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December 8, 2015 5:47 PM Subscribe
I feel bad for everyone involved with this.
posted by Doleful Creature at 6:12 PM on December 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by Doleful Creature at 6:12 PM on December 8, 2015 [6 favorites]
Filmed in my home town and I grew up with some of these people. I just feel sad inside.
posted by rosary at 6:20 PM on December 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by rosary at 6:20 PM on December 8, 2015 [3 favorites]
I looked at this for a solid five minutes, and I still have no idea what they're on about.
posted by ryanshepard at 6:28 PM on December 8, 2015
posted by ryanshepard at 6:28 PM on December 8, 2015
I know people who are just like this, and going out with them is excruciating.
posted by Dip Flash at 6:30 PM on December 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Dip Flash at 6:30 PM on December 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
this feels very WOMEN AMIRITE
posted by sweetkid at 6:32 PM on December 8, 2015 [39 favorites]
posted by sweetkid at 6:32 PM on December 8, 2015 [39 favorites]
Yeah. The phenomenon itself is real and annoying but the overly gendered humor falls flat. It's not too different than a beer commercial about nagging wives. Whereas in reality there are plenty of vain dudes on Instagram and FB whose girlfriends are slotted into the role of photographer & half-in-frame arm-candy.
posted by snuffleupagus at 7:04 PM on December 8, 2015 [12 favorites]
posted by snuffleupagus at 7:04 PM on December 8, 2015 [12 favorites]
Also vain dudes and their boyfriends. So much Instagram among my gay couple friends.
posted by sweetkid at 7:06 PM on December 8, 2015
posted by sweetkid at 7:06 PM on December 8, 2015
I feel they were going for INSTAGRAM AMIRITE with the foot photos and coffee photos. If we go for food with my sister-in-law we are supposed to wait to eat until she's got some photos of everything.
But focusing on the "husbands" there is something there to unpack with this relative to the common expectation that girls will Watch Boys Do Stuff. A man being inconvenienced to accommodate a woman's hobby is a crazy upside-down world.
posted by RobotHero at 7:08 PM on December 8, 2015 [18 favorites]
But focusing on the "husbands" there is something there to unpack with this relative to the common expectation that girls will Watch Boys Do Stuff. A man being inconvenienced to accommodate a woman's hobby is a crazy upside-down world.
posted by RobotHero at 7:08 PM on December 8, 2015 [18 favorites]
Also vain dudes and their boyfriends. So much Instagram among my gay couple friends.
Yes, I feel like maybe there's a whole 'nother competitive level of this that goes on with particularly image conscious yuppie gay guys (single and in couples), and I feel like I'm constantly missing half the signifiers because I'm not with it enough.
posted by snuffleupagus at 7:10 PM on December 8, 2015
Yes, I feel like maybe there's a whole 'nother competitive level of this that goes on with particularly image conscious yuppie gay guys (single and in couples), and I feel like I'm constantly missing half the signifiers because I'm not with it enough.
posted by snuffleupagus at 7:10 PM on December 8, 2015
Oh my God, I watched half of that video and it's the saddest thing I've ever seen.
The good news is that their website spun for 5 minutes and never loaded for me.
I've never used Instagram but I know I'd rather spend 5 minutes looking at Instagram (or watching a website load) than 5 minutes watching this terrible, terrible attempt at humor.
Not only is this "1976 called, it wants its gender stereotypes back"... It's just NOT FUNNY AT ALL and the actors and actresses in the commercial are not believable as human beings.
I'm sure Instagram has something for me to look at to get this out of my head... Yep, there we go.
posted by mmoncur at 7:19 PM on December 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
The good news is that their website spun for 5 minutes and never loaded for me.
I've never used Instagram but I know I'd rather spend 5 minutes looking at Instagram (or watching a website load) than 5 minutes watching this terrible, terrible attempt at humor.
Not only is this "1976 called, it wants its gender stereotypes back"... It's just NOT FUNNY AT ALL and the actors and actresses in the commercial are not believable as human beings.
I'm sure Instagram has something for me to look at to get this out of my head... Yep, there we go.
posted by mmoncur at 7:19 PM on December 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
I agree mmoncur and everyone. My GF has an AMAZING Instagram account for our Cat, along with other people's cat followers. but its not ever a weird staged forced thing. This is pretty sexist and lame.
However, so I am not shitting on this post, I want to say that Instagram is kinda awesome (even though I don't use it) for pics like this:
Art Cat
Bathtime
Bedtime
Wait do I just love my cat? #zombiespores
Naw:Cool Dude
posted by kittensofthenight at 7:36 PM on December 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
However, so I am not shitting on this post, I want to say that Instagram is kinda awesome (even though I don't use it) for pics like this:
Art Cat
Bathtime
Bedtime
Wait do I just love my cat? #zombiespores
Naw:Cool Dude
posted by kittensofthenight at 7:36 PM on December 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
Forget about this- Instagram is one of life's joys.
