Hello… This is so weird. Like I genuinely thought I was being paranoid (I have anxiety and am sometimes quite paranoid and thus actively watch who sees my stories on Instagram etc.)
I have a casual account. It’s not private, but the people who follow me are either my friends or other people who know me through others or social circles etc etc… So even the people I don’t follow back, are people I can understand why they follow me.
Sometimes random accounts watch my stories but there’s often always a reason for it, like me joining in on a template. But lately, around the same time I started following this one nugu group, some anonymous private accounts who don’t follow me have been watching my stories every now and then. I’ve kept count of them and taken screenshots just in case, and they’re mostly accounts that seem to specifically be made for “lurking”, as in, some of them don’t follow anyone or only follow a few people.
I brushed it off at first but well… I began finding reasons to think that these accounts could be members of said nugu group. I can explain some more if anyone wants, but for now:
I made an entirely new account just to test it. Different email and everything to my original, so the algorithm doesn’t know it’s owned by the same person as my original account. I even started following random mainstream people, like Ariana Grande and some football players etc. just to fool the algorithm more. Then, I went to search up those accounts that had been watching my original account’s stories, and the suggestions under many of those accounts included members of the nugu group.
I even went to check some of the members’ followers and many of those private accounts that followed anyone, followed them. So they are definitely connected somehow. And I don’t think these could all be just fans of the group because why would they make separate obvious lurking profiles? Like some of them don’t have a profile picture and their username is just gibberish, random numbers, or just a keyboard smash.
Although I’ve had my doubts, I talked to a few of my friends about this and now we’re convinced that they are the members’ alt accounts. Timing and everything, it can’t be a coincidence even though it feels ridiculous to think that members from a group I love are lurking on my profile…. My friends even joked I’m gonna get casted lol cause I post dance videos on my profile a lot and my posts are overall already quite “K-pop idol personal Instagram”-vibe (quote from my friend)
I’ve been in the K-pop scene since 2012 and nothing like this has ever happened to me. I was wondering if it happens to anyone else? Is this normal? Should I feel embarrassed that they’re potentially making fun of me together or something? I know many of you might feel like it’s hard to believe and trust me I don’t fully believe it either but I have no other explanations so far. They’re actually nugu btw, so it makes sense they’re more interested in their fans cause they don’t have super many, but still… I’m not going to say any names though, for now.
Oh also, the members from the group have watched my stories on their official accounts too. They’re that nugu lol. I’m in one of their DMs technically, as they accepted my message request (I tagged them in a story) and they reacted to it with an emoji.
TLDR: I highly suspect members of a group I follow are looking through my Instagram on alt accounts- anyone with a similar experience?
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