Treadmillguy's Instagram Reels Are Not To Be Missed
Instagram stories used to annoy me. As an old person, I resent change, and remember when the Instagram logo used to be a brown camera. I used it exclusively to follow celebrities, which to be honest, I still do. Except now I follow their stories too because I have been intoxicated by them. In fact, when opening insta (it used to be cool to call it this, and now it reveals the dust in my bones), my suggested stories are Brie Larson, Hailee Steinfeld, Barbie Ferreira, some real life friend (ew) and Netflix. This is a pretty good microcosm of my Instagram life. While stories were the attempt to become Snapchat, they were soon followed by reels, which were the attempt to become TikTok. Simply put, they're like stories, except they only last for one clip instead of a whole collection, and they're from people you don't follow. I used to hate them, but one reel in particular has won my heart: treadmillguy.
Reels come to you on instagram with no apparent rhyme or reason. Some seemed systematically designed to annoy you, others to make you say 'aww', and others to freak you out. They all share the same goal - to make you watch until the end. Sometimes they even come with the caption 'watch until the end!' plastered over the screen, and many of them use some pretty irritating tricks. A popular one is a cooking reel, where the person will cook in an obviously stupid or messy way, and you feel compelled to keep watching in order to see what disaster awaits at the end of it. Not so with treadmillguy.
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As his name suggests, treadmillguy makes videos about treadmills. Specifically, he puts a bunch of different objects on a treadmill and slowly speeds it up
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