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Better would be to say: “the Instagram aesthetics is changing”

more like one part of instagram isnt into the "intagram aesthetic" ig is too big for these clickbaity headlines to represent the entire platform

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aesthetics | iːsˈθɛtɪks, ɛsˈθɛtɪks | (US also esthetics)
plural noun [usually treated as singular]