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[slocumjoe]

Companions on social media

Cait; Posts gym thirst traps and videos of her working out or getting into fistfights. Can be found in the comments and DMs of women, gay or otherwise. Lots of activity in sobriety and self-help communities. Doesn’t have a lot of followers, but does fundraiser streams for a week every three months she's sober. The money goes to child abuse prevention foundations. Her most recent charity streams had her trying to get all achievements on Just Dance after someone donated 10k requesting it.

Codsworth; self-help videos for people struggling to take care of themselves. How to tidy up, how to take effective breaks, what needs to be cleaned in a house and what supplies you need...very useful, very popular with college students and teens. Once posted a video of him going at wasps with a chainsaw and gained a million subs overnight.

Curie; children's educational YouTube channel that's, somehow, more popular with young adults. Science experiments gone wrong. Think Jackass and Mythbusters hosted by a tiny French woman who approaches everything with the joy and whimsy of My Little Pony. Her most popular videos are her 100k subscriber specials, a series where she goes ghost and cryptid hunting to disprove them and demonstrate the fraudulence you can find behind such things.

Danse; has a Facebook for work purposes. It has a profile photo only because Haylen insisted. Fears the internet deeply, thinks its the closest humanity can get to staring into the void and seeing something blink. Unbeknownst to him, there's a viral video of him teaching a workout regimen to trainees. The comment sections are pure thirst. All of his coworkers know and made an oath to never speak of it.

Deacon; Is the one who snuck into training and got that video. Posted it to r/NextFuckingLevel with 🥵🥵🥵 for a caption. Owns several large meme accounts, all with distinct personalities and lives. Someone tried to dox him after suspicions, but found all accounts had different IPs and info. He's just that good. His Facebook changes profile photo every. Single. Day. He consumes an absurd amount of audio books. Drops CRAZY money on charity streams to make the host do weird shit, like 100% Just Dance. Probably sells feet pics.

Dogmeat; The internet's darling. Nick Valentine's dog who doesn't help with catching bad guys, but with far more important things; Dogmeat cuddles and plays with victims at the scene or in court. Also trained in search and rescue. Much of Dogmeat's page is just Nick sharing important information (hotlines, self-defense, survival tips, et cetera) while petting or playing with Dogmeat. Kind of a McGruff the Crime Dog vibe.

Gage; Facebook that he uses to cyberbully cop pages and Craigslist to offer his...unconventional services (pretending to be your boyfriend at family gatherings to cause drama). His pet lizard, an Argentine Tegu, has an Instagram with 3k followers. The Tegu often wins pet competitions and Gage posts the awards captioned with 🖕🏻💚🦎💚🖕🏻. Works at an amusement park, posts tell-all confessions on Reddit.

MacCready; Facebook with friends and family, posts a lot of Duncan. His YouTube history is videos for Duncan. Lots of Curie's videos. Mac has a Craigslist and LinkedIn, does odd jobs when he isn't working as a security guard at a shooting range. Activite in communities about comics, shows, and video games. Sometimes he'll post a theory about a show or comic and he's usually right. Really enjoys the meltdowns of fandoms when the media takes a nasty turn, even if he's also betrayed.

Nick; Ellie runs Dogmeat's page, Nick just does the talking. As for Nick himself, has some pages for his work (that Ellie also manages) and a Facebook profile to stay in touch with friends and family. Much like Danse, consumes media offline—except for poetry. Most of his screen time is spent on Poetry.com, one of those people that leave comments. He likes how the internet makes information and art accessible. Very peaceful and wholesome internet time.

Hancock; The void that Danse is scared of. Also does streams, but not only for fundraisers. Streams high. Streams himself trying to find his way back to his apartment late at night. Always end up in a fast food joint, trying to convince the workers to unionize. Twitter shitposter until a politician needs cyberbullying. Organizes protests. Extremely active in Massachusetts' political scene, his fans are a force to be reckoned with. Has fistfought his own fans before. Occasionally cancels himself to prove a point. Makes mock apology videos whenever another celeb/influencer fucks up.

Preston; Park ranger and community organizer. Uses Facebook and TikTok to appeal to all ages. Is unfairly good at TikTok dances. Posts safety tips, upcoming event information, etc. Does a lot of work with Dogmeat and Nick. Posts bodycam footage of him arresting people, like shutting down fire-themed gender reveal parties, or poachers. Not a lot of followers, but the bodycam footage goes viral on subreddits like r/Instant_Karma.

Piper; a journalist and blogger. Posts videos of her political rants and makeup/hair routine. Joins Hancock in politician cyberbullying. Makes commentary essays and videos, sometimes book reviews. Appears on podcasts. Her media presence is decently known, but mild. She tries to keep herself distant from it. Despite this, has a good-sized following who appreciate the lack of parasociality. Her most famous video is her trying to find the best coffee spots in Boston.

X6-88; security guard for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who got stuck running the Twitter when the last guy got arrested on weed charges. Piper keeps DMing for an interview and he keeps blocking her accounts. He has LinkedIn for work. Half of it is redacted and involves NDAs. No other media presence except for one thing; he's an infamous esports cryptid. Across a few different shooter games, a high-rank player called X6-88 (its just his first initial and the numbers on his security badge) fucking curbstomps everyone in the match. He has never died or missed a shot. Never speaks in chat, never in team chat. He's a legend among gamers. For him, he's just relaxing on a Friday night, keeping his senses sharp. Doesn't realize there are compilation videos of streamers raging at him.

[annoyingcoffeestarlight]

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[girldraki]

#her dinnerrr

she absolutely posts photos of normal ass mac and cheese with maybe a side vegetable captioned "girl dinner :P" and nobody has been able to get her to understand that this is not how the meme works

poorly taken photo of ellie w impact text saying SHE LOVES MAC AND CHEESE / SHE LOVES MAC AND CHEESE and nobody will own up to who made it

She loves mac and cheese

[newsagogos]

The cherri cola releases a new poem part 3?

[ID: The "everybody's dying, bitch" meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Mac and Charlie stand next to each other. Mac is labeled "zone 2 listeners," and Charlie on the right is labeled "Cherri Cola." Mac says: "Everybody's dying, bitch. Let's get you some bitches." End ID]

[ID: dwight from the office, sitting in a car and reclining in the seat looking sad. The photo captioned wigh text between parentheses reading, "Cherri Cola's Poetry Corner playing on car stereo." End ID]

[ID: an anime boy in a maid dress looking over his shoulder with text likely from the app whisper added, edited to read, "you think coming out as a guy is hard? Try telling people you're a Cherri Cola's Poetry Corner listener. See how much acceptance you get from the, [quote], tolerant, [unquote] left." End Description

[ID: text over a pink background. It's titled, "my schedule." It shows hours from 9 am to 12 am each labeled. 9 am reads wake up. 10 am to 10 pm all labled using a bracket as, "thinking about" with a panel of cherri cola speaking into a mic. 12 am is labeled as "GN." End ID]

[ID: a squeleton on a couch placed so it's hand is reaching for a window as if it's gazing out of it. Text added reads, "waiting for an Cherri Cola's Poetry Corner fan to admit they were wrong." End ID]

Bonus:

