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.
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*
