Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen Make Statements About Their Divorce On Instagram
Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen announced on Friday that they are finalizing their divorce after 13 years of marriage.
For the last couple of months, there have been various reports about their relationship after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback retired and then unretired just 40 days later in March and rejoined the Bucs.
On Friday, after the Buccaneers lost to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night, news broke that they were getting a divorce. Both Brady and Bündchen then took to Instagram soon after to deliver statements, asking for privacy to be respected.
Here are each of their statements released on Friday morning:
Has Your Instagram Account Been Cloned? Experts Warn About Rise In Worrying Scams
Instagram users warned about account cloning scams (Image: GETTY)
Security experts are warning Instagram users about the dangers of copycat accounts. In the past week alone there has been a huge uptick in interest on the topic, with the number of Google searches for "what to do when an Instagram account is cloned" increasing by a whopping 336 percent. And in the face of this threat, tech gurus are advising Instagram users on what to do if they discover their account has been copied.
Naj Ahmed, a cybersecurity expert at VPNOverview, explained that having your Instagram account duplicated can open up a whole can of worms.
It can lead to friends and loved ones being tricked into thinking they're visting a real Instagram page and even direct messaging a scammer.
This can result in someone you know sending a crook sensitive or confidential information that invades their privacy.
Not only that, but if a victim believes they're chatting with someone they know on Instagram it can lead to them being more open to scams, for instance if they're asked to transfer money over to someone they think they know.
Woman conned out of money through Whatsapp messages
Besides potentially monetary loss, bogus Instagram pages can also be used for catfishing scams which can lead to a victim experiencing emotional pain once they realise they've been tricked further down the line.
Speaking about the threat of fake Instagram pages, Ahmed said: "The biggest risk of having your social media accounts cloned is that it can potentially lead to an identity crisis. I’ve seen friends or family members not knowing that they were talking to a 'cloned' account, and often end up sending photos that could potentially lead to a privacy situation.
Google has seen a rise in searches related to Instagram accounts being cloned (Image: GETTY)
"Not only that, but many malicious actors who clone social media accounts often start asking the victim’s close friends for monetary benefits, and there have been many cases where unsuspecting individuals have ended up sending large amounts thinking that they were helping a friend, but were instead just transferring money to someone else altogether."
If you realise your account has been hacked, or stumble across a duplicate version of your page, here's what Ahmed says you need to do to stay safe...
Tell your friends and contacts: If you notice that your account has been hacked, the first thing you need to do is notify friends and loved ones that you have been hacked and highlight the cloned account that is not yours.
Make sure they don't engage with the account: Tell your friends and Instagram followers not to engage with the cloned account. Warn them against any kind of interactions, especially since scammers can use fake accounts for phishing scams where they ask victims to send them money.
Report the account: The final thing you need to do is report the account in order to ensure it is shut down. Only the person being impersonated can file a report against the cloned account. If you want to report a fake Instagram profile then head to this page.
I Quit My Full-time Tech Job At Instagram To Become A Creator And Voice Actor. Here's What I've Learned.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Joy Ofodu, a comedic content creator and voice actor with 113,000 Instagram followers and 103,000 TikTok followers. It has been edited for length and clarity.
Ofodu quit her job as an integrated marketing manager at Instagram earlier this month after four years working at the social media giant. She is based in San Francisco and recently received a masters degree in marketing.
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, a wee Nigerian American lass. I was a very awkward, very performative kid.
I spent a lot of time scouring the internet, chatting with adults, playing games, and just being involved in conversations that I probably should not have been in as a child.
Very early on, I got a grounding on what ideal entertainers looked like. I looked up to the Anne Hathaways, Amanda Bynes, Hilary Duffs — later we got Raven Simone. I was trying to see myself in these women and girls and really struggled.
I realized that I loved to perform. I begged my parents to let me take acting and modeling classes. I had booked one pilot, but my career was cut short because someone took advantage financially, so I put my dream to bed.