[ID: a screenshot from youtube comments labled as, "my crewmates discussing Cherri Cola." The first comment by tanner peterson reads, "He actually turned his life around." Second comment by Conformist Bastard reads,"thats a shams I hope he relapses and dies. Right now." End ID]

[commander-kirschtein]

attack on titan social media headcanons

how i think the 104th would use social media in a modern!au (includes eren, mikasa, armin, jean, marco, sasha, connie, historia, ymir, bertholdt, reiner & annie) - mac

masterlist

eren jaeger:

most used app: snapchat

still does streaks on snapchat - over 600 day streak with jean and to keep it going they just send insults to each other.

has the most cracked screen, it’s literally hanging together but he refuses to get a new screen until it no longer works.

would leave the house with 14% battery (this makes me incredibly nervous but eren knows he’ll be able to charm his way into someone giving him their charger.)

mikasa ackerman:

most used app: instagram or tumblr

mikasa should be hired by the fbi or something - give her a name and she will find all their social media pages.

i’m not sure what it would be but she’s definitely part of a fandom of a tv series or music group which is why she spends so much time on tumblr.

unlike eren, she actually has a case to prevent her screen from smashing - it would probably be one of those clear ones with flowers on the back, and she’d put in a polaroid picture of her and her friends in the back of it.

armin arlert:

most used app: youtube

he hasn’t got many posts on his instagram but a few of some pretty landscapes and a couple of group photos of him and his friends. his profile picture is of him, eren & mikasa.

literally could spend all day on wikipedia. he goes to google something but then falls down a rabbit hole. 

vsauce? asap science? random reddit videos? sign armin tf up. 

jean kirstein:

most used app: twitter or spotify

does gaming live-streams with eren. people watch not to see gameplay but to see the entertainment that is jean and eren’s competitive arguing (they play a lot of call of duty, mario kart, but also minecraft when they’re actually on good terms with each other)

gets into heated arguments with people on twitter. they go on forever because jean likes to have the last word/tweet.

you know those people that always have their headphones in? jean is that kind of person. he’d be sneakily listening to music during class (let’s be real he’s definitely got airpods.)

marco bodt:

most used app: instagram (& whatsapp because he’s in a lot of group chats)

the best hype man. comments on all of his friends selfies telling them how gorgeous they look.

he sends motivational quotes and wholesome memes to all of his friends which are always appreciated.

marco’s the one to put together group chats and ensure that arguments in them are smoothly resolved (eren and jean are usually the culprits.)

sasha braus:

most used app: tiktok

definitely makes very chaotic tiktoks/tweets that just blow up and end up on popular pages that repost to instagram.

her and connie would spam group chats with memes and selfies with stupid filters on. sometimes they’ll just target one person in particular (always jean) and they end up getting kicked or blocked.

her instagram captions tend to be random quotes and inside jokes from her friends (mainly connie) much to the confusion of everyone else.

connie springer:

most used app: instagram

has a private account on instagram just to post embarrassing pictures of his friends.

goes into conspiracy theory facebook groups just to troll the people in them.

out of everyone, the most likely to have games on his phone. when he’s bored in the car or during class he’ll just start playing geometry dash or temple run.

historia reiss:

most used app: tiktok

you know she’s got a tiktok with 100k followers. tiktok dance trends, makeup tutorials, look books - she does it all.

loves pinterest so much. gets a lot of outfit/home decor ideas from it - it’s likely that there’s a ton of photos of her on pinterest as outfit inspiration.

types !! like !! this !! and uses these emojis: ✨🌸💖🥰 way too much.

ymir:

most used app: facetime

half the time she’s on her phone is going to spent spent facetiming historia i can’t lie.

i personally hc that ymir in a modern!au would play either the bass or drums and i can just see historia begging to post a tiktok of her playing that then blows up - ymir would be so nonchalant about it but inside she’s dying of excitement.

probably has every group chat she’s in on mute - occasionally will lurk to see what’s going on, would only ever join in the conversation if drama was going down in which she’d send a gif of someone eating popcorn.

bertholdt hoover:

most used app: youtube or discord

likes to watch those reddit story time videos. would spend a good few hours watching them without even realising what the time is.

has 0 posts on instagram. cannot do any insta stalking of him (unless you looked through his tagged photos and find the ONE selfie he ever took with reiner.)

does a lot of gaming and uses discord to talk to his gamer friends (probably plays more story based/quest games compared to eren and jean - maybe like the last of us & skyrim!!)

reiner braun:

most used app: instagram

at least two shirtless pictures of him on his instagram (and way more if you’re on his private snapchat story - he likes to make it known that he’s at the gym. )

uses ‘lmao’ so much to the point he says it out loud not just over text

for some reason these emojis (👍👏👋💪) make me think of reiner ?? instead of replying ‘okay’ or ‘bye’ you just get ‘👍👍’ or ‘👋👋’

annie leonhardt:

most used app: spotify

follows so many cat accounts, she’s considering making her own to post pictures of her cat.

out of everyone, likely to be the person who uses social media/her phone the least, it probably overwhelms her quite a bit so unless she’s messaging someone (or looking at cats,) it’s unlikely to see annie on her phone.

does listen to a lot of music on spotify though - she’s got a study playlist, a playlist for when she’s at the gym, songs to listen when she’s just chilling at home - her spotify wrapped every year is pretty impressive.

BONUS:

spotify or apple music?

spotify: jean, mikasa, bertholdt, ymir, reiner, annie, sasha, historia

apple music: eren, armin, marco, connie

who sends memes into group chats?

eren, jean, sasha, connie, reiner

how long do they take to reply to messages?

replies instantly: marco, historia, sasha, connie, reiner

leaves you unopened for 3 days but then replies: eren, jean, mikasa, armin, bertholdt

leaves you on read: ymir, annie

who has the highest screen time?

eren, historia, sasha

[infinitegalahad]

Borhap Boys As Sugar Daddies

(reposted bc it was disappearing from the tags😭)

hey guys!! I wanna apolgoize for the disappearance, school is ✨madness✨ luv. so I've decided to try something new. But I promise I'm working on requests (and a bunch of new ideas). I love all of the borhap boys (bc they are babies🥺) so this might become a little series of head canons! no major warnings, just lots of fluff and some suggestive material. also reader is gender neutral (boy, girl, whatever you what it my dudes!) why not mix my fav trope and boys all in...one fic😳😳 anyways hope you guys enjoy!! I would love some feedback for future reference

Masterlist (requests are welcomed!)

Rami Malek-

Number one that gif of him...need I say more? 🥰

I’m sick of how ya’ll sleep on Rami!! I’m gonna give him tons of love

He would be one of the most affectionate sugar daddy’s tbh

Certainly would spoil the HECK out of you

Whether it be paying off your bills or lavish trips to Greece, Rami always has your back

You never had to pay a SINGLE PENNY when you were around him

Being with Rami, you were a changed person

Your fashion game went UPPPP

Like chanel perfume, all designer clothes, nice handbags, you NAME IT

”Rami, I’m not buying a five hundred dollar shirt from Theory.” ”What do you mean? It would look so good on you, sweetheart.”

