Instagram, Honey, Please Stop Copying TikTok
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Every day, my best friend DMs me Instagram Reels of a bunch of things: cute puppies, bizarre skincare hacks, and random funny videos. The problem is I’ve seen all of them before. On TikTok.
No one likes to be that jerk that has to hold the, “you’re 10 years late to this meme” intervention. I actually think it’s swell that my bestie’s brain isn’t permanently jacked into the irony-poisoned internet. Plus, it’s not really her fault. Instagram has a bad case of trying way too hard to be TikTok, and it’s the social media equivalent of Steve Buscemi in a backwards baseball cap asking, “How do you do, fellow kids?”