Meghan back on Instagram

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Looks like she’s back on Instagram

www.instagram.com/meghan/reel/DESeJO5vFSN/

b) Meghan taking multiple takes of a video and editing them for SM?

For me it's the trying to make it appear to be some off the cuff, candid family video, lovingly taken by Harry on the spur of the moment (as leaked to People magazine).

When in reality it's been planned, she's probably had hair, make up and wardrobe in beforehand, and there's been at least 3 takes.

She and Harry manage to make almost everything they do look totally inauthentic.

You’re right.

They are now talking about the potential for another attack and he wasn’t acting alone. This will dominate the headlines for days. People will be frightened.

Why couldn’t they show respect and a little dignity and not launch an insta page, promoting 2025 as an exciting year for her….when America has woken up to a 2025 ISIS terrorist attack.

New Orleans is South East. They are west coast, they had plenty time to find out about it.

But no- had to be done today because of the date she put in the sand.

Jesus wept

Now there’s a bomb attack in Vegas, outside Trumps hotel.

They need read the room ffs

Is this satire?

Nope. They knew there was an attack before they launch their insta page

Not mad on the giggling.

I can't get that worked up about the timing of the launch of the page really, in the same way that many US based celebrities are posting happy new year content, despite the terror attacks.

I do find the obvious multiple takes quite funny, again not because it's uncommon but given they're obviously trying so hard to make it look natural and authentic, it's just a bit of a faux pas.

What will be very interesting is to see what she now does with the account though. It can't be like ARO, launch and die - she's got to keep this alive and start posting regularly. So then, what will she post, and what's the purpose of the account? She's going to have to set her stall out quite soon and I think that will give a pretty clear insight into the direction she's now trying to take her career in.

I don’t think most people in any country refrain from posting on days due to terror attacks.

and generally most people/brands have their posts scheduled and organised by their SM person.

I do think there’s an attribution of bad faith on something fairly innocuous. It’s very much a new year new “thing” type post that many people do in Jan.

it’s so very meh I suppose so I don’t get the fuss about it.
but maybe I’m missing the hidden meaning…

Why is she running about on a beach?

Yes, after divorce she can keep her title but to avoid confusion, if the Duke remarries, they add their first name before “Duchess of”.
Either this is a total fail by her through ignorance or they are divorcing. It does suggest it is a fake account because Harry would know the implication.

It’s been well over 2 years since Meghan told The Cut that she was coming back to instagram, and then coming up to a year since American Riviera Orchard was launched, so it is not a huge surprise I imagine.

I wonder what she’s gong to do with it, though? Given it’s branded as just Meghan I imagine it’s nothing to do with the Archewell Foundation, Archewell production, or the seemingly defunct Archewell Audio. It seems unlikely we’ll be seeing her children on it, given the stance they’ve taken to date about not showing them in public. So will it be The Tig part II (lots of photos of her fabulous holidays and things she’s allegedly cooked?Artfully curated table settings?). Or will she be merching a lot of Khaite, Johanna Ortiz and Heidi Merrick dresses?

I can’t imagine she’ll be able to have comments open on her posts either (they are closed on this one) given what she’s said publicly about staying away from social media for her own wellbeing, and her concerns about how it becomes a platform for catty and cruel misogyny. She wouldn’t want to find herself providing any kind of platform for that.

Will be interesting to see what she does!

Just to clarify - I wasn't criticising the obvious multiple takes (God knows I do for my SM - photos not vids), but more I found it funny, that once again her "freakish eye for detail" was malfunctioning. Rookie production error not to make sure evidence of previous takes wasn't visible.

Be interesting to see what she does with this account. Got to be more than with ARO which was such a botched launch. Currently at 421k followers. Seems to be doing similar numbers so far as ARO did on day 1 (though it was set up June 2022 - was this the account that was rumoured to be hers for ages????)

When did Meghan claim to have a ‘freakish eye for detail’? I see this phrase repeatedly attributed to her on here, but can’t find any evidence of her actually saying it?

Like everything she does it seems weirdly contrived and self serving. She does seem to be leaning in to the things that draw the most criticism: bland, badly timed, tone deaf and obviously self promoting. There’s nothing wrong with the self promotion but both she and Harry have gone on and on about the evils of social media and the press. And now she does this.

She didn’t actually say it. Someone said it about her. I’ve linked to it quite a few times on various threads. It was during the Mother’s Day photo debacle. A source claimed that Meghan wouldn’t get caught out photoshopping due to her freakish eye and attention to detail or something similar. If you google Meghan freakish eye for detail, it’s there

MM is not wrong about sm. See this thread.

It was “sources close to the couple” who gave an exclusive quote to Page Six in the US. So pretty much it was said by Meghan, or approved by her PR to say.

Sources close to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry waded into Kate Middleton’s bizarre photo-editing crisis Monday, saying, “This isn’t a mistake Meghan would ever make … she has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail.”

pagesix.com/2024/03/11/royal-family/sources-close-to-meghan-markle-mock-kate-middleton-photoshop-fail/

So why is she back on it, is the question?

Yes. that’s all I’ve found - Claimed by a ‘source’ to Page Six.

But I have also found that an Archewell spokesperson denied that this came from the Sussexes.

Who knows? They tie themselves in so many PR knots it’s difficult to tell truth from fiction

So why is she back on it, is the question?

Maybe because she wants to have an imput into what is said about her? Maybe she wants to make some money off her own image rather than being quiet while tabloid style media across newspapers, youtube, podcasts, and other monetized accounts continue to make their living by denigrating her? It’s really not a totally new development as we’ve known since early last year she was coming back to sm when the ARO Instagram account was put up early in 2023. She criticised social media for the cruel and catty content. She didn’t say everything about SM was was bad.

And then the Archewell spokesperson officially denied it.

She criticised social media for the cruel and catty content. She didn’t say everything about SM was was bad.

Actually Archewell have said publicly that parents can’t protect their children from the risks of social media due to the inherently dangerous design of these products, and noted that since the early 2010s, the rise of social media has been linked with increased rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide among adolescents. So pretty much, they’ve said all SM is bad.

Cruel and catty? That would be the definition of her own behaviour.

In the immortal words of Mandy Rice Davies, they would, wouldn’t they!

Just a reminder both Meghan and Harry have been caught out in the courts for not being truthful about what’s going on behind the scenes when there’s a narrative they want to get out there.

Given we’ve seen today a co-ordinated launch of Meghan’s instagram account with a People exclusive publicising the launch and with the “exclusive” that Harry shot the video it is fairly clear to most people how they work when they don’t have an official spokesman.