Who else here actually makes an effort to take good photos for Instagram while traveling?
Like most guys (I think), I used to think Instagram was vain, shallow, addictive, perfomative, etc. and that I was generally above it.
But I've been listening to Michael Sartain on YouTube and he basically advocates for having an Instagram solely for the sake of improving your dating life. Basically taking the Dan Bilzerian approach and instilling FOMO in people.
Anyone here do this? Or are we all too autistic.
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>Like most guys (I think), I used to think Instagram was vain, shallow, addictive, perfomative, etc.
It is.
Ya I still think that too. But it is nice having some sort of proof that I'm not a troglodyte who never leaves his mom's basement.
You ain't got to prove nothing to no one, but yourself. And if you haven't done that by now, it ain't never gonna habben.
Oops, forgot image.
This is the only reason I have one. Befriending other travelers as a single man who isn't a social butterfly is hard enough, but without social media it becomes extremely hard because a lot of people seem to jump straight to the assumption that you have something to hide
Why would they think that? Why are you so insecure?
Having “proof” doesn’t stop people from assuming that (or assuming something worse). I have “proof” and some people still tell me that I photoshopped the pics or stole them and that I never leave the basement. I’m dead SRS. It’s mostly women who say that. Don’t expect things like facts, evidence, or reality to change a woman’s mind kek.
I have insta but I dont bother using it. If people like me, they like me. If they dont, they dont. And people are skittish. One dude asked me to get his insta and my phone was dead. He assumed I was lying and you could tell he thought I had something I was hiding. Weird, right? But people can just simply be skittish like that.
Dont worry and just live your life. People will sense your calm demeanor and will calm down themselves, reopening the ability to make friends with them.
Besides- as a solo traveller, you have MUCH BIGGER PROBLEMS. People are automatically weary of you because you’re a male travelling solo. You’re clearly not a 6’5 chad, there’s no social proof around you, you’re all by yourself.
>Why aren’t there friends with you?
>Why are you doing things without other person or other friend?
>Why no family come with you?
These are the questions racing through a normalgays head when they see you travelling solo as a male.
This
Just take photos and keep them on your phone, you dont have to post them for the world to see.
>Just take photos and keep them on your phone
No.
You respresent everything that is wrong with modern travel. have a nice day
I take all the picturesque "instagram famous" photos/angles of places just because I can and I'm there so why not, but I don't get myself in pictures, no selfies, I don't care for all of that I don't use social media anyway
why take a photo that is identical to one you can find online? at least a selfie is unique
Why would you assume the pictures he takes are identical to one he can find online?
>I take all the picturesque "instagram famous" photos/angles of places
No, because usually the sheep is not even there. You have to make an appointment.
Why wouldn't I, if I'm already there and it's going to take like 2 seconds to take that picture..? Obviously that's not the only photos I take but overall it's fun to look back through all the pics and remember things from being there that you would forget otherwise
homosexual
Why take a photo of you if you have mirrors in your house, at least a landscape photo is eternal
instagram is broken and/or dead. zucc tried to turn it into a commercial version of tiktok and fricking failed
>friend posts image, screen refreshes, image is never seen on the main feed again.
>random sped-up cooking/cleaning/building/ASMR vid as the 2nd video in your feed for a week
all you can do in hopes of growth is to steal someone elses' content and publish it as your own using a sponsored post, it's absolutely fricked.
cant even search hashtags properly anymore
Remember when Zucc tried to make Instagram Twitter as well? That died so fast lmao.
Thats literally what threads is
All of the screeching morons that made twatter what it was migrated there after complaining about musk
Its more disturbing than twitter was because I could just not see it by not having a twitter.
Now every time I boot up the tiddies & ass insta machine I get greeted with the dumbest opinion Ive ever heard in my life after the second post
Having an Instagram account and only use it to give it to people you meet? I do that since it's the only social media that's simple enough to be used worldwide. Everyone I met in Japan had one. Having good pics on your Instagram is only impressive if you have the followers to back up your outgoing lifestyle. Otherwise you'll look like a tryhard.
