In 2016, the Black Mirror took over social media With its premiere of Season 3, "Wear". It was all about a digital social rating system, but it was really for Instagram. At least, so some fans looked at him. From the pastel color scheme to the way Lassi photographs his food before eating, to how almost every character puts on a perfect, happy facade - it all feels like a skiing on Instagram, and the CEO of Instagram may have noticed.

How The Newoufor Times reported in 2020Instagram CEO Adam Moseri really wanted to get rid of public likes on the platform. The idea was that you could see how much you want your own post, but you wouldn't see the high on other people's places, so they wouldn't be compared to more popular platform users. This will potentially reduce the feelings of envy and prevent its users from becoming too dependent on likes and digital approval. What inspired this decision by Moseri? Well, according to Tuork, "Nosevi" played a role:

"(Moseri) was constantly thinking of an episode of" Black Mirror ", the British Dystopian Anthology series, in which the characters evaluate everyone they communicate on a scale of 1 to 5 stars.

But since most Instagram users can confirm it after moving through the application for a few minutes in 2025, Moseri failed to make a private liking at the end. Not only can you still see how many likes they get every post and comment, but if you want a post, all your friends will be able to see it. Instagram and Facebook (and now strands) are also widely criticized for their manipulative algorithms and Their many disorders of privacy. To date, Instagram is a kind of dystopian cesspit, with the only real positive being that at least the likes of your post do not affect your credit result. (Well, still not at least.)

Moseri has done one thing: now there is an option in individual users settings to turn off the likes and share their food numbers. Obviously, making this setting by choice of a kind kills a lot of her attraction: those with likes out must cope with the sense of knowledge with their peers about what is popular or not. Meanwhile, many users believe that they exclude public likes as a sign of uncertainty. Therefore, at least 2021, Less than 3% of Instagram users chose to make their likes public.

It's hard not to wonder what Moseri thinks about Season 5 episode "Black Mirror", "Simnitherence", What is a spiritual sequel to "wearing". Since I was wearing A wicked application for social mediaThe "Slitherence" was strongly characterized by the depressing character of the CEO, Bill Bauer (a played by Toder Grace), whose social media application spiral in something he no longer liked and could no longer fix it. But at least Bauer and Moseri can be comforted by saving grace: at least their application is not as bad as Twitter. (Sorry, I mean x.)