and is well-respected. I also appealed to pathos throughout the Tumblr and Instagram accounts as the captions and photos are meant to make women feel love and happiness. I didn’t have to use that many programs or tools to make these genres since social media accounts are pretty self-explanatory but I used Canva.com to make my infographic and also to make different graphics that were posted to my accounts.

     I used my infographic to list some body-positive and confidence-boosting Instagram accounts to consider following and gave little descriptions of each. I made the graphic very crisp and clear so it is easy to read with a blue background and simple black and white text. I also added clip art photos next to each account to make it cuter and bring attention to it. My audience for this graphic was mainly young women and teenagers and I know girls are more likely to look at something if it is attractive and aesthetically pleasing. I used Twitter and Tumblr to promote it and I got a decent response on Twitter but not so much on Tumblr. On Twitter, I got 10 favorites, 3 retweets and 3 replies and on Tumblr I did not get a response despite utilizing hashtags.

     Because I used social media accounts, promotion of my genres was not too entirely hard for me. I frequently use Instagram so I was familiar with the genre conventions and what had to be done in order to gain likes and followers. On Instagram, I utilized hashtags on my photos that relate to my message such as, “#bodypositive,” “#effyourbeautystandards,” and “#loveyourselffirst” among many others. The hashtags seemed to be what really helped to make my pictures gain likes as my posts with more hashtags usually received more likes. I also reposted some pictures and videos from popular body positive accounts which made some of their followers come over to my account. I tried to follow a lot of users from the body positive community and follow their followers and like their pictures so that they would follow me back and like my photos in return. I also found that commenting on other user’s posts made them more likely to follow me back. I promoted my Instagram on my Tumblr page and also posted a link on my twitter to get the account more views. I tried my best to make my Instagram account resemble other real body-positive accounts so I used high-quality photos, filters, and featured well-known people. I posted my first photo on March 28th and tried to post something every day to keep followers from thinking it was an inactive account. I promoted the account throughout April and followed around 150 users and I got about 45 followers in return.

     Tumblr was a little trickier than Instagram as I had not used the website in a few years. When designing my Tumblr page, I tried to make it so the viewer would feel happier when looking at it. I used a bright blue and pink flowery background and pink text with a white background so the page would be bright and cheerful and pair with the positive quotes and photos nicely. I also utilized hashtags on Tumblr and used mostly the same ones that were used on Instagram. I followed I lot of body-positive and feminism accounts and then followed the people who they reblog from. I promoted my Tumblr page on my Instagram account and on my Twitter to try and get people from the body-positive Instagram community to follow me on Tumblr as well. I began posting to this account on March 26th and promoted it throughout the month of April and I ended up following about 40 users and only getting 6 followers in return. I found it was harder to spread my Tumblr than it was Instagram because it is harder to connect with people and I don’t know if people search hashtags on Tumblr like people do on Instagram.

     Working on this project was a lot more laid back and enjoyable than project #2 since most of the work was already done and I just had to use the information that was found. Project #3 was more challenging than project #2 at times because it wasn’t as straight-forward and I had to use more creativity. For project #2, I had specific tasks that I had to accomplish such as the annotated bibliography and essay that didn’t leave much room for creativity. Sometimes I prefer assignments where I am simply told what to do like with research papers because it is hard for me to initially come up with ideas for projects with more open-ended prompts. For project #2, I had to rely on research and actual studies but for project #3 I had to use my own knowledge of how social media works and what the best methods of promotion would be. The only advice I would give myself for Project #2 would be to find more sources supporting the fact that Instagram can also be a healthy environment as most of the sources supporting that argument were not peer-reviewed.