So Instagram Is Anti-Quality Now? We Need To Talk!!! (Instagram vs Photographers)
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Jared Polin
4.4 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this Podcast I discuss a recent post by the head of instagram, Adam Mossari. He put up a post discussing how Ai is changing the world of instagram and what he thinks the future will bring. You can see his post right here.
This idea that quality is bad, is wrong in my book.
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| 0:00.0 | Jared Polan Fronos Photo.com. And I wanted to come on here to talk about something that the head |
| 0:08.0 | of Instagram, Adam Masseri, had to say on his Instagram. He put up a 20 slide carousel talking |
| 0:16.2 | about the future of Instagram, the future of photography, authenticity versus inauthenticity, |
| 0:23.3 | AI slop, a whole bunch of different things. He even brought up the photo community and cameras |
| 0:29.5 | and things that he thinks they're getting wrong. And I just felt like I needed to share my |
| 0:34.5 | thoughts while reading it over. We're going to keep an open mind. We're going to read |
| 0:38.2 | what he has to say and we're going to distill it down together. If you'd like to follow along, |
| 0:43.0 | you can go over to his Instagram, which is M-O-S-S-E-R-I, and you can look for the 20-slide |
| 0:48.7 | carousel that talks about. It says, a few thoughts on why creators will continue to matter, how aesthetic, |
| 0:56.6 | how aesthetics are changing and no longer believing what we see in a world of infinite |
| 1:01.2 | synthetic content as we head into 2026. So let's put a pin in that for just a second, |
| 1:07.3 | and I'll do a quick intro. Today is January 2nd, Friday, January 2nd, |
| 1:11.9 | 2006, the time 11.09 in the a.m. I hope you guys had a happy new year and are ready to get things |
| 1:19.4 | rolling. Now, all of the guys, all the employees are off. We actually have a new guy starting in |
| 1:23.5 | January as well. So nobody starts or everybody's getting back on January 5th, which is a Monday, |
| 1:28.9 | which leaves me here to do this stuff by myself. So I didn't want to wait. And this is something I can |
| 1:34.6 | talk about and do on my own. So that's why I jumped on right now to talk to you guys and share |
| 1:40.1 | what my thoughts are on this Adam Messeri post. So I'm going to read it for you and you can follow |
| 1:45.8 | along if you want at home or just go ahead and give it a listen. So there is a lot to say. |
| 1:52.9 | He had quite a bit to say. So let me pull it up here and start with the very first thing. |
| 1:58.1 | Slide one. The key risk Instagram faces is that as the world changes more |
| 2:03.2 | quickly, the platform fails to keep up. Looking forward to 2026, one major shift, authenticity is |
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