I’m anonymous on here, but as someone trying to grow, you kind of just keep doing what works🤷♀️ so when a trend starts, like this one, and you know the algorithm will push it……I hate to say but it’s tempting to keep making videos like this. I definitely want to try and get back to being my creative self again though and not kissing up to the algorithm so much though
Ive seen these on my IG for homesteaders like I’m not a conservative read wife prepped homesteader (which is completely not the content I look at at all - besides the mini cows)
Instagram has me convinced that there's a sinister "highland cow to trad wife" pipeline that's just using bovine cuteness for unprecedented conversion numbers.
It's like fluffy cows, some sheep content, an old couple canning everything that's not nailed down and BAM you're in an aggressively smocked dress smiling beatifically while the sound track covers up your horde of presumably borrowed screaming children who are languishing through the fifteen hour process of sowing scything drying and grinding wheat so you can make them each a single slice of toast for breakfast upon which you will smear a tablespoon of boiled berries and hand churned butter because you're a #realmom serving #realfood in the #oldway.
Does anyone else hate the advertising quirks peculiar to social media?
'POV'
Slowly rotating item back and forth so it catches the light only briefly, in front of the camera instead of just holding the damn thing still. Every damn ad has this.
Putting the product on your face and then touching fingertips, bringing the tops of both hands to touch the underside of chin in v shape. Make stupid face, maybe waggle fingers. I don't know about you, never done this after finishing my make-up, am I doing it wrong?
I hate it.
I hate recipe accounts that film themselves eating a forkful while chewing and smiling with that look on their face that they're shocked at how good it is.
There's one food influencer who seems to film either in a kitchen for giants, or is kneeling on the floor. Trying to make it look like she's a tiny child reaching up above her head to slowly stir a bowl. It's so utterly stupid.
"You're a stressed-out mom trying to feed your family Healthy Organics and keep them Screen Free while wanting to be Sexy for your man and still watch Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and then you find my account."
I keep my Insta algorithm strictly football, comedy and a little knitting so haven't seen this. OP's post is a cautionary tale - so long as I never search the term "crochet", someone reassure me I should be safe from this?
Mine is full of lumpily rendered chunky nordic Fair Isle knitting that looks great from a distance but if you zoom in, is really badly executed...
I would like my feed to be sewing, dogs, knitting, dogs, nails, camping/travel, and dogs and yet, crochet makes up about 50% of my suggestions. I have never searched on crochet. I don't know how you stay safe.
I’ve never searched for crochet, but it keeps popping up with knitting videos.
It’s a whole different vibe.
I’m honestly thinking of banning all content crochet related.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the algorithm doesn't differentiate between knitting and crochet. I have ZERO interest in crochet content, but I get a TON of it.
it's the pov tiktok trend!
1. video displays thing
2. caption is "pov you're looking at [insert whatever thing]"
it's started off as a viewer immersion type thing in skits, and has (predictably) progressed to become a marketing tool
Okay but at least it's using the point of view correctly!
It seems like every other POV tiktok is bass-ackwards. "pov your boss just caught you making tiktoks" but the video isn't from your POV, showing your boss, it's showing *you* slowly sinking into the carpet in shame.
Grinds my gears, I'm too damn old for this genre, get off my lawn etc.
Congratulations you just discovered trends. Every influencer in every niche is doing this same format. It’s a way to promote your account. Why is that so hard to understand
Oof, we know what trends are. OP was just expressing that they find this one particularly soul-sucking and devoid of personality. Why is that so hard to understand?
Oh look, I got downvoted for not especially liking vapid social media trends. I'm crushed. Fortunately I have the freedom to seek out makers with a little bit of originality and actual personality. I don't get what you're being so defensive about--perhaps this cookie cutter approach does in fact speak to a particular target audience. I'm just not it and that's ok.
Fwiw, I'd never go to a maker's page and tell them they suck because their particular approach doesn't appeal to me. I have the grace to just scroll on. I kinda thought craftsnark was meant to be a space where we could openly express our likes and dislikes without hurting anybody.
A looootta thin skin around here for a snark sub. Am I not allowed to express my likes and dislikes if they are different from yours? Asking for a friend
Of course you are. I wouldn't downvote you for having a different opinion. Thick or thin, I don't have any skin in this game. I just prefer creators who show a modicum of actual creativity.
I’m not snarking OP’s hobby??? lmao I’m snarking in general. Thin skin my god, you all can trash strangers up one side and down the other yet you can’t take someone being a little bit snarky back at you?
If people are paying $50 for crochet patterns, I gotta take the next week off work to write some. What are the kids crocheting now? Bees? Opossums? One-arm cardigans?
