Dead, Still Posting

The Instagram model of my dreams has zero percent body fat. She also has zero percent body, which is the catch.

Skellie—whose account OMGLiterallyDead is exactly what it sounds like—is a fully articulated skeleton living her best postmortem life. Shopping, museums, discos. The kinds of activities a skeleton has no business doing but commits to anyway with the enthusiasm of someone who narrowly avoided burial and wants to make the most of the reprieve.

The conceit is simple and the execution is committed, which is the combination that makes internet humor actually work. Other accounts try too hard. Skellie just shows up in places she has no business being and lets the image do the work. There’s a dignity to that—or whatever passes for dignity when the subject is a skeleton on a dance floor surrounded by people who are still technically alive and somehow enjoying themselves less.

There’s something genuinely appealing about an Instagram account with no pretense of aspirational lifestyle content. Skellie is not selling supplements or a skincare routine. She’s dead. She’s out here anyway. She’s having a better time than everyone still living and posting about it, and Kendall Jenner has never once looked this unbothered.