Obscure and wonderful Instagram hashtags

Hashtags on Instagram are just bloody amazing.

I am constantly amazed by the diversity and richness of what to find. It's like hitting a new seam of photographic gold everytime I come across a new one lurking on someone's feed.

It's surprising that hashtags often get overlooked, both by users and brands. However, the more you dig the more you find how these tags truly are the connective tissue for small and mega communities.

My hashtag archaeology has led me to conclude that the more extreme in #hashtag obscurity the more vibrant the micro-community is that feeds off the hashtag.

Of course the most popular hashtags are tracked and monitored daily, with #love pulling in over 23m photos and #foodporn 2.5m photos. But the hot hashtags are not always the biggest!

So to celebrate the obscure and wonderful I thought I would share a few recent interesting finds.

 

#texturestalker - 81 photos

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