12 Reasons To Reconsider Instagramming Fireworks

    True fact: Ben Franklin HATED fireworks. (I don't know if this is true.)

    Jessica Misener
    by Jessica Misener

    BuzzFeed Staff

    1. Photos of fireworks usually turn out like this:

    2. Or this:

    3. Or... this:

    4. A night we will remember forever:

    5. I have never seen anything like this! Oh wait, I take this picture every 4th of July:

    6. Oooh:

    7. Instead of actually watching the fireworks, we spend the whole show with our phones up, taking photos that come out like this:

    8. Annie Leibovitz could Instagram fireworks and it would still look like this:

    9. Are those fireworks or just a mutant firefly:

    10. OK:

    11. *blasts John Cougar Mellencamp*

    12. Our ancestors created the USA so we could have this:

    In conclusion, you are only encouraged to take fireworks Instagrams if you can make it look like this: