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Maybe don’t put vintage filters on Notre Dame fire photos

User roasted for making a tragedy about ‘aesthetically pleasing’ VSCO filters.

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Amid fire consuming Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral on Monday, the internet has had some less-than-stellar takes surrounding the incident. While the blaze did not reportedly have malicious origins, Twitter user @gaygadott took being tone-deaf online to levels not seen since the Auschwitz concentration camp selfie

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In a post that seems like a personal photography promotion, @gaygadott described the loss of the historical monument as “most aesthetically pleasing visually i’ve ever seen.”

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The response to the tweet currently stands at approximately 32,000 likes and 20,000 replies. Apart from being ratioed to hell, the tweet also received the attention of popular Twitter account @ArtDecider. Without much deliberation, the account decreed that the photos @gaygadott had posted were, in fact, “not art.” 

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After replying to the original tweet with the name of the filters used on the photos, @gaygadott thanked their audience for getting the post to 10,000 likes and clarified that the app used to edit the photos was VSCO.

https://twitter.com/gaygadott/status/1117898313435500548

The general reaction to @gaygadott hasn’t been forgiving. Replies have ranged from simply recognizing the absurdism of the situation to open disdain and disgust for turning a tragedy into #content.

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https://twitter.com/margielamartin/status/1117872950173216769

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After the backlash, @gaygadott tried to save some face by saying that they were not the original creator of the images and that the images were posted as “just a joke.”

https://twitter.com/gaygadott/status/1117877440712298496

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Neither VSCO nor @gaygadott immediately responded to the Daily Dot’s request for comment.

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