So Instagram, I guess people were crashing and people were losing followers. And I saw one person, I think it was Perez Hilton said that he lost five thousand followers but they were all bots. And he said Instagram sucks anyway, and that TikTok is the only platform that's relevant, it's alive, etcetera. I don't agree with that. I think that all of the platforms have things that are positive and negative about them.
For me, Twitters where you go to just like throw a comment, fire a shot, and get into a fist fight, a verbal fist fight with a bunch of people. Um. But you also can get like actual news on Twitter just look at someone's feed or CNNs feed and getting news. For me, Instagram is where you post fake still photographs of yourself looking perfect in a slower, more constipated um, slighter fashion um. But now with reels, I feel like
they've come to play. For me, Instagram feels less of the wild wild West than TikTok, which feels like you're walking to a more rocan bizarre and shopping and you could do really great, but you could also lose a purse or you know, a hand, So that's how I feel about TikTok as far as losing followers. I was excited because I thought that the bots when you were losing bots, because a lot of people were losing followers,
which translated into them being bots. I thought that all the boats were probably fake followers, and maybe they are, but I thought they were bought. I thought boats were bought, and maybe some of the bots are bought, because if you go on really famous people's instagrams, you see a lot of like you gotta try this new financial thing I did. I made five thousand dollars in two days, or viagra or diet pills, and there there's like it can be hundreds in a row, and they're sort of
talking to each other. And I don't understand where all the bots come from and what they're doing. Besides if they're advertising something, I get it. But bot trolls to just troll you. What is their function? Who's hired them? Like there are people that will come on and troll me that have two followers and it's like a new It always as user one to three on TikTok or something, and I don't know where they are, and then you look and they have three followers, and they say the
nastiest stuff. So it feels like if they say nasty stuff, it's coming from some being who wants to say something nasty to me. So I don't know where that. I don't know where that comes from. But Facebook is still the biggest of all of them, and Instagram is still next, I mean by follower users worldwide. So and Instagram is coming in. Instagram came in and knocked off Snapchat, which was massive at the time with stories. We all forget that. We all forget that that the biggest yogurt was fa
j In Greek yogurt until Chobani came. We all forget that. You know, years ago, Steve's ice Cream was a little place putting ice cream on slabs in Great Neck and mixing top fixings into it until cold Stone Creamery. We all forget that there were ten thousand spinning places until soul Cycle came into the mix. So Instagram came in hot and became Snapchat with the stories, but they weren't doing it first. So Instagram is now coming for TikTok with reels. They have more money. They have more money,
so let's not sleep on Instagram. That's all I have to say, but back to the original matter at hand, why can't Instagram have a breakdown and people with fake followers get outed? Because I thought that these bots meant that all the people with fake followers that they were being caught with their pants down, and that was rather exciting to me because I have seen so many articles in Harper's Bazaar and readers Digest in crepytable um outlets.
That's say that so many people that have millions of followers, a massive percentage of them are not real. You can look this up at anytime, and there are companies that will go look it up. And now I have not I have bought followers to everybody does um Apparently who has a lot of followers people that are not that that doesn't mean they're bought because mine are not bought, but they could be boughts. I don't know where they
come from. Someone else to educate me on that too, But apparently if someone is more than twenty five of their followers are not real, then they're bought. So I think it's a confusing thing, and I think I welcome Instagram flushing through people's bought followers. I mean, I would love to see one of these, one of these massive multibillion dollar platforms, come through and clean house properly. If you're gonna take out bots, take out bots. We want
bots and bots gone. We want everything that's not legit because people what about just like moms that are posting pictures of their cats and dogs and Halloween costumes, et cetera. And you know, they don't even know that it's not even what I mean. If anybody can buy followers, the whole thing is is a scam. If anybody can buy followers, then the brands that are paying these famous people are paying for what's a scam. They're paying to promote their
product two bots. And also these celebrities have gotten brand deals because of their followers. They've gotten more followers because of the media about their initial followers, so that's a
scam too. It's just endless. Social media has so many places to scam, whether you're filtering your face to make you look like nothing you actually look like, whether you're pretending you have this following based on bots and bots, it's just all such a fucking scam, and it's so disheartening because people are just posting pictures of like costumes and their dogs and their life, wanting to just compete in this space that already isn't fair because celebrities run
social media, so now it's even more not fair because you can just buy it. And I, you know, I understand exactly why people would buy followers. It's so easy, you know. I mean, I would have ten million followers if I had bought followers in the beginning and just thought, who fucking cares? Because there are articles everywhere no one cares. You get no credit for doing the right thing. I get no credit for not filtering my face and then
you end up looking older than everybody. You get no credit for not buying followers because then you just like the loser who has you know, not a lot of followers. It's just historic. You get no credit for not wanting to post yourself in a fucking thong, because that's how you get followers is to be like sexualize everything and be like, look how good and sexy I look, and how fake I look. It's just all the circular reference
of bullshit. So if I put a thong on and filter myself and get you know, fake gass and and and and have fake followers, then I'll be winning in the celebrity landscape. You can fucking keep it. All I'm saying is pull everyone's pants down. No filters, no fake followers, Let's fucking do real. Yesterday I went to my daughter's
