 Warning viewer discretion advised. I have massive beef with a social media app and surprisingly It's not tiktok. Although. I guess we could call it tiktok's fault. I've got beef with Instagram forever Instagram has been my favorite social media app. It had a relatively straightforward premise You follow your friends your friends post pictures see their pictures you stay up to date with what your friends are doing pretty simple app Sometimes you unsuccessfully slide and Johnny since the m's you get the idea But over the course of the last six or seven months I've started to really hate Instagram and I could never put my finger on why I knew that Instagram reels were really pissing me off But you know if people want to post videos they're gonna post videos And then I saw this nade shot tweet and it summarized it for me perfectly said it's wild How quickly Instagram turned into tiktok? I think I'm served a still photo from someone I follow one out of every 10 posts on my feet 90% of everything else are reels from accounts I don't follow this could not be more true, and it could not make me more mad I get it tiktok is a behemoth short-form content seems to be the way and there's nothing wrong with that There's some very talented short-form content creators But just because short-form content is the way doesn't mean you have to actually And the more I realize it and my biggest gripe with it is there's no consent at all It was just one day you logged into Instagram and instead of seeing the picture your friend posted you see like some dog water Tiktok downsized converted over to Instagram and slapped in the middle of your Instagram Instagram does it Facebook does it YouTube shorts does it tiktok does it every app is just a shitty water down version of tiktok And there's no consent. Oh, I was actually coming out here to pick up a cupcake And then go back home. It's like being a cute 19-year-old girl walking into a frat party, but instead of roofies It's a gigantic black. It's a gigantic black dildo with short-form content written on the side And you're forced to dethrone it you don't even have a choice Two hands on whoa All the way down your throat it pisses me off so bad. Let me give you a really good example here Okay, here's my Instagram 572,000 followers now in fairness a lot of them aren't active right we assume let's look at one of my best posts This was one of the coolest days of my life May 4th also my birthday. I got to announce a draft pick for the Lions It's got almost a hundred forty nine thousand likes with the 177th pick in the 2022 NFL draft. Let's look at the insights on this picture. It reached 473,000 accounts it reached 335,000 of my followers so so let's just say that about 335,000 of my 572,000 followers are active and if you're a big math guy, let's do the math 335,000 out of 572,000 is Roughly 58% of my followers are active sweet and it also reached a hundred thirty eight thousand people who don't follow Now let's go to my next picture post picture me in Fobin How could you not like food this photo is three weeks later? I get it. It's not the world's greatest day in my life It's not nearly as cool as announcing a draft pick. Let's view the insights. Oh 183,000 accounts reached and it reached a hundred seventy two thousand of my phone Now that's not saying people who actually interacted or liked the photos I can see that 70,000 people liked the phone It's simply only reached the page of a hundred seventy two thousand now if that was a ratio 70,000 out of the a hundred seventy two thousand that actually saw it That's about forty percent of the people who saw the post like and that's roughly the same statistics You're gonna get here a hundred forty nine thousand people actually like this photo, right? And there's three hundred thirty five thousand A hundred forty nine thousand likes divided by three hundred thirty five thousand accounts reached is forty four percent So on average four percent more people who actually saw the photo liked that makes sense This is a really cool picture as it was a big moment for me Okay, but why did half of the people three weeks later see this photo and I don't want to bitch and moan that hard It's just half and before I go any further one point. I want to emphasize is I don't give a shit about the literal number I wouldn't care if that's seven likes or seven million likes the point is people who follow me aren't getting served my post That's a little suspicious. This is the picture posting social media or so it was let's fast forward Nine days after that to this post granted. This is a sellout post. I'm being a sellout little bitch Okay, so I make the sponsored post with your life. Let's view the insights on this 81,000 accounts reached to seventy eight thousand of my followers No, I know what you want to say you want to say ratio plus you fell off plus simply make better content I'd almost agree with under normal circumstances seeing less engagement. I'd say wow my wiener is so small I should simply make better except it was only six weeks prior that I had my most engaged post of all time And every post since it haves engaged and the reason is not because Instagram for some reason Just doesn't feel like serving my photo to my followers The reason is Instagram is literally punishing you for posting anything that is not a real They're trying everyone is trying so hard to suck the juicy milky revenue others of TikTok that they they're selling out the basis of their Fucking platform it's a picture sharing social media and you're punishing me for sharing a picture. What a fucking