Instagram Fact Accounts | A Mind Melting Mess

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s. I have no idea what I just did or even more so why I did what I just did, but here we are. What's up, fellow ultimate fact-checkers? I hope you're having a fantastic day. Today we are going to talk about Instagram data

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. These things have been ruining

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s since they basically came into existence. I mean, they have absolutely brain-destroying posts that claim to propel you to a stage of enlightenment. So I thought today we could take a look at some of the posts I found and have a little fun.

Alright, let's go over our first discussion story today. This story makes a bold claim that the data you find here is data for geniuses, data that makes you smart and you know what? With 628,000 followers, we might as well try. Let's take a little look at our first fact here. "I was watching quietly but they closed the window." Okay, yeah, let's go over this. These factual

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rarely contain actual facts. Instead of posting data, these accounts have the habit of posting images and putting a story behind them or simply posting images and captioning them however they want.

With this image, I have no idea what the point is here. Was I looking and they closed the window? I mean, it's so mundane that I guess if this really happened it would be considered a fact, but it's just one of those things... like why is he here? We don't know who it is. We don't know where this is. Many of the data in this account are missing information. No credit is usually given to the people or locations involved in the posts. Let's look at some examples. "Someone in Bulgaria makes googly eyes at broken objects on the street and that's even better than fixing things." "A man spent forty thousand buying two Imax theaters to prove his ex-girlfriend that she was wrong.

His ex-girlfriend left him seven years ago because she couldn't afford two movie tickets for a date." "When the restaurant is small but the owner is creative." Okay, all of them are missing a lot of information. They are so lazy. One, with this post, who puts googly eyes on things and how is that objectively and factually better than fixing things? In this case, who was the guy who bought the theaters? I looked into it and I'm not a professional fact checker, but I guess it's a true story. However, I was skeptical because it seemed crazy and there were no super specific details in the post.

And now, back to the restaurant post, I couldn't find where it was. I don't know anything about it other than this image. It feels more like a meme than a fact because it has the whole "when" template going. So far, reviewing this account, I'm not too impressed. I don't feel like we've ascended to literally becoming godly geniuses yet, but it might hold our key to being geniuses. I could have found it. On their account they frequently post a series of "normal English" versus "better English." So let's all learn to speak like intellectuals, shall we? "Working for 10 hours straight made me feel very sleepy." "Working for 10 hours straight made me feel lethargic." "Many people often think this, but it is not true." "It's a common mistake." "She looks very attractive and fashionable in this outfit." "She's soaking wet in this suit." "We ended our relationship a year ago." "We broke up a year ago" We break up, we break up, it's okay.

Considering how the word "arrested" is commonly used in relation to relationships, I don't think you'd ever want to say that you screwed up with your partner. Not a good choice of words, but that's just my preference. "She is my very good friend." "She is my friend". "I didn't ask you to interfere in my personal matter." "I didn't ask you to meddle in my personal affairs." "She was crying hard." "She was gouging his eyes out." S-her? His hers? It's okay, it's okay. The phrase rather evoked the image of a woman chasing a man's eyes with a spoon in order to gouge them out.

I don't know why, but that's what I thought. "That's exactly what I need." "This hits the nail on the head." "Don't tell this to anyone." "Don't tell the truth." Well, I need to confess something here and now. Confession time. My brain is still a little caught up in the beanstalk. I know it's horrible. I had a foreshadowing of this at the beginning of the video. It's embarrassing, I know, but I still find beans funny. It really is tragic, but I had to confess, but yeah, anyway, back to these posts. This has been a language learning experience.

I mean, I find it a little strange how he says "normal English" and then "better English" when some of them have had poorer English. You know if you're working on your English, it's okay. If your spelling or grammar isn't perfect, I mean, it is what it is, but as long as you try, great. But saying that you are a factual account for geniuses and trying to show correct English through inadequate English is a bit strange. What's more unusual, however, is that some of his posts contain some kind of strange personal bias. I can't fully describe it, for example, they have an anti-phone book. "This lady comes from a generation that knows how to enjoy the moment." BAD PHONES.

I mean, you could just sum it up: "This lady comes from an older generation and probably doesn't use a cell phone often because she grew up without one and it's hard to keep up with technology, so she doesn't have her phone handy." HE. Another strange post of hers is the one in which she conveys the

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age that she should respect farmers. It's not that respecting farmers is strange. My great uncles and aunts are farmers. I'm not saying "Don't respect farmers." I just think the post is worded in a way that makes it incorrect. "Once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a police officer and a mentor.

