Instagram is Becoming The Sarah Spain of Social Media

Adage - After a trial run in Canada that’s been ongoing since May, Instagram announced on July 17 that it would be hiding publicly visible likes from users in six additional countries—Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Japan and New Zealand—in the name of shifting away from the app’s emphasis on popularity. And while its “like ban” is only in an exploratory phase in certain regions, and Instagram is so far declining to comment on its plans for the U.S. market, the internet has been freaking out, rattling everyone from influencers to social media analysts to companies that peddle likes.

First of all let’s call a spade a spade. What a headline by David S. Portnoy. Second of all I know what you’re thinking. What the hell am I talking about?

Well it’s pretty simple. Both instagram and Sarah Spain are frauds. They both became famous and popular (I use those terms very loosely when referring to Sarah Spain) by exploiting everything they now claim to hate. Instagram was all about likes and popularity. Hell Zuckerberg is the guy who invented Hot or Not. A website literally dedicated to making girls feel bad. Now suddenly that instagram is super popular they are saying likes and being judged by the Internet is bad. It’s kind of hypocritical when that’s essentially how instagram grew to power in the first place. Now suddenly they are the moral authority on what is too mean on the Internet? Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

Same thing with self proclaimed women’s moral authority Sarah Spain. She rose to stardom by famously auctioning herself off as an escort to the Bears Super Bowl complete with pictures of her tits all up in people’s faces. However once her place at ESPN became secure she suddenly became the most outspoken critic of women who used sex appeal to get noticed or ahead. She famously criticized Paige Spiranic for posing in bikini pics saying it hurt women.

“Plenty of women kind of attack me and I pulled up something that’s actually pretty interesting. It was Sarah Spain and she said on the Golf Digest cover that I got, that I only got it because I take my clothes off on Instagram. So it’s kind of funny that she’s all for women and yet she turns around and says something about me. And I feel like I do a lot for golf that people don’t talk about,” Paige said.

The same woman who only got noticed and her foot in the door at ESPN by auctioning herself off. It’s so hypocritical it drives me nuts.

As you can plainly see the parallels are between instagram and Sarah Spain are undeniable and infuriating. There is nothing that angers me more than when people or organizations who rise to power or fame turn around and condemn the very methods they used to achieve their success because it no longer benefits them. Like they are suddenly above likes and followers or shaking their tits. No you aren’t. You are no better than anybody else no matter how much you pretend that you aren’t.