bitch am I right? No, you're not right. He's not being a bitch. He's completely right the only other point I'd like to refute someone might say like it's it's a sponsored post so they don't want to push it on people's feeds I have three sponsored posts on my Instagram. I'm gonna show you the engagement on all three. So here's Gillette, okay? 14,000 likes it only reached 80,000 of my 335,000 engaged followers. Okay, so first thing I'd like to refute. Let's just say I ratio plus fell off Here's my Instagram story from five hours ago five hours ago I was looking kind of beefy low key tat was looking good. You know, I had a post this little thirst trap for the boys that reached 138,000 people saw that story that is 60,000 more people than were served my actual fucking infeed post. What are you doing? What are you doing Instagram bro? I'm so sick of this shit 135,000 people in the last five only five hours saw this post So 138,000 people out of my 335,000 engaged have logged in in the last five hours and viewed my story It's it's Oh my god, it's my boggling. That's just an Instagram story. It hasn't even been up for 24 hours It'll probably end at about 200,000. That's crazy. Now if you're gonna make the point that it's a sponsored post And that's why it's not getting pushed. Let's take a look back at my prior sponsored Here's one with Subway on April 28th me and Garrett Wilson 73,000 likes and we go to the insights it reached 255,000 the one previously was an American Eagle sponsored post that reached 1.8 million Okay, this isn't good insights because American Eagle sponsored they they boosted the post this doesn't I can't use that Here's a house of highlight sponsor each 291,000. I thought we'll keep going. I'll go back in the archives Here's an og house of highlight suppose. This is back when I did the golf turn 314,000 follows. Let's go all the way fucking back. Let's go into the depths of my Instagram, bro Let's go into the debt. Let's go to my high school prom. This was high school prom right here, baby May 8th 2016 was my high school prom insights. Oh, it doesn't have it. Let's go all the way back to April 4th 2020 okay, this picture is one of the best examples. I can give this is young baby phobin It's also a young baby pop. It means good two three years. This photo has 94,000 It reached 96,000 of my followers at the time. I probably had a hundred fifteen thousand followers This is exactly how Instagram is supposed to function someone consciously follows me I post a picture they see it should be that simple since Instagram and every other company has shelled out their soul Pushing Instagram reels so far down your throat You could have sworn you touched the balls with your tongue that they don't even let your followers see your actual Instagram it's so frustrating. This is the only reason I ever downloaded Instagram It's the only reason I use Instagram and I'm so sick of it. It's no mystery that I don't like tiktok I think short form content breeds a lot of stealing That's really my big problem with short form content and long form content granted I'm very biased because I'm a YouTube right so let's just get that out of the way But in long form content It's very difficult to outright steal somebody's shit because you have to you have to drag it out for a length of time I swear every Instagram real YouTube shorter tiktok I've ever seen is just a clip down somebody else's content It's just stealing and that's all reels is and it has gotten so much worse over the last month They've really ramped up this aggressive real throttling I guess you could call it short form content throttling and it makes the app unusable This is what Instagram is for these companies are simply not willing to take an L Like nobody's going to Instagram for tiktok content people go to tiktok. That is the prime tiktok content I'd like to give YouTube the same shit, but at least YouTube shorts is a separate thing There's a little bit of consent. They're still roofing me But at least I watched them do it and then pounded the drink Not sure why I'm intentionally getting roof feed in my hypothetical there, but whatever Maybe you gotta click on YouTube shorts. Are they dog shit? Yes He at least got to click on it Instagram doesn't even ask you it don't fucking ask you You're not having a fucking saying it bro, I'm just I'm fully bent over wide open spread It just take me for what I am, but I already opened the app. I'm roofing now unbelievable I'm still gonna use Instagram how I want my post pictures of Foeber I'm gonna put if you look in gym photos on my story and I'm gonna degrade women It's quite simply what I do and no one will stop But I would love it if one app would just have Gigantic gorilla balls and say no we're not gonna turn our app into a shitty version of tic-tac Of the fucking wish tic-tac the wasteland of shitty tic-tac for the love of God because I swear if I have to become a short-form content creator and ever and all my child's child supports gonna have to be paid through making 15-second videos. Oh I might just stop paying alimony. All right that concludes my rant I've made one of these videos in a while felt good to get that one off my chest Um, I'm just so pissed that no one got to see my stash in my Gillette ad so fuck you Instagram Trying to make a bag here. Whatever that's it boys. I hope you enjoyed back to your regularly scheduled sports gaming content Since I'm just a stupid fucking video monkey, right? I'll slap my symbols and make another video for you Keep talking shit boys. I love you. Thanks for watching as always You