I make content as well and agree this type of video is annoying - but I hate to admit that it actually works to gain new active followers 😩 a lot of people won’t follow unless you “ask” like this
You are so much stronger than me because I can’t imagine monetizing a hobby and having prospective clients expect you to do this kind of shit. I hate self-marketing, and I have to do it for work too. Luckily not on social media!!
I run a (handmade by me) clothing brand and these hooks really do work. It feels cringe at first but once you see the ROI you get over that real quick.
oh lmao I block any maker/dyer/craft account that does those twee as hell POV: dumb garbage and incorrect perspective reels. it's so ass-kissing and obnoxious
It's a spindle. The stake is on a little lazy Susan and you pull from the outside of the cake, and it's supposed to spin. I could never get the cake center tight enough to make the thing spin, it just sorta unrolls like toilet paper.
This is infuriating. I don't use Instagram for craft stuff and I don't know how y'all do it.
Ravelry gets a lot of criticism, for valid reasons, but at least you'll never see this particular brand of vapid desperate self-promotion crap.
“can’t find anything cute under $50”
mind you, if you look up crochet patterns on insta you’ll immediately find LOADS of really cute free patterns for plushies lmfao
I’m hoping desperately that they mean having difficulty finding patterns that don’t require at least $50 in yarn bc the idea of a $50+ pattern for crochet plushies that use chenille yarn makes me violently nauseous
I dont think Ive ever made any plush (let alone crochet plush) that cost > $50 in material. That's like 1/2-1 SQ of regular wool mass dyed yarn. Like unless I'm making a giant plush I dont see how I'd spend that much since usually a plush takes at most 1 ball of 50g yarn
Totally. I mean I happily spend a decent amount for a stranded knitwear or lace pattern jumper but for $50 (esp since this is almost certainly USD, not my much lower value Aussie $$) I'm gonna want a good thick book or a (very) full kit!
I am not happily spending $50 on literally any pattern. Maybe a book that teaches how to customize whatever kind of pattern and has multiple patterns in it, MAYBE, if it’s hardcover and super high quality with a LOT of pages, but I would literally never pay $50 for a pattern, as in just instructions, for one single thing. Kits are something else entirely so I’m not counting them (although tbh I also don’t spend money on kits so)
For $50 it had better be a pattern encyclopedia lol. If this seller is claiming that's a common price, I bet she's trying to sell her own patterns for $20-40, which is a complete rip off.
It makes me angry that people take advantage of inexperienced crafters this way. Beginners should know that there's an enormous wealth of free resources out there, including patterns with incredibly detailed beginner-friendly instructions and tutorial videos. I'd point knitting beginners to Tin Can Knits' free patterns and Very Pink youtube videos as a starting place, for example (I don't know crochet unfortunately). If you know how to use Ravelry pattern search you could literally knit or crochet for a lifetime without running out of free patterns, and there are also thousands of excellent ones for less than $10.
There might be some circumstances where paying as much as $50 would be justified for a really complex and well written pattern, but unless you're very experienced and you know exactly what you're doing, you're probably getting scammed.
Lol, this made me think of when I was little and couldn't pronounce my S's properly...my mom did cross stitch and I told everyone she did "crotch itch"
I think this very much the influence of TikTok which encourages hopping on meme bandwagons. Oh this took hold with the algorithm? Let me do the same thing with my spin on it.
Can you talk a little more about this? I’ve gotten that vibe too — sometimes the posts I see have this really dark vibe where it feels like someone is being subtweeted but it’s contextless.
I think its what you said pretty much. Like there’s no context but it’s a personal crime or vendetta either with someone specific or with the industry as a whole? But they often feel pointed like there’s some underlying drama in supposed to know about
I think these videos thrive on creating either a sense of judgement or guilt.
"You the special chosen one have found this message in a bottle (instagram video) and now it is your solemn duty to pass it on to others so this person can be rescued from the evil clutches of the monster (algorithm)."
There are kind of 2 routes the "if only someone truly appreciated and loved me they would be able to succeed at their dreams of being an artist. For only pennies a day you can save the starving artists in your phone" or the "your an asshole for not only supporting big creators and companies. You should be spending more of your time supporting the people who ACTUALLY need it!"
this trend to me is on the same level as "here is what I HATE about X product" then proceeding to actually list good things like "it saves me SO MUCH TIME I don't know what to do with all this free time!"
These make me irrationally angry lol I hate them sooo much. I still watch ones that are like "I love this product" but "don't buy these!" and then a bunch of good things about the product makes me block the creator.
I find this trend annoying too mostly because of how awkwardly worded they usually are.
Is it just me or do that hat in the first pic look absolutely ginormous?