I found ASCII swastikas, dicks and anime girls on that section. Seems like they're desperate for everyone at this point.
Everything he has ever done is about taking what is the popular current thing and making his own version of it, all funded with selling (You)r user date on israelitebook (which again was taking the popular current thing except he also just straight up stole it from the guys who commissioned him to code it). I hate that manlet piece of shit so much
>friend posts image, screen refreshes, image is never seen on the main feed again.
This
>Anyone here do this?
I Instagrammaxxed for awhile. It was a lot of effort and a lot of cringe for not all that much payoff. I'm a decent looking guy with a lowkey and chill lifestyle and personality, so it was not a good match for me.
I did it solely for dating, but what I discovered was that the type of women who it helped to date expected me to be a high energy and adventurous person, so when I just wanted to chill, they were annoyed.
I do recommend it if you are a very social and adventurous person and wanting to be with similar people.
Basically if you are using socials to meet people, they should match the type of lifestyle and personality you actually have and want to sustain in a relationship, otherwise you will have problems.
How much did you ham up the pictures? I think actual genuine candids can come off chill
Not influencer level, but dedicated effort level. I learned a lot about photography in general.
I treated it like a photography and adventure travel portfolio, I did learn how to take good pictures of myself but my body and face weren't the sole focus.
There wasn't any thirst trapping or bulge shots, if that's what you mean. I experimented with hornyposting but it came off too homosexual. Being masculine and sexy on instagram for a men is tricky, unless you don't care what type of attention you get.
How do you take face and body pics without making it too obvious that you're being vain? I try as hard as possible to take "candids" (eg I'm hiking and not facing the camera so it looks like one of my friends just happened to take a photo of me) so I don't look too vain. Selfies just seem kind of pathetic unless you're in a group, but I feel like my friends arent handsome chads that would make it work, maybe I should hire some handsome looking guides.
>the type of women who it helped to date expected me to be a high energy and adventurous person
The problem for me is that the type of women who instagrammaxxing impresses tends to have the physical features I am attracted to
what do you do now? I also instagrammaxxed and it works, but it's a ton of effort, lot of money spent, and overall feels shallow. I did get girls, even girls I'm attracted to, but like you said, you have to constantly bring in a ton of energy and bring in a social circle, go traveling, etc - can't just chill out, so idk a better alternative, maybe just build a casual social circle around hobbies and meet through that?
Also in a situation where I make good money in tech, but I don't want to spend much. I rather just retire very early and not have to show off to get friends/dates.
yeah the Michael sartain method is essentially jestermaxxing and curating a larger-than-life brand on social media to get girls to fomo
Curating it to jestermaxx for roasties is kind of cringe.
If you're a man who used ig like a woman you're terminally fem brained
gunna cry about it?
true, but what's the alternative?
Find an actual life purpose, social media is feminine in nature unless it's for business purposes. useful as a portfolio of social proof to get laid, not so useful if you want a long term meaningful relationship as it will attract status chasing hoes: if they like you for your following count they will like the next guy with a couple thousand more even more.
I actually like taking photos as a hobby, but I am very unattractive, so having an Instagram isn't going to make much of an improvement on my dating life.
Just take a few pictures of yourself with the following and be done with it:
>in a sports car while wearing sunglasses
>sitting in a dimly lit room with leather or velvet furniture with an expensive watch
>on a boat while wearing sunglasses and an expensive watch
>in a dimly lit room with a glass of whisky and a cigar
>pretending to work out at the gym
Sartain is a cuck who pays for the girls you see in his videos with he money he makes from selling morons like you the dream.
this. He's an average-looking middle-aged Mexican. No way he's making all these videos in front of these girls explaining how he fabricated all the philanthropy events and photoshoots just to get them to eventually date/sleep with him. Like all these influencers, they pay the girls to be in the recordings and they rent out the homes/cars, then write them off as business expenses while collecting money from insecure teenagers/young 20s for $300-2000 or whatever they charge. Dan Bilzarian does the same thing. Same as Tate. All a grift. Either be very good-looking, be rich/famous, or use every trick to pretend you're rich/popular/charismatic, that's how it all works.
have a nice day OP.
