Building on previous research on recent cultural shifts in luxury consumption (Roper, Caruana, Medway, & Murphy, 2013), this article's theoretical contribution is threefold. First, we show that, in contrast with previous research (Han, Nunes, & Drèze, 2010), luxury content consumption practices on Instagram are different from traditional luxury practices of tangible luxury goods. Specifically, lurkers use In-stagram to consume intangible luxuries; that is, the representations of brand artefacts, in the form of pictures, become the object of con-sumption and discussion, rather than the items themselves. In the context of visual social media, consumers are interested in the online display of luxury content rather than in simply following a specific luxury brand per se (Leban & Voyer, 2015). Whereas traditional luxury consumption knowledge and expertise are tied to actual physical con-sumption, digital virtual consumption allows lurkers to develop knowledge and expertise about a specific product or brand in a way that is not connected with physical ownership of branded products. This unconventional form of expertise develops through the transforma-tional effect of digital virtual luxury consumption through lurking. This contribution is in line with recent research suggesting that luxury is undergoing a series of transformations (Cristini et al., 2017). Tradi-tional luxury meaning is shifting from owning tangible luxuries to ex-periencing intangible, unconventional luxuries.