Instagram is basically the school playground, but sadly unlike in real life, people can make a career from being "playground" popular.
Colloquialism: 100% understood.
Reality: 0% possible...unless this 'air bag' is full of 'empty'.
In other news, always be careful breaking the neck of a CRT...you'll let the vacuum out!
Assuming that's what happened here, its because to them it is pure coincidence that the market values these database entries at all.
Like sure, at this point they know it means a lot to people and inspires many other people and can effect entire markets that they are unaware of, but from their perspective it isn't "god mode" its "lol ok, wanna hit up sushi for lunch later?"
Usually if Instagram wants your account they add underscores to the original handle like they did with @sussexroyal.
This is an extremely well-known phenomenon. This is the third time I’ve heard of it happening to an OG. It’s pretty common knowledge that the right teams inside Instagram look the other way; what’s a user going to do, sue? People are making money.
I’m sure your roommate who works on Tupperware or whatever wouldn’t know a thing about it, but Facebook is also roughly the size of Romania, so perhaps your front row seat to the inner workings of an organization that also legally compels your roommate to not tell you things isn’t as end all as you’d assume.
Hint: I work at Facebook.
So: Citation needed.
Also, sarcasm isn’t an emotion. I’m English, so perhaps consider that my culture of challenging someone is different from yours before projecting whatever big bad horrible emotional troll hurt your feelings once. Facebook is literally more employees than even populate this dreadful site, but someone says “my roommate’s brother’s uncle by blood works there and I’ve never heard of it so it’s plainly false” and we’re all to just fawn over the precious insight?
I’m sorry, I’ll try again: thanks, ‘mrats. Very brave.
This is openly discussed with bemusement on my non-Instagram team is what I can say.
Not the obvious, like "everyone's going to look the other way", but more like... target account upper watermarks, "motivation threshold" (ahem), internal tracking (if any), collective opinion on precedent, etc.
Oh, and scale.
All of the Big tech companies are so large and have their hands in so many pots, that working at a company as the equivalent of an L5/L6 that you are out of the loop about most things that go on.