You can replace Instagram with any other social media platform and photography with any other activity, and the post would ring true all the same. What the author describes is exactly what happened to me after I picked music discovery as a hobby and started sharing my findings on Reddit. I am very familiar with every trick to game the system for more likes (well, upvotes in my case) mentioned in the article. I quit cold turkey when I realized what this does to my hobby, but not before I was so burned out, I temporarily stopped listening to any kind of music.
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