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Extremely Edited

How I'm finding my style again

I struggled; I mastered my style (thanks to social media); I evolved and lost my way; now I'm headed in a new direction

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Haley Boyd
Jun 06, 2026
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This is a revisit of an issue from a couple years ago.

Years ago, when 70k people followed my personal Instagram, I decided to stop posting pictures of myself on the internet.

I went cold turkey, because I’d hit a wall. I was way off track (you’ll see why), and I suppose removing my image from the internet was my way of attempting to cleanse my palette.

This might surprise you, especially given the limited context above. But putting aside the obvious harms of social media, I actually had a largely positive experience online over the years.

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