PS: if you’re so desperate for women, just get prostitutes. prostitutes have more dignity than most women.
I live abroad and travel a lot. I take cool instagram videos of weird tribal ceremonies and beautiful beaches and such but rarely, so I cultivate a mystique
You're using it like a normal, well-adjusted person.
Instagrammaxxing is about being an obnoxiously narcissitic twat
>obnoxiously narcissitic
My definition of that is stupid shit like posing with a sedated tiger or just sticking to the most touristic places, looking directly at the camera, basically looking like someone who's just there to be a completionist.
>mystique
This is more the vibe that I'm going for in my photos
I don't understand the point of instagram.
It's went from social and pics of people going with friends, to nothing but staged shots with staged poses with copied captions, to now I don't even know what it is. Just pictures.
It got corporatized like every other social media site. The enshittification of the Internet.
Im a zoomer and I've never had instagram/snapchat or related in my life. Despite that being unusual for my age group Ive never had any problem getting girls. I think it only matters if you aren't attractive enough and/or dont have good enough game to get girls without falling back on normie social circle proof. Of course if you're actually rich and can show off Bilzerian-tier lifestyle that's a different story but if you're larping they can tell in an instant and you're worse off.
Addendum: if you intend to meet girls *while traveling* it especially does not matter at all, the social proof aspect is only relevant in set circles eg within a school where there may be distinct social hierarchy and your IG can be used to assess your place in it
Ok zoomer, who the fricks says "addendum"
Are you a Black person? It's standard written English
I'm not Bilzerian tier but I work as a SWE at FAANG. I literally make more than the average salesman or consultant larping as a bigshot, but since I'm a low risk stem nerd (and girls can sense this) I am less likely to spend that money except on like legos and video games and anime figurines. I want bimbo thots so this is where I'm at I guess
I am married. I have Instagram to share pictures of our cats (mostly for my wife).
This is how you're supposed to use Instagram
Right but unless you're doing genuinely unique, impressive things then you either come across as larp or typical normie which may have the opposite effect of what you intended
I travel for my own interests not so I can seem interesting to other people. I met so many people thinking I'm a weirdo for not having instagram, like they thought that's the point of traveling so of course I should have one. I don't care, if a potential girl would only date me because of my instagram then I wouldn't want her anyway
>, if a potential girl would only date me because of my instagram then I wouldn't want her anyway
What if she had really nice breasts?
based
you can rent out really nice breasts, no need to sell your soul for it
IG, in this context isn't for friends, it's like a dating profile
>just going out in person and talking to a b***h.
where do you mostly talk to them? like cold approaching or through mutuals? for me, it's mainly tennis courts or from a hiking/social group I run in my town
I find the same thing.
Went to Japan with 2 friends and they posted a laundry list of photos on their instagram each day and goaded me to post some that I took because I had a better camera than both of them.
I ended up posting a couple pics to my story, but it just felt weird to post shit on my profile.
I think posting a lot of pictures in a short spam of time, and even those posts that have 1 or 10 pics together, is counterproductive. Therefore I believe you did well by just posting a few of them.
I don;t use Instagram, but I try to take good pictures when traveling, just for me.
Cool photo.
What was the thing that stood out most about Curacao?
I don’t have instagram because I was born before 2002
<---- /oldpeople/
1995-2000 were the generation that created and adopted all the social media platforms.
Zoomers have nothing except the Chinese bootleg propaganda ripoff of Vine known as TikTok.
>LIVE LIKE DIOGENES AND REJECT EVERYTHING.
Yes.
Back when I had friends (2018, haha), I did post some travel pics on Instagram, but never got noticed by anyone outside of IRL friends who followed me. Instagram is tough if you don't have breasts.
Biggest disappointment was realizing just how IG's compression ratios destroyed the quality of my photos - after I had deleted the originals, of course. IG is meant to be viewed on a small screen, where high resolution is not important.
