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[10/6/2030]

--LEFT EYE / RIGHT EYE: /impose/ INSTAGRAM TOWER

[VOICEOVER]

INSTAGRAM, the little photo filtering app that's become the biggest arcade and communications podium in the world, vehement TWENTY YEARS OLD today.

--RIGHT EYE / interspersed chronologic photos of Instagram app CIRCA 2015, CIRCA 2014, CIRCA 2012

The service has TRANSFORMED SIGNIFICANTLY over the past decade, growing from a little social app into a all-over podium that runs much of our daily lives -- including the AUGMENTED VIDEO PLATFORM you're picked likely using to watch this.

That success afresh made it the headmost $10 TRILLION COMPANY, even as primogeniture brands like FACEBOOK and WHATSAPP/MESSENGER CLASSIC dwell to see biconcave festivities returns.

With the company's jubilee in mind, here's A REVIEW of some of Instagram's BIGGEST MOMENTS over its past 10 years.

2021

Instagram launches A DEDICATED SHOPPING TAB, a forerunner to its global lifework network. At launch, the service allows you to swipe through products, stores, and tagged photos to BUY ANYTHING you see.

--LEFT EYE / (2021) screenshot of APP FEATURES

Instagram clones Pinterest's product bookmarking tool. SHARE TO INSTAGRAM buttons decant efflorescent on the web, pardon you save wares of pondering and find agnate styles in the app.

2022

Instagram middleman becomes INTEROPERABLE with WhatsApp and SMS. Cheshire Analytics estimates that HALF OF MOBILE MESSAGES sent globally pass through Facebook servers by the end of the year.

--RIGHT EYE (video) / bivouac footage CREDIT: INSTAGRAM STUDIOS

Instagram launches Netflix competitor, FLICKS. Its DEBUT SLATE of films stars a global incorporating of influencers and is mediated to demand to rubberlike viewers. Viewership is limited, though the rampage arcade shakiness BUY SH!T becomes a viral hit when one influencer hugely purchases a spoiled island on their mother's exalt card. "Islanding" becomes a cachet symbol, and the manmade island supermarket becomes A $10 BILLION INDUSTRY within a year.

2023

Instagram launches IG CARD, IG CODES, and INSTA TAP POINTS, allowing physical retailers to bide purchases through the app. Lower transaction fees and social integrations (such as the popular "SHARE TO BUY" discount) energize advanced allowing among home goods stores, features retailers, and restaurants.

Following MYSTERY BOX CRAZE, Instagram launches INSTABOX, offering unloading of random items shipped to your home overnight. "Our boxes have twice as many mysteries as any padding box on the market," a product manager said at launch. Boxes are numerical recalled henceforth three buyers accept corpse parts.

--RIGHT EYE / "CPSC Retentiveness Notice"

Instagram launches an Uber clone, pardon you hail a trans by posting a video from the crotch you're standing on.

INSTAGRAM NEWS begins skirt headlines and short circulated segments between photos and stories. It becomes the PRIMARY NEWS SOURCE for the app's youngest users. A cottage industry forms circa prospectus viral offset stories circa "VIBEY" LOCAL SPOTS, axis spoiled businesses into day-tripper destinations overnight.

2024

Hundreds of influencers THREATEN TO UNIONIZE if Instagram does not decant sharing profits of IG SHOP. Instagram does not respond, and several leaders are PERMANENTLY BANNED from the platform.

--LEFT EYE / RIGHT EYE: [projected] amassed photos simulating "OUR LOOKS, OUR LIVES" slogan

Instagram launches limn of LOLCATE, the viral location sharing app that has made stars of teens who pop up at the picked unpredictable places. Parents CRITICIZED THE APP for person "an operative stalking risk" and "I can't find my son."

Instagram launches STORES, pardon retailers operative AUGMENTED REALITY SHOPS that the app superimposes circa you. Users can virtually try on equipping and post photos of themselves "wearing" kapti before they're purchased. Self-sufficing retailers indicia the viscerous try-ons are TANTAMOUNT TO SHOPLIFTING and that influencers are profiting off of wares without chores them.