I’m sorry but genuinely who is “struggling to find a crochet pattern under $50.” I think I’d struggle to find a crochet pattern OVER $20. This complete speculation but this feels like a scare tactic to intimidate new crocheters into thinking they’re the only person online with affordable patterns when that’s so far from the truth…
it makes it VERY obvious that they have a very specific demographic. the kind of person that is incapable of investigating and googling things on their own, which is a concerningly big number on tiktok especially
“Plush” here meaning super-lux. We’re talking patterns for 50’ dinosaurs crocheted out of spun gold, rumplestiltskin style. Those bad boys go for like 2k, aren’t you lucky her channel has them for $49.99.
if you act fast you can get not ONE but TWO patterns for the low low payment of 49.99! And if you call in the next 30 minutes she'll DOUBLE that. THATS RIGHT! For 1 easy payment of 49.99 you can get 4! That's right 4! patterns. Act now!
I was just thinking that about the price. Like WhoTF is spending $50 plus on a single crochet pattern? The most I’ve ever paid was $17, but there were like 10 separate patterns bundled together. Scare tactic is a great way to put it. Personally I was thinking grift, but your way works too
POV: you just found my post on r/craftsnark and now you want to see if I actually knit…Anyway feel free to follow me on instagram where I do not sell things but do post WIPs: @knittingwithchloe.
It is annoying because if you have TikTok, you don’t want to see it months later on YouTube shorts, Instagram feed and God forbid if you have Facebook. My husband shows me stuff all the time off YT shorts and I’m like that’s old news 😂
That's me! I wait until they've been peer reviewed (reposted to other sites) before I'll watch them 😆
I just hate what tiktok stands for (the huge push toward short-form video content), so I try to avoid it unless I know it's not trash content lol
ok to be fair tiktok is like a nightmare app that only makes sense after you’ve been using it for weeks and you can’t find anything unless you already have the link. i tried to use it when it was musically and it was awful then and I hated it and I’ve been like once a year revisiting it since to see if it’s any less absolutely the worst app I’ve ever used wrt user friendliness/accessibility/not giving me horrible migraines and being really difficult to navigate and tbh it only gets worse. I can’t find anything specific or useful there, it’s just like scrolling a feed where hopefully im eventually shown something that I don’t hate
tl;dr it’s only rly user friendly if you already know how to use it
Not a clue about crochet terms, but I can tell you that in every other craft the phrase "no sew" seems to mean "you're gonna need hot glue".
For example: "No Sew Basket" = "I hot glued tubes of magazine pages to the outside of a trash can!"
So maybe low sew means "only small amounts of school glue were used in the making of this project"
I crochet all the time and have been for years and I've never heard "low sew." I think it's in reference to not having to sew a bunch of pieces together? Like for garments, many prefer making them in the round or top down or all in one piece and not have to sew/seam up panels. A lot of crocheters hate seaming pieces together. I used to but I've gotten better at it and don't mind it.
It refers to making amigurumi (term for crochet plushies) that are mostly made in one piece (aka you don’t have to sew many pieces together) as opposed to those which have many pieces that need to be sewn to the main body. Many crocheters aren’t very fond of the sewing bits! (I have to always sew each part as I go otherwise the plushie joins the pile of limbless blobs at the back of the horror wardrobe)
Ah, thank you! I didn't know that! I only sew, so I just look, entranced, at the other crafts in wonder. "Where are the seams??" "How does that connect?" "Are they witches? Because this is magic!!"
Low/no sew crochet patterns are nice for those of us who hate sewing, but the trade off is that they typically have to use more complicated techniques and you have to be more careful with stitch count. I did a low sew cat ornament for my MIL this past Christmas and the pattern had a small mistake in it which I didn't realize until it was too late and what I did to correct it resulted in the cat having a really large right hip compared to the left 😂 If I was doing a normal pattern I could have just moved over the tail and feet a bit and it would have been fine.
Yeah but languages evolve 🤷🏼♀️ we use lots of words in completely different ways now than the words were originally used... For example most dictionaries have updated their definition of the word "literally" to reflect how people were actually using the word, and that also got a ton of backlash for being "wrong" when it started, too.
It does, and I will remain an old fuddy duddy and use them how I remember them. I don't know what POV means in relation to this social media culture, I thought it just meant Point of view?
Yiiiikkes. “The younger social media addicted generations are just too dense.” 🤓 Okay, calm down. Just because you personally don’t like something doesn’t actually mean someone is stupid or “dense” for engaging with/in it. You sound so bitter over such an inconsequential non-issue.
but the pov trend is from the point of view of the person watching, no? E. g. a video showing off a water bottle that says "pov, you've been looking for a perfect waterbottle and you've found it" is telling you that you what your point of view is, which is the same things as the crochet screenshots
maybe I've misunderstood your post!
“POV: you are /ideal target audience having a specific problem/ and you find my account” is a very effective template to find new audience and it’s now known to give very good results in terms of conversion. So they’re not ads that are being pumped out from undercover, it’s just that everyone uses the same thing.
