The most annoying hashtags on Instagram

Let me start by saying that I really quite like Instagram and I'm also reasonably addicted to it. But sometimes there are moments when I scroll through my feed green with irritation and incessantly keep sighing and rolling my eyes. This is usually due to an overkill of cliché photos of macarons, arm candy, and coffee art, but also and especially due to excessive use of hashtags. A common complaint in the editorial office, so we put our heads together and gathered the most annoying hashtags on Instagram. Read and learn and let me not notice that you do use them.

#lovemyjob

Is usually used by people who actually hate their job but like to pretend things are sunnier than they really are. Or it's a humble brag and that's at least as annoying. “Flying to Hawaii in business class to test bikinis. #lovemyjob”

#lovemylife

Basically the same reasoning as above. The worse life is, the louder you shout LOVEMYLIFE.

#nofilter

Step 1: use a lot of filters. Step 2: use #nofilter.

#nomakeup

Step 1: use a lot of makeup. Step 2: use #nomakeup.

#hundred #housand #million #hashtags #behind #each other #use

And usually those are not nice hashtags but totally meaningless hashtags like #boy, #girl, #like, #love, #life. The idea is to ensure that more people see your photo and thus more people will like and follow you, but with such general hashtags, you are the needle in the haystack and that doesn't get you anything. #boy for example has 38,163,864 photos at the time of writing and #girl 196,783,659. No one sees your photo.

#likeforlike #followforfollow #tagsforlikes #instapic

I understand so little about this, especially because people who use this have very few followers and likes themselves. What does it get you? Moreover, it's intensely sad to let yourself be known like this, so for God's sake, stop it.

#blessed

Oooh how I hate this. Especially when it's used in combination with a totally irrelevant photo. From a flower stall for example, ‘just got some new flowers. #blessed.“ WHY?! Photos of children are also often posted with #blessed.

#bored

And there is always a photo of a very pretty girl lying perfectly draped in her perfect messy bed looking a bit perfectly #bored. In other words, looking for an excuse to showcase her own beauty again.

#blondehairdontcare

Just don't do it. With your blonde hair that doesn't care. Like DUH it's hair.

#sleepyme

And then with a photo of yourself ‘sleeping.’ Who took that photo? Your cat? The pillow? It remains a mystery.