Yes, Rami bought you the shirt

You two were at a vinyl place and you saw a limited edition queen vinyl

He buys it (and basically 10+ vinyls you love)

SO RAMI MAKES A WHOLE ASS ROOM IN HIS HOME FOR YOUR VINYLS🥺🥺

This man is omfg i loveee him❣️

Little sneak kisses to your forehead

Seeing you smile as you shop and blush at his complaints makes him so freaking happy HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH

He would take you shopping at the best stores

“I would be fine at a target, y’know” as you look around a Gucci store

Rami would snake an arm around your waist as he cooed into your ear, “My baby deserves the best, and nothing but the best

What started out as an arrangement turned into a genuine relationship

When looking for a sugarbaby, Rami was simply looking for company (and someone to spoil the heck out of)

In all truth, he was simply a lonely guy who simply wanted someone to make happy, and made himself happy in the process

Wherever you guys would go, he would always wanna hold your hand and be close to you bc he’s scared of loosing someone he’s made a connection with

And i’m totally not crying as I write this

Both of you were in dark places when you first met

Rami showed how much he truly cared about you

If you called him all upset, he would SPEED over with whatever you needed whether it be pizza or emotional support

Sitting on your couch, his arm wrapped around yours as you vented about your problems

Rami had convinced you to drop your job and come live with him because he’s a KING!!

”Angel, you’re not gonna have to worry about anymore.” ”What do you mean?”

You ended up quitting your job and moving in with him

What turned into an arrangement became an intimate relationship

The sex between you to was AMAZING

it was VERY intimate

It started off slow but would get increasingly rougher god I hate what I said

Rami would always check up and you and NEVER go past your limits

It would end with the two of you cuddling in bed

Let’s just say you never had to worry about your bills ever again😎😎

I MADE MYSELF CRY WHYYY

Gwilym Lee-

my love for this man? ENDLESS

Seriosuly gwilym lee HAVE MY CHILDERN

anyways to the pLOT

Gwilym is the sexiest and cutest man alive

The sugar daddy that will bring you EVERYWHERE HE GOES

He’s such a gentlemen

Like all relationships start, it was more of an arrangement then a relationship

Your job was to escort Gwilym at all these events as “company”

Gwilym would send a bunch of nice items and a driver to bring you to the location

”Hope you like this ❤️ xxx”   “Treat yourself! 😘xxx”

Like mister I-😳😳

Gwilym is literally such a sweet person

Whenever you were spotted with him, you would get thousands of compliemnts/questions

”You’re with Gwilym! So lucky!”

”That necklace is to kill for! Did Gwilym give it to you?”

”Teach my your ways!”

Whenever you’re at these events all these people give you evil stares

Your like👁👄👁 “is Gwilym a playboy??”

Gwilym is all like “what do you mean?? 🥺Of course not! Your the only one that matters to me right now”

He’s such a king we LOVE HIM

Spontaneous trips to France and Italy

Gwilym and you grow super close

Also your dates would range from fancy galas for Gwilym’s works or peaceful book/poetry readings

He LOVES books and always takes you to bookstores and gives his best recommendations

He literally turns into an english teacher while overanalyzing books

”The greenlight in Green Gatbsy is such a crucial symbol”

”Jane Austen is one of the best feminist writers, she was so ahead of her time!”

You wanna be annoyed but can’t

i can’t I LOVE GWILYM LEE I’M NOT SORRY

The two of you would lie in bed together

You would be slouched against his body as he stroked your hair, reading to you in that accent

As much as you love your gentlemen, you get him into the wacky world of ninety day fiance

”This looks like trash...I’m going to watch every minute of it!”

You guys order chinese food and watch this obsessviely for six hours

I know this is meant to be fluffy but why not add some 🌶

Sex with you and Gwil is like ✨fireworks✨

He would make sure you wouldn’t be able to walk the next day let’s just say😉

He would have to carry you around and kiss your head, saying “You're so adorable, poppet” or “Don’t strain your legs, Cariad!”

Also ceo of AMAZING NICKNAMES

”My anwylyd” (Welsh for dearest)

Would 100% write you romantic poems (over text and in paper)

And yes he WOULD dramatically read them to you😤😤✌🏽

He would always greet you with the most over the top nicknames like “Good morning cariad!” or “Sit there and act pretty, my beloved”

hi mr lee please make me your sugar baby

Gwilym is your sugar daddy but also your sweet, book loving man

He loves seeing you happy so in return, you make him happy💓💓

Joe Mazzello-

This one is a wildcard ladies and gays!! 😌😌

Joe definitely does not strike you as a sugar daddy

He seems more like your boyfriend than anything else

The two of you were inseparable

After dinner Joe would take you to a karaoke bar or for ice cream

After the first date you started calling him Joey

Drunken duets to cheesy 80’s romance songs

The two of you would sing your hearts out before vomiting from the copious ammouts of ice cream and vodka

With Joe it’s eithier mcdonalds or Nobu in TriBeCa

Mr.Mazello has range😌✨

This dude is the ceo of cheesy nicknames

”Yes my little lover muffin!”

”What is it cutie patootie?”

”You look amazing buttercup!”

“What’s up, hot stuff?”

In public he calls you “baby” or “lover” dw he saves you from public embarrassment 

You know that meme of will smith and his wife? That is basically you and Joe

My love for his man is infinite

Joe is super clingy

Hand holding and lots of PDA

He wants people to know that your his sugar baby😤😤💓

he will always send texts like

”miss you baby💓💗💓💗!”

”can you grab milk from the store pls??”

”SUGAR HONEY ICED TEA WHERE ARE YOU😩😩🤯🤯🤯”

”Joe, it’s been a day.”

He has so many photos of you in his camera roll

You are his lockscreen😔💓

The ceo’s of amazing instagram photos, whether it be you wearing a burger king crown at Burger King or You guys kissing on a boat with the Italian sunset on a private boat

Captions would be could “my favorite fairytale is our love story” or “yasss queen slay it!”

It’s cringey but god Joe is so adorable

A combination of a child and gentleman ALL IN ONE

All of his friends are like “you guys HAVE to be dating!’

It’s suppose to be nothing more than an arrangement right?

I mean the two of you were living with eachother and he dropped all of this other sugar babies for you

The two of you are master chefs minus the one time Joe burned mac and cheese and set the stove on fire

Also not to get smutty but the sex between you two? Like

Straight up RAMMING to sweet pillowtalk

Anyways Joe being your sugar daddy would definitely not be a bad thing at all😘

Always exchange those “I love you’s” 💕✨

Ben Hardy-

When first seeing Ben on your sugar daddy app, you were 100% intimidated

But upon meeting him, this tough dude was a PUPPY🥺❣️

On the first date he bought you flowers and gave you a hug

“Y/n, right?”

“That’s me!”

“I just wanted to say you look stunning, love.”

You were wearing jeans and literally smiled so much

You know this date was going to go VERY WELL NOW😩✌🏽✨

Instead of a fancy restaurant, Ben took you to a stroll around London

Whatever clothes you wanted? He got it

Whatever cafe you wanted to stop at? Buy all the tea/coffee and pastries you want

Hotel? Trivago

The two of you walked around the city, hand and hand as you got to know eachother

You ended up walking around the city for five hours up until midnight

You laughed and talked about thousands of things

In confusion, you had to see Ben again

As Ben walked you back to your place, you smiled at him,

”I’d like to do that again.”

”Call me when you want, y/n.”