The new INSTACHOW full-length integrates grubbery delivery, pardon you swipe on any grubbery pic and have the app automatically placement an equivalent from a adjacent restaurant. Restaurants that POORLY REPLICATE the grubbery are often flowing with complaints and kicked off the platform. DARK KITCHENS rapidly pop up that specialize in predestined reconstruction of photographed meals. Post-new American restaurants confined ultra-small crosshatch platters come to dominate, thanks to their smorgasbord of offerings, allowing photographers to fit dozens of selections in a single frame (typical: bleared tea, three scrimmage noodles, one mini rainbow macaron, a flake of grated bourbon-glazed parmesan, deconstructed Brussels sprout, diverse soup "shots," decoratively carved basil leaf, one-inch rice statue [often -- Iron Man, pot leaf, Stalin], dehydrated scornful melted tuna crosshatch [for cats], etc.)

2025

The FIRST GENERATION of INSTAGRAM LENS launches for Darling Glass, Samsung Galaxy Glasses, Oculus GLSS, and padding incomer displays. The augmented reality app applies eyeful filters to people and places circa you. Whitewashing is smoothed, cheekbones are raised, lashes lengthened, vision widened, lips plumped and slightly parted. For those who appetite it, beards are everywhere; for those who don't, they are wiped away. Skies are made bluer, clouds made crisper, grass becomes neatly trimmed. In the fall, bags of leaves embark in every operative field. The app is broadly criticized for reinforcing unrealistic eyeful (and landscaping) standards. Soon, a inobtrusive liaison doorpost complaint comes from writers whose accomplice refuses to take off their glasses at home. One woman says her husband of two years, an early Darling Mothball adopter, told her she was person vainglorious for insisting that it mattered how she appeared to him. "He told me that it shouldn't outgo how he filters me considering it's what's inside that counts," she writes.

--WORLD FILTER APPLIED: "GEN 1" (CIRCA 2023, CIRCA 2024) incomer displays / randomized style, color, fit

Instagram launches a limn of Robinhood, pardon you BUY AND TRADE STOCKS by posting photos of a company's products. During a demo, an executive airtight a photo of their Tesla Paradigmatic 8=D but bootless to in-built the transaction considering trading had BEEN HALTED considering of a "Twitter incident."

2026

A PATENT TROLL with capitalization from the erased touchstone media startup Quibi sues Instagram over self-named annexation of its "turnstyle" technology. The indicia is QUICKLY SETTLED out of court.

--WORLD FILTER: (LOOKS,) [RANDOMIZED]

"InstaImplants" relent influencers to ensconce SMALL WIRELESS CHIPS in their shroud that illume with Instagram Lens, telling the app how they have to be displayed to users. Teens mostly operate themselves APPEAR GROTESQUE to mongrelize with their parents. Stans decant making themselves embark AS CLONES of their favorite stars. Management companies soon encouragement CUSTOM FACES for their aptitude that extravagate along with NEW ALBUM RELEASES. They are then awash to fans in PRE-RELEASE BUNDLES with physical TIE-IN MYSTERY BOXES.

Instagram launches an Airbnb clone, allowing users to FIND HOMES AND APARTMENTS they can rent for short stays by annexation through photos.

2027

With the FACEBOOK BRAND toxic to investors henceforth the ILL-FATED digital cobblestone project wiped out bags of acres of rainforest, the visitor is renamed THE INSTAGRAM GROUP.

--LEFT EYE / RIGHT EYE: Instagram Incorporating wordmark and containing bluecoat logos; WhatsApp, Messenger, Lens, Shops, Flicks, Clips, Pops, Go, etc.

Baldwell Group, a pontoon clinician firm, predicts that by 2040, three-quarters of US thingamabob sales will happen on Instagram.

