Soft White Underbelly channel on Youtube has interesting stories and accounts of women having had a hard life or traumas. There are many tears shed as well and the guy who films them does it as a professional photographer, capturing their emotions very vividly. 

Instagram is develish...

I have installed the Instagram app on my phone yesterday the first time in years.  New phone, no search history

I just started scrolling, without searching for something special.

First there were some general things about different topics:  Politics, cars, games, memes, challenges, robot stuff, crazy ai videos

After 10 or 20 minutes the algorithm -for some reason- started showing single women

then single women with big beautiful eyes, then eyes that look sad & tearing up...

I continued scrolling and it was like the application could read my mind.  After further 5 or 10 minutes it started showing me some well known cry videos, then some (AI-generated) east European & Asiatic women shedding unrealistic amount of tears!  (very very similar to some recent videoposts in the tlc cry share group)

This really creeped me out since I used a complete new phone and I just scrolled and didn't search for anything!   

My activity on discord also should't be linked to my phone.  I always for 100% log in with PC and use VPN, without using my home connection also it's like I visit the group one time a week for a few minutes, with no further activity.

Is this just the algorithm?  Did someone else make similar experience?  Or is this something else?



 

Last edited by Thunderstorm_01 (February 17, 2026 1:30 pm)

It's pretty mad. I think the algorith pushes for what you like, watch and favourite, as opposed to what's viral.

Chinese apps like bilibili and rednote are like this too.

I played with Instagram once again (yesterday and today) and again it showed me crying content.  Now basically every channel not only have crying videos on it but it also shows me channels which don't have anything else anymore!?  I talk about some girls / women with 100, 500 or even +2000 crying videos on their channel and it just seem to be endless.  Only unexplainable thing:  It's for 99% always short reels with 0:30> length, and the content tend to be quite static (like a lot of the users may be AI generated?  They look 100% real but something now is unexplainable strange about the whole thing...)  Mostly they also have like 100.000-1 million follower (where they all come from???) and a  half billion likes with further crying channel in their follower list.  Now what is this or can someone explain what I discovered there? 
I think I have never seen so much tears & crying videos at once in my whole life, I talk about 10.000, maybe 100.000 videos especially very short ones like 0:10-0:20, of course completely impossible to watch, since it would take months.  (It would be jackpot to find just one channel like this but with maybe a little fewer / longer content)  

Is there a trick for that?  I know some verificated users can upload up to 60 minutes on IG...