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 What’s 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

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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