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a gay male who boasts an excess of followers and likes on his Instagram profile. He might have acquired his online popularity by diligently farming followers, retaining followers from another platform like tumblr, or even through purchasing engagement from a third-party app. There is a 99.9% chance that he has autonomously labeled his account as a business profile, indicated by the “public figure,” “personal blog,” or “entrepreneur” subtitles. Other defining characteristics include having conspicuous elective surgeries (namely fillers), extravagant/outrageous hairstyle and color, abuse of self-tanner, unreasonably filled-in eyebrows, and excessive whitening of teeth to the point of translucence. A master of misdirection, the instagay carefully constructs an online persona that portrays himself as attractive, fun, rich, outgoing, happy, and confident; in reality, he is typically plain, desperate, awkward, insecure, depressed, and more often than not—tragic.
Person 1: This boy’s profile is obnoxious.

Person 2: Right? Textbook instagay.
Instagay by Invidiosa January 22, 2019
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InstaFAG 

Instagram + Faggot.
Used to call Instagram users.
Dude, you're an InstaFAG!
InstaFAG by cegeb April 12, 2013
It’s what you’d call dishrags and trashy people that your significant other slithers up to on dating sites and/or Instagram, usually behind your back when he needs a self-esteem boost. Dim witted, one-note and superficial. Like dishrags you can find on Instagram. 🤷🏻 ♀️
Are you keeping up on all of the latest with Afghanistan? I bet those instarags don’t even know what’s going on.

Instagame 

verb/noun
The game instagrammers play in order to gain more followers/likes. Common tactics include following your prey until they follow you back and then promptly unfollowing them or using hashtags such as #follow4follow and #like4like. Another example would be asking someone to follow you and then not following them back after they have followed you.
verb:
Taras: "Hey Tim, I got Carolyn to follow me."
Tim: "Careful she doesn't instagame you. Shes a beezy."

noun:
Taras: "Tim, I lost a follower!"
Tim: "Dat Instagame doe."
Instagame by Taras M December 11, 2012

Instagaymous 

A homosexual who is known by the gay community around the world, on Instagram. Subject typically flaunts their physical appeal through shirtless selfies, aspirational lifestyle photos and the overtagging of every #gay #instagay #legday hashtag possible.
I think that guy is instagaymous. I almost didn't recognize him with his shirt on.
Instagaymous by elevatorbones February 25, 2015

instagoggles 

When a person, usually female, uses instagram to post pictures of themselves. These pictures are usually doctored to the point where the person is unrecognizable. These pictures are so butchered that unattractive people look semi-decently good-looking. The beer goggles of the Internet.
-hey bro, did you see that girl on instagram. She is so hot.

- Oh no. You have instagoggles on. If you take them off she looks like Golem from Lord of the Rings.
instagoggles by SuckMyNick July 23, 2012