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Yes, yes, yes! I left a corporate job creating and helping to market and "editorialize" recipe content in part because of the toxicity that multiplied from it. I'm now finding myself in a place of needing to establish my own "brand", and I'm not sure I landed anywhere better. Instagram despondency is REAL! Thanks, as always, for your honest and courageous voice and actions.

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Thank you for the chuckles. I tell people these days that my goal is to earn enough that I don't have to be on the internet.

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I’m REFUSE to make Reels, and I resent Instagram for trying to put more work into my life. I don’t need this fuckery.

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Mar 21, 2022Liked by Alicia Kennedy

Thank you so much for this article---just today I was working on a communications campaign for our non profit Insight Garden Program which offers a food justice and eco-literacy curriculum in prisons in CA. Our mission is to restore connection to self, community and the natural world but we also find ourselves in this never ending maze of social media and technology to raise our visibility and value in the world. I personally just want to restore our connection to each other and to be untethered from I Phones. BTW I was just in PR became so interested in the efforts of young people to get back to the mountains to grow healthy food. Are you part of that movement as well?

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Loved this— I am hugely online but I find the algorithm's preference for video content exhausting. I generally don't even really want to watch it, let alone make it myself. My mom keeps trying to convince me that I could get more subscribers by making tiktoks, but considering that editing photos is my least favourite part of putting together my newsletter every week, I simply don't see it happening!

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