I so liked to to doomscroll Instagram because it would just find nice pictures for me, but it’s ruined with Reels. First, they rig it so that on every page, th

I so liked to to doomscroll Instagram because it would just find nice pictures for me, but it’s ruined with Reels. First, they rig it so that on every page, there’ll be a reel. You can spot them and flag each and every one with “I don’t want to see this” and it will continue trying to show you reels. It’s definitely an explicit rule to show Reels. Each Reel it finds for me has some mildly interesting-looking footage combined with the worst sounds you can think of. Usually it’s some generic down-shifted voice that says “drop the bass” before these clipped, farting sounds come out of the phone. The best example I ran across had someone putting lubricant until a ball bearing, coupled with what seems to be a cover of a Justin Bieber song but with what sound like cartoon dog voices. In a dull moment I would like to mindlessly scroll for pretty pictures. It used to show me rockets and women. I like rockets and I like women. Now it shows me farty bass.