Dear Reader,
My life is ridiculous enough for mildly entertaining stories, but not ridiculous enough for me to eventually make a sitcom out of my experiences, and that makes me sad.
If you don’t already know, I’ve been posting on instagram every day this year for a 365-day-challenge (except it’s a leap year so 366 days, except this story brings me back down to 365. You’ll get it in a sec.) So yesterday I posted this picture:
With THIS caption: (literally this same exact one because I always send the caption to my sister first and if she says it’s funny, I’ll post it and if she says it’s not, I’ll say YOU’RE NOT FUNNY and post it.)
“I prefer to take my selfies on Snapchat because honestly the filters are 100x better.”
And THEN today I log on and see THIS.
NOW, a little MORE background information. When something on instagram could be offensive or doesn’t agree with the morals behind my sorority, we can get “ducked” by our risk management chair, which basically means they put an emoji of a duck on our picture and we either have to change the caption or delete the photo because it is not appropriate to post (in one way or another).
In the past four days, I’ve been ducked TWICE.
And then today this happens??
So basically what I’ve decided is that I am incapable of making captions that aren’t offensive and I should probably just give up on instagram before I am ostracized by everyone who’s ever known me.
But anyway, I sent in a complaint and I’ll let you know what they say in return. Because honestly this is more entertaining to me than studying for linguistics.
Here’s the note:
“Dear Instagram,
I am very upset because my picture yesterday was taken down for an unclear reason. You can go look at my recent post to see both the picture and the message that I received when I logged on today, but basically I posted a picture that I took on snap chat and said, “I prefer to take my selfies on snap chat because honestly the filters are 100x better.” The picture featured me using the snap chat app to look like a bunny. It was a joke (v funny in my opinion) and I was offended that it was taken down.
I have posted every day on this app since the beginning of 2016 and this blunder caused me to mess up my streak. Needless to say, I am LIVID. It got positive feedback in my community and I got hella likes so I would appreciate a response so I can try to understand the reasoning behind why the picture was taken down or what exact guidelines I failed to follow.
Please respond as soon as you can or I might have to take my talent elsewhere.”
Sincerely,
Sammy
SINCERELY, SAMMY 
This is so interesting to me because you can so easily find pictures on Instagram that are practically porn…why aren’t those being removed but this picture is deemed inappropriate? I know Instagram has come under fire a few times across the internet for the pictures they’ve removed versus what they let stay, so this happening doesn’t surprise me. That said, I’m sorry you’re experiencing this, Sammy. I personally find nothing wrong with the photo or the caption.
Yeah that’s a good point! I really want to know what they’ll have to say about it, but they haven’t responded yet. But it’s alright, it’s really not a huge deal, I was just confused more than anything haha
I agree. Your pictures are completely harmless. I don’t understand why Instagram removed them? Maybe they don’t like silly picutures now?! I’m sorry that this happened to you. You were just having fun, while making an honest comment about social media. I hope they get back to you.
haha I know! It really was all in good fun, and there are MUCH worse things on instagram so I was so confused that this could even happen! It’s really not a big deal though, but I’m really hoping they respond!
Me, too!
did they reply
no 😒