Gwen's Life Journal

Pause on the Archnemesis Story (Odd Zach and Partially Lukas comeback?!)

As a summer resolution, I want to start being honest with myself about what I'm feeling and not judge what's happening in my mind. I think that, especially in the last few chapters that I talked about Zach and Lukas, I started feeling super subconscious about what people would think if they read these stories, especially the fact that I keep bringing those two boys back every now and then (especially Zach). But I really wanted to let my thoughts flow, especially because at the end of the day, this is literally my story and my book. And because honestly flows through these digital pages, what's going in my head at the moment will connect with future chapters whether I want it or not, so I might aswell tell you what's going on now instead of waiting a few years down the line to tell you "Oh, I feel this way because back in the day this happened..."

So, back to the title... are they coming back into my life? In an odd way, I think they might be, but not in the way you guys might be expecting. And the thing is... I am not the one looking for them, but it's interesting what's happening.

This chapter is connected to the other chapter titled :

WTF ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?

And in there, I talked about how it was highly probable that Zach was stalking me on IG. Please reread it so that you are caught up on this story, because I want to talk about a lot of things, and I won't have much space to retell what I already wrote last year.

The main points to take that I didn't emphasized a lot but will play a part here are that there was an instance when Zach's brother stalked my professional business IG page and liked a bunch of pictures, and that there was a time that Zach's mom requested for me to follow her on Linkedin and a few hours later Zach, himself,  was also requesting me in there aswell (these two stories I only mentioned briefly cause it was literally that- nothing more, nothing less.)

Now that we are all caught up, the reason I am writing is that a few months ago, I started a podcast with my dear friend Tia. We are not necessarily looking to become extremely famous, but we are having a really fun time with it. Now, when we decided to do this, we created separate emails and accounts from our personal ones in order to promote the podcast. A few days ago, I entered the IG account for the podcast, and I found a notification that said "Follow suggestions: Zach, Simon, and others," and when I saw this, I started laughing, because it might give stalker vibes. However, I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt, so I told Tia, and together we did some digging.

Before I get into the itty bitty gritty of the story, we need to take some tech lessons- specifically IG algorithm lessons. The following information is from ChatGPT, and to get the most honest explanations, I didn't personalize it; I just told the chat, "Hey, explain this thing to me."

We are going to understand how the Instagram algorithm works, specifically in relation to recommended suggestions:

I screenshot the notification on IG and uploaded it to the chat, so you will see that ChatGPT refers to the suggestions by their names (I, of course, changed the real ones for the purpose of this chapter). According to our robot friend: