Instagram dropped a new feature for Aussie users to discover in the last 24 hours or so. It’s called Instagram Notes — it lives at the top of our DMs inbox and allows people to fire off a short message to followers. People are, naturally, using it to fire off statuses like they’re back on the family computer for their allocated hour like it’s 2005 all over again.
The feature popped up on my Insta on Wednesday night and I was confronted with a heap of tiny little notes either reading “what the fuck is this?” or decorated with emoticons, ASCII art and achingly-emo lyrics.
Without a shred of hesitation, I scratched the MSN logo-sized itch by booting up a text generator tool and crafting the best teen angst note I could think of.
It’s not a phase mum!!!
The platform has been testing the new notes feature internationally since July