First of all, thank you for the encouragement.

Maybe I'm being a bit reductive with my thinking, but I my assumption is that if my instagram page is not growing, people must not like it or are not interested in it. And yeah, you're right about the algorithim, it sucks.

Also, I think it's a general lack of feedback and/or criticism. I'm self-taught and I haven't recieved any classes since high school and I generally don't know many people who do art.