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I get, like, irrationally angry when I see people on Instagram posting with a request to comment/share/like their content. It bothers me a little bit less on YouTube, because a lot of YouTubers are intentionally trying to monetize their content (but also, a lot of YouTubers don't do this anymore). I think the problem is that I've used Instagram since the days when it was more community-minded, where you were sharing your doll photos with other people because you liked looking at doll photos and you wanted to contribute to the total number of doll photos out there. The problem with asking people to comment/share/like is that, of course everyone wants people to do that. Most doll people are not making monetizable content. We're all equal actors in the attention economy. I also want attention! But when you ask for it, it's like you're saying that your doll content is better than other people's, or that you deserve to have more attention than other people. It just looks thirsty, or trashy. This is the problem with the attention economy: you only get promoted by the algorithm if you're already getting a lot of attention, or if you're giving a lot of attention to others, but giving attention to others is also taking up time that you could be using to, yanno, take good doll photos.  Anyway. Tl;dr only ask for likes/shares if you want everyone to know you think you're better than them.