Mateus Herdy’s Garbage Is Another Man’s Goldmine

In a recent New Yorker article titled “The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump,” Kyle Chayka wrote about the origins of the carousels of crumbs now clogging our feeds.

He traces the trend back to the pandemic, when daily life was stripped of standout moments and posting a batch of images became a way to prove that online existences still had a pulse.

Like baking bread or picking up questionable hobbies, the dump spread quickly through Gen Z before being adopted by influencers and celebrities, who dressed it in captions like “life lately” and tried to present it as something way more casual.

Recently arrived in the vlogging community, Mateus Herdy’s “Garbage” is anything but. While the title is synonymous with those other inescapable dumps, this is one pile worth getting buried under.

His heap is made from unseen clips of the current CS world #2 in Hawaii, the Maldives, and at home during lockdown — when Brazilian beaches were exempt from authoritarian sanitary restrictions — and in the years that followed. These clips barely missed the cut for Mateus’s Snapt5 section.

And if the way he surfs still makes you angry, please resist the urge to key his car. That sort of vandalism counts as “low-frequency decision making.”