>BOOST YOUR STATUS (with strangers online)
Unless you're a successful digital-nomad influencer, using Instagram is not going to move you up a social or economic class.
>using Instagram is not going to move you up a social or economic class.
Well, it does. There's a tier of Fake Gurus who pretend to have wealth by renting expensive cars and posting it online for an ad or their instagram. People are moronic, so they fall for it. Hook, line, & sinker.
Fake Gurus are still influencers.
>Try to become fake guru
>Fail
>Everyone now knows you as a pathetic fraudelent loser
1989 here. Imagine going to a place like OPs pic and thinking to yourself the whole time about where to take that best Instagram shot of yourself for people you claim to not give a shit about to see.
Their entire enjoyment of the "trip" isn't derived from their self experiences, but from how others view siad experience VIA likes or comments.
I got rid of my DSLR/RX100 just because the frequent "that would be a nice shot" thoughts detracted from the adventure. These fricking people don't even leave home psychologically during their LARP trips tye probably booked through IG Your groups to begin with.
What fricking losers. And most of the people they're trying to LARP on instead of enjoying the fricking destination or not going to begin with (they clearly don't care) not only don't give a shot about to people to an iota of the extent that's believes, but probably have more fulfilling lives to begin with.
Yeah great you're an alcoholic on a third world beach and hide the property out of frame in all of your shots. What else do you have in your life, in your recent past, or in your near/God help you distant future. Picturing 90% of these people in 10 years is laughable, moreso than wasting the time to examine their present
You are the one who is obsessed with perceptions, instead of merely taking in the scenery and grabbing some good shots. Photography is an engaging hobby which helps occupy the empty hours while traveling.
As bitter as you are, I sure as hell don't want to picture you in 10 years. It's going to eat you alive. Most people who take up a travelling lifestyle find it improves their health and outlook on life.
Not everyone needs to have photography as a hobby
Traveling with people who have to make pictures (especially with themselves) all the time are very annoying to travel with.
However the way the modern world is and the general trends, most will profit a lot by having an abundance of good pictures to choose from, so make pictures regularly.
Having a nice Instagram account can be very useful for women but the time invested in rotting in front of your screen to create an image of a cool life to attract people with a boring life who are glued to a screen (...) can be used to live in the real world and meeting women there.
To be fair the obsession with making photos is nothing new. I think it started to get really common in the 90s. No adult I know ever really looked at the old pictures, especially the simple sightseeing pictures without people.
Nowadays one HD pictures easily from the internet about anything somewhat popular anywhere easily for free, so all that stuff is obselete.
The next step were compact affordable action cameras aka GoPros where people started doing dumb risky stuff where there was nothing to be gained just to create a funny video that would be forgotten on the internet anyway.
>I got rid of my DSLR/RX100 just because the frequent "that would be a nice shot" thoughts detracted from the adventure.
I know that feel but when I don't capture stuff I wish that I had taken it later on.
Taking photos helps you to remember the journey. If you do it in manual it's a nice way to keep yourself busy on a slow travel. Plus you can get soulful photos like those posted from some random dude off flikr from his journey to sk in the early 00's
>Like most guys (I think), I used to think Instagram was vain, shallow, addictive, perfomative, etc. and that I was generally above it.
I don't think that, I just have no friends and therefore there would be no one to even see anything that I post.
I used to post on IG mostly to show off interesting shots I was proud of. Stopped a while ago because it wasn't fun. Had a random girl at a hostel bar once tell me my IG was "dead" and laughed a bit at it. Fricked her later that night.
Thanks for reading my blog post
I like instagram and I like to see peoples travel photos in general. I care less about a pool or beach scene than something historical, however.
I just use Instagram as like a digital photo-book as visual recollection of where I've been over the years. Mostly just have friends and family follow me so I don't care about being a influencer or anything of that. Seems like a lot of work and you really need to know what you're doing to Instagrammaxx or just be an attractive women. The Instagram algorithm is moronic and I can only get like 20 to 30 likes at most and stories get more views like 50 to 70 depending on what the algorithm wants and who follows you and what time you post. Even if you do everything right the algorithm can decide to frick you over. You just need to be an attractive woman or a social media professional to Instagrammaxx.
