u/Silver-Student-859

Looking for obscure/minimalist symbols with meaning

Hey! I'm looking for more symbols/glyphs with a similar aesthetic to 𖣂 𒉭.

I really like minimalist symbols that feel mysterious, ancient, unusual, or symbolic — especially ones that aren't super common. I'm not necessarily looking for symbols that look similar; I'm more interested in symbols/glyphs that have an interesting meaning, history, or origin behind them.

For example, I like things from ancient writing systems, old symbols, astronomy, mythology, etc.

Does anyone know any interesting ones, or websites/databases where I can browse lots of Unicode symbols and glyphs?

I'd love to find a whole collection to explore. Thanks!

Hi everyone! I’m trying to understand something strange with Instagram Reels and I’d really appreciate some opinions from people who have experience growing accounts from zero.

I previously had an Instagram account where my Reels could reach non-followers quite well. My very first Reel on that account reached around 196 people, and eventually some of my Reels reached thousands and even one reached almost 1.9 million views.

However, my recent Reels on that account became much harder to grow, so I temporarily closed it and created a completely new account because I wanted to experiment with a somewhat different type of content.

The problem is that the new account is behaving very differently.

My first Reels on the new account have sometimes received only 2–18 views, and one of them had around 4 views, including views from myself/my brother. I understand that new accounts can have a cold-start period, but this seems unusually low to me.

I checked the account status and Instagram says:

• My account can be recommended to people who don't follow me.

• My content can appear in Reels, Explore, Search and Feed.

• There are no reach restrictions.

• I don't have removed content or messages.

So I'm confused about why Instagram seems to be giving my new Reels such a tiny initial audience.

What's especially interesting is that my old account didn't behave this way when it was new. Its very first Reel reached around 196 people.

I also looked at the statistics of my old account. One of my biggest Reels reached 1.88M views, and 99.8% of viewers were non-followers. Around 78% of its views came from the Reels tab. So I know my account has previously been capable of getting massive non-follower distribution.

One of my more recent Reels only reached 761 views, but even that Reel had 70.1% non-followers, so it doesn't seem like Instagram completely stopped recommending my content. It seems more like the initial test audience and/or the signals after that initial test are much smaller/weaker now.

I also recently saw several posts from other creators saying that Instagram reach changed around April/May 2026, with some accounts experiencing much lower non-follower reach. I'm wondering whether there has actually been a broader change in Reels distribution or whether I'm just seeing a coincidence.

My questions are:

Has anyone else created a completely new Instagram account recently and experienced extremely low initial Reel views (like 2–20)?

Is this normal for a new account in 2026, or does it indicate some kind of distribution/account issue?

Does Instagram normally give a brand-new account a small test audience before expanding it?

Is there anything legitimate I should do to help Instagram understand what audience my new account is for?

Would you recommend continuing with the new account, or should I keep using my old account?

Has anyone noticed a significant change in Reels distribution since around April/May 2026?

What posting times are currently working best for Reels? Do you generally recommend morning, afternoon, or evening? If possible, I'd especially like to hear from people posting in Mexico/Latin America.

Does posting time actually make a significant difference for Reels, or is it mostly about the content's performance after Instagram starts recommending it?

I’m not looking for hacks or anything against Instagram's rules. I just want to understand what is happening and figure out how to grow a new account from zero.

Thanks!

I'm trying desperately to find a song I heard on a radio/Internet radio station on August 9, 2026, and I'm hoping someone here might be able to help me identify it.

I know this is a long shot, but I have a surprisingly specific clue: I know the song that played immediately before the one I'm looking for.

The song I know

The song immediately before the mystery song was:

Esmerine — “There Were No Footprints in the Dust Behind Them”

It is the song from Esmerine's album If Only a Sweet Surrender to the Nights to Come Be True (Constellation Records). It is around 12 minutes 27 seconds long.

I am 100% certain this is the song I heard immediately before the mystery song because I managed to identify/save it afterward.

The mystery song

The song I am looking for started immediately after the Esmerine track, or very shortly afterward.

What I remember:

Instrumental — no vocals

Very slow

Very deep and atmospheric

Extremely melancholic / sad

Dark, almost haunting atmosphere

I think there was a soft violin or string instrument, but I'm not musically trained, so I may be remembering the instrument incorrectly

The strings were not necessarily present the entire time

It did not sound cheerful or like easy-listening classical music

It felt much closer to dark ambient / neoclassical / chamber post-rock / atmospheric post-rock / experimental music

The atmosphere was somewhat similar to Badgerlore — “goodnight, sweet rabbits”, which I found while investigating the Esmerine track. That is currently the closest song I've heard to the atmosphere I remember, but it is NOT the song I'm looking for.

When I heard it

Date: Sunday, August 9, 2026

Approximate time: 3:00–4:00 PM, Central Mexico time (CDMX / UTC−6)

I don't remember the exact minute.

