Gay instagram followers

Social media has a comical way of clouding our perceptions of ourselves. Organism barraged with everyone else’s perfected versions of their lives, at least for me, makes it incredibly difficult to resist comparing and scrutinizing myself against others. This is my beef with Instagays. Instagays, attractive gay men on Instagram who have followings that surpass the tens of thousands, are an established facet of the culture of gay men. Surpassing the occasional thirst trap, these men publish pictures that are aspirational, aesthetic, seductive and fine-tuned to take full benefit of social media algorithms. 

Each time an Instagay comes across my feed during my social media scrolls, a cognitive dissonance arises within me. On the one hand, they elicit my desire. On the other hand, they deflate my self-esteem because I will never measure up to their good looks and immaculate lifestyle. Instagays obscure the perceptions of how gay men view themselves and what they expect the appearances of other gay men to be. There needs to be a wider recognition that gay men with rippling abs who party