@mintzzz's post on Artfol
How do you feel about Instagram? I want to rantMar 1, 2021
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I feel like the toxicity from Twitter is slowly seeping into insta. Especially in the art community
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Since its own by facebook now, i delete it in my primary phone and moved it to the second phone which i rarely used. The algorithm sucks in there and really its hard to grow, the new priority now is save post rather than likes, i never even get enough reach or audience like i used to. I only open it if some friends send me a post or dm me, but either way it could effect you're mental health easily if you're attached to it.
Its a good social media but not for new or small artist
Its a good social media but not for new or small artist
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•if you want to get popular on it it's either you dont or bootlick the algorithm..2nd option tends to produce less endearing art . I always got the impression that the people who recently got big are forcing themselves to accommodate the ever worse algorithm 
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•It's really hard to grow an audience and make sure your followers engage with your posts I don't think it's an artist friendly app not posting for a few days could really ruin your engagement I'm actually planning on moving to artfol when the beta is finished
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I don't think I'd ever use it for art myself, way too many issues. I just post random photos I take here and there and that's it.
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•i don't really care if my art gets noticed or not, i only share my art because i want and i draw what i like, but i really appreciate if someone comments or if i can make a new friend at the end of the day! :^)
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It intimidates me, I feel like is useless to try there bcs everything is bigger than me, it's like a cold place
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I mean it's ok for it's intended audience , the cringe tik tokers and horny people ... Uhh , but memes and drawings are good , but I hate when there is a account that only post one thing , for example Five nights at freddy's or Super Mario , whenever ( not all of them )they post a drawing and it's not there's they barely give credit .
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It makes me depressed, apparently in the eyes of instagram if you dont post memes or step-brother memes ypur art has no value. I hate seeing Instagram only supporting celebrities and +100k artist while not giving a crap about small artists.
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For artists, it's honestly infuriating. The popular just get more popular imo. It's so hard to build an audience and no way am I gonna conform to some algorithm. Like I just wanna make art when I'm inspired, it sucks that that's not the way insta works to grow an account :(
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It has some good things, like for example I found many great artists and also made some friends there, but the algorithm really sucks. Back in September I had less followers (I have 162 now, back then probably a bit over 100) but my reach was usually around 350, new people found me and I found new artists as well. Now I can be lucky if my reach gets more than 100, and it's also so much harder to find new artists. If story shares weren't a thing I would've never found so many interesting people. Unless you post like, 2 new drawings every day (which is impossible for most people, including myself) you apparently have no chance :/
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The other comments already said what I think, but the algorithm is so biased and pretty bad for all the reasons below :/
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It used to be fun posting there, but now it's a hellscape of ripoff features and reposters ripping artists off.
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•What bothers me the most is the changing algorithm it seems they can't go two months without changing it
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•I was on insta some few months ago, it was kind of an weird love-hate relationship for one side I found really good artist that i loved to see for getting inspiration, references and study, but othehand it's difficult to make you art well-known or get some kind of healthy critisicm (some people don't want to be canceled for being rude so they won't help you correctly, and others would be hard) I think that instagram praises tendencys like tik tok does, you must draw what is popular at the moment or otherwise you won't grow your account.
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•for me its really to get yourself out there and find new REAL followers that aren’t bots- i have some mutuals on there that have been my friends for a few years so i don’t want to leave, and even though my account is small on there (70 followers, and my old account had 700) it’s more attention than i have on any other of my social medias so i have nowhere to go if i were to quit lol
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