last volleyball game. She played the entire game. Um, it was at a it was an away game at another school, and Paul and I had an event for the Holocaust Museum, a charity event, and I told him he would go, we would go, and his parents were going. And it involves the hair and the makeup and the dress and the whole thing. And Brent's last volleyball game. And I go to all her games and it means something to her. And I made this rule that I would not miss
the meaningful things. It kills me to miss them. I think those are really important things. Just the look on my daughter's face every time she did something great, she caught something like I would, you know, And you don't want to be on your phone. You want to be really engaged, because you see every time she passed a ball, or when she served perfectly, but then somebody else, one
of her teammates, maybe didn't didn't nail it. And just so I know that even though they lost the point that I saw how well she did and I love and at the end it was like, I know, I saw everything. You killed it, you did well because she happened to have a really great game. Um, and I changed. And then the game was late. It was forty minutes. They started late because of the kids before. I'm not gonna like carrying it up and go to the freaking other school, be like, we gotta get the game on
the road. I have a charity event at Chippy Eye Ballroom where you know, rich Jewish people are, you know, donating to a very important cause. It just doesn't feel like it's gonna land at the fucking volleyball game. And you know, in middle school. So I'm sweating. I'm freaking out. We've got to an inexpensive hotel room to change in in between the volleyball game and the thing, because I didn't want embarrass her and be like a black tie
down in a sweaty hot middle school gymnasium. Oh my god, lo and behold, I'm like, we're not gonna make it. We're not gonna make it. We're not gonna make it. We're gonna be late to the thing. Then the whole purpose of us going to this thing is defeated. Now we've wasted money, even though a little bit of money for that hotel room. And I'm like, what are we gonna do? So I'm like, we gotta change here. So all my clothes, my nice clothes, are in a shopping bag,
like a paper shopping bag. Underwear bras that work with it, like a black one piece sheery bra. Thing like the full nine satin shoes, rhyin stone heels with the wrap around and you have to like unbuckle them. Like So now it's the end of the day in a in a middle school that I think might also be a high school, and I'm trying to find a bathroom, and there's no men's women there's no men's bathroom, there's no women's bathroom. There's like a human bathroom, just only a
human bathroom. And soon they're gonna have to be called hugh women because you can't call it human. So just a every every being bathroom. So there's an every being bathroom.
And it's just one bathroom in this whole hallway, and it's got all these stalls and here I and here, I am like it's this chiffon dress, and I'm changing from sweatpants and on one of the breaks when like there's a break, like a time out, that's when I'm running down the hall and paul And is still in the gymnasium, so there's still a presence from our family there to see Brant and I'm down the hall, my
assistants helping me because she kept it. She came, she came back with my stuff, and I'm just I'm just disgusting. I'm on the floor, my dresses on the floor. I'm in a public bathroom at the end of a school day changing for a black tie event. Forget what I feel like in my sweaty face after being a sweaty gymnasium and the hair and like I just can never
do it. So it's polished, Like I look at the celebrities and they show up on those red carpets and it's just polished, and mine's always like some pit stained mess where like I they may think I look fine, but I've been through a fucking war before I get there. But guess what, I didn't miss one minute of the game. I got my black tie down on and I was out the goddamn door. With my shopping bag filled with
my sweatpants and made it. I did it for Brin and she saw me the entire time, and she saw at the end when I had like a gown on and with a sweater over trying to cover it up, and I think she really appreciated it. And we got to the event right on time, and it was an amazing cause. And like I did it, I just want to make a note about one thing that I do
not approve of. So you know, we're in the land of everybody did a great job, and everybody's good and supporting them, and you know, they still realize they're not stupid. They realize if they're good, if they're bad, if they're on a team with people that are pulling the rest of the team down, if you know, they're just being given you know, the token ribbon or time playing because you know, it's middle school and we're not yet you know,
being relentless in how cutthroat we are about sports. But you know, they have the cheers do it again, Britain, do it again, you know, after they after they serve, and they're so rara and everybody's so happy in between each thing. And yeah, but no, it's okay, did a great job, don't worry. And everybody's so supportive. I'm gonna tell you what's not supportive. The opposing team. Every single time they got a point, Every single time they got a point on the other team, it was a double
a double clap, a double snap and under the knee. Yeah, a clap, and so fine, if if we won the game, let's do a triple clap and under the thing. Great if if you know, if somebody served and both got in and that's a special occasion and both both serves got a point, and that's like a rock star. Okay, the double snap underneath whatever ra Ross is spoonba. Fine, every fucking time somebody got a point on the other team, our team doesn't do that. They just they got a
point and yeah we got a point. Yeah, great job. You know, Linda wonderful, Like there's a fucking Linda in school. There's not. It's not a Linda or account, but Linda for the sake of this discussion. Okay, So the other team, every we got a point on you funk yourself. Like every time we we did it, we got it. We know, we can read, we see the board. You don't have to shove it up our ass and down our throat, like every time you get a point. I'm not for that.
So if you work at a school, you're a parent, you have a team, you're a coach, whatever, you don't need to do it. You don't need to do a big fucking dance every time we're getting funked up. Tonight, we got a point, Like every time we don't just do it. A couple of dances goes a long way. You don't need to like troll. That's taunting and trolling. We were like, I was like ready to be in there, like enough, we get it. You got another point. It's ridiculous. I don't like that.