“It’s very rare to find a creator or just anyone on [Instagram] showing the day-to-day normal life that they’re actually like truly living, not the highlight reel.”
Dillon Reed
Influencer Manager
.…on North Texas-based social media influencer Connor Hubbard, who celebrates his “normal” 9-to-5 life on Instagram, via the Dallas Morning News.
Most Instagram influencers dazzle their followers with glammed-up, too-perfect-to-be-true lifestyle posts. But not Connor Hubbard, who meticulously captures his “normal” 9-to-5 lifestyle with scenes from his suburban Dallas home and job.
The Dallas Morning News’ Uma Bhat and Lilly Kersh explore the man who’s “normalizing the norm” in a profile that shows why he’s snagged 1.1 million Instagram followers and a million-plus likes on posts like “Day in the life of a middle-class guy with a 9-to-5 job.”
Read more—including tidbits on Hubbard’s baby and dog co-stars—in the DMN story.
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