TikTok had 13 million downloads in 2019 alone. Instagram has decided to just put reels in our feeds and the videos are worse. The app is no longer a photo sharing app that we once knew It's now an a comma sub but Instagram This I posted a picture and you have to click on it for tick expand and then you start scrolling and it's like it's TikTok You're not TikTok Let it go according to Instagram's own data.
If you think Instagram sucks now, it’s by design. Vox's Rebecca Jennings and Platformer's Casey Newton explain.
This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Hady Mawajdeh and Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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