In response to a June tweet about Saturday’s protest from Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz, head of Instagram Adam Mosseri tweeted, “We love memes, so I’m curious to know more.” The company has a “head of memes” and in May hosted its second “MemeCon” - a gathering of meme creators with varying audience sizes.
We are grateful for their feedback as we continue to explore ways to best support creators of all types on Instagram.” “Our goal is to make it easy to understand our policies, have fair and transparent ways to know what is going on with their accounts and allow them to appeal when they think something’s not right. “We appreciate the concerns being raised and have begun a direct dialogue with the organizers to address their complaints,” the spokesperson said. “Why is it so hard for marginalized voices and women to express themselves? We’re not hurting anybody.”Īhead of the protest, a Meta spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that “meme creators have become a pivotal part of emerging culture and are vital to the Instagram community.” Angry incels will mass report all our stuff, then it gets taken down or suppressed by the algorithm,” Anjelica said. “Revealing your face as a woman online will get you so much hate. She said that was a “nice starting point” but her goal is to have constant dialogue with the platform.
That attraction is part of why I’m so successful, and I have to be able to do both.”Īnjelica regained access to the account after having a meeting with Instagram in early July. “I think people see the memes and gravitate toward my personality, and eventually check out my other link because they think I’m funny. I have an OnlyFans and I post memes because that’s how I want to run my business,” she said. Her followers then began encouraging her to leave Instagram for Twitter and Reddit, where nudity guidelines are less strict. She said Instagram removed her account for sexual solicitation. In 2021, she shared a clothed selfie with the caption “link in bio” where there were links to her other social media profiles and her OnlyFans page.
She has created 10 different accounts over the years, but is best known as where she posts selfies and absurdist memes for her 20,000 followers. Instarrection's co-organizer Anjelica, a 32-year-old from Connecticut, told BuzzFeed News in a call that she and Ana bonded over the struggle to remain on the platform.