Instagram Mirrors Your Reflection

thank you for ruining my life i’m literally an algorithm designed to maintain your attention by learning from your behavior and mirroring back that which, consciously or not, captivates you and the social worlds through which you move. I am literally one of the most fascinating tools for collective and personal shadow work ever created—that is, only if you can learn to recognize that you aren’t disturbed by social media, you’re disturbed by your own reflection

A woman thanks Instagram for ruining her life while the Instagram logo is depicted as a tangled, creature-like form. The long caption humorously argues that social media reflects users’ own interests, behavior, and darker impulses back at them, so their discomfort may come from confronting themselves rather than from social media alone.

• @jeppa420 / 11190 2020-12-23