6 Reasons Why I Abandoned My 15k Follower Instagram Account
From a has-been influencer to any wannabe influencers.
In 2018, I wanted to make my cats Instagram famous — and I kind of succeeded.
At the height of their popularity, my Maine Coons had 15.8k followers, and I was posting every single day. Many of my pictures went “viral,” garnering tens of thousands of likes and hundreds of comments. They were featured on other, larger channels with some frequency. I even got some free cat toys and cat food. I had some modest hopes of maybe earning some actual money and becoming a stay-at-home cat mom/blogger.
But I haven’t posted a single picture since February 9th, 2021, and haven’t posted regularly since the summer of 2020.
To people who want to become Instagram famous (or want their cats to, at any rate), my decision may seem senseless. Why stop when I had such a large follower count? And given how quick and easy it is to post a snap of a cute cat per day, what was the harm in continuing?
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