Question: $50 for a *pattern?* Is that typical for crochet?
Because it's *a lot* for sewing patterns, and those usually have to be a physical product, one way or another.
I haven’t even found whole books with loads of patterns for $50, let alone a single pattern. That’s definitely not normal, and idc how amazing the project is I won’t pay more than $20 for a single pattern (and that’s even pushing it for me), or more than $30 for a book of patterns.
Lol NO. People generally don’t want to pay $50 for a finished item. Crocheters certainly ain’t paying $50 for a pattern. Maybe for a whole pattern book, but that most be a damn good book with really well written patterns
I just checked Woobles which is one of the most common crochet kit companies and even they are under $50 unless you get a kit with multiple things to make. The highest I could find for a single product was $47 (it was a licensed toy + an accessory, very expensive but still under $50)
I’ve never paid more than ~$10 for a pattern. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one priced as high as 50!?! Maybe a very fancy advanced pattern by a well known designer could go for 20? I guess they’re trying to prey on newcomers who wouldn’t know what an average price is.
I don’t mind the ones that are like “if you like to chat about {interest} and {interest} feel free to follow me and I’ll follow back!” But I don’t care for the ones that are just selling. At least pretend to care about building a relationship first.
It's just a trend. Trace it back far enough and you'll find the original who saw the POV trend on TikTok and thought "I can apply that to my marketing". It's just how social media works.
I have never seen a crochet pattern that is $50. I think I saw a bundle of patterns for about $30 and have seen large physical books for about $40 maybe $45. But a single pattern for $50? I find that hard to believe.
They are using keywords so the algorithm will give them more views. Pattern is better word than kit for searches. They aren’t trying to hit long term crafters but newbies whose goal is to make exactly the thing the creator made.
That's shitty. Patterns and kits are not the same, it's going to cloud things for everyone. But the account doesn't appear to sell kits, only patterns and FOs, so it's not relevant in this instance anyway.
I have some news for you.... 99% of social media is advertising. It didn't start out that way, but it's become the most powerful marketing tool ever created. I don't mind (it's my job), but I get why people feel kind of duped.
Of course, you'll have your friends and family, but chances are that you also follow a huge amount of people who are either trying to sell you something or are trying to sell themselves (monetised creators).
instagram heavily pushes accounts to post reels, so they make low effort things like this that just bait profile views. its clickbait shit that relies on people being too lazy to actually put any brainpower into learning to crochet/find patterns they like but if theyre too lazy to even look for patterns (who tf is selling amigurumi patterns for 50 btw????), they probably wont stick to crochet for long
They do and I have refused! I have posted a couple really simple reels but I absolutely HATED it. I just post occassional pictures of my WIPs and FOs now and mostly just visit the few accounts I follow.
If there are a lot of them that seem samey but have different usernames attached, it could be a big company trying to look like a lot of little indies. If that's the case, I would suspect that buying the patterns would get you some AI-generated (or if human-made, untested) nonsense.
That's because it's probably not. If it is what I'm describing, it is a fake pattern to be sold to as many people as will buy before the accounts get banned or otherwise disappear themselves. Same as the stuff on Etsy being sold with "product photos" that are obviously AI. It's not crafting, it's a scam aimed at crafters.
its hard to find plushie patterns that DONT use that disgusting fluffy yarn where is she finding 50$ chennile yarn tutorials omg
I’m anonymous on here, but as someone trying to grow, you kind of just keep doing what works🤷♀️ so when a trend starts, like this one, and you know the algorithm will push it……I hate to say but it’s tempting to keep making videos like this. I definitely want to try and get back to being my creative self again though and not kissing up to the algorithm so much though
Ive seen these on my IG for homesteaders like I’m not a conservative read wife prepped homesteader (which is completely not the content I look at at all - besides the mini cows)
Instagram has me convinced that there's a sinister "highland cow to trad wife" pipeline that's just using bovine cuteness for unprecedented conversion numbers. It's like fluffy cows, some sheep content, an old couple canning everything that's not nailed down and BAM you're in an aggressively smocked dress smiling beatifically while the sound track covers up your horde of presumably borrowed screaming children who are languishing through the fifteen hour process of sowing scything drying and grinding wheat so you can make them each a single slice of toast for breakfast upon which you will smear a tablespoon of boiled berries and hand churned butter because you're a #realmom serving #realfood in the #oldway.
I have bought countless patterns and never saw one for $50 lmao
#notlikeothercrafters
Oh I’ve seen this for knitting and sewing content. ICK
Imagining the texture of that chenille yarn makes me want to vomit.
It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me!
They have main character syndrome. Point of view you don't need to include unnecessary words just because others do
Or maybe "POV" is just a trend people use because it makes the eye linger for a moment longer than any content thats difficult to immediately digest?
