Artist's name [Follow button]
reposted by (feature account name)
[picture]
Doesn't Ring get all rights as soon as you share some of your security footage and the use that in their ads?
C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s,
YOU OWN THE NIGHT!!! AWESOME PICTURE! [clap] [clap] [clap]
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photographer: @artist_username
And the problem? Instagram's ranking algorithm promotes these idiots instead of @artist_username, and nobody ever sees who @artist_username is because it collapses the comment to the first 2 lines. It's really like a "congratulations but f-you", and I wish they'd crack down on this.
Artists often don't even get reach beyond their followers at all -- the influencer feature accounts fill up peoples' discover pages. Artists continue to fall for the feature accounts, trying to get featured for exposure (that they don't actually get).
It would be much better if Instagram recognized good artist content and promoted it directly, avoiding this whole reposting nonsense. The easiest way would be
0. See how the artist content does in their own personal follower network
1. If it does well reaction/like-wise, increase the number of non-followers that see it that have similar hashtag interests
2. If it continues to do well, continue to broaden the set of people that see it.
Even if you can see your own likes, removing visibility on others changes the nature of this dynamic. Half the reward for "scoring" a bunch of likes/upvotes/karma is that others see that you have scored a lot. What constitutes a "successful" post is all relative too. Effectively, Instagram is betting on the "utility" of sharing photos, which I'm not sure is all that strong. I've deleted my Instagram a while ago, but while I was using, it was clear that it was a highly comparative medium by nature.
A super interesting post on the nature of social networks here: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service