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IG Reels feb 26 incident

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yungSB
Posts: 154 - Karma: 1,998
some glitch happened in the instagram algorithm today and is exclusively showing videos that are 90% fights, shootings, and stuff like that. I was scrolling for like 5 minutes and saw probably at least 15 people die. Crazy stuff.
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JFU
Posts: 88 - Karma: 728
yungSBsome glitch happened in the instagram algorithm today and is exclusively showing videos that are 90% fights, shootings, and stuff like that. I was scrolling for like 5 minutes and saw probably at least 15 people die. Crazy stuff.


The majority of reel's on my feed have a sensitive content warning as well. Pretty disturbing ngl

The downfall of my racism app begins
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Farmville420
Posts: 5011 - Karma: 64,964
Lmao thought I was the only one, boutta delete the whole app I'm too old for this shit lol
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Vzx
Posts: 557 - Karma: 2,564
It was crazy I saw like 5 people getting shot and jumped.
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iH8pow
Posts: 1867 - Karma: 8,334
I did see a disturbing clip or two show up on my feed today but I just thought that was everyday with how much social media has gone down hill i know we’re a fucked society but it misrepresents to instill fear. I’ve noticed my feeds are almost no posts of friends or people I follow, mostly just garbage. I really hope everyone just revolts and tech/social media/AI just dies but I’m sure everyone is just on some new app somewhere else…
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Rparr
Posts: 5700 - Karma: 48,058
iH8powI’ve noticed my feeds are almost no posts of friends or people I follow, mostly just garbage.

I hate this so much, it's been going on for a couple years. I basically just use insta as a messaging app now tbh
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cyphers
Posts: 1807 - Karma: 20,545
back in my day we had to type rotten.com into a web browser to watch gore videos on school property
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armchair_skier
Posts: 2509 - Karma: 32,144
iH8powI did see a disturbing clip or two show up on my feed today but I just thought that was everyday with how much social media has gone down hill i know we’re a fucked society but it misrepresents to instill fear. I’ve noticed my feeds are almost no posts of friends or people I follow, mostly just garbage. I really hope everyone just revolts and tech/social media/AI just dies but I’m sure everyone is just on some new app somewhere else…


I unfollowed hundreds of accounts. Went from like over 700 to 250.

Only use instagram on pc web browser, don't look at reels ever. No app on my phone. Check once or twice a day.
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2YearParmesan
Posts: 61 - Karma: 212
my explore page has turned into trash, even tho I say ‘not interested’ in like 90% of the bullshit; I turned off suggested posts which helps a little but the ads are brutal these days
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2YearParmesan
Posts: 61 - Karma: 212
my explore page has turned into trash, even tho I say ‘not interested’ in like 90% of the bullshit; I turned off suggested posts which helps a little but the ads are brutal these days
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CatdickBojangles
Posts: 6411 - Karma: 65,370
cyphersback in my day we had to type rotten.com into a web browser to watch gore videos on school property


Or liveleak
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fabbe
Posts: 889 - Karma: -26
26 feb is slime ur homéboy day
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HEshJorker37
Posts: 6 - Karma: 42
saw some indian dude get turned into a pancake by an elephant. Pretty fucked but couldn't look away
16 days ago
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je_t.aime_canard
Posts: 426 - Karma: 5,330
it’s wild, idk why but I keep getting videos of Ukrainian soldiers killing Russians, both on foot and with drones
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SuperiorKalmar
Posts: 2059 - Karma: 17,525
je_t.aime_canardit’s wild, idk why but I keep getting videos of Ukrainian soldiers killing Russians, both on foot and with drones

That is normal entertainment over here.
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Young_patty
Posts: 3313 - Karma: 38,726
Lol- I got that shit too, crazy cause before that my feed was literally just skiing, skateboarding, memes, and friends posts.

Now I'm getting gore videos, shootings, and all kinds of weird shit- like bruh my feed today was basically 1/4 cartelgram of people manufacturing coke and executing people.

Meta has a crazy pattern with shit like this too, and I do not trust it. Never forget that Facebook was used to carry out a genocide in Myanmar- and when pressed about it Zucc just said "oops, we must have missed that one". Like fr bruh? thousands of people orchestrating an ethnic cleansing on your platform and your excuse was "we don't speak that language and must have missed it" ???

