Originally published June 12, 2019

With 77. 6 million users worldwide, Instagram provides the visual history of a smart phone-obsessed generation. Recently, several new photo apps have surfaced to rival the social media photo giant.

In a recent poll with every kid that eats lunch in the library, a whopping 86 percent of MBMS students still use the nine-year old photo app. However other forms of social media have been stealing Instagrams thunder recently, 94 percent of the library kids utilize other photo apps too.

Why have users been migrating to other photo platforms?

According to seventh grader Madison Filter, she is running out of accounts that she enjoys following on Instagram.

“I am so tired of my mom using the animal filters and her photos appearing in my feed, so I totally had to blocker her,” Filter said. “If I don’t see some interesting content soon, I will have to start a MySpace profile.”

Say no more, Madison and fellow IG users. Below, you will find a list of the hottest new accounts worth following.

@MBMSFaceTats provides a hyperlocal look at MBMS teachers, who love teaching and LOVE face and neck tattoos. Started by former MBMS and ARHS student Jimmy Scale, the account bio reads, “Epic Tattoos and Teachers”, but the linked URL for his account connected to a Chuck Cheese’s in Burien.

Scales was unavailable for comment at the time of publication, but one user named @Jimmy’sMom praised his account.

“Face it! These educators are innovators in the classroom and the tattoo chair!” @Jimmy’sMom said. “I heard one has a Common Core Standard inked on their inner lip.”

Like many buildings, MBMS is riddled with right angles, an overabundance of nooks and crannies.

Amateur photographer and sixth grader Raul Clumsyhands takes random pictures around the school, focusing on and framing the corners of classroom, offices, restrooms at MBMS.

“Last December, I was searching my phone camera roll after lunch and dropped my phone,” Clumsyhands said. “The phone camera snapped, and I witnessed the most beautifully composed photo I have ever seen--no filter-- of the corner of Mr. Deckers room (503).”

Clumsyhands continues to update the account with new mystery corners biweekly for users to guess.

This account is similar to @WhichCorner, created by mistake by a novice photographer in sixth grade, Gerardo Pferdkopf. It’s the corner thing, but with pictures of people’s shoes.

Pherdkopf explained how the account started.

“I was bragging about my shoes to a friend last week. He slapped my phone out of my hand,” Pferdkopf said. “Snap. Click. Boom. This close-up of my Jordan 5s was art!”

The account @UncorrectMemes was created by social studies teacher Mr. Overfourty, who also uses the photos on the classroom app Quizzizz.

Overfourty was available for comment, but every response was a “forced” pun or reference to lawn care. His wife commented that the account was a “need to remain relevant with students” for the social studies teacher.

“[Overfourty] desperately wants to remain hip and cool with teenagers, so he tries to make them laugh,” said Mrs. Julia Gulia-Overfourty, who also teaches science at MBMS. “Our own high school-aged kids at home don’t laugh at his jokes anymore either.”

One user @SlimeForever said the account was “like watching a kid dab, floss, and flip a water bottle all at once.”

@BlurryVacationPhotos is a sight curated by MBMS attendance secretary, Mrs. Loohcs-Piks. Families, with poor photography skills that go on vacation during school the year, are the source of her posts.

“School attendance is important,” Loohcs-Piks said. “When families skip school to get better rates on flights and lodging, they miss out on valuable learning. Why would you travel to another continent when you could read about in these atlases from 2004?”