But the Instagram Explore page - which offers new posts on top of the content you already subscribe to on your feed - can quickly kill your self-esteem faster than Peloton instructor Cody Risgby can unjustly spit lies about Angelica from Rugrats. Contrary to the endless discourse, there’s nothing really wrong with the individual Instagay - if you’re hot, you’re hot, congrats on having good genes and a Peloton. Hairless, buff shirtless men, often referred to as Instagays, have for years now dominated the Instagram Explore page of their fellow, less buff but extremely online gay man. What Mack achieved can feel like an extreme rarity. “It took me a second before I realized what I’d finally accomplished.”Įvery gay man i know is in my dms asking how i did this which tells me there is a market for some kind of opt-out function
“I sort of just opened the app the other night, went to search for something and realized that for the first time in living memory I wasn’t being confronted with a shirtless man,” Mack says.
Last week, BuzzFeed News ’ David Mack achieved a feat few gay men ever thought possible: He cleared his Instagram Explore page of shirtless men.