Meta is definetly up to something with this shit, I didn't buy it back in 2022 and I certainly don't buy it now.
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SlushSeason
Posts: 1061 - Karma: 8,509
Has it already reverted back? I'm getting almost exclusively cat/dog videos now and i don't even follow any pet related pages
16 days ago
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partyandBS
Posts: 5354 - Karma: 83,445
delete your social media and kill your tv
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TroyBallsack
Posts: 634 - Karma: 12,343
cyphersback in my day we had to type rotten.com into a web browser to watch gore videos on school property


All I remember from grade 11 english was the kid in front of me always watching isis beheadings
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Farmville420
Posts: 5011 - Karma: 64,964
Allegedly Meta replaced a bunch of the people who were in charge of filtering content with "AI" and implemented that change on the 26th. That would make sense, but I am still kind of skeptical that it is something more sinister since there are studies that kind of document the social conditioning of violent media, the only fallacy is that I have no idea what the goal of that would be since the only real reason you would want the masses numb to violence wouldn't benefit people like Zuck lol

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4522002/
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Juviticus
Posts: 389 - Karma: 2,010
It was acctually crazy though. I've had the algorithm suggest shit like that to me before, but it was mainly just car crash/shooting accounts and it would go away if I scrolled long enough and the videos were pretty tame all things considered. The 26th was different it was non-stop and like brutal shit. Some of the stuff I saw was liveleaks caliber easlily and it was back to back to back. I feel like this should be a bigger story in the context of algorithm manipulation. And also a bigger story so we actually get a good explanation
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theabortionator
Posts: 52303 - Karma: 170,402
Maybe i dodged a bullet being my birthday and not checking IG much
15 days ago
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CalumSKI
Posts: 4339 - Karma: 25,611
glad I wasn't the only one
didn't feel like a large change from the normal racism and death, but it definitely was being pushed at a higher rate by the algorithm on the 26th for some reason
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VTshredder69
Posts: 3623 - Karma: -10,627
Social Media sucks
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pinesurfer
Posts: 26 - Karma: 80
HEshJorker37saw some indian dude get turned into a pancake by an elephant. Pretty fucked but couldn't look away


Yo I saw that too, its insane how bad stuff was. Saw somebody fall off a roller coaster and just die instantly. So terrible I don't understand why anyone would ever wanna upload it
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je_t.aime_canard
Posts: 426 - Karma: 5,330
VTshredder69Social Media sucks


i'm in a bit of a predicament, i'm living in a different country to my friends so wanna stay connected, but they all use ig which is an absolute cancer. Maybe i just delete the app and use my laptop browser to message them or some shit
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JasmineP
Posts: 5 - Karma: -4
Sounds like the algorithm glitched. Try clearing your cache or restarting the app. If it keeps happening, report it to Instagram.
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je_t.aime_canard
Posts: 426 - Karma: 5,330
JasminePSounds like the algorithm glitched. Try clearing your cache or restarting the app. If it keeps happening, report it to Instagram.


clearly a bot using chatgpt, how long before this account starts promoting some smart butt plug to improve skiing technique or some dumb shit like that
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VTshredder69
Posts: 3623 - Karma: -10,627
je_t.aime_canardi'm in a bit of a predicament, i'm living in a different country to my friends so wanna stay connected, but they all use ig which is an absolute cancer. Maybe i just delete the app and use my laptop browser to message them or some shit


That's how i started. It's cancerous if it's on your phone because then you always have it on you. I started off deleting them from my phone. Then you realize you use it less & less when it's on your computer only. I don't have anything now besides whatsapp which i find useful and will not delete because i still like to stay in touch with some people.

It all depends though because i have friends that seem to rarely use it. I just found myself wasting 4 hours a day on instagram looking at girls in bikinis or fishing videos. NGL i miss the fishing
11 days ago
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theabortionator
Posts: 52303 - Karma: 170,402
I had somebody follow me and go weird stalker douche vibes on my ig. Commenting fucked up shit to friends and family. Reported the posts. "We reviewed them and zuck says thats fine". I've been banned or had normal comments removed bevause people reported them. Crazy to have somebody digging through your old posts and replying to friends and family and nothing.

Dude looked like he's on some sort of a county wanted list so I should take it with agrain of bathsalts.

We're all a little weird. Some people are friggin unhinged though.
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Dobbyda
Posts: 95 - Karma: 556
theabortionatorI had somebody follow me and go weird stalker douche vibes on my ig. Commenting fucked up shit to friends and family. Reported the posts. "We reviewed them and zuck says thats fine". I've been banned or had normal comments removed bevause people reported them. Crazy to have somebody digging through your old posts and replying to friends and family and nothing.

Dude looked like he's on some sort of a county wanted list so I should take it with agrain of bathsalts.

We're all a little weird. Some people are friggin unhinged though.


one of the things about insta is there's a ton of creepy accounts. I've had people try to follow my personal acc that are onlyfans accounts. If you don't want that problem the only way around it is private accounts where people have to follow request you.
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JFU
Posts: 88 - Karma: 728
Dobbydaone of the things about insta is there's a ton of creepy accounts. I've had people try to follow my personal acc that are onlyfans accounts. If you don't want that problem the only way around it is private accounts where people have to follow request you.

Private accounts are the way to go
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