Zaara Ahmed, Eve Kagami, Class IV
Something that any school values is enhancing their students’ creativity, and the media is no different. As students are finding new hobbies and latest trends, recently they have been creating a new flow on the media; specifically, Instagram. Instagram has been a means for students to anonymously create pages about random and funny parts of the TBLS atmosphere. These pages have captured many of the quirks and fun features of the tbls discipuli environment.
Today we will go into detail about three of the many pages: The TBLS caught sleeping page, the TBLS bad posture page, and the TBLS compliments page. These pages are some of the more light hearted and fun pages from the many others. The TBLS caught sleeping page is a page that, just as its name states, takes pictures of students who sleep in the TBLS building. Other discipuli take pictures of these kids sleeping and send pictures into the account for tue account to post them. The TBLS bad posture page has a similar concept, however this time, photos of students with supposed “bad posture” would be sent in. Lastly, the TBLS compliments page is a ‘safe place’ where students can anonymously send in compliments about each other.
Although the concepts all have good intentions, most of the photos sent in aren’t consented by the discipuli themselves— the whole “anonymous” aspect contributes in a way that anyone has a chance of being on the page, and quite frankly, there may be some people who don’t feel comfortable but actually feel disdain with the idea of being on these accounts.
All light hearted jokes, however could there be an underlying mockery? Students wonder.
According to the owner of @tbls_compliments, “I just really had a lot of nice things to say to people, and I wanted to spread positive vibes. I wanted people to see kind things reflected in themselves.” Unfortunately, responses weren’t received from other accounts interviewed.
However, one takeaway that some might be able to take from this is that the intention of the account creation may not correlate with the usage and reactions— the “aftermath.”
Considering that students are in charge of these accounts and students are the ones submitting these posts, it’s only up to the people of TBLS to control how these accounts play out.
Intentions may change, but for now, these accounts bring laughter among discipuli and no one seems to be having a problem with them.
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