I re downloaded the gram today after a little break to find some bullshit. If you upload a video over 1 min you know how it says “keep watching” once the play time hits 1 min? Yeah well now if you upload a video that’s not a reel, that “keep watching” message comes up after only 15 seconds of video play time. Reels will not prompt this, and will continue playing to their maximum time. Basically Instagram is funneling video content to be all reels.
as if the worlds attention span wasn’t short enough, this will deter a lot of views for people that upload anything somewhat substantial to the gram now. The days of gram edits that aren’t reels are over ladies and gents.
Tdlr/ don’t upload anything even somewhat legit to the gram anymore, put it here and on YouTube. If ur gram clips were throwaways that you uploaded into a little piece, they’re gonna have to be that much less legit of clips to be worthy of posting. Unless you like vertical vids tacky music and the reel format, then knock ur socks off.
Instagram is a fucking joke.
petitioning for the Slapp app to make a comeback, it was a legit skiing social media made by the @SLVSH boys a few years back.
**This thread was edited on May 24th 2022 at 9:45:55am