So your “dates” became more frequent

Ben had the best ideas for dates

Dinners at small Italian places, walking around a museum, or just sitting in his place and watching mindless television

He made sure to spoil you

With gifts, literally and figurreitly

Sex was a large piece in your arrangeemnt

But it was not the only thing in your relationship

And it was!! Amazing!!

”You’re so fucking beautiful” as he would kiss your forehead and dive straight into it 🥺😳

Not only could that man be A BEAST but an absolute sweetheart

Everyday you looked forward to not only getting paid by him, but just talking to him for hours on end

He would stay up for hours just to talk to you, whether it be about your lives or anything

and that ladies and gays is a dedicated MAN

No matter what, Ben always found a way to touch you

He always had his hand on the chair behind you or your thigh

You guys would have pillowforts and nerf fun battles together

It would always end with a cuddle session

Frankie would be skeptcial but love you!!

You guys got so close that he took you on a trip to the greek islands AND PROPOSED!! LIKE!! YES!!😌😌😌

LIKE YES POP OFF MISTER BEN HARDY

[fatehbaz]

I don't really understand why the incorrect caption meme is funny. I come from a place with lots of visually impaired and deaf people who use aids like readers and transcripts and this meme just doesn't make sense to me. In a time where we're trying to be more accessible and inclusive by normalizing captions for people who need them, this meme is made? Is it funny bc they're inside jokes that disabled people can't understand/can't be in on? Idgi :/

Are you referring to the “fieriframes” gifs? If so: I am completely with you. I don’t think it’s in any way cute or funny to mess around with captions for the sake of a joke in a way that ostracizes deaf or visually impaired people. I also whole-heartedly care about including written/text captions for visually-impaired people, and I think including captions is especially pertinent online in spaces where we try to share a lot of info/resources for each other (informative stuff; donation posts; lists of sources; etc.).

And I also think the inclusion of captions is just as important in “less-serious” contexts, specifically in online spaces where socialization includes a lot of humor (like, say, this site, where the in-jokes and screwing around play a big part in socializing), because being left out of the joke (which might seem to some to be a “minor” thing) excludes people who can’t participate because of the amount of visual humor. So I also agree with you, that normalizing captions is serious business with real consequences for quality of life and allowing deaf/visually-impaired to participate in jokes, disk horse, exchange, education, etc.

I want to say that I have been under the impression that the joke/humor in fierframes’ gifs is not about inaccurate captions per se, but is about the juxtaposition between the carefree whimsy of Fieri goofing around with fun foods contrasted to the dire dreadful unsettling captions drawn from horror stories, etc. Or that’s how I interpret them, at least. Like, as if to say: We’re living in hell being strangled by tentacles of a cruel imperial world-system, but turn on the TV and here’s Fieri moaning in ecstasy while eating mac-and-cheese. I may be wrong, but my interpretation had been that the jokes were less about “look, we applied the wrong caption” and more about “worlds are ending and apocalypse has become a generalized planetary condition, and this late-90s-aesthetic guy is high-fiving his bros in a convertible in the glistening California sunlight on the way to get some mozzarella sticks; what strange lives we live.”

I do seriously try to consider how everything I reblog will affect anyone, each one of my friends, who will see it. Does this “big-brain” wojak caricature basically invoke the r-word slur? Is the OP a transmisogynist? Is this a good meme, or is it just a white suprem@c!st cartoon with new captions? Is the cat video actually funny, or is the cat actually in distress? Was this 18th-century Japanese landscape artist a supporter of imperial expansion in the Pacific? Was this early-20th-century Eastern European landscape artist an ethn0nationalist? Is this actually a neat photo of a frog, or did the photographer harass and then unnaturally position the exhausted and dehydrated frog on top of the mushroom for a photo-op? Is this a feel-good story about environmental justice, or is this actually a story in V!ce magazine about a Bay Area start-up making money off of “green capitalism”, gentrification, and a wealthy eco-retreat?  Do I really want to link to a major media institution article to give those conglomerates any more attention or site traffic? I like this goth fashion, but did the pictured model say racist shit on tw!tter? Is this a cool aesthetic post of decaying architecture, or are we actually gawking at ruin p0rn without consider the pain endured by people still living there? Is the glorification of the idyllic English university campus "cool” to people who aren’t wealthy and white and can’t access those schools; from where did British universities steal their wealth during the era of overt colonialism? Is this video of a dog actually cool, or are we actually seeing animal abuse/neglect? In what context was the video taken? Who was harmed when this photo was taken? Is this text post actually funny, or is it really just appropriating AAVE? And if I missed the mark in sharing those captioned gifs, then I’m sorry.

And thank you. I think it’s good and compassionate of you to care, and to have cared enough to send me this message. Glad you did.

[thepoisonroom]

char, you're onto something with vet science major eddie and i need you to elaborate

okay i'm gonna break it down just for u:

people always wanna be like eddie fixes cars bc he understands how things work and it's true but he's the same with living things they just Make Sense to him

when he's growing up he's the one you go to if you find a bird that needs its wing splinted or a passel of kittens that needs to be bottle-fed like he's so fussy and careful and they thrive under his care

this is how eddie ends up one summer in high school looking after a turtle with a cracked shell and a pair of fancy rats and an abandoned baby squirrel and an African grey from someone's eccentric great-aunt who passed away suddenly

he's very picky about finding owners for his kids he WILL call three references to make sure you're the right one for them

everyone expects him to be squeamish about animals being dirty but he is ruthlessly scientific about it, and

when he goes away to college he will corner people at parties and lecture them about how many rodents have very good hygiene, actually, and wash MUCH more fastidiously than SOME people he knows (delivered in a very firm and exasperated voice as greasy-ass college richie looks on in shame)

he gets a job with his school's dairy science department and will wake up at the crack of dawn and bundle up, breath coming out in cloudy little puffs, to go see the cows and goats and sheep

he likes to talk to the animals while he works and sometimes he'll bring richie with him and richie will sing fleetwood mac songs to cheer them up and all the goats are obsessed with him

once more everyone expects him to be squeamish about the piss and shit of it all but eddie will just laugh and shake his head and say that the animals need him and then post My Hands Look Like This So Her Hooves Can Look Like This memes on his instagram

will talk your ear off about animal rights and human-animal interaction and pet care. his twitter rants about cat declawing and purebred dog health problems and legal protections for emotional support animals are constantly blowing up.

spends his summers working with the national parks service to do outreach with citizen scientists. constantly sends his friends spooky trail camera photos of deer and raccoons captioned "u".

[cartoontonki]

Multiple picture meme creator

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[lasclflex]

How to make text smaller on snapchat

#How to make text smaller on snapchat how to

#How to make text smaller on snapchat android

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input Component.Text text // input float mySize script.mySize Set Color.

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You can use this code as a starting point to programmatically change the size of a Text. You can continue to press either of the two keys to adjust the text size to your liking. The script below will set the Texts size to the input size. Now, users can write about 2, but Snapchat still cuts you off if you aim for a small paragraph.

#How to make text smaller on snapchat plus

Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard, and then press the plus (+) key to make on-screen text larger or the minus/hyphen (–) key to make on-screen text smaller. When Snapchat's text option first came out, users were only able to write about a line to add to their snaps.

