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Get your thirst traps ready! Instagram is working on a finsta feature
Who has time to keep up with alt Instagram profiles anymore?
Instagram is making the finsta life more accessible, and it’s sure to have all the gays grabbing their raunchiest content.
A new feature in the works for the app, called “flipside,” lets users create a different and more private side to their profile meant for their close friends. Think "Twitter Circles" meets "Close Friends" for posts you don't want the general public to see.
Now, we all know these days that finstas can lead to a lot of drama, even if you're full of receipts, proof, timelines, and screenshots. Though the new feature is only in the beginning stages, reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi started posting about this feature, originally titled “Your Space,” back in November. His most recent update in December noted that flipside will allow you a different profile picture, name, and biography from your main profile.
Instagram integrated its "Close Friends" features over to the main feed of the app in November when flipside first started getting whispers, but it works a little differently. With Flipside you go to the profile you're interested in viewing and “flip over” to their other side for the posts they share on their alternate account.
Social media consultant Matt Navarra posted on Threads that the feature has officially been spotted in the wild, saying it “allows users to create a new, private side to their profile where they can post more candid and personal photos for a subset of their friends.”
Post by @mattnavarraView on Threads
Despite concerns over teenagers using the apps and creating private profiles their parents wouldn’t know about, content creators on apps like OnlyFans could utilize this side of their profile to help promote their work.
That in mind, the content users share on Flipside would still be subject to Instagram’s community guidelines, which we all know can be pretty touchy.
For now, the feature remains just a prototype, and the response has already been mixed. Still, we’re always here for more places to find private content, so we’re excited to see where this goes.
Andrew J. Stillman is a freelance writer and yoga instructor exploring the world. Check him out at andrewjstillman.com or follow him @andrewjstillman on all the things.
Andrew J. Stillman is a freelance writer and yoga instructor exploring the world. Check him out at andrewjstillman.com or follow him @andrewjstillman on all the things.
