TIK TOKstagram? (txt below) Текст на русском закреплен в комментах. ⠀ I saw some very exciting news the other day. Someone created a petition against the transformation of instagram into a copy of tiktok. Whoa! Did you finally pay attention to it? ⠀ Surely you have noticed that I began to upload my photos here less and less. No, I didn’t take less pictures, it’s just that Instagram now doesn’t like those who post only photos. From now on, Instagram will boost the authors of the video. ⠀ My colleagues will understand what I'm talking about. Not so long ago, my bro from NJ @cvatik completely left Instagram, and they tried to ban me and my friend photographer @dubnitskiy_david for nudity in photography (although everything was covered up as much as possible and did not violate the rules of the service) ⠀ Instagram seems to be hinting to all photographers that it’s time to take not a photo, but a video, if you want to still grow and be in trend. Someone bends, someone continues to upload the photo, losing coverage and audience ⠀ The last straw was that in the western part of Instagram, after a big update, some users completely changed the resolution of posts. Now they are very stretched to full screen, like in tiktok, which is very unsuitable for photography, but ideal for vertical videos. ⠀ This shoot with @ritriver came out so damn cool, but not many people will see it, even among my closest friends. Instagram recommendations will push her to the very bottom of your feed after a few hours. ⠀ Not so long ago, at some exhibition, @platon_yurich and I had a little talk on this topic. It convinced me that a lot of really cool artists are blown away by what's going on. ⠀ The result was the response of the CEO of Instagram that although the service takes into account criticism, it will not change anything, and the application that was conceived for posting photos from friends will definitely be converted into a soulless machine for consuming video content ⠀ Photos and large meaningful texts are no longer in trend. ⠀ Are you satisfied with the transformation of Instagram and the transition from photo to video, or was it better before? Leave your opinion here 🔻