What is the function of decrease font size?.

How do I change my text tone on my macbook air?.

Still, if you’re new to Snapchat, all of the app’s snazzy features may seem a little overwhelming at first. Important notes: Every custom-made Bitmoji sticker will have a yellow watermark on the bottom-left corner.

#How to make text smaller on snapchat android

With just the tap of a finger, you can tell all your closest friends how you’re feeling through a text, photo, or video. Customizing the text in Bitmoji stickers is currently only available for some users on Snapchat, the iOS Bitmoji Keyboard, the Android Bitmoji Keyboard and the Bitmoji Chrome Extension. You have the option of adding filters by swiping right or adding a text by tapping on your snap or the video that you have recorded. Now, take a snap or record a short video. The first step is to open Snapchat on your smartphone.

Does deleting Messages on Mac delete from iPhone? Nothing expresses your feelings quite like an emoji, especially if you’re using Snapchat. You can easily tag locations on Snapchat by following these steps: 1.

What happens if you turn off your iMessage?.

Why are my texts green to another iPhone?.

Why are my texts green instead of blue?.

How do I turn my messages back to blue?.

How do you change from iMessage to text message on Mac?.

How do you change from a text message to an iMessage?.

Product needs time to build, an ASA is not a product, a community is not a product, NFT series are.

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DeFi still hasnt figured out how to make things work past 12-18 months. Rugs always happen in Crypto and are worse on other chains - not a justification -again context. Its very simple : Just enter your text on the large textarea zone at the top of the website and fonts will appear automatically. Meme coins and non Doxxed teams were always going to be speculative. You can change the color of your enlarged text by tapping. Drag the text around the screen to change its placement. Tap T again to center the text on the screen. Doing so will make the text larger and bolded. It's located at the top right corner of the screen. All ours fonts are ready-to-use and working on Snapchat. Your text will appear on the screen on top of a translucent grey bar.

How do you change from text message to iMessage? There is a fancy text for all tastes and all occasions.

How do I change the size of the font on my computer?.

How do I reduce the font size in Windows 10?.

Tap three times to return to the default text bar. Tap the text icon in the top right corner of the screen. Click Make text and other items larger or smaller Select a percentage: Smaller, Medium or Larger (100, 125 or 150 percent) and click Apply.

How do I reduce the font size on my desktop? If you find the caption box is too small to really convey the message youre sending, you can adjust it. Change the Text Size in Windows 7 Right click on the desktop and select Screen Resolution.

How do I make the writing on my screen smaller? Are you interested in marketing on Snapchat Check out our Ultimate Guide to Snapchat Marketing to find out how you can use the app to make more sales.

Tap the shutter button to snap a photo or hold it down to record a video - either way, you've got a hilarious (or frightening) image to send to a friend.

Performing these movements will trigger an animation or sound.

Lenses have certain movements tied to them (raise your eyebrows, open your mouth, etc.).

(Tap the "X" below the shutter button to turn off lenses.)

If Snapchat was able to recognize your face, you should see a row of circles appear at the bottom of the screen - these are lenses.

In this article, we are going to talk about How to Make a Shortcut on Snapchat.

#How to make text smaller on snapchat software

With your profile in frame, tap in the middle of the screen until you see a series of white lines appear over your face - this is the face-tracking software at work. Snapchat has finally introduced an option in order to create shortcuts.

Best of all, Snapchat updates them regularly so there are almost always a few new Lenses to try out. Snapchat Lenses are live effects that actually track your face as you move - it can add a fun, dynamic look to a video or photo.

[violetsasha]

[ID: a facebook post of a meme, formatted with a photo and a caption on top.

the photo is of 5 middle-aged women with short, bleach-blonde karen haircuts sitting at a round table in a restaurant. a man dressed in black, presumably the waiter, stands beside their table, holding a glass.

the caption reads, “Good afternoon, ladies. What can I start you off with today? Coffee? Cocktails? The manager?”

beneath the post is a comment from facebook user Karen Mac, which reads, “This is not funny,” followed by an angry face emoji.

[aaronreichel]

What is the Meme Generator?

It's a cost-free online picture maker that enables you to add customized resizable message to pictures. It runs in HTML5 canvas, so your pictures are produced promptly on your own gadget. Most commonly, individuals make use of the generator to include text captions to recognized memes, so technically it's even more of a meme "captioner" than a meme manufacturer. Nevertheless, you can likewise upload your own pictures as design templates.

How can I personalize my meme?

- You can move and also resize the text boxes by dragging them about. If you're on a mobile device, you might have to initial check "allow drag/drop" in the More Options area.

- You can tailor the font shade as well as summary shade next to where you type your message.

- You can further customize the font style in the More Options section, and likewise include added message boxes. Imgflip sustains all internet font styles as well as Windows/Mac typefaces consisting of bold and also italic, if they are installed on your tool. Any other typeface on your gadget can also be made use of. Keep in mind that Android and also other mobile operating systems might support less font styles unless you mount them on your own.

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Visit this site to get about much more information:-. create your own meme

Can I make use of the generator for more than simply memes?

The Meme Generator is a flexible tool for many purposes. By uploading personalized images and utilizing all the modifications, you can design many innovative works consisting of posters, banners, advertisements, and various other custom-made graphics.

[wickedbananas]

How to Use Instagram Like a Beauty Brand

Posted by zeehj

Does your brand’s activity on its social accounts impact its search rankings? Maybe. Maybe not. But does it matter anyway?

I shouldn’t have to convince you that investing in a social media for your company is worth it; even in light of Facebook’s recent data breach, we are so reliant upon our social profiles for real human interaction that leaving them is not a real option. In fact, the below statistics from Pew Research Center’s 2018 Social Media Use Survey indicate that we’re not going to give up our social media profiles any time soon.

Humans are social creatures. It makes sense that we love being on social networking sites. We crave interaction with fellow humans. We’re also highly likely to trust the recommendations of our friends and family (Nielsen) and those recommendations often influence our purchasing decisions. We ask our loved ones for advice on where to put our dollars in myriad ways, all at different price points:

What coffee shop do you like to go to?

Which mascara is that?

What are you reading right now?

Where’d you get that tie?

What neighborhoods are you looking to move to?

What schools are you looking to send Anna to?

Yes, those same searches occur online. They also frequently occur in tandem with testimonials from the people in our lives (depending on how thorough we want or need to be).

So if you have a thing that you want to sell to a group of people and you’re still not pursuing a social strategy, I don’t understand what you’re doing. Yes, it’s 2018 and I still find myself trying to persuade clients to proactively use (the right) social networks to promote their brand.

For the sake of this piece, we’re going to focus on organic usage (read: free, not paid advertising) of Instagram. Why just Instagram? 35% of US adults say they use Instagram as of 2018, up from 28% in 2016. This was the greatest growth across top social networking sites reported by Pew Research Center. Additionally, its 35% usage puts it at the third most popular social networking platform, behind only Facebook and YouTube.

Other good news? It may be easier for brands’ posts to appear in users’ Instagram feeds than on their Facebook feeds: Facebook still wants to prioritize your family, friends and groups, while The New York Times reports that Instagram is updating its algorithm to favor newer posts rather than limit the accounts in your feed.

