When did Instagram become a snuff flick site?

I finally took a look at IG "reels" recently, spending 45 minutes one day and 20 minutes the next letting them autoplay.

One after another, the videos showed people being killed or seriously maimed: by landslides, avalanches, falls, car wrecks, motorcycle wrecks, industrial accidents and any number of other scenarios.

Most of the time, the video cuts out at the point where you'd see the mangled body, but there's no doubt that people died in these clips. It was horrifying and gross. People's tragedies being replayed on loop as spectacle to sell ads and increase engagement for no redeeming value.

There has been considerable critique of the way cops-murdering-Black-people videos have been turned into spectacle for consumption, but it could be at least argued that those videos motivated people to action. IG death videos are pure consumption, packaged and served up for clicks.

IG/Facebook/Meta is sick.

#instagram #FuckInstagram #spectacle #FuckMeta

El rastrero de zuckermierder vio negocio en el fediverso y se ha lanzado a rapiñar cual buitre carroñero
A ver lo que dura la utopía que teníamos por aquí

Check azul prepago y membresías en 3,2,1...

#fuckMETA #fuckgacebook #fuckinstagram #fucktweeter #fuckbillionarios

#Instagram removing the “Recent Posts” option from hashtags

Completely stomping on me, and other small creators, and anyone who used it for discovery

Ugh I need to extract myself from all legacy social media 🤮

Please save me, Mastodon

#FuckInstagram

The Core Club By MK3
The important thing is that we're together, we're lost, but we deal with it as best we can, we're prevented from working, so we do our own work, at worst we piss them off, we can't please everyone.

#MastoArt #pixelfed #krita #GIMP #streetart #popart #DigitalArt #rock #free #fucknft #fuckai #fuckinstagram
https://youtu.be/5Q6ccOMOFeU

#moodkiller As an Italian, I find the whole "making x/telling y in front of my Italian husband" really fucking tiring and old. Reinforces stereotypes and really makes Italian people look dumb. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. #fuckinfluencers #fuckinstagram

I decided to download Instagram again because I miss the sick artists I used to follow.

Holy shit is Insta broken now. It’s trying so hard to be TikTok that now it doesn’t work as Instagram or TikTok. It’s the worst. Just 5 or 6 posts I want to see and then 3,000 stupid videos I didn’t ask for. #fuckInstagram

#FuckFacebook
#FuckTwitter
#FuckInstagram
#FuckWhatsApp
#FuckBigSocialNetworks

#Fuck_Facebook
#Fuck_Twitter
#Fuck_Instagram
#Fuck_WhatsApp
#Fuck_Big_Social_Networks

Αποδικτύωση | UnNet: fuck facebook-twitter-instagram-whatsapp
https://seizethesky-thoughtsonpaper.blogspot.com/2022/12/UnNet-fuck-facebook-twitter-instagram-whatsapp.html

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https://pixelfed.social/MrFunkEdude

can we get some love for @dansup and @pixelfed for making such a great service? #fuckinstagram