But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. Respect all farmers." I appreciate the heart at the end. I appreciate the love, but I am lost for a fact that says that people need a doctor once in their life. Just once? and once, can it be assumed that it is your birth? I-I don't know. Plus, she says you only need a mentor once in your life. I'm really confused what they were thinking when writing this. I don't know how this was actually published. If you're one of those legendary people who has only needed a doctor or a mentor once in your life, leave a comment below or something because I need to understand this.

You guys are just different or something. Okay guys, I don't want to get political, but "men don't like comparisons. They hate it when some woman compares them to another man." Absolutely profound. That was it, I'm speechless, I'm speechless. No, I don't know what to say. That was deep. That was amazing. Alright, let's move on to our next account. 463,000 followers and apparently publish educational data. So let's take a look at what they are. "Imagine being able to make stone appear transparent." Why did I read it like that? Oh Lord. Anyway, this is not a fact. Mister? Lady?

They? I don't know. Whoever runs this account says "imagine this", sure it's something, but it's not a fact. Nowhere in the title or anything is there any information about who made this or what the sculpture is. So they just posted a photo with their observation, but without credits to the artist or information or anything. "This perfectly molting little lizard looks like he's wearing a little lizard space suit." I mean, aren't they wrong? If it looks like that. *strange voice*   "Blue dog seen in Russia." I need to stop. I need to stop. I need to stop. It's not funny.

It's not funny. Anyway, it really seems like they wallowed in something. It's not that they were born blue. I don't know why this is due to educational facts, but it is. At least it's not as misleading as some of his other posts. So let's talk about that. This post here says that these people live in the middle of the sea and rarely go ashore as if they were mermaids or people of the sea. This post sends the

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age that they simply swim and rarely touch the surface of the earth as they rarely surface. And in the next misleading post, the image is so bad that they disabled comments on this one. "Snail teeth are the strongest biological material on the planet." First of all, I looked this up and I remember I'm not a fact checker, so I may be wrong, but it turns out that the snails being referenced are actually limpets, and these limpets are basically aquatic snails.

It is not the type of snail in this image. Secondly, what is that? What's that?! Although this is horrible, I feel like it hasn't been done and I'm sure many of you feel the same way. The snail is not finished yet. There. Ready. For whoever wants it, there it is. Well, next account. It's basically the same as the other accounts mentioned here. Nothing new, but let's take a look to see if there's any fun here. "This Japanese artist brings rocks to life by painting adorable and realistic animals." It's strange because it says "This Japanese artist", "This one", but there is no credit for them anywhere in the post.

It's just the art. I clicked on the account tagged in the photo and it's just another factual account. "Never go back to an old love no matter how strong it is. It's like re-reading a book when you already know the ending." Okay, this is complicated. I'm not going to give romantic advice. That's not what I'm going to criticize here. I just want to say that it suggests that you shouldn't reread books, but I think rereading books can be valuable. When you know the ending, you can really appreciate all the details leading up to it. The foreshadowing, the way the author carefully constructed the story.

Well, at least in the case of well-written books you can. And not all books have set endings. You know, most non-fiction genres don't have set endings or twists. I have reread a short history of time by Stephen Hawking. It's not a set that ends there because well, it's a non-fiction book by Stephen Hawking. But yeah, I found it fun. Now, while we're talking about Stephen Hawking here, let's look at the next post. "If time travel is possible, where are the tourists of the future?" It is not a fact. It's just a clever comment. But   where are they?

Where are they hiding? Maybe in Canada. "There is an area in Canada with lower gravity than the rest of the Earth. This is the Hudson Bay area of ​​Canada." and and they just put a man levitating... I can't. You would think that we Canadians would talk about it more and brag about it more if there was an area in our country where you could literally float. But no, I guess we've done a pretty good job of keeping that a secret. Needless to say, the post is very misleading anyway and concludes this top-notch professional video on fact checking or something with Savantics.

I hope they got fun. If you want to see my merch or my social media, I have the links below. After this, for fun, I *might* turn   my Instagram into a parody of these accounts. I don't know. I might do something weird on Twitter. We'll see. We will see. Thank you all for watching and I hope you have a good rest of the day.