u/ShininGold

Angles, CM and TNA, feels like it spawned a whole second generation of Strokes staples: Under Cover of Darkness, One Way Trigger, Call It Fate Call It Karma, Selfless, The Adults Are Talking, Ode to the Mets... and sorry... I know it's way too soon to call them classics but Dine N Dash and Lonely in the Future already feel like classics to me...😅 Honestly I can't imagine a Strokes live show over the next decade where those two aren't part of the setlist. Maybe Lonely in the Future gets rotated out here and there, but Dine N Dash feels like one of those songs that is going to become almost mandatory live!

Do you think there are now enough modern classics that a casual listener could hear one and immediately go “oh yeah, that’s The Strokes”? and have they actually accumulated more modern-era classics than the early run of Last Nite, Someday, Hard to Explain, Reptilia, 12:51, YOLO?

I just realized that only Is This It and Comedown Machine are named after songs that actually appear on the album.

If you had to rename the other albums using only an existing song title from that same album, what would you choose for:

Room on Fire

First Impressions of Earth

Angles

The New Abnormal

Reality Awaits

Curious to see which song titles you think best capture the identity of each album.

I've had this random thought and can't get it out of my head.

What if Arctic Monkeys had doubled down on the AM (2013) sound instead of reinventing themselves?

That blend of hip-hop/R&B grooves, huge hard rock riffs, psychedelic atmosphere, insanely catchy hooks and Alex Turner's effortless sex appeal as a frontman felt like something almost nobody else was doing.

Part of me wonders if that sound could've become the mainstream sound of the last decade. Maybe it would've kept more young listeners invested in guitar music instead of drifting toward trap and hip-hop.

Or maybe I'm completely romanticizing it. What do you guys think?

Yesterday I saw a bunch of Reels using a trending dance/song. Today I was talking to a friend and mentioned that the song is 🔥, so I wanted to send him a funny version of the trend that I’d seen yesterday.

I searched for the song, went to the hashtags, found it, and then clicked on the audio that’s being used in the trend. Since the video I wanted had millions of views, I figured it would be near the top results.

Nope.

There are no sorting options at all. Just endless scrolling through random videos. Maybe they’re in chronological order, maybe not.. who knows? It’s honestly pathetic that a multibillion-dollar company still can’t build a proper search system to help you find what you’re looking for.

Like, bro, if I click on an audio, at least give me the option to sort by most popular, most liked, or newest. Instead, it’s just a giant mess of random uploads.

For real, Instagram’s search functionality is embarrassingly bad.

I joined this subreddit a few days ago and honestly I’ve been getting a bit anxious reading all the posts about people getting banned with no clear explanation, sometimes losing alt accounts too.

It made me start thinking about how people actually use Instagram in 2026.

Realistically, most of us have different “layers” of identity online:

• a personal account for friends/family
• a hobby account (music, photography, cooking, etc.)
• maybe a business/portfolio account
• and sometimes even a fun “fan/brainrot” account for things you’re obsessed with

So my question is: why does it feel like if one account gets flagged or banned, everything linked to that person/device can get affected?

I understand anti-spam and safety systems exist, but the idea that you might lose access to multiple accounts and then struggle to make new ones (same phone, same number, etc.) feels pretty stressful when you rely on these platforms to build communities or even small businesses.

Reading posts here sometimes makes it feel like if Meta locks you out, you basically lose your entire online presence! Especially since there aren’t many other platforms where you can combine posting, messaging and audience building in one place.

I’m not even banned myself... I actually came here because I was considering whether to delete an old inactive account and start fresh for my Funko photography project but the amount of “I got banned for no reason and couldn’t recover anything” posts is making me second guess everything.

Curious how others here manage this without feeling like they’re one mistake away from losing everything.

The account had a long history of different phases, it originally started as an anime fan page, then I turned it into an illustration/art account, and eventually I just stopped posting altogether. It sat inactive for 5 years.

Now I’m planning something new: a fresh account focused purely on my Funko collection, with a clear theme and consistent content direction.

The old account still had around 300 followers, but most of them are probably from completely different interests and likely wouldn’t care about Funko content anyway. That’s why I decided to start fresh with zero followers instead of trying to revive something that had no clear identity anymore.

I can technically still recover the old account, but I already went through with deletion because I felt like a clean slate would make more sense for consistency and algorithm reasons.

So now I’m second-guessing myself a bit.

Do you think deleting an old 7-year account with some history and followers was a mistake, or is starting fresh actually the better move in situations like this?