Look at how hidden this ice cream was on top of the pie by all of the whipped cream!
posted by oceanjesse at 7:44 PM on December 8, 2015
Look at how hidden this ice cream was on top of the pie by all of the whipped cream!
posted by oceanjesse at 7:44 PM on December 8, 2015
This was the "viral" version of that whisky commercial.
posted by postcommunism at 7:45 PM on December 8, 2015
posted by postcommunism at 7:45 PM on December 8, 2015
TODAY'S REMINDER LADIES: If you are married, your husband finds you unrelentingly irritating...in a cute, cat-like way.
posted by metasav at 10:15 PM on December 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by metasav at 10:15 PM on December 8, 2015 [4 favorites]
It's irritatingly gendered, but one of my favorite things is watching people take selfies and my OTHER favorite thing is couples who take cutesy posed photos of each other. The couple thing is so foreign to me and my life experience, it's like watching aliens. I love it. See also: fashion bloggers awkwardly posing in the park.
posted by jeweled accumulation at 10:43 PM on December 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by jeweled accumulation at 10:43 PM on December 8, 2015 [1 favorite]
The gendering is lame and feels just really outdated. But I confess that without it, I'd be all for poking gentle fun at extreme instagramming.
I say this as the mother of a 13-year old whose Butter Chicken went cold last Sunday while she was arranging and rearranging the bowls and the naan on the restaurant table. After having done the same with her breakfast. And our dog, and the pencils on her desk, and her face, and her feet in fuzzy socks, all day long. It's cute! And it drives me bonkers.
But I also think of it as her way of expressing that what she sees and does is important, worth for others to see and enjoy, which seems like a healthy sentiment for a young woman. The pics themselves aren't exactly creative - rather formulaic, tbh - but by mastering that visual language she's clearly demonstrating cultural capital to her peer group. Which is just what people of all ages tend to want to do, so... welcome to my lawn?
Besides, my own youthful peer group of yore used to signal competence by making DIY piercings with wire nails and pliers, so yeah. I really shouldn't complain.
posted by sively at 2:28 AM on December 9, 2015 [14 favorites]
I say this as the mother of a 13-year old whose Butter Chicken went cold last Sunday while she was arranging and rearranging the bowls and the naan on the restaurant table. After having done the same with her breakfast. And our dog, and the pencils on her desk, and her face, and her feet in fuzzy socks, all day long. It's cute! And it drives me bonkers.
But I also think of it as her way of expressing that what she sees and does is important, worth for others to see and enjoy, which seems like a healthy sentiment for a young woman. The pics themselves aren't exactly creative - rather formulaic, tbh - but by mastering that visual language she's clearly demonstrating cultural capital to her peer group. Which is just what people of all ages tend to want to do, so... welcome to my lawn?
Besides, my own youthful peer group of yore used to signal competence by making DIY piercings with wire nails and pliers, so yeah. I really shouldn't complain.
posted by sively at 2:28 AM on December 9, 2015 [14 favorites]
There should be at least (at least!) one woman taking pictures of a man preening over his hipster beard or positioning stuff on a grill just so, and then proclaiming herself an Instagram Husband.
Or same dynamic as in the video, she's posing and he's holding the phone, but he's giving her directions, and we see her exhaustion at being his damn "muse" and she says she's an Instagram Husband.
Or even one gay couple.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 2:50 AM on December 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
Or same dynamic as in the video, she's posing and he's holding the phone, but he's giving her directions, and we see her exhaustion at being his damn "muse" and she says she's an Instagram Husband.
Or even one gay couple.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 2:50 AM on December 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
I say this as the mother of a 13-year old whose Butter Chicken went cold last Sunday while she was arranging and rearranging the bowls and the naan on the restaurant table.
This also happens to 25-year-olds and 39-year-olds. Food Instagramitis is like people taking videos at concerts and not actually watching the concert. There is this obsessive need to document which gets in the way of actually experiencing what you are documenting. Which, hey, maybe that's what some people prefer, and good on them, but when your food gets cold you should maybe take a step back and reconsider your priorities.
posted by grumpybear69 at 7:58 AM on December 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
This also happens to 25-year-olds and 39-year-olds. Food Instagramitis is like people taking videos at concerts and not actually watching the concert. There is this obsessive need to document which gets in the way of actually experiencing what you are documenting. Which, hey, maybe that's what some people prefer, and good on them, but when your food gets cold you should maybe take a step back and reconsider your priorities.
posted by grumpybear69 at 7:58 AM on December 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
think positive, folks. in 15 years, the world's restaurants will be full of young chefs who kick ass at beautiful plating.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 11:42 AM on December 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Solon and Thanks at 11:42 AM on December 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
But the food will be blurry around edges, and it'll be put through some weird filters.
And cold when it arrives.
posted by sively at 12:15 PM on December 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
And cold when it arrives.
posted by sively at 12:15 PM on December 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
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