So should every brand have an Instagram? Maybe? But notice I’ve been primarily using the word “brand,” not “company” or “business.” That’s deliberate. Companies (only) provide customers with a service or sell a product. Brands provide customers (followers) with an identity. (If you want to dive further into this, I highly recommend this presentation by former Distiller Hannah Smith.)

The best companies are brands: they’ve got identities with which consumers align themselves. We become loyal to them. We may even use the brands we purchase from and follow as self identifiers to other people (“I’m a Joe & the Juice kind of guy, but not Starbucks,” “I never use MAC, only NARS,” “Me, shop at Banana Republic?! I only go to Everlane!”). Not every company should be on Instagram — it doesn’t make much sense for B2Bs to invest time and energy into building their company’s presence on Instagram.

Instagram is not for your consulting firm. And probably not for your SaaS company, either (but prove me wrong)!

It’s for celebrities. It’s to show off your enviable trip. It’s for fashion blogs. Sneakerheads. Memes. Art. Beauty brands. It’s really great for beauty brands. Why? Instagram is obviously great for sharing pretty photos — and if you’re a beauty company, well, it’s a no-brainer that you should have an active account. And it also has incredible built-in features to organically promote your posts, engage customers, and sell products with actual links to those products on your photos.

So, if you’re going to use Instagram, do it right. If you want to do it right, do it like a beauty brand.

First things first: Why do beauty companies’ IG posts look better?

Glossier

Onomie

Milk

Let’s get the obvious out of the way: each account features beautiful models, pretty sceneries, and cosmetics in clean packaging. That said, it’s not just the subject of the IG photos that matters: each of these IG accounts’ photos have been curated and edited together, so that their photos look cohesive when you view them in IG’s grid format. How do they do that? Let’s look at three posts from these accounts.

Glossier

Onomie

Milk

It’s hard (for me) to pick apart precisely why these photos are aesthetically pleasing — and it doesn’t help that I’m neither a photographer, nor a designer. That said, here is my rudimentary, non-designer take on why these photos look great together:

#1: Their subjects are beautiful (duh)

#2: There are limited primary focal points, and tons of negative space (though the medicine cabinet and floral arrangement photos are arguably “busy”)

#3: Their hues are complementary (pinky-pearlescent-pastels, anyone?)

There’s a lot of pink. And white. And pastels. And more pink. And then, occasionally, pops of color (think: a new violet lipstick shade).

Color schemes remain consistent across Onomie’s, Milk’s, and Glossier’s photos — these beauty brands don’t suddenly change their color palettes from one photo to the next. In fact, they are most likely implementing the same Instagram filters for each photo, or at least editing the color balances so that the photos complement each other. They are deliberately catering to Instagram’s 3x3 grid photo format (or 3x4, or 3x5, depending on your screen size). While many users do see IG posts in their “feeds” when they open the app, users are still motivated to look at IG accounts’ for a number of reasons: IG profiles are the only place where you can add hyperlinks on Instagram, and is also where accounts can pin stories for users to revisit.

But how on earth do they do it? They may have professional photographers, or graphic designers they can beg to normalize their color balances across photos. However, I don’t think that most companies necessarily need this mastery in-house in order to have an Instagram profile that looks good to mere mortals.

What I can assure you is that they plan, plan, plan out their posts in advance. In order to do this effectively, of course, you need the right tools. Here’s your starter pack of IG apps:

VSCO

Freemium phone app

Enables you to edit photos like a master — VSCO goes way beyond a small set of filters

Has its own community and image feed within the app, separate from IG

VSCO can’t post directly to IG (yet), but you can easily download any edited photo

Planoly

Freemium desktop tool and phone app

Can visualize your photos in a grid format with your other IG photos

Built-in analytics

Can schedule and post directly to IG, with captions and hashtags

Unum

Free

Offers some photo editing tools

Can drag and drop photos to plan out how they will appear alongside your other uploads, in grid format

Can post to IG, but no scheduling features

This may sound like a lot of work, and for non-designers in particular it’s pretty challenging. That said, the fruits of your labor can be used again and again. In fact, that’s precisely what these beauty brands do on IG: if they’re featuring a product (again, hello lipstick shades), they show off that product’s different colors, on different skintones. Basically, rinse and repeat with your IG photos: this repetition is great for those with sparse content calendars, and still looks great.

Okay, but they’re not popular just because of their looks, right? Why are beauty brands on IG so damn popular?

Yes, looks matter. IG is a visual platform. Sorry not sorry. And yes, we’re talking about beauty brands that have budgets to advertise their accounts and products on IG, which also contributes to their popularity. However, that’s not the whole story.

They use hashtags and photo tags.

Hashtags

Just like on Twitter (and Facebook, to a degree), hashtags are a natural way to boost exposure and get “discovered.” That’s largely because IG users can also follow hashtags, in the same manner as following a handle. And, just like on Twitter, it matters which hashtags you use. IG also allows users to add up to 30 hashtags per post — and yes, this can look spammy, but if you’re using IG like a beauty brand, you’ll separate your caption from your hashtags with periods-used-as-line-breaks or as a separate comment after you post.

So, where should you begin hunting for hashtags? Unfortunately, the Cambridge Analytica debacle has extended to Facebook’s other properties, including Instagram. It seems like one direct response to this is to limit the number of API calls we can make of IG. This means awesome services like websta.me can’t serve up the same amount of information around hashtags as they once did.

That said, Tagboard is one option for content and social media marketers to use. I like to use it to suss out hashtag intent (in answering whether this the right hashtag to use for this post). *Readers: if you’ve got tools you love to find hashtags on IG, add them in the comments below for us, please!

Otherwise, your best bet (as far as I know) is to search for hashtags directly in Instagram’s Discover area, under Tags. There, you can see how many times those hashtags have been used (what’s popular?) and then click through to see what photos have been tagged.

Photo tags

Beauty brands also take advantage of photo tagging on their posts when they can: if they are featuring a celebrity (like the magnificent Tracee Ellis Ross), they can tag her IG directly onto this post. Not only does this let Tracee (or, more likely, her social media manager) know, but depending on her settings this photo now shows up under her tagged photos on her profile — for her fans to discover.

Similarly, if you’re a business selling products and you’ve been approved for shopping on IG, you can also tag your products in your photos so that users can click through directly to their product pages. This is a no-brainer. Just do it.

They talk to their followers.

We already know that it’s best practice to engage and respond to followers on social media (within reason), and IG is no different. Onomie, Milk and Glossier all have downright spirited conversations in their photos’ comments sections by prompt fellow ‘grammers to participate in a few ways. They:

Host contests for product giveaways, which is an easy way to grow their followers on Instagram while also attracting new, potential customers.

Ask their followers questions (“which are your faves?”) or simply prompt them to react to a photo (using emojis in the comments).

Share company and product news with their followers, and also answer questions their followers pose in response to that news.

They add stories.

IG’s “Stories” feature is another great tool that Onomie, Milk, and Glossier all use. They’re like IG posts, but ephemeral (they only last 24 hours) and do not live in your main feed: users can access these stories from the top of their IG feeds, and from the account’s main icon. In some cases — especially brands selling products — these accounts may choose to “pin” evergreen stories to their IG profiles, so that users can access them beyond the 24-hour lifespan.

