When scrolling through instagram I noticed this “Popular Hashtags” post placed in between the posts of people that I actually follow. One thing that I think is interesting about this project is that I am paying more attention to everything that pops up on every piece of social media that I use, and I don’t think I’ve ever noticed this popular hashtag post in my feed before. Next, the phrasing of it itself stands out to me because it says that these searches are popular, and although they might be popular for a very specific audience, it’s clearly just searches directed at me rather than what is actually popular. For example, #nofilter has 216,267,715 posts and what I am being shown (#igbulldogs) has 588,442 posts. If I was really being recommended hashtags that are popular I would be seeing completely different images. This shows how instagram is keeping track of who I follow and what I search, like other sites and advertisements. Finally the follow button catches my attention because I have never followed a hashtag before. Instagram has recommended users show up all the time that they want me to follow, but I’ve never seen recommended hashtags to follow. I don’t even know what this would do, would I just see every single post that shows up in the tag on my feed? Why would I want to do that?