My teenage kids keep asking me to take photos of them for Instagram and then they critique my photography skills and reshoot everything multiple times until it's perfect. I've become their unpaid photographer and they've become these anxious perfectionists and I don't know if I should stop helping or if that will make them feel unsupported.
More people experience this than they realize.
Family roles can become distorted when one generation's aesthetic labor serves another generation's social media performance needs.
“Where Are You with Instagram and comparison culture?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.