As a student at the University of Southern California, every summer, I was back to the Bay Area, sharpening my skills in Silicon Valley. Somewhere, I got introduced to technology and Instagram.
Tech understands what entertainment is still struggling to understand, which is how quickly you can reach people with a message and how lo-fi that production actually needs to be to be effective.
Realizing that Instagram was at the center of everything, I got pulled in. I hopped on the glorious Facebook chariot to make my way over to Menlo Park. Thoughts of acting were completely out the window; I just wanted to support filmmakers and Black creators online.
I became enamored with niche creators and communities. I was a kid in a candy store.
I didn't lose my love for entertainment, but I did realize that I was going to grow faster if I stayed in technology where people are begging for new formats, new products, new innovations as opposed to entertainment, which really wants to protect ways of working.
How I decided to become a creator — and grew my following
About two years ago, I got really comfortable in my job. I'd gone from being an intern to a coordinator to an associate manager to a manager in the span of a few years. My brain was looking for a challenge.
It was the pandemic and I stopped commuting to Menlo Park. There was a beautiful stillness that happened that allowed me to go, "Wait a minute, all these creative things I had when I was younger, what can I do? You've got your time back."
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All these creators I've been supporting — I can do what they do. It was this realization, as well as encouragement from my colleagues and my friends, like, "Joy, you're really funny."
Next thing I knew I was dropping three to five Reels per week.
I started posting Reels about dating. I would work full time, go to school at night, and then somewhere in between work and school, I would go on a hot date.
At the same time, Instagram saw a huge brand shift from being this perfectly curated aesthetic place to where that does still exist for people who are obsessed with imagery and photography, but also a really rough, crude, spontaneous kind of place.
I observed that, swallowed it, and spit it back out. I made sure that that was a part of my Reels. They don't need to look absolutely perfect. I don't have to present myself the way a television anchor might; I can speak to people the way I'm speaking to my friends.
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People look at me being at Instagram and me being a creator and think that I had crazy inside information. But it wasn't my job to tell other creators what to do. I used hashtags and trending music, some of those in-house "best practices," but nothing that wasn't available on the @Creators Instagram page.
The best advice I got was from outside Instagram, from people who were managing creators or were creators themselves. The advice that I began to apply in my own career was to be consistent. I think of my algorithm as a monster, and it's a hungry monster. My specific algorithm monster gets hungry at least three times a week.
I realized that the platform I had on Instagram and TikTok was a viable business when people wanted to pay me to advertise on it. I was also able to use short-form video to audition for voice-acting gigs.
As an Instagram employee, I could do brand deals with companies that were not competitors of Meta. But I could not, for example, take part in a paid Instagram creator program, or a paid TikTok, YouTube, or Snapchat program.
Ofodu's comedic Reels get thousands of views on Instagram. Screengrab/@joyofodu/Instagram
I made a proactive pitch list and went after some brands. The first couple of things that I was paid to do on Instagram were gifts for posting, which is $0 and 0 cents. Now, I can get paid upwards of $7,000 for a video.
It feels great to be a part of an era of influencers who aren't afraid to say what they're getting paid. With all of us sharing our salaries or our deals, using apps like Clara to be transparent about what we're paid, it increases the equity in the playing field, especially for Black creators. Silence is what has allowed companies to mistreat us for so long.
Eventually, it was time to leave my full-time job behind
I wanted to balance both — Instagram and content — as long as possible to keep up those dual incomes. And I knew that being a creator was helping me at work.
Then, I became stressed because my role at Instagram — and the way I was activating my business through branded content, voiceover acting, and going into studios — did not allow me to make longer content.
It was that tingle and that spark that got me to think about leaving my full-time job.
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At the time of quitting, I had active partnerships, a primary focus, and voiceover gigs. I love that I can be a voice in animation for people who aren't used to hearing or seeing Black voices.
I'm combining all the building blocks to have the career that I want. I don't know how long it will last and I don't really care. I'm invested in serving my audience. If I continue to focus on serving my audience and staying energized, then it will sustain itself for as long as it's supposed to.
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