Sir David Attenborough is known for numerous things– from being a filmmaker to the “human voice of nature”– and now it appears like he can include “social networks star” to his long list of accomplishments.
The cherished ecologist, understood for voicing a number of world-famous nature documentaries, signed up with Instagram on Thursday in what he discusses is a bid to save the world and its environment.
In his first post, Attenborough goes on to call out a few of the ecological crises pestering the world prior to stating that over the next couple of weeks he will be taping messages to describe what the issues are and how we can handle them.
“Hello my name is David Attenborough and I’ve been appearing on radio and television for the last 60 years. But this is my first time on Instagram. I’m making this move and exploring this new way of communication, to me because, as we all know, the world is in trouble,” he says in a video clip, his first post.
The social networks launching comes just weeks prior to the launch of David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, a Netflix documentary set to be launched on the platform on Sunday, October 4. The movie states his life, the evolutionary history of the Earth and uses brand-new visions for the future.
According to the post, Attenborough has actually dealt with Jonnie Hughes and Colin Butfield for the documentary, the set who will be assisting him to run his Instagram account.
“Social media isn’t David’s usual habitat,” the caption reads. It explains that he has recorded videos solely for Instagram and the pair will be sharing exclusive clips and behind-the-scenes content through the account.
5 hours after his very first post, Attenborough had actually currently collected more than one million fans, while the video had more than 2 million views. It stays to be seen whether Attenborough will break Jennifer Aniston’s record, however– the starlet amazed the web when she signed up with Instagram in October in 2015, acquiring 7.1 m fans in a day.
