I'm sure you've heard all this by now
but Instagram just announced they're
going to stop showing likes on the posts that you post.
How do you feel about this?
Don't answer out loud or raise your hand.
If you like it do a heart and if you don't, sad face.
Lot of sad faces.
Instagram said they're doing it because it actually
lets users focus on photos and videos
they share and makes it less about a popularity contest,
which I think is a good idea.
But it shouldn't be a popularity contest unless--
if it was, I would win.
[LAUGHTER]
But I think if getting rid of something they should get rid
of comments, that that's what they should get rid of,
is comments.
That's the problem right there, that's where all the trouble
is, that's where people tell me about government conspiracy
theories and they ask me to visit their porn sites and--
I like discovering new talent but not like that.
I don't.
Thanks though for your invitations.
Speaking of porn-- and aren't we always--
Instagram is also trying to stop people
from using eggplant and peach emojis if they're using them
in filthy, dirty ways.
So now it's going to be harder for me
to tell Portia I want a piece of her peach cobbler for dessert.
[LAUGHTER]
I suddenly see their point because it doesn't sound right.
The thing is even when things are banned,
people are going to find ways to get around them.
If you can't use a like button you can leave a heart emoji
for the comments.
If you can't use a peach there's a tomato.
If you can't use an eggplant there's
a baguette, or a cucumber, or a corn on the cob, or a carrot,
or a rocket, or a microphone, or a flashlight, or a cactus,
or an inchworm.
I don't know what you're working with.
I don't know.