Instagram is flooded with artsy activism guides. Here’s the story behind them.

Ten years after Instagram launched, its users are drastically changing the way they utilize the social media platform to communicate with each other. While Instagram remains a space to showcase fun photographs, videos, and visual creations, over the past few months a new trend — which seeks to inform, enlighten, and inspire — has dominated the platform: user-made Instagram guides. Instagram launched its official Well-being Guides in May, but user-made guides started becoming more widespread back in February. As people navigate a global pandemic, protest systemic racism and widespread police brutality, and approach a crucial U.S. presidential election, they're feeling more and more compelled to make guides about topics close to their hearts. Read more...More about Instagram, Social Good, Culture, Web Culture, and Activism