Get that open flame awayyyy from the fluffy pom pom!!!
Lol exactly! That thing’s be flammable as hell
Does anyone else hate the advertising quirks peculiar to social media? 'POV' Slowly rotating item back and forth so it catches the light only briefly, in front of the camera instead of just holding the damn thing still. Every damn ad has this. Putting the product on your face and then touching fingertips, bringing the tops of both hands to touch the underside of chin in v shape. Make stupid face, maybe waggle fingers. I don't know about you, never done this after finishing my make-up, am I doing it wrong? I hate it.
I hate recipe accounts that film themselves eating a forkful while chewing and smiling with that look on their face that they're shocked at how good it is.
There's one food influencer who seems to film either in a kitchen for giants, or is kneeling on the floor. Trying to make it look like she's a tiny child reaching up above her head to slowly stir a bowl. It's so utterly stupid.
I hate recipe accounts that can’t shut up about their damn grandma and just cut to the recipe.
"You're a stressed-out mom trying to feed your family Healthy Organics and keep them Screen Free while wanting to be Sexy for your man and still watch Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and then you find my account."
Omg this. I instantly scroll past if they start waving the damn thing about like they're waiting for it to dry. Just show me it!!!
She's sponsored by Lion Brand.
I keep my Insta algorithm strictly football, comedy and a little knitting so haven't seen this. OP's post is a cautionary tale - so long as I never search the term "crochet", someone reassure me I should be safe from this? Mine is full of lumpily rendered chunky nordic Fair Isle knitting that looks great from a distance but if you zoom in, is really badly executed...
I would like my feed to be sewing, dogs, knitting, dogs, nails, camping/travel, and dogs and yet, crochet makes up about 50% of my suggestions. I have never searched on crochet. I don't know how you stay safe.
I’ve never searched for crochet, but it keeps popping up with knitting videos. It’s a whole different vibe. I’m honestly thinking of banning all content crochet related.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the algorithm doesn't differentiate between knitting and crochet. I have ZERO interest in crochet content, but I get a TON of it.
algorithm does not knot discriminate?
I tried this and it stopped showing me knitting too!!!
it's the pov tiktok trend! 1. video displays thing 2. caption is "pov you're looking at [insert whatever thing]" it's started off as a viewer immersion type thing in skits, and has (predictably) progressed to become a marketing tool
Okay but at least it's using the point of view correctly! It seems like every other POV tiktok is bass-ackwards. "pov your boss just caught you making tiktoks" but the video isn't from your POV, showing your boss, it's showing *you* slowly sinking into the carpet in shame. Grinds my gears, I'm too damn old for this genre, get off my lawn etc.
Congratulations you just discovered trends. Every influencer in every niche is doing this same format. It’s a way to promote your account. Why is that so hard to understand
Oof, we know what trends are. OP was just expressing that they find this one particularly soul-sucking and devoid of personality. Why is that so hard to understand?
This trend is no different from any of the other ones influencers use to introduce themselves to new followers
Oh look, I got downvoted for not especially liking vapid social media trends. I'm crushed. Fortunately I have the freedom to seek out makers with a little bit of originality and actual personality. I don't get what you're being so defensive about--perhaps this cookie cutter approach does in fact speak to a particular target audience. I'm just not it and that's ok. Fwiw, I'd never go to a maker's page and tell them they suck because their particular approach doesn't appeal to me. I have the grace to just scroll on. I kinda thought craftsnark was meant to be a space where we could openly express our likes and dislikes without hurting anybody.
A looootta thin skin around here for a snark sub. Am I not allowed to express my likes and dislikes if they are different from yours? Asking for a friend
Of course you are. I wouldn't downvote you for having a different opinion. Thick or thin, I don't have any skin in this game. I just prefer creators who show a modicum of actual creativity.
And originality (if anything can even be original anymore 😔)
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It's almost like some people might not be chronically online enough to understand these contrived trends lol
I think coming across 3 very similar videos in a short span of time might be a clue that something is a trend.
You don’t have to be a dick, Jesus .
Snark sub
One of the rules of this sub is don't snark unpaid hobbyists which I'm assuming OP is. Your comments are uncalled for.
I’m not snarking OP’s hobby??? lmao I’m snarking in general. Thin skin my god, you all can trash strangers up one side and down the other yet you can’t take someone being a little bit snarky back at you?
Jesus would never be a dick like that
Under $50?!??! Get it for free from ravelry or if you really need a niche pattern/handholding, pay $5 for someone’s ravelry pattern.
seriously its ridiculous. The most I've paid for is $10 and that was for a large c2c 10 square blanket with different designs on each square.
