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A question about instagram (lemmy.world)
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I fucking hate instagram. So I have a friend who always sends me instagram posts. I don't have an insta so I view them in browser but anyways. I have this feeling when watching insta content and it's just kinda making me agressive. It just feels fake. It feels like there's always this hard to describe layer over every. Single. Post. This air of cliché normativity. Everything's unbearably clean, Almost sterile. Everything's unbearably performative, always feels like it's hiding something, I cannot quite grasp, but that's too important to just retouch away, like insta does. Everything has this unbearable rich-american-kids-from-a-bad-teenage-tv-show-vibe. Everything I receive from there is just kinda hard to watch. Like, the content, the message can even be good and well intended takes on politicial subjects. But the way it's presented always screams "vanity" to me.

So my question:

Is it just me or is everything on insta intentionally or unconsciously vain and superficial?

Am I just massively prejudiced?

Is it just the bubble i get insights to or do you see this phenomenon spanning across different bubbles on the platform? Ppl with insta account s please tell about your experiences. Idk just frustrated about insta ig.

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[–] 1 point 5 hours ago

It is what it is, and it's not surprising seeing the societies and communities that populate it. Interacting with shallow, childish, intellectually limited Lemmings is already a headache, Instagram (unless heavily curated, I guess) would give me an aneurysm.

I remember when Facebook came out and I was in HS, and some of my girl friends got into the annoying habit of posting a selfie with some seemingly profound but completely disconnected quote. I remember thinking how vain and self obsessed they were, but more than that, how boring they were. I've already seen your face, you've already seen your face, there's no more information to be extracted here, how is this not boring to you as well? How come you can't see how extremely pointless and narcissistic this is? And if your life revolves around this, haven't you made your life pointless as well? This was almost two decades ago, I never thought it would become this bad but here we are. 😭

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