The designers at Instagram have slapped a “Mindless Rage” filter onto the people of the internet today, changing their old “hey, look, a vintage camera” app icon to one that looks like a tie-dyed piece of hard candy sitting in your iPhone’s apps folder. Nestled there, it waits, like a digital fishing lure, to trick you into thinking it’s one of a billion other brightly colored camera icons and disrupt your carefully calibrated, Instagram-based life. But the denizens of social media—never quick to adopt a change that doesn’t involve replacing their smartphones—have fired back, denouncing this disruption to their daily lives. Criticisms of the new design range from the inventive:
To the memetic: