The Instagram Hierarchy of Likes

So I noticed this weird thing about Instagram. Before every picture I post my brain does an automatic evaluation of how many "likes" the picture will get. For the most part it's always right within the give or take of ten likes. So I'm gunna put my brains evaluation of IG "likes" in writing.

Now I have to give it scale because the amount of followers obviously plays a role. So I'm going to use a scale of 100 likes and divide what type of picture falls in whatever bracket of likes"

And so it goes:

100 likes: 

-Photo of "bad bitch" in which clothes are scarce

66-99 likes:

-Selfie of "bad bitch" 

-Pre club/bar picture

-Any sort of major landmark (childbirth, graduation, job so on)

-The girl who isnt really that beautiful but very reachable (mad likes)

-Professionally taken picture uploaded to IG

-Birthday pic

-For male---->picture with girlfriend

-New parents first years with children

33-65 likes:

-Everyday average Joe picture of self

-Picture of kids

-Dumbass goodmorning post

-Gym pic

-Religious post (I cringe every time I see that dumbass post of Jesus with that teddy bear)

-For female----> picture with boyfriend (unless she has a majority female followers)

-Your average meme

0-32 likes:

-Anything of substance (educational, controversial, something specific to yourself or field)

-Any sort of promotion

-Wack memes

-Anything out of the norm

This is a very rough first draft but you get the point. Certain types of pictures will warrant a specific amount of likes. I think if IG categorized these pictures and see the ratio of likes in relation to followers per category, it would be useful data. The nature of a "like" is *drumrolllllll* what we like so it could really tell us what were gravitating towards as a generation. 

They probably are already be doing it but not in the intent of adding to social science but I was listening to NPR (go fucking set your godamn car radio to 90.9 right now) and they were talking about how companies actually buy this data and use it to better market things to the people they feel will be most likely to buy.

IG has started sponsered ads. You think you get the same ads as a 45 year old professional photographer? Heavens no.

Anyway I would like to see an actual graph of the distribution of likes. My intuition is pretty good and I think for the most part people will agree with my Hierarchy but-I dont know-I'm just basing it off my personal likes and faint impressions I have of the amount of likes I see on someone else page in comparison to what they would normally average on another category of picture. All a faint notion.

I'm more curious to know if im the only one to have this spidey sense of how much likes a picture will get before you even post it and being fairly accurate.

Btw I gladly post pics I know will be low on the like scale. I think secretly mad bitches have a crush on me but that's just the little Kanye speaking in my head.

*Humbly bows out*

Mike Brown

Watch these video's first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhej1A7igtM Wilson's Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ga8xM8W4M Store Robbery

I'm just going to say it straight up: I am on the side of the officer in the shooting of Mike Brown.

Now here's why.

Okay first thing first Mike Brown was seen on video footage STRONG ARM robbing a convenience store moments before his death. This is obviously not a valid reason to shoot someone to death but I am using this to speak on his character and to show that he is a person capable of doing what the officer later says he did. 

If you watch the video he walks right up to the front reaches right past this short Indian clerk grabs his cigarillos and proceeds to leave. The little Indian guy pathetically tries to stop this large 6'4" heavy set guy by standing in his way and Mike Brown shoves him in a brute manner with no remorse. He's in this "King-Kong" mode (no racial implication intended strictly allegorical) 

Okay with that being said, still no reason for him to die.

Now let's get to the altercation. First off lets completely ignore whether or not the officer knew if he stole from the store or not. No cop would last a week if he walked around shooting people for petty thefts.

Brown is walking in the middle of the street (now keep in mind he has just STRONG ARM robbed a convenience store, obviously has no consideration of being discreet FURTHER making me believe he's in this "fuck you goin do about it" or "King-Kong" mode as I described earlier.)

Okay now the officer tells him to get out of the street. After an exchange of words Brown approaches the cop car where the is another short exchange (Both Officer Wilsons testimony and witness testimony support this AND more importantly DNA evidence of Mike Brown on the inside door of cruiser) AND THEN HE PUNCHES THE COP. I would like to say at this point I STILL don't believe Brown deserves to be shot.

*Officer Wilsons Story* he says at this point he pulls out his gun and tells Brown to stop. Brown GRABS HIS GUN. He says he tries to to fire twice and it doesn't because Browns hand is on top of the gun. Finally the third time he shoots Brown (evidence confirmed that two shots were fired in the car). Story goes Brown, after being shot charges back at the Officer and he shoots him again how ever many times.

Now honestly ask yourself does officer Wilsons story sound implausible? Especially considering the physical evidence backing it up and the character of Mike Brown? (please dont misinterpret that as though charter is a meaning to be shot honestly guy coulda been just having a bad day or on a power trip)

But I am Officer Wilsons' height and If a 6'4" heavy set man with no respect for authority (at least in this instance) approaches me and punches me (pretend I'm/you're a cop) in my cop car and I pull out my gun and tell him to stop and he GRABS MY GUN! all bets are off. At this point my life was unnecessarily put in danger by this guys actions and I have no clue what his intentions are BUT i do know that he's bigger and stronger than me. I, in this instance would have shot Mike Brown too AS MANY TIMES AS NECESSARY. Now is when people ignore the human element and say "but did he have to kill him or shoot him that many times" Okay, lets ignore the fact that he says he shot him once and he charged back (I dont mean that sarcastically let's honestly ignore that, it cant be proven though some witnesses say it is so)

Cops are not infallible. They are humans and subject to human instincts that no amount of training can nullify. And the law has taken these into consideration thus why we even have "Self-Defense" in the first place. I have to excuse Officer Wilson in the shooting of Mike Brown the minute he laid hands on Officer Wilsons gun. (Why did he punch a cop in his car and reach in his window in the first place????)

To me at the very best this case isn't controversial enough for this national stage it's getting.

Btw Officer Wilson gives a very candid interview.

This Device

Write this poem because recently ive been seeing theres alot of slander on cell phones floating around (older people mainly but blogs and i saw a youtube video too) down playing the amazingness of cell phones. Theres just things. And like anything ut can be used properly or inproperly. Its all up to you. No one makes you stick your face in your phone when your out to dinner with your friends or family. Anyway its called "This device"

This device? 

This device is my life

Here, There, Anywhere 

I take it with me

For this device

Id give my kidney

I can connect with the world

Or handle my business

I can call my niggas

Or text my bitches

I can freeze time

And capture an image

Or remember a moment

In a few frames per minute

If your in the room or across the globe

Makes no diffrence

Its to outer space and back

In an instance

But theres one fact I must not neglect

I love this device

But i use it to connect

I love this device

That i cant hide 

But i love more

Are the people on the other side