Meghan back on Instagram

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

Looks like she’s back on Instagram

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

No blue tick on her account @PrettyFlyforaMaiTai or is that not a thing anymore? I see some famous people still have one.

No blue tick for her but Serena Williams and Abigail Spencer’s blue tick accounts are following her!

Instagram says that I’ve followed the account since 2023 and that it has one previous username - does anyone know what the account was called before?

So pretty much, they’ve said all SM is bad.

They did not say all social media was bad.

I agree with them about the dangers of social media for children due to its design. Much of the blame for this lies at the feet of of the sm tech billionaires as they have the ability to change things but they won’t willingly do so. I read that recently the Australian government, recognising the dangers of sm for children, has passed legislation that requires sm platforms to restrict access to children under 16. It is bad for children but not for everyone. I don’t think Harry or Meghan has said it’s bad for everyone.

The People article linked above quoted from an earlier piece in The Cut. In which it pointed out that when they were working Royals and had just separated their household from the Cambridges, they launched sussexroyal on Insta and it attracted 1m followers in less than 6 hours.

The only thing I took from that little clip, is that runs like Bob from Shitt's Creek.

Her clothing looks like it came from Uniqlo. The designer of her wedding dress is currently working for Uniqlo. Let's see if the trend continues.

I saw a video on Tik Tik about this, and according to that content creator the account was ‘meghan’ (all lower case) and the accompanying image was pink flowers with greenery. There had been no posts on this account.

As to the video, I think it’s just a normal nice Instagram acknowledgement of the new year. I hope we see more of her own content.

White jeans and a white shirt? Have you never seen this before? Perplexed...

Maybe it was one for her to follow in case she got confused?

Meghan said previously that she closed her social accounts for her self preservation. It's an interesting u turn now on this in the light of all that she and Harry have said about the toxicity of social media. It's a very odd choice .

Title now added

God she loves that title doesn't she. Despite hating the RF.

for some reason autocorrect changed it from contented. Hope that clears things for you?

For someone who likes to present herself as a philanthropist and would be business owner, it is such a shallow, superficial and vainglorious first post.

Despite all the promotion from People, Hello etc, , surprisingly it hasn't garnered a huge amount of followers immediately, I would have guessed she would have gained a lot more than 500k (there was already 150k followers on it from a few years ago, from those who guessed the blank account was hers), Jennifer Anison and Angelina Jolie both had millions within a few hours of their insta accounts being active.

"Despite all the promotion from People, Hello etc, surprisingly it hasn't garnered a huge amount of followers immediately*

And I think this is the problem, the wedding was nearly 7 years ago, and the OW nearly 4 years ago. Nothing of note has been achieved in the interim.

It’s all a bit golden retriever frolicking at the beach.

I’m very surprised she’s called herself ‘Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’ as that’’s the version of title as used by a divorced royal duchess

She’s not using her HRH, but is (correctly) The Duchess of Sussex

I’m not surprises at all, the OW interview and whinging about Archie not being a prince because racism proves she knows absolutely nothing about the family she’s milking for fame and fortune.

As usual however, if she has even thought about it I suspect she thinks that the RF have got it wrong for centuries and that hers is the right version because she knows best.

I just checked and the “the” doesn’t appear to be over the character limit, no reason to miss it out. Perhaps she, like many, doesn’t really care about the minutiae of the titles, just the rough overview? Your average prole doesn’t nitpick over “the Duchess” vs “Duchess”.

1 January is an odd time to relaunch, social media-wise. Everyone’s hungover and full of cheese. She needs expert advice on how to harness the algorithm.

Everyone’s hungover and full of cheese

😂

I've seen the mistake in the sand now, I can't get over how unprofessional it is, of course there are multiple takes of an 'impromptu' moment but at least edit them.

Has that denial been published?

Shame they didn’t make the denial at the time of the photoshopping - it could have been a really good opportunity to say that it was a rubbish comment and that people should stop inventing stuff and cease hounding the Waleses.

Instead, nothing was done to rein in the bullying of the ‘Sussex squad’, rather their leaders were included in events

And the rest of the world decided it must have been a frenemy as so much shows a ‘freakishly bad eye for detail’ - whereas if the comment had been disavowed at the time, it might never have gained the traction/persistence that it has

Lessons to learn:

• either never comment to clap back
• or if you do (as they have here with this denial) do it immediately

They/their PR adviser (if they have one right now) has made an error on this

Someone on here likened the video to a golden retriever cavorting on the beach and I can ‘t get that image out of my head !
To me it’s like an old Tampax advert ( “ it’s my life….” )

The "be kind" nonsense doesn't work on me. We have absolutely no reason to think that they have faced anything particularly traumatic in the last 12 months (I'm sure we would have heard if they had)

I can't unsee it now!

Running in white jeans on beach/in countryside is very 80s/90s tampax advert! Lets hope their target audience are in general too young to really get that association - or perhaps there wasn't a US ad campaign that paralleled the European one?

(I was going to be naughty and suggest it's an oblique homage to C&C, but some of the more po posters might miss that I was frivolling and take me to task for even thinking it)