Pod Groups on IG, Press Day at Citifield
Lets Go Mets!!
Meet the Mets. Meet the Mets. Step right up and beat the Mets.
Just kidding, that’s not the song, but it’s semi fitting if you follow the team’s history at all…
I made posts about my experience at Citifield last week, which you can check out here on IG and here on TikTok. My soothing vocal fry is in the latter, if that helps.
It’s one of the few press events I still go to, because I truly feel like I get something out of it. And as a Mets fan, it’s just cool to be a part of the “unveiling” of new things for the ballpark, like the new Samsung screens everywhere, the Amazin Memorabilia store, and obviously the concessions. I’m pretty sure one of my goals as a budding food blogger back in 2008 was to get an invite to something like this one day, and now here I am, still going strong in 2022. Crazy.
But anyway, super excited to see a few new folks on the food roster: Pig Beach, Patsy’s Pizza, and Jacob’s Pickles, to name a few. Did you know that Citifield will now be the only ballpark that has fried pickles?? Now you know!
The swag bag was pretty dope too - bobble heads for Jacob DeGrom, Pete Alonso, and my personal fave: Mrs Met as Wonder Woman.
We’re also tackling the topic of Pod Groups on the blog today, based on a lot of your requests last week! And thank you for that, because sometimes my brain is running in so many different directions I don’t know where to focus.
Click here for the full piece, but here’s a snippet:
An engagement pod is essentially a group chat of creators on Instagram. Every time someone posts, they DM the post to the pod, and everyone in the pod is supposed to like/comment, and maybe even save it.
The pod usually exists within Instagram (a group DM) or sometimes, for the extra paranoid, they use WhatsApp or Signal. Signal makes more sense considering FB/Meta owns WhatsApp too…but I digress.
This idea started right when Instagram switched it’s algorithm from chronological to whatever-the-fuck-it-is-now back in 2016 or so. The “goal” of the pod group was to help boost your “importance” to the algorithm by giving you a nice amount of GUARANTEED likes and comments within minutes of posting. Sounds like a decent deal, right? Well, not so fast.
Imagine you’re standing in a circle of people, half of whom you don’t know, feeling awkward as it is. Now, imagine someone jumps in the middle of the circle and starts talking about the circumference of their morning poo. WTF?! You want to run away, but you can’t. In fact, you HAVE TO cheer them on and tell them what a great job they’re doing. Feels a little shitty right? No pun intended. Just kidding it was absolutely intended. And now you know how a pod group feels sometimes.
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Til next time!
-D