Urban Exploring

Upper middle class white kids with $1,000 cameras (also known as "photographers") who seek entrance into abandoned or no-longer-in-use buildings in order to look around, drink, or party. They leave nothing but footprints, graffiti, and beer cans and take nothing but pictures or anything not bolted down.

Exploration is incomplete without telling the world about it via urban exploring forums, Facebook, and Instagram. An "explorer" is incomplete without the air of superiority for their alleged knowledge of architecture, history, or gutter punk lifestyles.

*While scrolling through Instagram*

"Look at my pictures of this Art Deco building."

"That's not Art Deco, that's New Formalism."
"No, it's Art Deco. Believe me, I do urban exploring."

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