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I reset my Instagram algorithm for a fresh start. What I saw in my new feed was way worse
I was introduced to niches I didn’t know existed, while also being inundated with other content I knew was online but which my old feed was impervious to
It was full of dozens of before-and-after photos of women’s bodies that felt borderline triggering, fan edits of Luigi Mangione, the highly-memed alleged assassin, and clips of Ariana Grande from the Wicked press tour I had seen months ago on TikTok. This is because every user’s Explore page is populated with a unique menagerie of content based on many factors, such as the photos and videos you’ve liked, saved or shared on the platform, accounts you already follow, and location tags. The fitness influencers, paparazzi photos and recipes had been replaced with grotesque meat-processing videos (I’m a longtime vegetarian), misogynist memes and The Substance-style body horror reels (e.g. applying gloss to surreal, bulbous lips or a woman using makeup to cover up clusters of holes on her face, a nightmare scenario for those with trypophobia).
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