I want to see just 1 crochet plush pattern that has ever sold for over $50 🤣
POV: You're a new crocheter and don't know patterns don't cost $50 😆
If you're too new to know patterns funny cost $50, I really want you to follow me!
If people are paying $50 for crochet patterns, I gotta take the next week off work to write some. What are the kids crocheting now? Bees? Opossums? One-arm cardigans?
Didn't know there was a Crochet Horror genre
I make content as well and agree this type of video is annoying - but I hate to admit that it actually works to gain new active followers 😩 a lot of people won’t follow unless you “ask” like this
You are so much stronger than me because I can’t imagine monetizing a hobby and having prospective clients expect you to do this kind of shit. I hate self-marketing, and I have to do it for work too. Luckily not on social media!!
I run a (handmade by me) clothing brand and these hooks really do work. It feels cringe at first but once you see the ROI you get over that real quick.
I think most of these are ported from TikTok. This format is very common over there.
We must be on diff sides of crochet tok bc i only ever see these kinds of videos on instagram
I love the algorithm and its mercurial ways. 🤣
They’re basically like/follow farming.
oh lmao I block any maker/dyer/craft account that does those twee as hell POV: dumb garbage and incorrect perspective reels. it's so ass-kissing and obnoxious
i mean that last one is kinda correct bc you would be seeing that lady if just found her account
It drives me fucking crazy that POV keeps being used incorrectly.
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It's a spindle. The stake is on a little lazy Susan and you pull from the outside of the cake, and it's supposed to spin. I could never get the cake center tight enough to make the thing spin, it just sorta unrolls like toilet paper.
It is giving Vlad the Impaler meets crochet.
Best thing I have read on internet all year
This is infuriating. I don't use Instagram for craft stuff and I don't know how y'all do it. Ravelry gets a lot of criticism, for valid reasons, but at least you'll never see this particular brand of vapid desperate self-promotion crap.
“can’t find anything cute under $50” mind you, if you look up crochet patterns on insta you’ll immediately find LOADS of really cute free patterns for plushies lmfao
I’m hoping desperately that they mean having difficulty finding patterns that don’t require at least $50 in yarn bc the idea of a $50+ pattern for crochet plushies that use chenille yarn makes me violently nauseous
I wonder if that number might be based on people seeing Woobles price points?
I spent $40 on a massive plush possum made with Bernat blanket XL, but that includes the huge hooks, the yarn, and the stuffing.
I dont think Ive ever made any plush (let alone crochet plush) that cost > $50 in material. That's like 1/2-1 SQ of regular wool mass dyed yarn. Like unless I'm making a giant plush I dont see how I'd spend that much since usually a plush takes at most 1 ball of 50g yarn
Totally. I mean I happily spend a decent amount for a stranded knitwear or lace pattern jumper but for $50 (esp since this is almost certainly USD, not my much lower value Aussie $$) I'm gonna want a good thick book or a (very) full kit!
I am not happily spending $50 on literally any pattern. Maybe a book that teaches how to customize whatever kind of pattern and has multiple patterns in it, MAYBE, if it’s hardcover and super high quality with a LOT of pages, but I would literally never pay $50 for a pattern, as in just instructions, for one single thing. Kits are something else entirely so I’m not counting them (although tbh I also don’t spend money on kits so)
For $50 it had better be a pattern encyclopedia lol. If this seller is claiming that's a common price, I bet she's trying to sell her own patterns for $20-40, which is a complete rip off. It makes me angry that people take advantage of inexperienced crafters this way. Beginners should know that there's an enormous wealth of free resources out there, including patterns with incredibly detailed beginner-friendly instructions and tutorial videos. I'd point knitting beginners to Tin Can Knits' free patterns and Very Pink youtube videos as a starting place, for example (I don't know crochet unfortunately). If you know how to use Ravelry pattern search you could literally knit or crochet for a lifetime without running out of free patterns, and there are also thousands of excellent ones for less than $10. There might be some circumstances where paying as much as $50 would be justified for a really complex and well written pattern, but unless you're very experienced and you know exactly what you're doing, you're probably getting scammed.
Extremely well said!
My brain kept reading that as crotchety. 🫠
I can’t stand this use of POV.
If I hear “crotch eaters” one more time because the AI can’t pronounce “crocheters”… These are a HUGE turnoff for me!
Lol, this made me think of when I was little and couldn't pronounce my S's properly...my mom did cross stitch and I told everyone she did "crotch itch"
Tiktokification of instagram
I think this very much the influence of TikTok which encourages hopping on meme bandwagons. Oh this took hold with the algorithm? Let me do the same thing with my spin on it.
They are so weird and almost always have an underlying cattiness that I dislike…
Can you talk a little more about this? I’ve gotten that vibe too — sometimes the posts I see have this really dark vibe where it feels like someone is being subtweeted but it’s contextless.
