#anti instagram

[castielsprostate]

i hate you "influencers", i hate you tiktok, i hate you "content creators", i hate you "unalive" and "s€x" and "dr/ügs", i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people's privacy, i hate you modern day social media

[someoneintheshadow456]

Idk what tag to use to describe the phenomenon of "Tiktok/Instagram Reels being full of toxic femininity/Gender Roles 2 but I just want to make a thread of examples of batshit takes I have seen from Instagram Reels (I don't have examples for all of them):

"I hate playing with my kids because I think they're 'emotionally abusive'/'gaslighting' when they change the rules every 30 seconds and rough house with me. Also, only fathers can enjoy playing with kids because they don't parent like mothers do (being a mom is soooooo harddddd). I refuse to teach my kids how to play nice and go shocked Pikachu when they don't."

"If you're over 25 you will never find a partner ever and should just get an arranged marriage" (said by someone IN THEIR LATE 20S)

"Sleep studies are all based on mens' needs women actually need 10 hours of sleep because uterus"

Just a whole lot of "Girls are mature well-behaved angels until they hit their double digits, then they become satanic demons from hell. Meanwhile boys are satanic demons from hell BEFORE puberty instead."

"Children produce more oxytocin around their dads because dads are the fun parents and they will never appreciate the hard work their mothers do"

"Bullying is good actually because something something evolutionary psychology. I am very smart, I was a gifted kid in high school"

"Men are useless overgrown children who can't keep house or be trusted around babies. But if a man can keep house and/or is good with children, he's either 'not a real man', a pedo, or gay."

"Some women??? Beat their kids??? To cope??? Kids should understand when mommy brings out the chapathi roller it's because they're just ungrateful brats! Being a mother is sooooo harddddd"

[hacked-wtsdz]

I’m sorry but tumblr’s uniqueness and value ONLY comes from reblogging. Like, apart from Twitter, where the creations aren’t as variable, the rest of it: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok is mostly focused on personal creation. On individuality. But tumblr is created to be shared, to reblog, that’s the only way you can use this site really. Tumblr is more about community than individuality, and that is a good thing.

[nieuwe-secession]

Airplanes

[chubs-deuce]

Fuck you modern instagram, fuck you complete lack of content filter, fuck you grindset posting, fuck you endless string of the same 12 automated tiktok reposts with shitty ads halfway in, fuck you art theft, fuck you nft bots, fuck you worthless dashboard that gives me more ads and suggested content than shit I actually followed for and even then never the most recent posts, fuck you "you have to post reels to be visible" algorithm that forces people to crosstag and spam videos bc they don't get seen any other way and completely render finding anything you're actually looking for impossible, fuck you random restriction of indviduals for no reason at all while literal nazis and white supremacists stay up forever unaffected, fuck you facebook with your metaverse (fuck you fuck you) and blatantly greedy ass strategies (fuck you fuck you fuck you) and fuck you for turning social media into a money making machine rather than a place to connect with others (fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you)

[fancylala4]

A video shows all rapunzel movie and show adaptations up until 2002.

A comment a with lot of likes from a dumb Disney stan: I’m waiting for rapunzel.

Me:

[house-at-teacup-corner]

the instagram grind makes me wanna give up on life here you go tumblr maybe you’ll find a good use for this

[will80sbyers]

Instagram just feels so judgy idk I didn't have fun there anymore and I tried to go back but it's the same icky feeling... I wish a new app became popular

[meili-kese-anyaleko-old]

i hate instagram so much not just because it promotes unhealthy beauty standards and is censored to hell and back and is populated by rich people selling their rich people products and that the culture there is rancid, yes, more rancid than the weird cream sauce-soda mixture my friend made in the audience of a drag show, but also because you’re encouraged to show the “best” of yourself. absolutely not. best is in quotes since i am disgusted by the capitalistic idea of success. people on this site have seen the worst of me. and now they’re gonna know i drew this on stage at a live performance.

don’t worry though the guy next to me was drawing what looked like a half duck half man standing up to pee

[chaoticvictorianspirit]

[okay strap in cause I'm ranting tonight]

@staff @wip @humans @support

stop this algorithm driven hell, stop the capitalist madness, stop this tiktokification

borrowing concepts from "popular social media apps" is pretty much the worst business decision you could make. this is not a social media platform targeted to everyone and their mother, this is a blogging site with a very finely working ecosystem. like it or not tumblr will never appeal to the broad public. and you don't want it to, trust me!! the twitter/instagram/tiktok people don't want to use your website and never will, no matter how much you try to roll out Generic Offbrand Tiktok App n.385. they don't need it. to them tumblr is dead and irrelevant and full of incomprehensible weirdos. you know who *will* use your app and generate site traffic and revenue? the fucking core user base that's been here since the dawn of time. the people who affectionately nicknamed tumblr the Hellsite yet spend their lives glued to their dashboard babbling about blorbos and wizards and ballpits and ea-nasir's bitch ass copper. the people who flock to tumblr exactly and solely because it is not the damn profit driven attention span reducing minor sexualising social bubbles creating algorithmic pit of despair these other apps are. all you're achieving with these decisions is alienating the only demographic you have and ever will appeal to. have you ever read anything on here? if there's one thing an average tumblr user hates it's capitalistic money grabs. replacing the blog tab with the marketplace tab is a clear signal as to what you think is more important and even though the reading comprehension on this site has never been strong, we know how to read between the lines. and we're pissed. but mostly we're disappointed and fucking sad because we already see how this will cause the downfall of tumblr, the last place of refuge for many a internet dweller.

what I'm trying to say is please stop trying to appeal to the tiktok girlies. they don't care. they don't need you. instead focus on keeping your current users cause they'll stick with you through thick and thin as long as you don't turn this into glitchy instagram in a wig.

we won't leave.

we don't want to leave.

we don't have anywhere else to go, you're not losing us to competition.

this is OUR carefully cultivated space with zero working features and a gazillion problems and we will die protecting it.

but if you chase us out with a broom that's on you.

[nieuwe-secession]

Spring

[kcuf-ad]

I am this close to leaving Instagram, it is so fucking shit.

There is nothing, but filled with bigots, homophobic, racist, transphobic people, including the most sexist people, people that can't take a fucking joke, people that make Twitter blush at how toxic they are.

The only reason why I am not leaving is specificially for 1 person there.

If weren't for him, I would leave that shit hole.

[castielsprostate]

i absolutely HATE how all these "influencers" completely fucking ruined instagram with their affiliate link spam for artists wanting to share their links oh my god

[aikoiya]

I'll be 100% honest. I have only been on tiktok 2-3 times this past year maybe & it's always to view one singular thing extremely briefly, then I leave & I intend to keep it that way.

I only really view tiktok posts on YouTube or go to view something related to my hyperfixations that I can't access anywhere else before leaving & that's how I wanna keep it. I don't even have an account & I don't ever intend to.

I don't do Instagram, I haven't done FaceBook in years, possibly decades, & I only use Twitter to look for fanart.

Tumblr is really the only place I keep up with &, you know what?

I'm happy & content with my life. 😁