It is kind of a conundrum, actually.
On the one hand, taking pictures is a straightforward way to help solidify memories, and posting them on instagram is a quick and convenient way to share those memories with other people - back in the day when someone came back from a long vacation they'd invite their friends and family to watch the pictures they took, and everyone would have to suffer through a million awful pictures of aunt Myrna's cruise in the caribbean. Instagram is just a way more convenient and streamlined way to do just that.
On the other hand, trying to take the perfect instagram picture takes precious minutes, possibly hours, away from your vacation and your life. You might become so worried about taking a good picture, posting it at the right time and with the right hashtags etc. that you stop actually enjoying your vacation. Besides, pictures for instagram tend to be uncreative - most people try to either look good themselves or look good by proxy by showing that they've been to a certain famous place. This leads to formulaic and visually uninteresting photography, while if you just take pictures for the sake of capturing moments or points of view you might end up with some really interesting photography.
I think the best compromise is to just have a private instagram profile where you post stuff for a close, tightly knit selection of friends and family who might enjoy knowing more about you and what you did. If you're dating, just tell that person you prefer to keep your ig private for the just aforementioned reason. If the person you're dating needs to see you doing the "cool kids" stuff on ig (taking and posting constantly the same formulaic pictures to show you're just the coolest guy ever) then they're probably a vain and shallow person, and if you want to impress them you're vain and shallow too
>He wants to impress shallow roastoids
Lol
Lmao even
Say what you will but I've gotten laid just by my instagram not being shit, waking up to a DM from a chick "Heyyyy". Feel free to be Mr. "I DONT CARE ABOUT GIRLS LOOK AT ME!", more for me.
That's literally the only reason I still have an IG acct. Before the pandemic I was fricking this hot blonde who DM'd me after liking my Insta posts. She was way above my league but liked my "social media persona" or whatever.
What's your grid look like? Is it mostly travel photos?
Travel pics, nature pics, city pics, foodie pics, photos of me with friends at events, selfies, and occasional videos.
My sister who lives in Nashville has way more followers than I do but I have over 1k now so I'm not exactly obscure.
do you use your real name on this? I rather not have family/old friends add me on social media. It's literally just a dating profile and the followers/likes are fake and the stories are recycled over and over to see which girl I've recently added is getting hooked on my profile
I just list my first name on my insta.
I try to make an effort with my photos, and I don't mind hunting down the popular spots but I try to get there early morning when no people are there. People flock to them for a reason, but they are the easiest photographic views to capture. Pic related are some pics I took when I was in Japan.
28 y/o upper middle class guy here, so I have friends who do shit
I follow 600 accounts on insta, 450 of them being humans and not corpo/concept accounts
like, tops 20 people posted a story yesterday and at least 4 of them are from a couple who are traveling
noone posts on insta anymore, but everyone's checking something out if you post it, its not dead I guess but its dying for my generation
>instagram for improving your dating life
Pretty much the only reason to use it tbh. Instagram is a stealth dating app that functions as proof of you leaving the house and having a life because of the pics you post on it. It generally works. That being said, it's also vain, shallow, addictive, performative and nowhere near as effective as just going out in person and talking to a b***h.
Taking good photos is hard. If you're travelling with friends they will be very fricking annoyed if you constantly ask them to take pics of you doing something cool. It is very very hard to make sure the pic is high quality, isn't blurry, other tourists arent in the way or in the background, that you look good in the pic, etc. It will take many tries and your friends will definitely get pissed off at you and also likely suck at taking photos, which means they will need to take even more for you to find a good one. I am considering hiring a photographer
t. tried to flex on my instagram with pics of me swimming in 5 star hotel swimming pools and flying first class after a breakup to spite my ex
I tell my friends 1-2 weeks in advance that my insta needs some spice and they should be ready to take some photos when the time is right
my experience is people usually enjoy this interaction, esp women
In the case of pictures with oneself:
The beginning is hard because you want to have great pictures quickly which usually takes time, money and energy. However the more (good) pictures one has, the more relaxed one is going about the whole topic. I think one won't worry if one has at least 20 different good pictures from the previous 5 years.
