Didn't know there was such a feature, but most "influencer" feature accounts don't do that, they download and repost the image, and write captions designed to push credits to the bottom, like:

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.