Below are photos and stories of actual human beings risking a lifetime of mockery, and sometimes their lives, to take the perfect picture for social media. It's not like anyone asked for this, but they somehow felt like we all so desperately needed to watch them risk it all for some likes — and no one's genuinely invested. If anything, it's just pathetic to watch them go too far. But then again, if you've been online at all in the past few years, you'll know this is nothing new at all.

If you're looking to submit photos of people you also follow who are known to do this, feel free to send them to the subreddit /r/JustForSocialMedia. Thanks to this subreddit, we know have the best of the dumbest things people did on social media, shared with you for all the wrong reasons. The 15 tales below are meant to serve as a warning for anyone using Instagram moving forward.