Playing with the latest Instagram feature by R.J. Schmitz

Playing with the latest Instagram feature

On your main page you now have a thought bubble above your profil picture for sharing a note or a song or expressing your mood.

I don’t have any profil picture, mine is the default one, the generic silhouette icon, blank, tasteless.

I take a screenshot of my profil.

I switch the default pp with the screenshot.

Above the silhouette there’s now a bubble reading:

‘Your thoughts go here…’

I change the pp and take a screenshot again.

Another bubble:

‘Share a thought’

Switch and screenshot again:

‘What’s happening?’

I now have a thoughts triptych in my camera roll. It looks like a micro comic strip story:

Your thoughts go here…           Share a thought           Whats happening?

I could’ve played like this forever, but I had to leave.

It was a fun game, but kind of a sad.

Fun because playing Russian nesting dolls is never NOT funny.

Sad because, obviously, playing alone is never NOT sad.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Your thoughts go here

R.J. Schmitz is a Paris-based writer. His work has appeared in Midcult*, Discount Guillotine, Be About It Press, Spectra Poets and elsewhere on the web and beyond.

Instagram: @the_gore_of_life

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