Stories are an excellent way to gather additional insights from followers (outside of comments) because you can run polls (with clickable elements) to collect simple data (“Should our next product help alleviate dry or oily skin?”). What’s more is that, depending on users’ notification preferences, stories automatically push notifications to followers’ phone screens. This means that even if a user is not using the app, they will be notified of new, temporary content.

If your brand (or your client) isn’t taking advantage of IG’s great marketing tools, it’s time to stop waiting and get ‘gramming. Especially if your target audiences are using the platform, there is no reason not to test out all the ways it allows you to engage its community.

Share your favorite IG tools, tips, and accounts below, so that other Moz readers can get inspired. And if you’re passionate about marketing, come join our team, and help me convince more awesome brands to take over Instagram. (JK. Kinda.)

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[infolearn]

How to Use Instagram Like a Beauty Brand

Does your brand’s activity on its social accounts impact its search rankings? Maybe. Maybe not. But does it matter anyway? I shouldn’t have to convince you that investing in a social media for your company is worth it; even in light of Facebook’s recent data breach, we are so reliant upon our social profiles for real human interaction that leaving them is not a real option. In fact, the below statistics from Pew Research Center’s 2018 Social Media Use Survey indicate that we’re not going to give up our social media profiles any time soon.

Humans are social creatures. It makes sense that we love being on social networking sites. We crave interaction with fellow humans. We’re also highly likely to trust the recommendations of our friends and family (Nielsen) and those recommendations often influence our purchasing decisions. We ask our loved ones for advice on where to put our dollars in myriad ways, all at different price points: What coffee shop do you like to go to? Which mascara is that? What are you reading right now? Where’d you get that tie? What neighborhoods are you looking to move to? What schools are you looking to send Anna to? Yes, those same searches occur online. They also frequently occur in tandem with testimonials from the people in our lives (depending on how thorough we want or need to be). So if you have a thing that you want to sell to a group of people and you’re still not pursuing a social strategy, I don’t understand what you’re doing. Yes, it’s 2018 and I still find myself trying to persuade clients to proactively use (the right) social networks to promote their brand. For the sake of this piece, we’re going to focus on organic usage (read: free, not paid advertising) of Instagram. Why just Instagram? 35% of US adults say they use Instagram as of 2018, up from 28% in 2016. This was the greatest growth across top social networking sites reported by Pew Research Center. Additionally, its 35% usage puts it at the third most popular social networking platform, behind only Facebook and YouTube. Other good news? It may be easier for brands’ posts to appear in users’ Instagram feeds than on their Facebook feeds: Facebook still wants to prioritize your family, friends and groups, while The New York Times reports that Instagram is updating its algorithm to favor newer posts rather than limit the accounts in your feed. So should every brand have an Instagram? Maybe? But notice I’ve been primarily using the word “brand,” not “company” or “business.” That’s deliberate. Companies (only) provide customers with a service or sell a product. Brands provide customers (followers) with an identity. (If you want to dive further into this, I highly recommend this presentation by former Distiller Hannah Smith.) The best companies are brands: they’ve got identities with which consumers align themselves. We become loyal to them. We may even use the brands we purchase from and follow as self identifiers to other people (“I’m a Joe & the Juice kind of guy, but not Starbucks,” “I never use MAC, only NARS,” “Me, shop at Banana Republic?! I only go to Everlane!”). Not every company should be on Instagram — it doesn’t make much sense for B2Bs to invest time and energy into building their company’s presence on Instagram. Instagram is not for your consulting firm. And probably not for your SaaS company, either (but prove me wrong)! It’s for celebrities. It’s to show off your enviable trip. It’s for fashion blogs. Sneakerheads. Memes. Art. Beauty brands. It’s really great for beauty brands. Why? Instagram is obviously great for sharing pretty photos — and if you’re a beauty company, well, it’s a no-brainer that you should have an active account. And it also has incredible built-in features to organically promote your posts, engage customers, and sell products with actual links to those products on your photos. So, if you’re going to use Instagram, do it right. If you want to do it right, do it like a beauty brand.

First things first: Why do beauty companies’ IG posts look better?

Glossier

Onomie

Milk Let’s get the obvious out of the way: each account features beautiful models, pretty sceneries, and cosmetics in clean packaging. That said, it’s not just the subject of the IG photos that matters: each of these IG accounts’ photos have been curated and edited together, so that their photos look cohesive when you view them in IG’s grid format. How do they do that? Let’s look at three posts from these accounts.

Glossier

Onomie

Milk It’s hard (for me) to pick apart precisely why these photos are aesthetically pleasing — and it doesn’t help that I’m neither a photographer, nor a designer. That said, here is my rudimentary, non-designer take on why these photos look great together: #1: Their subjects are beautiful (duh) #2: There are limited primary focal points, and tons of negative space (though the medicine cabinet and floral arrangement photos are arguably “busy”) #3: Their hues are complementary (pinky-pearlescent-pastels, anyone?) There’s a lot of pink. And white. And pastels. And more pink. And then, occasionally, pops of color (think: a new violet lipstick shade). Color schemes remain consistent across Onomie’s, Milk’s, and Glossier’s photos — these beauty brands don’t suddenly change their color palettes from one photo to the next. In fact, they are most likely implementing the same Instagram filters for each photo, or at least editing the color balances so that the photos complement each other. They are deliberately catering to Instagram’s 3x3 grid photo format (or 3x4, or 3x5, depending on your screen size). While many users do see IG posts in their “feeds” when they open the app, users are still motivated to look at IG accounts’ for a number of reasons: IG profiles are the only place where you can add hyperlinks on Instagram, and is also where accounts can pin stories for users to revisit. But how on earth do they do it? They may have professional photographers, or graphic designers they can beg to normalize their color balances across photos. However, I don’t think that most companies necessarily need this mastery in-house in order to have an Instagram profile that looks good to mere mortals. What I can assure you is that they plan, plan, plan out their posts in advance. In order to do this effectively, of course, you need the right tools. Here’s your starter pack of IG apps: VSCO Freemium phone app Enables you to edit photos like a master — VSCO goes way beyond a small set of filters Has its own community and image feed within the app, separate from IG VSCO can’t post directly to IG (yet), but you can easily download any edited photo Planoly Freemium desktop tool and phone app Can visualize your photos in a grid format with your other IG photos Built-in analytics Can schedule and post directly to IG, with captions and hashtags Unum Free Offers some photo editing tools Can drag and drop photos to plan out how they will appear alongside your other uploads, in grid format Can post to IG, but no scheduling features This may sound like a lot of work, and for non-designers in particular it’s pretty challenging. That said, the fruits of your labor can be used again and again. In fact, that’s precisely what these beauty brands do on IG: if they’re featuring a product (again, hello lipstick shades), they show off that product’s different colors, on different skintones. Basically, rinse and repeat with your IG photos: this repetition is great for those with sparse content calendars, and still looks great.

Okay, but they’re not popular just because of their looks, right? Why are beauty brands on IG so damn popular?