There were no advertisements that I remember hearing. It sounded like continuous music rather than a normal commercial FM station with frequent announcements.

The possible radio/station

At first I thought the station might have been called “Caprice”, because I remember something resembling that name.

I later discovered Radio Caprice / RADCAP, which has hundreds of specialized Internet-radio channels, including things like:

Instrumental Music

Dark Ambient

Post-Rock

Ambient

Neoclassical

Modern Classical

Contemporary Classical

Experimental

Avant-Prog

Classical Avant-Garde

Minimalism

Cello

and many others

So Radio Caprice is a possibility, but I have NOT confirmed that it was the station I heard.

Important discovery about the equipment

I originally thought the music had definitely come from an Onkyo TX-NR646, because that is one of the receivers in my father's setup.

However, I recently realized that my father also uses another piece of equipment in the same setup, a Yamaha network/CD player (possibly a Yamaha CD-N500).

The important thing is that I now know the music may have come from either device, so I cannot assume it was FM radio.

The Onkyo can receive FM/AM and Internet/network sources, while the Yamaha can also access network/Internet audio.

So the source could have been:

FM radio OR Internet radio/streaming.

Unfortunately, I don't know which source was active when I heard the song.

What I've investigated so far

I've been trying to reconstruct the broadcast history.

Surfmusik has playlist/history pages for Radio Caprice channels that contain:

date → time → artist → song

I personally checked the pages and they do contain entries from August 9–10, 2026.

For example, the Radio Caprice Dark Ambient page showed entries on August 9 such as:

Ashtoreth — “Rite IV” — 14:07

Northaunt — “Cold Streams” — 13:29

raison d'etre — “Rubedo” — 12:36

However, I did not see Esmerine in the visible August 9 entries, and the history appears to be incomplete rather than a complete recording of everything that was broadcast.

I also checked Radio Caprice Avant-Prog Rock. On August 9, the page I found showed only a couple of entries, including:

Korekyojinn — “Poet & Peasant” — 05:58

Bondage Fruit — “Prayer” — 21:20

This made me suspect that Surfmusik does not necessarily record every track that is broadcast, so the absence of Esmerine there does NOT prove it wasn't played.

Other things I've found

There are also sites such as RadioStar Club, which have large catalogs of tracks for Radio Caprice channels. For example, Radio Caprice Instrumental Music has a large catalog of tracks.

However, I have not found a reliable chronological August 9 history there.

I also found RadioWave Monitor, which has/had “Recently Played” / diary pages for some Caprice stations, but the historical data I could verify was from March 2026, not August 9, so I haven't been able to use it for this mystery.

RADCAP itself has a “Playback History” showing the last 20 tracks played, but obviously that doesn't let me go back several days.

Another very interesting clue

I found older radio programs where the exact Esmerine song was played.

For example, one archived Fade To Yellow program on 91.7 FM / KOOP had a sequence containing:

Labirinto — “Arcabuz”

→ Esmerine — “There Were No Footprints in the Dust Behind Them”

→ The Years of Rice and Salt — “Nothing Of Cities”

→ itsnotyouitsme — “We Are Malleable, Even Though They Seem To Own Us”

→ Mogwai — “Does This Always Happen”

This is from an old broadcast, NOT August 9, 2026. I'm mentioning it because it shows that the Esmerine track has actually been programmed on radio alongside experimental/post-rock music.

I also found an old Low Light Mixes sequence where:

Esmerine — “There Were No Footprints in the Dust Behind Them”

→ Badgerlore — “goodnight, sweet rabbits”

→ Chronomad — “aksak”

→ Ennio Morricone — “Man with a Harmonica”

→ Steve Roach — “New Moon at Forbidden Mesa”

→ Loren Mazzacane Connors — “Lullaby (the 1st)”

→ July Skies — “Branch Line Summers Fade”

Again, this is NOT the broadcast I heard. But “goodnight, sweet rabbits” is currently the closest song I've found to the atmosphere I remember.

What I'm hoping someone can help with

I'm particularly interested in anyone who:

Knows which radio stations/Internet radio streams play Esmerine.

Knows of a radio playlist/history database that might preserve broadcasts from August 9, 2026.

Has access to Radio Caprice/RADCAP logs that aren't publicly indexed.

Recognizes a station that would play Esmerine → dark/slow instrumental music with strings.

Can identify other artists/tracks that commonly appear alongside Esmerine in this kind of programming.

Knows whether Radio Caprice has a channel where Esmerine would realistically be played.

Has any idea what the mystery song could be based on the description.

Most important clue

The sequence I'm trying to find is:

Esmerine — “There Were No Footprints in the Dust Behind Them”

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[MYSTERY SONG]

August 9, 2026 — approximately 3–4 PM CDMX (UTC−6)

If anyone has any radio logs, playlists, recordings, station information, or even a guess about what station this could have been, I would be extremely grateful.

I really loved this song and I don't want to lose it. 😭

Even if you don't know the song, identifying the station/source would already be a huge help.