I unfollowed 1000+ accounts on Instagram
I might have a social media problem.
The thing is, I was a working artist before switching carreers, my Instagram account used to be essential for my work. I had 1280 followers, 3600+ followings and over 400 publications. My account has provided me opportunities, publications in books and magazines, art shows, peers.
But I switched carreers, now I don't post art anymore and I'm stuck with this beast. I still have friends and relatives who only publish over there, as well as interesting media that I'd hate to lose, but they're drowned in 3600 other accounts. White men posing in white cubes, cats, postmodern sculpture, postporn queer media, people I met once, questionable tarot reading, accounts about shoes (?), clothing brands. My account is stuck in a net of residual hobbies and endeavours.
I managed to go from 3600 to 2600. Still a long way to go. I don't need to follow 2600 accounts!? I'd like to go down to 200 or 300.
Maybe it would be easier to delete the whole thing and create a new one, idk. How would I feel losing hundreds of pictures of my work?
I'm not proud of my art anymore, except a few pieces I kept and hung at home. I don't know how I would feel to erase 4 years of me trying to make it in the art world.