What do you do when you decide to stay home for the holidays but told friends and family that you'd be taking a 5-week vacation to Southeast Asia? Dutch student Zilla van den Born was actually home the whole time in Amsterdam, updating doctored photos she shared on social media of her "travels". Check them out below:

She went tropical scuba diving.

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Nope, she didn't.

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She made some friends while on vacation.

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Imaginary friends that is.

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She was at the beach. Jelly yet?

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Don't be! It was all photoshop!

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Check out the reactions of her family and friends when she revealed she was actually home all this while.


Her project was to address the definition of reality. Just how much of what we see online is real these days?