Why are some of my peers suddenly unfollowing me on Instagram? Is it because of my stories?
So I just noticed that a few of my peers who were my MBA classmates during 1st year in mid 2023 to early 2024 suddenly unfollowed me recently on Instagram. Like its strange that as we are freshly done with MBA, they unfollowed me but it seems like they unfollowed only me and no other peers as I can still see all the mutuals on her profile. Like this guy Rahul who was my classmate was casual and friendly with me. We weren't close friends and had more of a "Hi bro how are you?" type bond and he himself followed me first in 2023 and was often viewing my posts. I am 25 now and he also 25. Yes most of my Instagram have been my selfie videos and the cool cars I film around UB City mall of our city Bangalore in India. So yeah yesterday I posted my selfie video, then a Mercedes G63 AMG and then a BMW M340i in my stories and I saw Rahul suddenly unfollowed me and even removed me as a follower after being my follower for almost 3 years right after viewing my stories. Today I also saw this another girl Nikita unfollowed me as well. She is 24 now and was my classmate too in 1st year and as I was shy, she would try to initiate conversations with me too and often wondered why I didn't talk to her much and ask me that. We were following each other for almost 3 years too but today she unfollowed me as well. I had gained 3 new followers but suddenly lost 2 followers so my follower count is again 180 followers. My follower count is fluctuating between 179-183. Several other peers from my MBA too recently unfollowed me but it seems like they seem to unfollow only me and idk whether its because they find my selfie videos and car content immature or annoying.
By the way its not really about follower count but the fact that they are some of the remnants of those MBA memories so them unfollowing stings more. As I am freshly done and job searching, I am really missing those days and the campus cafeteria vibes. Now life is more unstructured suddenly. I am missing 2024 so much especially as that was the peak MBA year for me as I had lot going on like crush on this girl Akansha and then in 3rd semester in mid 2024 finally breaking out of my shyness and talking to this girl Dimple and several other campus girls. My male peers including Rahul used to tease me which made the environment so memorable. Even early 2025 was better as I was in the edtech internship where I socialized with female interns and also even though final semester was dissertation and no regular classes, I could at least still visit campus for dissertation reasons and submit reports and socialize with the women in the campus. But yeah I also wish I had a time machine and wish I could go back to 2023 and with my new confidence to 1st sem of MBA so I could have more outgoing, made more friends and talked confidently with my crush Anshika and maybe even dated her. Now I am very confident at 25 and can talk to both Indian and foreign expat women in Central Bangalore venues like Cafes, UB City mall etc and I am more visible and bold now but everyone is stranger so there is no social proof. Its still sad that almost all my education life I was the underdog in class always keeping a low profile(in school days due to heavy bullying, in engineering days due to continued social anxiety and in 1st year of MBA still due to the residue of the shyness and hesitation). I was always the quiet and introverted dude in class. It sucks that I won't get that MBA environment again and can't even fully showcase my current confidence to my peers and show them that I am not the underdog type of guy anymore. What do you feel?
By the way its not really about follower count but the fact that they are some of the remnants of those MBA memories so them unfollowing stings more. As I am freshly done and job searching, I am really missing those days and the campus cafeteria vibes. Now life is more unstructured suddenly. I am missing 2024 so much especially as that was the peak MBA year for me as I had lot going on like crush on this girl Akansha and then in 3rd semester in mid 2024 finally breaking out of my shyness and talking to this girl Dimple and several other campus girls. My male peers including Rahul used to tease me which made the environment so memorable. Even early 2025 was better as I was in the edtech internship where I socialized with female interns and also even though final semester was dissertation and no regular classes, I could at least still visit campus for dissertation reasons and submit reports and socialize with the women in the campus. But yeah I also wish I had a time machine and wish I could go back to 2023 and with my new confidence to 1st sem of MBA so I could have more outgoing, made more friends and talked confidently with my crush Anshika and maybe even dated her. Now I am very confident at 25 and can talk to both Indian and foreign expat women in Central Bangalore venues like Cafes, UB City mall etc and I am more visible and bold now but everyone is stranger so there is no social proof. Its still sad that almost all my education life I was the underdog in class always keeping a low profile(in school days due to heavy bullying, in engineering days due to continued social anxiety and in 1st year of MBA still due to the residue of the shyness and hesitation). I was always the quiet and introverted dude in class. It sucks that I won't get that MBA environment again and can't even fully showcase my current confidence to my peers and show them that I am not the underdog type of guy anymore. What do you feel?
22-25, M
