BLEACH leaves Instagram

GOODBYE INSTAGRAM

My current Instagram account @bleach.babychino I have had since September 2016. When my former account had been deleted due to me accidentally posting a picture of my dick. I posted the naked photo willingly I just didn't realise the shaddow of my groan was not as dark as first thought. When a friend of mine pulled up the brightness on my telephone. Ive enjoyed expressing my self and telling stories on Instagram for a long time, I have had long periods of it not on my telephone.

But in 2025 I made a conscious decision to 'do Instagram'. To pump out the content just how they want you to. I went viral a handful of times. I saw deep into the beast and how its attacking and attaining our brains. As The application got more daring with its adverts, its algrophmic display of media. Very different to the flow I remembered enjoying. Once upon a time I would open the application just after the weekend to see what had happened for my friends in chronological order. Now it chooses what it shows, and chooses who to show it too. Ive been watching parties pay instagram for adverts. Paying a multinational coperation avoided of tax and adamant on supporting right wing politics. Paying those that expect us to be so happy we give our art away for free. Paying the devil to play their game.

Since a year of playing the game. Paying for it with my time, my attention. Im done, and very excited to start a new game. One embed in real life. In creating culture. Alowing things to grow in the dark, not on constant display. Allowing mystic into our lives. The effort to find something. The magic of finding something.

To whine my self off this application ive been part of the creation of SPAT! a monthly Late Night Culture zine, to keep connected to my community. We have a mailing list that keeps me connected. With open submissions keeping me connected. Instagram dose not own connectivity. The World Wide Web was created on the pretence to connect links for free. It is instagram that has cornered us and asked us to pay to be connected.

Ive been reading up on the insane machine of big tech which is altering our lives. With no democratic process. From Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism to Cory Doctorow - The Internet Con Cease the means of Computation. It's much worse than we think.

It's clear when I perform and peoples first reaction is to reach for their telephone, over scream. Its clear in our hunched necks and pained wrists. It's clear in how poor we are whilst billionaires live off our misery.

Im happy to stop complaining whilst feeding this machine. To spend 2026 re-learning my connection to media as an output. Im happy to start this blog. This website. Alongside continuing to create the best drag queen culture I can!

This summer I was invited to talk about instagram and drag culture for some university students at Technical University Berlin. They used my instagram photos to visualise that interview I have linked it above, goodbye instagram as BLEACH has left the application.

Monday 29th December 2025 - BERLIN