Ansel Elgort posts 17 topless selfies on Instagram in the space of ten minutes

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Megan C. Hills29 May 2019

For most celebrities, Instagram is a way to promote their newest projects or share carefully curated insights into their daily lives. Then there's Baby Driver actor Ansel Elgort, whose recent spree of topless selfies could be filed under 'just because.'

The Elgort selfies began in the early hours of Wednesday morning and were posted in the space of ten minutes. The pictures confused his fans, as well as actor Zoe Kravitz who asked what everyone else was thinking: “Dude. What is happening right now?”

None of the 17 selfies have a caption and all appear to be taken from slightly different angles on his phone.

Elgort's girlfriend, ballet dancer Violetta Komyshan didn’t seem to know what he was up to either, but she did comment on his fifteenth (fifteenth!) selfie, “I think this one is the best but they’re all pretty good tbh.”

Music producer Diplo simply posted a slapping face emoji in the comments.

One Instagram commenter watched it happen in real time and commented, “Every time I refresh it’s something new this is hilarious.”

One user posted, “listen I don’t understand but I am grateful”

Another called for him to stop, commenting on the fifth post, “Sir please this is a McDonalds.”

One worried that the spree would take a dark turn, writing, “Why do i feel like the next photo is gonna be a d*** pic”

For those who had turned on notifications for Elgort’s account , the spree was a nightmare. One user wrote, “people who have your post notifications on are dying rn”

“I’m getting like 50 new post notifications bc of these,” a user wrote.

Elgort of course delivered, with his seventeenth and final selfie moments later.

People began speculating why Elgort had posted 17 selfies in the space of ten minutes. Some believed his account had been hacked, with one user asking, “So who decided to post all of Ansel’s selfies at once?”

Another said, “He meant to post this on Tinder.”

Others wondered if he had been going through old pictures, as one user commented, “he’s clearing out his camera roll”.

A few thought that Elgort could possibly have been drunk or high, with one user asking, “So where did you get this weed?”

A few bright-side individuals saw the selfie spree as an empowering message of self love. “Email me some of your self esteem pls,” a commenter asked.

“When you read a self love book” another wrote.

While another user added, “when u can’t decide on one selfie so u just post all of them”.

Even though we don’t understand Elgort’s actions, it’s a comfort to know that no-one else does either.

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