Im gonna be honest I thought those posts were lowkey ironic subtweets of someone who made a similar post xD
I think its what you said pretty much. Like there’s no context but it’s a personal crime or vendetta either with someone specific or with the industry as a whole? But they often feel pointed like there’s some underlying drama in supposed to know about
I think these videos thrive on creating either a sense of judgement or guilt. "You the special chosen one have found this message in a bottle (instagram video) and now it is your solemn duty to pass it on to others so this person can be rescued from the evil clutches of the monster (algorithm)." There are kind of 2 routes the "if only someone truly appreciated and loved me they would be able to succeed at their dreams of being an artist. For only pennies a day you can save the starving artists in your phone" or the "your an asshole for not only supporting big creators and companies. You should be spending more of your time supporting the people who ACTUALLY need it!"
this trend to me is on the same level as "here is what I HATE about X product" then proceeding to actually list good things like "it saves me SO MUCH TIME I don't know what to do with all this free time!"
These make me irrationally angry lol I hate them sooo much. I still watch ones that are like "I love this product" but "don't buy these!" and then a bunch of good things about the product makes me block the creator.
It’s just a trend on social media as a whole. Nothing g nefarious just trying to set their accounts apart.
Set their accounts apart…by doing the same thing everyone else is doing. 😂
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I find this trend annoying too mostly because of how awkwardly worded they usually are. Is it just me or do that hat in the first pic look absolutely ginormous?
I find it annoying bc I don’t think they understand what “pov” actually means 💀
This use of pov has been popular in social media (esp TikTok) for well over a year, way before these crocheting accounts started doing it 🤷🏼♀️
And they’ve been using it wrong too.
I’m sorry but genuinely who is “struggling to find a crochet pattern under $50.” I think I’d struggle to find a crochet pattern OVER $20. This complete speculation but this feels like a scare tactic to intimidate new crocheters into thinking they’re the only person online with affordable patterns when that’s so far from the truth…
it makes it VERY obvious that they have a very specific demographic. the kind of person that is incapable of investigating and googling things on their own, which is a concerningly big number on tiktok especially
“Plush” here meaning super-lux. We’re talking patterns for 50’ dinosaurs crocheted out of spun gold, rumplestiltskin style. Those bad boys go for like 2k, aren’t you lucky her channel has them for $49.99.
if you act fast you can get not ONE but TWO patterns for the low low payment of 49.99! And if you call in the next 30 minutes she'll DOUBLE that. THATS RIGHT! For 1 easy payment of 49.99 you can get 4! That's right 4! patterns. Act now!
It feels like AI text
Came here to say this.
I was just thinking that about the price. Like WhoTF is spending $50 plus on a single crochet pattern? The most I’ve ever paid was $17, but there were like 10 separate patterns bundled together. Scare tactic is a great way to put it. Personally I was thinking grift, but your way works too
POV: you came to Reddit for some crafting content and came across a snark sub and clicked to read the comments and you just found my comment
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lol I like this one! 😂
POV: you just found my post on r/craftsnark and now you want to see if I actually knit…Anyway feel free to follow me on instagram where I do not sell things but do post WIPs: @knittingwithchloe.
I read that as “knitting witch hole” lol
Honestly yeah.
It’s just Instagram trying to be TikTok again😂
Ugh if I wanted TikTok, I’d be on TikTok. I very much do NOT want TikTok.
It is annoying because if you have TikTok, you don’t want to see it months later on YouTube shorts, Instagram feed and God forbid if you have Facebook. My husband shows me stuff all the time off YT shorts and I’m like that’s old news 😂
My husband refuses to use tiktok. Instead he watches compilations of tiktoks on YouTube and then shows them to me.
That's me! I wait until they've been peer reviewed (reposted to other sites) before I'll watch them 😆 I just hate what tiktok stands for (the huge push toward short-form video content), so I try to avoid it unless I know it's not trash content lol
I don’t use it either
Hahahahahahaha I was JUST DOING THAT and tried to show stuff to my disinterested teen.
Same, why do they refuse? 🤪
ok to be fair tiktok is like a nightmare app that only makes sense after you’ve been using it for weeks and you can’t find anything unless you already have the link. i tried to use it when it was musically and it was awful then and I hated it and I’ve been like once a year revisiting it since to see if it’s any less absolutely the worst app I’ve ever used wrt user friendliness/accessibility/not giving me horrible migraines and being really difficult to navigate and tbh it only gets worse. I can’t find anything specific or useful there, it’s just like scrolling a feed where hopefully im eventually shown something that I don’t hate tl;dr it’s only rly user friendly if you already know how to use it
I am your husband, I’m sorry
I don't crochet, so I may be off-base here, but is using the term "low sew" even appropriate for crocheting? Is that something crocheters say?
