Heads Up Australia, This Is Why All Your Instagram Likes Have Disappeared
If you haven't seen the change yet, it's probably because Instagram was also down this morning.
Great news Australia — Instagram has released a special update just for us, designed to make you love and adore using the app. No, it’s not a chronological timeline, and no, they haven’t stopped the app from going down every couple of days. Instead, Instagram has decided to hide all likes, effective immediately.
So if you’re wondering why every post in your feed seems wildly unpopular right now, that’s why. For a select set of guinea pig countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan and New Zealand drew the short straws), it’s no longer possible to see how many people have liked a post on Instagram, unless you made the post.
Instead, every post in your feed just looks like this, letting you know it was liked by “[username] and others”.
We’re currently running a test that hides the total number of likes and video views for some people in the following countries:
✅ Australia
✅ Brazil
✅ Canada
✅ Ireland
✅ Italy
✅ Japan
✅ New Zealand pic.twitter.com/2OdzpIUBka— Instagram (@instagram) July 17, 2019
“We want your friends to focus on the photos and videos you share, not how many likes they get,” is how Instagram explained it, singlehandedly erasing the pressures of popularity, fame and envy in one fell swoop.
I mean, some people like it, I guess?
Omg I can’t see people’s likes on Instagram anymore and it’s kind of… nice? pic.twitter.com/xg5pQwBCzW
— Shauna 🌪 (@shaunabellew) July 17, 2019
Mostly, though, people are just fucking furious that Instagram has introduced yet another crappy new feature to improve user experience, without delivering the features users have been crying out for for years. Like putting the timeline back in chronological order.
Lol but can you like maybe NOT? Instagram is enough of a joke and we’re all ready to jump ship so like… stop?
PUT OUR TIMELINES BACK IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER WHILST YOUR AT IT! (Aka the only, ONLY, thing we’ve asked you to do that you haven’t done!!!!!)
— becs.mua (@BecsMua) 17 July 2019
instagram crashes for the 193849394th time:
me: 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
— estherr (@estaaaaaaaaaaa_) 17 July 2019
Why? We just want our timeline back in chronological order!! Dassit!!!
— 𝓜𝓙 𝓟𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓲𝓮 (@mjpookie) 17 July 2019
How many time do we have to ask for chronological order back. I miss so many posts!!! 😠 give us what we want. Who cares how many likes and who sees it. We can’t like a post if we can’t even see it in our feed.
— Jenna Cocorullo (@JennaCocorullo) 17 July 2019
Just make people visible to their own friends again. Instead of oversaturation of sponsored posts. Chronological order with a highlights option would be helpful too.
— Mango Cherry (@Mango_Cherry) 17 July 2019
Fix your broken app first and then implement useless features that no one asked for
— ελ☕️haseul lockdown (@seoksseul) 17 July 2019
Instagram, if you’re listening, the message is pretty clear: the people want their chronological feed back. And dark mode. And for Instagram to stop going down every five minutes.
instagram: “can’t refresh feed” “couldn’t load activity”
me:#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/5WapHUvaX6— nora! (@noraphobia) July 17, 2019
Nobody:
Instagram:#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/DyysD380fC— Hunter V (@huntsvanilla) July 17, 2019