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Yeah, I realized that growing meant nothing meaningful after a while. Kept growing, but nothing changed. This is something that happened 5+ years ago, and mayb

Yeah, I realized that growing meant nothing meaningful after a while. Kept growing, but nothing changed. This is something that happened 5+ years ago, and maybe three years back. I reckon hashtags were bigger than right? Certainly seemed to work. I could have been able to short-circuit that if I started now I suspect, but I was waay to young.

vmception 5y ago
At the scale you are talking about, 700 followers, hashtags can somewhat help with discovery. But they are practically irrelevant to other ways. Yeah, actually I stand by my first statement, the other ways are too relevant to really harp about hashtags. You're better off just commenting on other people's popular posts and asking for passerbys to look at your profile than spamming hashtags or trying to find a trending ones etc. But unless you are in the business of growing profiles for other people, you shouldn't use instagram for trying to gain ever growing exposure as the dopamine is dangerous. I don't have any solution for making that part of your visual arts display interest. If you tried again, you should go back to private or even keep it public only as a portfolio to show people in person. Or to show an identity when you are communicating with a potential romantic partner over the messaging system.
- prawn 5y ago
  In my category (tourism content), specific hashtags or tagging accounts is a way to get on the radar of target clients. But I'd agree that other than that, it does little but attract followers that are barely relevant to your cause - not in your locale, not legitimately interested in your content, not spending money in your field, etc. And ultimately the right sort of content is what will count anyway. The best player in my industry/locale doesn't load up on hashtags now that he's on the right radars, he just makes great stuff.

vmception 5y ago

At the scale you are talking about, 700 followers, hashtags can somewhat help with discovery. But they are practically irrelevant to other ways. Yeah, actually I stand by my first statement, the other ways are too relevant to really harp about hashtags. You're better off just commenting on other people's popular posts and asking for passerbys to look at your profile than spamming hashtags or trying to find a trending ones etc. But unless you are in the business of growing profiles for other people, you shouldn't use instagram for trying to gain ever growing exposure as the dopamine is dangerous. I don't have any solution for making that part of your visual arts display interest. If you tried again, you should go back to private or even keep it public only as a portfolio to show people in person. Or to show an identity when you are communicating with a potential romantic partner over the messaging system.

prawn 5y ago
In my category (tourism content), specific hashtags or tagging accounts is a way to get on the radar of target clients. But I'd agree that other than that, it does little but attract followers that are barely relevant to your cause - not in your locale, not legitimately interested in your content, not spending money in your field, etc. And ultimately the right sort of content is what will count anyway. The best player in my industry/locale doesn't load up on hashtags now that he's on the right radars, he just makes great stuff.