In this day and age, it is easy to be bombarded often with hate speech from online trolls, it happens in comment sections across the web and Instagram has been no different. But until recently there was not much you could do about them on Instagram, but that changes now.
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After previewing the feature in July, Facebook-owned photo sharing behemoth Instagram has officially released a shadow-banning feature, called Restrict, to all of its users today. Restrict gives Instagram users who are dealing with trolls or bullies a third option that’s not quite as obvious as reporting or blocking someone. It’s being positioned as an anti-bullying […]
Like many women these days, German actress and model Palina Rojinski has been on the receiving end of wildly inappropriate and lewd comments left on her Instagram photos. She recently got back at the abusive and sexist Internet commenters in quite a clever way: by sharing a fake cleavage photo featuring a guy’s butt crack. […]
In a recent story, the Atlantic tried to show off to the world how awful of a place Instagram has become; and generally speaking I agree. The piece, which I encourage you to read for yourself, talks about harassment and it being rampant around the social media platform--which is inherently due in part to its design.
In a recent story, the Atlantic tried to show off to the world how awful of a place Instagram has become; and generally speaking I agree. The piece, which I encourage you to read for yourself, talks about harassment and it being rampant around the social media platform--which is inherently due in part to its design.
When I got into this industry years ago, one thing really confused me almost as much as how much certain older photographers tend to treat the younger generation of us: photo vests. I'm completely positive that you've all seen them: a photographer of a certain distinguishment (or trying to show off without having said distinguishment) wearing their vests that look a lot like safari vests.