Some Russian influencers have been left in tears following their country’s decision to ban Instagram from Monday.
Reality TV star Olga Buzova, who has 23.3 million Instagram followers, posted a nearly seven-minute video on Sunday of herself sobbing over the impending loss of her audience.
“I am not afraid of admitting that I do not want to lose you,” she said in Russian.
A post shared by Ольга Бузова (@buzova86)
“I do not know what the future holds. I don’t know,” she continued.
“I just shared my life, my work, and my soul. I did not do this all as a job for me, this is a part of my soul. It feels like a big part of my heart, and my life is being taken away from me,” Buzova added.
The 36-year-old ended her video by saying that she was “going to go and continue crying.” The clip had racked up more than 700,000 views as of press time.
According to a tweet by opposition news channel Nexta TV, another unnamed Russian content creator also cried over the weekend as she said that she was in the “first stage of grief” over the ban.
“Do you think that for me, as an Instagram influencer, this is a source of income?” she said in Russian in a video shared by the channel. “To me, it’s all life. It’s the soul. It’s the one thing with which I wake up, fall asleep. Fucking five years in a row.”
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