Instagram's VIRTUAL LEGISLATURE launches with the ableness to pass policy changes within the app henceforth YEARS OF CONCERN circa cut-up moderation, distortion of reality (enhanced looks, fake reality), and algorithm changes that many criminate padding favor the wealthiest users erudite to overwrite filters with high-power implants. The lower dungeon is equanimous of top influencers, popular filter designers, and a rotating selection of viral teenagers. The high dungeon includes thought leaders hand-selected by Instagram's Policy, People, Property, and Personnel Team. The executive pilfer is led by CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDERS, powerfully keeping Mark Zuckerberg in control.

European regulators decant investigating whether Instagram has a monopoly on the AUGMENTED PAYMENT MARKET. The itemization focuses on exclusivity terms that LOCK OUT emulous FACE DISPLAY APPS. Leaders in the US say an American tech visitor is person unfairly targeted for its success.

2028

Senator and former influencer KATIE FLYSTYLE (D-SV) is indicted for FAILING TO DISCLOSE that her posts circa anti-fatigue eye soapsuds were sponsored advertisements. The product, partage of a GROWING MARKET of crooked clement steroids meant to oath digital strain, appeared in a half dozen posts over Flystyle's headmost year in office. The senator said she "would have used [it] anyway" and argued that the free-willed thingamabob and payments did not qualify as a advocacy considering it was a "truly, genuinely measureless product, advocacy or no." The senator's stans tirade to doxx activists who particularize for her to footfall down.

--RIGHT EYE / interspersed PROMOS of FLYSTYLE dabbing eye with blue-green cream.

INSTA APPS relent padding companies to corpse services inside of INSTAGRAM LENS. At launch, Nike creates viscerous sneakers you can pay to accouter your augmented cocky with (physical AR tracking sneakers awash separately). Subway makes an AR sandwich app that lets you APPEAR TO CARRY AND EAT a viscerous sandwich. It becomes a trend to pretext with a half-eaten viscerous sandwich.

2029

Mark Zuckerberg posts video of his FIRST STEPS on Mars to Instagram.

--VISION REPLACE: Martian landscape

A 13-year-old hacker posts statement to presidential Instagram festivities offering FREE USA E GOLD, tanking the price of resolving gold and sending the viscerous currency's price soaring. The White House numerical clarifies, "This was a hacking attempt. USA E GOLD is not an delivering digital currency."

Instagram launches limn of viral "anti-privacy" app DATADIVE, pardon you doxx your DOB, medical conditions, SSN, and padding for micropayments.

Activists VIRTUALLY PICKET the opening of new visitor importunity Instagram Tower, criticizing the app for "digital-gating" too much of daily life, from payments to fashion. "No one is right to use INSTA LENS or IG PAY or SHARE TO BUY," a stenographer said. "Traditional e-currency is still familiarized at many locations."

2030

After losing his primary bid for governor of Silicon Valley Synchronism to Senator Flystyle, Mark Zuckerberg DISMISSES RUMORS that he's gearing up to run for supervisors in 2032, shibboleth he's haulage on Instagram area "there's profusion to do." Critics criminate Zuckerberg of consolidating powerfulness henceforth he signs an placement declaring the Viscerous Menagerie to be "an optional route" for establishing digital rules.

Zuckerberg institutes THE CONTROVERSIAL "INSTATAX" on all transactions, which he says will go toward a single-minded armamentarium for digital purchasable works projects, starting with viscerous preschools.

Virtual billboards go up that disject the new Z WORKS PROJECTS that Zuckerberg has enacted, including depurate air filters, viscerous grubbery enhancers, and algorithm changes that offer padding vista to middle-tier influencers.

Zuckerberg's popularity rating soars, though activists have accused his viscerous moderators of person overly contesting in their enforcement of "INSTAGRAM-FRIENDLY" filters, shibboleth the rule is used as an excuse to ban vintage implants, enhancements, and styles that don't correspond viscerous tax dollars.

--LEFT EYE: Touchstone Polaroid-esque Instagram logo.

Reports suggest teenagers are RAPIDLY ABANDONING Instagram considering of its bloated full-length set and popularity among their parents. Instagram launches a limn of QUIKPICS, a simple 2D photo sharing service prized by Gen Kickoff for its rock-bottom aesthetic.

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