Singapore-based Instagram influencer Daryl Aiden Yow has apologised for using stock photos to mislead his followers
Daryl Aiden Yow has been removing posts from his Instagram page, which has more than 100,000 followers
By Ethan Rakin
Instagram influencer and photographer Daryl Aiden Yow has received a tonne of backlash after photos that he had posted on his account were found to be stock images he had altered.
He issued an apology via his Instagram account, after being caught red-handed by local news website Mothership.
Though Yow did not always outwardly claim that the photos were his, many pointed out that he had made money through sponsorships and deceived his followers into assuming it was his work they were seeing.
The Internet, as expected, did not take too kindly to him when the truth emerged:
Others, including budget airline Scoot, poked fun of the way Yow photoshopped himself into stock images of countries he had never visited but pretended that he did:
Yow, who has over 100,000 followers still on his Instagram page, has since come out and apologised:
He has also been slowly removing some posts from his Instagram page in what must be an effort to save himself from further criticism, but visitors continue to express their disgust by leaving comments on the remaining photos.