>t. tried to flex on my instagram with pics of me swimming in 5 star hotel swimming pools and flying first class after a breakup to spite my ex
Lol, another classic case of wasting money to impress people one doesn't like. Did you ever get to know her reaction about these posts?
Witnessed -
I think it is already seen at least as slightly positive but I doubt that it is ever going to be more than that.
Have you ever met anyone in your e-harem irl?
I feel pity for anyone taking pictures of themselves. I feel more pity for guys who take pictures women doing whatever, especially while holder their bags/coats whatever. When I see it (and I see it often) I want to blow-up the fountain or whatever bullshit they think will get likes. I can't wait for them to go into the pods.
Seethe.
Cope.
I think these types of feelings go away when you get a bit older
everyone who thought taking a pic was lame turned coat as we continued to age, now people just post stuff and take pictures of stuff as life can be cool if you put some effort in your early 20s
I'm 28
>Basically taking the Dan Bilzerian approach
Meaning paying hookers for photoshoots while also not having sex with them.
I gain more pleasure from others' jealousy than from actually fricking the women
cause you're gay
you should transition because you think like a fricking woman
off yourself once you chop off your dick
i finally opened an instagram after my gf forced me into now i am connected with her friends somehow but i am too autistic to post anything there but the FOMO is real there to get competitive.
/trv/bros how to stop giving a frick about these pretentious roasties and just post whatever i want in this israelitegram?
Enjoy getting cucked
Instagram is a mental illness social media platform that parasitizes on FOMO. That's why it's for women. They try to one up their fantasy lives in pictures to gain followers and defeat their enemies by lifemogging them. Unless you're a homosexual don't use it.
If you're NOT on it, you are getting lifemogged. You are a ghost. Nobody knows you exist because you have no proof you have a life.
Why would I care what other people think about me? Looking for attention all the time is for women.
>attention
No my friend, it is not attention that we are after. It is attraction. We do intagrammaxx to ATTRACT. And it works.
Maybe it's just a generational thing, but let me tell you I'm 27 so my age WAS the generation that was the first to adopt this shit. Instagram started off as people showing off things they liked, things for their friends etc. Then it became staged captions, fake laughing, prostitutes jumping in the air at pumpkin patches. And now as I've aged everyone that ended up having families and careers barely use it anymore while the used up prostitutes on there are still doing the same poses, with the same captions, but increasingly by themselves or their siblings. Sad, but Instagram turns prostitutes into navel-gazing unfrickable cat ladies with no remorse.
Women do it for attention 100%, there's no denying that. For men its different though.
That's why men don't need to use it and neither do women
Well guess what buddy, 4.48 billion people use social media. So you can either get with the fricking times, or you can live your life like a fricking ludite/contrarian/hermit, whatever the frick you are.
Honestly I don't give a shit if you use it or not, but if 4+ billion people use it, there must be a benefit to it besides the little dopamine hits.
Were you born with instagram on your hand you huge fricking moron?
No, I learned to instagrammaxx and now I'm coming back to spread the good news and free you from Plato's cave, allegorically speaking.
I bet you already have instagram, you just use it like a consoomer and never post shit, or post shit that looks like photos your grandma would stick on her fridge.
You have to get the right angles, lighting, editing, clothing, etc. It's an art form and it's fun. And it works.
>I learned to instagrammaxx
No, you vapidc**tmaxxed. Enjoy your miserable life.
Lmao, cope.
>I engaged in behavior that has been proven to have negative effects on my psyche
>no, I am not the one coping
Producer vs consoomer.
It's right there with the tired 'violent video games cause violence' trope.
>Producer vs consoomer
What? You can't even make sense anymore, instagram has already made extensive danage to your brain.
I appreciate the posts, anon.
I've considered it before but every time I get the urge I think about how much effort I'd have to put in and then it slowly subsides. Going through the meticulous process of finding the right lighting, angles, etc just seem like a drag to me. Plus it's only once in a bluemoon I do anything that I'd consider worlthy of putting on insta.
But I've heard of good results from people using traditional social media as a dating app, even more so than dating apps themselves. I guess it's just easier to build a personality there than dating apps. Honestly I just wish I could meet someone through twitter. It's the only mainstream social media I use. Moreover the userbase there seems less normie than insta.
My hobbies include snowboarding, rock climbing, language learning, cooking occasionally, and working out. Maybe I could just post shit like that?
Idk guys I just want a gf but I just can't find anywhere to meet them 🙁
yeah this is another thing that bothers me. Social media maxxing seems like it would be a lot more viable if I was younger, like 21 or something. But I'm 27 too. Wtf am I suppose to do grind away on and hope I get a following so a cute girl slides into my DMs with "Heyyyy"? I'm running out of time I really don't want to be one of those "dating over 30" people.
You will make it.
I just enjoy amateur photography and upload my pictures to IG like a scrap book. I don't care if people I know aren't interested, I just do it for me.
I don’t really make posts anymore but I will always post a billion photos and videos on the story feature. I find it fun to “re-live” the day, it also allows my family to see the places I am going. Does anyone really get laid from insta anymore? I always assume if a person is making lots/very professional pictures then they are running some sort of business or influencer shit and will not respond unless your offering them a shill deal. Those thots on there must get thousands of dms from horny pajeets.
have a nice day disgusting, vapid zoomerscum
Instagrammaxxing is good for people who might be slightly too weird or introverted for normies, thus they have no group photos with the boys, but they are not actually on the autism spectrum so they are capable of going and having a good time like OP's picrel represents.
People like think they're too good for Instagram when really it's the opposite. They got filtered.
Vapid c**t
Yeah I do. I've met women from my instagram. I had a chick message me the other day telling me my life is so interesting. I'd say it was worth it, the downside is caring too much about dopamine hits/likes and stuff, I hate falling into that trap.
I should just start an instashit and post architecture with human geography analysis. Refer to papers, make theories.
Oh wait that's academic twitter. Well shit.
If I'm rich and actually travel constantly, but just average looking at best and don't do luxury shit, is posting on insta going to get me b***hes, or no?
Of course it will, anything can get you b***hes if you're average.
Are you actually average looking though, or leddit 5'5 balding basedbeard self-proclaimed average looking?
show me the michael video
It's his whole schtick so there's a million videos but this one is only 5 minutes.
sure, this could be considered a based take but if you are ugly or clueless, no amount of "instamaxxing" can save you
>the minute you get famous the false rape accusations start coming in
You're 5 years late to the train. Everyone's on tiktok now. You vill dance to ze fruity songs
TikTok is pure entertainment. Instagram is more about conveying status/vanity.
Also DMs on TikTok are weird.
The biggest flex you can have in 2024 is having no social media presence.
Holy shit my first get!
Did you make a wish anon?
I wish to be a travel vlogger and make based videos around the world for you all to enjoy.
I’ve never had social media and I’m already lamenting when it becomes “cool” to have zero social media
Chad or chadlite only. Any normie or ugly guy on there gets shredded by women. You are NOT welcome to dance to those gay songs as a normie or uggo. You’ll even get ostracized for it if you do. And rightfully so.
How to increase follower count? I want to increase mine to 300-500
Just buy them for $5 to make your profile look somewhat real. That's what I did.
After I got some good photos, I boosted my profile (read: ran ads) to girls in different places countries based on what I think would be aspirational to them. Ie. showed pictures of myself in Paris to girls in Quebec, pictures of me in Portugal to girls in Brazil, etc. That got me 100-200 real followers pretty easily for around $50. From there, you can promote your profile to girls in your hometown whenever you feel like it. If they like a pic or view your story, I like one of theirs and follow them. If they don't follow back after 24 hours, I unfollow them. If they follow back, I DM them.
This is another secret about instagram. You can get girls to look at your profile for way less than it costs on any dating app. Tinder is basically unusable nowadays unless you pay shit tons of money. Instagram is cheaper, and has more reach. Not every girl has a Tinder account, but EVERY girl has an Instagram account.
