Instagram, facing criticism from Kylie Jenner and others, tries explaining itself.

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Meta-owned photo-sharing apps have been in dire straits this week over how they have changed over time.The stacking begins on Monday with beauty mogul Kylie Jenner, who has 361 million Instagram followers. I shared the image “Remake Instagram Instagram. (I just want to stop trying to be tiktok and see cute pictures of my friends.) Thank you.”

Her Instagram story has “PLEASE EEEEEE”, the third Jenner Most followers On the platform, lit a flame of celebrity criticism.

“PRETTY PLEASE”, Jenner’s sister and seventh-followed Instagram user Kim Kardashian, echoed in a later story.

On Tuesday, Instagram director Adam Mosseri sought to curb user anger about how the app rolled out features similar to the very popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok. .. Instagram is concerned that TikTok is getting the attention of its users.

To prevent decline, Instagram has recently begun testing videos to be prioritized in user feeds, with photos and videos appearing from top to bottom instead of part of the screen. Last week we announced that all videos will be posted as reels. Lille was introduced as a short video montage and launched features that facilitate collaboration with other users.

of post Moseri said on Tuesday that Instagram is moving to video and people like and share more video than photos, regardless of platform changes. “I need to be honest,” he said. “I believe that much of Instagram will become video over time.”

Moseri said Instagram is in the early stages of change. “I also want to clarify. Not good yet,” he said of the update.

Celebrities like Jenner and Kardashian, who are familiar with social media, have previously been frustrated and influenced by changes in other platforms. In February 2018, Jenner after Snapchat updated the interface to require users to swipe between screens to access various features. Tweet: “Why isn’t someone else opening Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me … this is very sad.”

Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, lost $ 1.3 billion in market value within a week.

Other celebrities jumped in after Jenner and Kardashian complained to Instagram on Monday.

“We don’t want to make a video Adam lol” Tweet In response to Moselli’s post, model and writer Chrissy Teigen has 39 million Instagram followers.

Cosmetology YouTuber James Charles, who has 23 million Instagram followers, also pipes Instagram comments. “The reason video is growing so much is because it forces us to post videos … the transition to video isn’t the entire industry, it’s the entire TikTok,” he said.

“There’s not much else to share about changes other than what Adam said,” said an Instagram spokeswoman.