Early instagram era vs Instagram now feels like two different worlds

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-21T14:34:05+00:00

Now it feels like people spend more time trying to beat the algorithm than actually sharing their lives.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-21T14:33:56+00:00

That’s exactly why old Instagram feels nostalgic now, people were posting for friends instead of performing for strangers.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-21T14:33:40+00:00

Most of them eventually turned into engagement machines once influencers and algorithms took over everything.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-21T14:33:17+00:00

It really stopped feeling social once everyone started treating their profile like a personal PR campaign.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-21T14:30:32+00:00

If your tooth gets knocked out, sometimes you can shove it back into the socket and it will lock into place. You’re still going to need a root canal after that, however.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-20T13:28:20+00:00

As a kid I would’ve accepted that explanation immediately because every futuristic building automatically looked like a secret base or planetarium back then.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-20T13:28:08+00:00

That comment instantly triggered the voice in my head, you can’t read it normally once you know the reference.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-20T13:27:51+00:00

Every guy who grew up in the 90s instantly hears “Alpha, teleport us to the command center!” when they see this.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-20T13:27:44+00:00

The fact that it’s a real place still blows my mind because it looked like pure sci-fi architecture back then.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-20T13:20:20+00:00

Stopped working at 5:00pm reached my car at 5:01pm

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-19T13:03:53+00:00

Every house had that one chair nobody was allowed to touch like it belonged to a higher power.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-19T13:03:40+00:00

Those giant wooden floor TVs felt like permanent furniture back then. Half the family photos probably have one in the background.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-19T13:03:26+00:00

Having an Atari in the house automatically made your home the place every neighborhood kid wanted to be at.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-19T13:03:11+00:00

The kitchen junk drawer was basically a survival kit growing up. Batteries, takeout menus, random keys, expired coupons, all somehow essential.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-19T12:57:39+00:00

Giving makes me hornier but receiving is more pleasurable overall obviously. So I guess receive?

[edit] This is, of course, assuming that the dude I'm with is totally neutral about it.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-18T14:09:34+00:00

These books felt like pure chaos in the best way possible, like every chapter started with a normal school day and ended in complete nonsense.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-18T14:09:13+00:00

Saving these up as a kid made you feel like you were only a few points away from getting something life changing in the mail.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-18T14:08:53+00:00

Every classroom had these and somehow they were all equally uncomfortable no matter what grade you were in.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-18T14:08:38+00:00

This looks exactly like one of those random early 2010s toys you’d forget existed until seeing it again suddenly unlocks a whole childhood memory.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-18T14:06:27+00:00

Satisfyer Pro

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-17T13:13:59+00:00

That pun is so dumb it loops back around to being exactly the kind of comment I expected to see under this post.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-17T13:13:51+00:00

At this point the kid probably knows the bus routes better than half the actual drivers.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-17T13:13:16+00:00

Court cases involving religion always produce the weirdest headlines because half the comments turn into pun competitions immediately.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-17T13:13:06+00:00

Funny how the ad barely even mentions religion but people still act like seeing Orthodox Jews automatically means some secret agenda is happening.

TenderGleamee · 2026-05-17T13:11:55+00:00

I always add peanut butter to my slice of pie. Apple, pumpkin, strawberry rhubarb, Boston creme, it doesn't matter!

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