For me it's the process of taking the photos that I enjoy, not the publishing it somewhere for (fake) gratification. So I find it weird that some people would do that. Maybe 20 years ago when I had my photo-blog my young mind would think different. But then again I never wanted to cheat in online games, I guess the mentality here is similar.
Out of curiosity, could you share some of these examples that they try to pass as photography?
Oh yeah, it's weird. The images have this "soapy" quality to them. And I don't know if it's because you're immediately sceptical and that takes you out of it, or that they really don't have as much emotional impact as they should.
You look at images by Vivian Maier or Antanas Sutkus who had this somewhat similar b&w personal style and they are super emotional. And of course much less "soapy", much less "perfect".