My mom is an instagram influencer with around 5,000 followers and I cannot stand being around my parents. They are both fully absorbed in her instagram to the point everyone in the house is completely over it. My dad takes all the photos and videos, edits, captions, ect. Her instagram started as a weird foot page then once it started getting traction they made it a thrifting page. It’s so frustrating everyone’s lives are added into all her captions. My husband lost his job and we had to move back in with them. Two nights after we moved in the posted on her caption about how we were moving back in thank god she didn’t include the part he lost his job. Before he lost his job I asked my mom if she could keep my cat due to our apartment rules and she now posts him like he’s hers. I think the cat part annoys me the most because rehoming my cat was absolutely devastating for me. My parents are also alcoholics so when they get drunk mostly my dad starts going on about the instagram and starts saying stuff like “why aren’t you an influencer you’re funny you’d get some many views”, “your mom has ___ amount of followers how many do you have”, “how many likes do you get on your posts”, “you should let mom post your son on her instagram he would get so many likes” and when I tell him that I don’t care about instagram he almost like rubs it in our faces that she has more followers/likes than us and got sorta offended I didn’t want them posting my son. She has like online persona that’s completely different than who she actually is. My childhood was extremely traumatic and if something comes up about how she was to me and my siblings growing up she tries to smooth it over because she’s afraid that one of us might “expose” her. Which I have no interest in doing. I’m just beyond over it and can’t wait to move out so I don’t have to hear about it anymore or how I don’t like all her photos or hear them argue with meta til 2am because she lost her blue checkmark. Hopefully someone else can relate to this.
Comments
What are the rewards for their online efforts? Validation, recognition, reassurance, admiration, respect, cash, blah blah blah.
All the things they don’t feel are achievable in the real world. My friend and I used to talk as the hours flew by like seconds, now when we meet it’s not long before he’s scrolling Ticktoc like it’s the eyes of god.
We’ve been sucked into this information maelstrom, me included. I honestly don’t know what to do or say to help you, but I’m with you.
Sorry about that, OP. Social Media is a cancer.
She only has 5,000 tell her to chill she is not as famous as she thinks she is.