Tommy Talk: UNFOLLOW OR MUTE? THE INSTAGRAM DILEMMA
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of “Tommy Talk,” Tommy discusses when it’s time to unfollow or mute someone on Instagram. Your Instagram feed is your personal space, and you should see content that makes you feel good from people that make you feel good. But there are definitely a few things to consider when going for that “mute" or “unfollow" button. Let’s dive in.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:30.3 | the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, welcome to Tommy Talk, a new weekly series that is part of my I've never said |
| 0:42.1 | this before podcast where I am talking about things that I've never really publicly talked |
| 0:47.0 | about before. And today's topic is, should you unfollow someone or just mute them on |
| 0:53.2 | Instagram? Let me say that again because this is a big one. Should you unfollow someone or just mute them on Instagram? |
| 0:57.0 | Let me say that again because this is a big one. |
| 1:01.5 | Should you unfollow someone or just mute somebody on Instagram? I feel like the unfollow and the mute are two of the modern day disses of the year. Like it is so triggering to somebody if they realize |
| 1:16.9 | they've gotten an unfollow to the point where it can come up in like a fight with a friend |
| 1:21.6 | or a fight with somebody else or you might get a random rogue DM saying, why did you unfollow |
| 1:27.0 | me? Like it is considered so highly insulting for some reason. |
| 1:31.3 | And the mute is also kind of becoming now the new unfollow in terms of the level of how |
| 1:36.8 | insulting that can be. |
| 1:38.4 | I assume everybody knows what this means who's listening. |
| 1:40.3 | But if you don't, on Instagram, when you're following somebody and you consciously choose |
| 1:44.0 | to unfollow them so they no longer are shown in your feeds and you don't see their stuff, that's the unfollow. And the mute is when you go to somebody's profile and mute all of their posts or stories so that you are following them, but you don't have to see their stuff anymore. And these two things, man, man, are they triggering? Like, I know people who've gotten in massive blowout fights over this who aren't friends anymore because of this. It is super, super, super intense to be on their seething end for some people of an unfollow or a mute. My theory is, if you unfollow me, whatever, I'm going to unfollow you. |
| 2:18.2 | Like, it's not a big deal. |
| 2:19.0 | I don't care. |
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