TFW the universe rips you from your everyday existence in an instant to remind you that you are tiny, it is immense and everything is subject to change (edit: rule i guess)
Description: A very overexposed image of a girl staring open-mouthed into a bright, cloudy, night sky, mid-flash as it is lit up by a meteor.
Still image taken from this IG video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7JcDGXtORH/
Longer, unedited version with original audio: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7LrNlCNOmR/
She just happened to catch this meteor and her own reaction to it, entirely by accident. Absolutely watch the video, the shadows playing through the clouds as the meteor passes through the frame are stunning, but the most remarkable thing to me is this moment where laughing with her friends is interrupted and she doesn't yet know where to look. It's such a universal reaction and really special to see. This image is taken as one of the very bright flashes is blowing out the camera. Some frames are almost entirely white, others look much clearer. I chose a frame to make the subject legible but also give a sense of how overwhelmingly bright the flashes really were.
For real, that video was crazy though. How did you find that?
IG algorithm though I'd like it and it was right. It's going semi-viral on there right now. At least there's a general culture of crediting the OP so I was able to find them.
That's cool. I still haven't dipped a toe into Instagram, but that video is the best thing I've ever seen on any IG link that anyone has posted. That's very cool!
Honestly it's enshittifying just like any other centralised platform. I'm on there because there are accounts there I can't follow otherwise and they locked the content behind an account, which I genuinely hate.
I didn't step foot on the boarding ramp to Twitter, ig, any of it, and now it seems like they're all just shooting themselves in the app, like they were this weird blip that I never learned anything about and now I don't need to remember.
I'm legit jealous tbh. One thing I learned from Twitter is that I don't really like Twitter, which I think says good things about me.
Have you looked into bluesky at all yet? That's Dorsey's new venture, right?
I do jump in pretty heavy to places like Reddit or Lemmy, but they're enough for me so far.
Nah, not interested in investing any more time in anything non-federated. If I were to join a twitter-like again it would be Mastodon.
Makes sense. I shredded and deleted my Reddit account and just use this now.
Man, I didn't get what I'm looking at at first. But after reading the description and watching the video - pretty amazing!
I don't think she understood what she was looking at at this point in the video either. That's what I find so amazing about this video, the way some events like this can trigger people's instinct to pay attention. It only lasted moments but because she looked for it immediately she saw something phenomenal that she'll remember for the rest of her life. I mean that's true of all the kids there but her reaction was captured.
Maybe this sounds obvious to some people but it gives me chills.