By Caroline Dehn
If there’s one thing every GW student can relate to, it’s the feeling that sometimes all you can do is laugh through the tough times. Often, it feels like something new and more wild happens each week. As a way to bring smiles and laughs to the GW community, an account on Instagram, @gwu_affirmations was created.
Over the years, many Foggy Bottom and GW-related meme pages have emerged, but this account has a different feel and students are gravitated toward its witty humor, poking fun at the ridiculous things happening on campus.
The first post made on the Instagram account was back in April of this year. Since then, the account has gotten the attention of many students, racking up over 2,800 followers.
“I came up with [the content] all on my own at first but I also get a TON of suggestions from random people dm-ing me,” said the owner, who wishes to remain anonymous.
The owner’s goal is to engage students and to involve them in their feed posts and stories. Almost every day, the Instagram stories shares questions and answers, polls, and interactive information that follows campus events as well as funny pop culture references.
The owner was inspired by other college “affirmation” accounts they saw on Instagram. Creating it was, “totally spontaneous. I was inspired by @nyuaffirmations. I had gotten my Covid vaccine so I was super sick and just like lying in bed all weekend, so I was bored and decided to make it. I thought I would abandon it after a weekend or so. I definitely didn’t anticipate it to get this big,” they said.
They commented on the challenges of creating humorous and unique content that will be successful: “It can be [hard] at times. But so far, I’ve gotten really supportive responses even when my content’s lame, so I know that my followers have got my back even if I’m going through a dry spell as far as content is concerned.”
Just by nature of running a very interactive account, the owner recognizes that it can be hard to keep up with all of the responses they get daily. At first, they wanted to drop the account as the platform was growing and it was stressful to give everyone the responses they might want.
“I think my main reasoning for wanting to drop [the account] was that it can get stressful to respond to everyone’s dms, especially because sometimes people make inappropriate comments or trauma dump. But I think I’m slowly realizing that I don’t have to respond to everyone, especially since my following has grown a ton and so I’m experimenting with only responding to people who send me things I actually want to respond to” they said.
After some convincing and encouragement from their friends, the account owner has decided to stick it out and continue to make content because of the overwhelmingly positive feedback they’ve received since the start. Their love for their followers keeps them going. “ I love my followers very much and thank them for their support.”
Check out @gwu_affirmations on Instagram for more!
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