Yes, looks matter. IG is a visual platform. Sorry not sorry. And yes, we’re talking about beauty brands that have budgets to advertise their accounts and products on IG, which also contributes to their popularity. However, that’s not the whole story. They use hashtags and photo tags. Hashtags Just like on Twitter (and Facebook, to a degree), hashtags are a natural way to boost exposure and get “discovered.” That’s largely because IG users can also follow hashtags, in the same manner as following a handle. And, just like on Twitter, it matters which hashtags you use. IG also allows users to add up to 30 hashtags per post — and yes, this can look spammy, but if you’re using IG like a beauty brand, you’ll separate your caption from your hashtags with periods-used-as-line-breaks or as a separate comment after you post.

So, where should you begin hunting for hashtags? Unfortunately, the Cambridge Analytica debacle has extended to Facebook’s other properties, including Instagram. It seems like one direct response to this is to limit the number of API calls we can make of IG. This means awesome services like websta.me can’t serve up the same amount of information around hashtags as they once did. That said, Tagboard is one option for content and social media marketers to use. I like to use it to suss out hashtag intent (in answering whether this the right hashtag to use for this post). *Readers: if you’ve got tools you love to find hashtags on IG, add them in the comments below for us, please! Otherwise, your best bet (as far as I know) is to search for hashtags directly in Instagram’s Discover area, under Tags. There, you can see how many times those hashtags have been used (what’s popular?) and then click through to see what photos have been tagged.

Photo tags Beauty brands also take advantage of photo tagging on their posts when they can: if they are featuring a celebrity (like the magnificent Tracee Ellis Ross), they can tag her IG directly onto this post. Not only does this let Tracee (or, more likely, her social media manager) know, but depending on her settings this photo now shows up under her tagged photos on her profile — for her fans to discover. Similarly, if you’re a business selling products and you’ve been approved for shopping on IG, you can also tag your products in your photos so that users can click through directly to their product pages. This is a no-brainer. Just do it.

They talk to their followers. We already know that it’s best practice to engage and respond to followers on social media (within reason), and IG is no different. Onomie, Milk and Glossier all have downright spirited conversations in their photos’ comments sections by prompt fellow ‘grammers to participate in a few ways. They: Host contests for product giveaways, which is an easy way to grow their followers on Instagram while also attracting new, potential customers. Ask their followers questions (“which are your faves?”) or simply prompt them to react to a photo (using emojis in the comments). Share company and product news with their followers, and also answer questions their followers pose in response to that news.

They add stories. IG’s “Stories” feature is another great tool that Onomie, Milk, and Glossier all use. They’re like IG posts, but ephemeral (they only last 24 hours) and do not live in your main feed: users can access these stories from the top of their IG feeds, and from the account’s main icon. In some cases — especially brands selling products — these accounts may choose to “pin” evergreen stories to their IG profiles, so that users can access them beyond the 24-hour lifespan.

Stories are an excellent way to gather additional insights from followers (outside of comments) because you can run polls (with clickable elements) to collect simple data (“Should our next product help alleviate dry or oily skin?”). What’s more is that, depending on users’ notification preferences, stories automatically push notifications to followers’ phone screens. This means that even if a user is not using the app, they will be notified of new, temporary content. If your brand (or your client) isn’t taking advantage of IG’s great marketing tools, it’s time to stop waiting and get ‘gramming. Especially if your target audiences are using the platform, there is no reason not to test out all the ways it allows you to engage its community. Share your favorite IG tools, tips, and accounts below, so that other Moz readers can get inspired. And if you’re passionate about marketing, come join our team, and help me convince more awesome brands to take over Instagram. (JK. Kinda.)   Read the full article

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How The Face of a Marcos Apologist used subtlety, context, and photography to take over a botched revisionism campaign

Perhaps one of the hardest things to achieve in Photography is subtlety. All the viewer has is what’s inside the frame which the photographer chose to show. This is where context comes in. Context fills in the gaps of what can’t be shown in the frame. For photojournalism, it is usually in the caption or the event surrounding the photograph. For other genres, it is the "About the work" and the conditions that came in that compelled the creator to make the work. In Mac Andre Arboleda's "The face of a Marcos Apologist", the context of his thought and the subtlety of his execution comes in the form of a PR campaign gone awry.

The idea behind the photo zine came in when PR firm, Publicity Asia, made a Twitter hashtag campaign for the grandchild of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sandro Marcos. Send your selfie and you might win a date with the Marcos grandson. And so the #WinADateWithSandro became a trending topic with different types of people of almost all the gender identities participating for a chance to win the date. With the hashtag gaining traction, it caught the attention of activists and the general public voicing out their opinion on the inappropriate PR campaign. It was bombarded with Memes, one-liner, and other blatant forms of protest. Arboleda, on the other hand, responded in a different manner. He ran the profile photos of those who participated in the contest in a software to come up with an averaged face. The result is the photo zine The face of a Marcos Apologist.

The Zine is subtle in its presentation. The design is straightforward and the profile pictures are neatly shown. Some have accompanying tweets which express their desire to win. It all concludes with the Average face. The zine neither makes grand proclamations nor it shames those who joined the contest. It didn't hurl insults, malice, or a litany of facts. There is no emotion or anger in the work. The subtlety is within the execution of the context. It puts forward the absurdity of the entire situation: Thousands, with Sandro Marcos included, choosing to turn a blind eye to the atrocities of the Marcos dictatorship for the sake of a publicity stunt disguised as a date.

All of this is accomplished without Arboleda holding up a camera to his face. Perhaps a contention for a purist to consider it as a true photo zine. He did not seek out and photograph these people on his own to get an accurate average. However, to do that for this work is to dismiss the gravity of the event. This work is not about getting an accurate average face but wielding the context like a bludgeon to those who do not understand. This subversion from pure photography comes in not only in the absence of a camera but in the claims of critics and artists that have no idea with what to do with the stream of images flowing around the internet. Arboleda's response to that crisis is to find the proper context and twist the material into a personal archive. That way, it resonates and impacts the audiences with no need to stand on a soapbox.

This is why I believe that in photography, context is king. For this case, context doesn't just provide the background for the work. It also gave it the right moment to thrive. To achieve subtlety in this context is the what makes this work well. If there wasn’t a failed PR stunt, the work would simply be a witty protest. Arboleda’s hijacking of the campaign and making sense of the images elevated the work into visual art. I would go on to say that it isn't about the result of the average face. Despite the various discussions I have heard that it looks like Sandro’s Aunt,  Imee Marcos, or any other public figure which will undoubtedly add more to the work. It doesn’t matter who it looks like but rather what this average represents. The usage of that term is special here. To me, it is a double usage of the word average: the numerical mean and the ordinary. These are Average Joes and Janes disconnected from facts and history. The meaning of the word and The resulting face symbolizes that despite the time has passed since the Marcos reign, there is a lot that needs to be done to change the average understanding of what those events were and why people are accepting of it.

Photography can be sly, simple, and comedic but it is always painful as a reminder. The face of a Marcos apologist shows us that there is so much more is needed to be done.

(The copy used for this analysis is the original 1st edition Zine. If you want to have a copy for yourself, you may check a  colored edition published by Hard Working Good Looking. Part of the Zines of Production book available here.)

Title: The Face of a Marcos Apologist

Photographer/Creator/Practitioner: Mac Andre Arboleda

Medium: Photography Zine. A4 Bond Paper. Saddle Stitched.Photocopied (8.5 x 5.5in)  

Status: Complete

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