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Thousands of Indonesians follow Australian woman named ‘difficult’ on Instagram
No: 008, 03 Mar - 10 Mar 2017
An Australian woman has suddenly
found herself with a substantial
Indonesian following on Instagram,
thanks to her handle, which means
“difficult” in Bahasa Indonesia.
Susan, a graphic designer from
Melbourne, Australia, had no idea her
nickname and Instagram username
“Susah” was the Indonesian word for
difficult until she realized she was being
tagged over and over by Indonesian
app users.
She joined Instagram in 2011, but it
wasn’t until a couple of years ago that
she made the connection after being
tagged so much in “seemingly random
photos.”
“I didn’t understand it at first, but when
a lot of them seemed to be Indonesian,
and a lot were photos of homework or
tests at school, I started to suspect
something was up. I asked a few of
these people why they tagged me in
their photos, and someone replied that
my name in Indonesian means difficult,”
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Susah explained to Coconuts Bali in an
email.
In the past few weeks, Susah has
experienced a surge in followers
gaining around 7,000 new ones, likely
the result of several local news outlets
covering her story.
Susah embraced her Indonesian
followers, even writing “Still difficult”,
along with “Selamat siang” (the
greeting for good afternoon) and “Saya
tidak bicara Bahasa Indonesia” (I can’t
speak Indonesian) in her Instagram bio.
But she wasn’t always so easygoing
over all the tagging when it first started,
because of all the time-consuming
manual “untagging” involved.
“I was a bit frustrated, because I didn’t
understand that you could turn off
tagged photos being added to your
profile. I had been manually untagging
myself in more and more photos! So I
wrote that little bio ‘Dear Indonesia,
stop tagging me in your photos’. I didn’t
think anyone would actually read it!”.
Susah even resorted to setting her
profile to private, tired of all the tagging.
“I finally figured out you could turn off
being tagged, and then forgot all about
my bio comment. Until one day I was at
work, and in about one hour I had 20
friend requests because I was on
private.”
All the interest came after she got
turned into a meme—or rather, a
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screen capture of her profile telling
Indonesians to stop tagging her.
“It turns out someone had posted my
profile and comment to an Indonesian
meme site! I kept getting requests
throughout the day until I went public
and suddenly had 2k new Indonesian
friends!”
Ironically, it happened right before
Susah and her husband traveled to
Bali, where they would go on to post
pictures of their honeymoon—which
were of course very popular with her
Indonesian followers.
“It was perfect timing because i was
just about to get married and we had
booked our Honeymoon to Bali.
“We had such a nice time in Bali!
Lovely people, beautiful scenery and
such good food! When we got back, I
didn’t have any ore requests for 6
months, until just a few days ago when
all of a sudden… 4k more people
followed me because it went even more
viral!”
Overall, it’s been a positive experience,
Susah tells us.
“It’s been really nice replying to some
people who have sent me messages,
Indonesian people are so nice and
positive!
“I’m happy I’ve been able to make
some new Indonesian friends and my
husband and I really want to come back
to Indonesia to explore more.”
(coconuts.co)
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