It's not as drastic of a change as the decision to rework user timelines, but there's plenty of backlashing and tongue thrashing going on in response to Instagram's new look. The social image and video network revealed its new look on May 11, touting a cleaner user interface and an update of its previous app icon.
Instagram's new app icon was inspired by the old one, with the update simplifying the camera and the rainbow switched to a gradient design. The company also updated the icons for its Boomerang, Hyperlapse and Layout apps.
Inside the app, Instagram has cleaned up the user interface to put a heavier focus on photos and video without altering the ways people have become accustomed to navigating the app.
"The Instagram community has evolved over the past five years from a place to share filtered photos to so much more — a global community of interests sharing more than 80 million photos and videos every day," Instagram stated in a blog post. "Our updated look reflects how vibrant and diverse your storytelling has become."
Instagram closed out the blog post with a thank-you for the support it has received over the years from its community, a community that wasted no time in sending back no-thank-you's for the update.
So everyone obviously wasn't upset about the update. However, as is often the case, outrage often outdoes adoration.
Instagram looks like an app for children after the new update
— Carlos (@CarlosParejo) May 11, 2016
And there has even been some revolt going on:
can i un-update? #instagramupdate — isabela moner (@isabelamoner) May 11, 2016
I refuse to update Instagram — Kelsey (@TheQueenKelsey) May 12, 2016
There has been quiet support for the new icon:
Unpopular opinion: I kind of like the Instagram update — Jerred Albaugh (@Jalbaugh24) May 12, 2016
And it has even inspired art:
I actually really like the new logo! It kinds of looks like an instagram filter to me~ it's cute! What are your thoughts? A photo posted by Laura Brouwers (@cyarine) on May 11, 2016 at 12:03pm PDT
