Im not going to articulate this properly but I'll try.
I think the lines have been blurred on instagram and what they initially were is long since gone. Its almost a popularity contest now and any integrity that was there is no longer.
I find it a deceptive platform. Now I will admit I am not a huge user, I follow less than 80 accounts and the business ones I follow are just that business accounts. I know what im getting, take for example I follow a paint account. Its a business and they are advising people yet being very clear about their loyalty to their brand and the brands they stock. Where as when you look at lets say Graces account, this week frozen peas are all the rage and next week its pizza. There is no transparency anymore. No accountability.
I find as soon as accounts become bigger you loose that "thing" that made you follow to begin with. Its all adds, its all lies and most of all its blowing smoke up their own arse.
Completely agree!
When this all began and the likes of Grace, Peppard(hahaha, my phone auto corrected Pippa to this

) So Sue Me etc would recommend a new make up item, palette, skincare product, I'd be straight off looking it up, seeing if it suited me and probably finding somewhere to purchase it. There was no "Swipe up for AF link", it was literally just them recommending a product that they have used and loved. They would now all sell their first born for good content. Promoting ridiculous stuff (Grace!!) And as someone said above, selling themselves to the highest bidder.
I put a post up here about that Nuud deodorant a while after Grace had shown it and said what a game changer it had been for me and people said they were ordering it off my feedback (little old me who is not known by anybody here) and people trusted my word more than hers, that is how it gone. Id be more likely to not buy something after seeing an influencer pushing it