I am harem maxxing while all the autists in this thread cry about it.
I have some pretty good photos that I do with DSLR photography. I think people would like them but could you explain further? I'm a 30 year older boomer.
Are you in the photos? If not, they are kind of useless unless included as part of a photo dump (instagram calls them carousel posts).
Teach me oh wise one
I dont have as many from my trip before covid, but my big trip last summer I have a quite few with me in them (was teaching girls dslr photography)
where do you recommend living? I like living in small towns, but idk if this strategy will work for me or I need to move. I'm ok driving out to places and getting a hotel/airbnb. I just hate living in cities
I got like 100 matches in 2 weeks in South America for free. why did you spend $50 for pen pals?
Tinder is dry for me everywhere I go. I honestly just wanted to run $20 campaign to see how it would turn out and was pleasantly so I did it again. Having a little bit of real engagement helps with the look and feel of your profile. Fake followers and likes tend to have profiles with Crylic letters so they're obviously fake.
Holy shit that’s pathetic. I have 0.00 doubts that you’re some smelly pajeet
Seeing this cope more and more on this site. I'm 100% British/Irish ancestry.
Stop looking at AI generated images of Indians playing in poop and thinking it's real.
That last sentence confirms what you are poojeet
>have a bunch of now curated photos from my camera
>My follower count is 80
What are some basic steps to increase followers? I'd like to get to 300 and then populate my page with some of those photos.
Instagramaxxing is doable and I spot it all the time with my private bot account.
Prime example is this guy:
https://www.instagram.com/davidandgerry/
Some very basic American dude who has bought like 82k followers and started his own business in order to apply for the verified blue check.
Then it's just him wearing make up / blue contact lenses and heavily editing his photos.
It's all a total facade and it almost seems pointless to be honest. I realised that all women are doing the exact same thing and after meeting with a handful of them after being wow'd by their profiles and then almost a different person showing up to greet me....
However I think if you use it purely as a tool to showcase occasional cool things in your life it will be a net positive for your dating life. I've never had a personal instagram account in my life but the amount of times I've been asked from women for my ig is getting insane.
>https://www.instagram.com/davidandgerry/
This guy is looksmaxxing (not instagrammaxxing) and is probably gay. Definitely not what I'm going for.
A better of example of what I'm advocating for is something like @ruub or @justinhouwers if you want someone with less followers.
what's a proper way of buying followers? something realiable I mean, not weird bot names and creeps
This thread is giving me cancer.
Fricking vain zoomies think they're celebrities or some shit. Whatever makes it easier to get zoomettes since you're all a bunch of beta incels IRL
do that in st marten
women assume you're gay if you have lots of stuff on your instagram
>t. 1 post
>effortlessly bold 80IQ moron whose only social media is a facebook he hasn't posted on in 7 years wanders out and fricks dumb prostitutes automatically
>insecure anon who admits he already knows better starts quoting notorious grifters, asks other anons for validation on his new strategy and gets defensive when he's clowned on
anon pls
I don't know about "instagrammaxxing" but I definitely posted on insta during my recent few months to the Mediterranean and Middle East. It was easier to keep friends and family updated this way. I did notice the posts with my face in the top of the "stack" got 3 to 5 times the amount of likes as the ones where I took a photo of the object, and buried a photo of me later in that "stack"
This is what I like to see, and yes, I've found the same thing regarding putting photos of myself at the top of the stack.
I have one picture of myself (to show I'm handsome) and the rest is scenic shots and general photokinographie to show I'm well travelled but not vain.
Social media is all a waste of time. I've never had Instagram, Facebook or any other social media, just enjoy travelling instead of looking for pictures to post online
How do I fix my PTSD dead looking thousand yard stare so I don't look like a souless zombie for Instagram/Tinder photos?
Burst mode.
Not a bad idea. Thank you, anon.
That's how instathots and professional photographers do it. Spam enough photos and something will turn out decent.
Ive seen this mentioned before in Youtube vids as well, thank you man.