony of some dot-com company, watching workmen removing the entry doors so they could wheel a Porsche into the office. The idea was that every 20 new employee referrals would give away the key to the new Porsche in a draw.
That moment told me right then and there: this has peaked, this is not going to end well.
I had the same experience when influencers and the like got naked on tourist sites as the only way to top their commoditization of these places that they basically acted like they could wipe their asses with them.
But yeah, AirBnB is about gentrification. All great ideas seem to turn to crap with scale. When people started managing 47 AirBnB units and not calling it a hotel, it was beyond bogus and just a way of escaping regulations and taxes. But the more AirBnBs in a neighborhood, the less the locals can afford them. And the less locals, the less the local shops (markets, etc.) cater to them instead of selling tourist crap. This guts the very neighborhoods of the very culture that made them attractive to tourists in the first place.