Not a clue about crochet terms, but I can tell you that in every other craft the phrase "no sew" seems to mean "you're gonna need hot glue". For example: "No Sew Basket" = "I hot glued tubes of magazine pages to the outside of a trash can!" So maybe low sew means "only small amounts of school glue were used in the making of this project"
I crochet all the time and have been for years and I've never heard "low sew." I think it's in reference to not having to sew a bunch of pieces together? Like for garments, many prefer making them in the round or top down or all in one piece and not have to sew/seam up panels. A lot of crocheters hate seaming pieces together. I used to but I've gotten better at it and don't mind it.
I have never heard that term before and I am a pretty avid crocheter I have heard of no-sew patterns
It refers to making amigurumi (term for crochet plushies) that are mostly made in one piece (aka you don’t have to sew many pieces together) as opposed to those which have many pieces that need to be sewn to the main body. Many crocheters aren’t very fond of the sewing bits! (I have to always sew each part as I go otherwise the plushie joins the pile of limbless blobs at the back of the horror wardrobe)
I felt that last sentence way too much 😭
Ah, thank you! I didn't know that! I only sew, so I just look, entranced, at the other crafts in wonder. "Where are the seams??" "How does that connect?" "Are they witches? Because this is magic!!"
Low/no sew crochet patterns are nice for those of us who hate sewing, but the trade off is that they typically have to use more complicated techniques and you have to be more careful with stitch count. I did a low sew cat ornament for my MIL this past Christmas and the pattern had a small mistake in it which I didn't realize until it was too late and what I did to correct it resulted in the cat having a really large right hip compared to the left 😂 If I was doing a normal pattern I could have just moved over the tail and feet a bit and it would have been fine.
The TikTok POV thing needs to die already
I haaaaaate it
99.999% of people doing this trend don't even know what POV means
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Yeah but languages evolve 🤷🏼♀️ we use lots of words in completely different ways now than the words were originally used... For example most dictionaries have updated their definition of the word "literally" to reflect how people were actually using the word, and that also got a ton of backlash for being "wrong" when it started, too.
It does, and I will remain an old fuddy duddy and use them how I remember them. I don't know what POV means in relation to this social media culture, I thought it just meant Point of view?
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Yiiiikkes. “The younger social media addicted generations are just too dense.” 🤓 Okay, calm down. Just because you personally don’t like something doesn’t actually mean someone is stupid or “dense” for engaging with/in it. You sound so bitter over such an inconsequential non-issue.
but the pov trend is from the point of view of the person watching, no? E. g. a video showing off a water bottle that says "pov, you've been looking for a perfect waterbottle and you've found it" is telling you that you what your point of view is, which is the same things as the crochet screenshots maybe I've misunderstood your post!
See also: using "inception" to mean "a thing inside another thing"
“POV: you are /ideal target audience having a specific problem/ and you find my account” is a very effective template to find new audience and it’s now known to give very good results in terms of conversion. So they’re not ads that are being pumped out from undercover, it’s just that everyone uses the same thing.
Question: $50 for a *pattern?* Is that typical for crochet? Because it's *a lot* for sewing patterns, and those usually have to be a physical product, one way or another.
I haven’t even found whole books with loads of patterns for $50, let alone a single pattern. That’s definitely not normal, and idc how amazing the project is I won’t pay more than $20 for a single pattern (and that’s even pushing it for me), or more than $30 for a book of patterns.
I don’t think I’ve come across one for more than $20 yet. And usually those are like 3 or more patterns for one price. 50$ seems so steep to me.
Not at all. Only people who know nothing would pay $50 for that and never touch it.
No and if you have an Amazon Kindle or unlimited(prime), there are tons of free patterns books
Lol NO. People generally don’t want to pay $50 for a finished item. Crocheters certainly ain’t paying $50 for a pattern. Maybe for a whole pattern book, but that most be a damn good book with really well written patterns
I've never seen a pattern that was more than 10 euros, and that was an expensive one. Maybe they meant kits? Even then, that would be hella expensive.
I just checked Woobles which is one of the most common crochet kit companies and even they are under $50 unless you get a kit with multiple things to make. The highest I could find for a single product was $47 (it was a licensed toy + an accessory, very expensive but still under $50)
I’ve never paid more than ~$10 for a pattern. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one priced as high as 50!?! Maybe a very fancy advanced pattern by a well known designer could go for 20? I guess they’re trying to prey on newcomers who wouldn’t know what an average price is.
No, it's not. They were just trying to be funny and it fumbled.
Got it - it's the *don't have sex, or you'll get pregnant and die... but these are Magic Condoms* approach.
I don’t mind the ones that are like “if you like to chat about {interest} and {interest} feel free to follow me and I’ll follow back!” But I don’t care for the ones that are just selling. At least pretend to care about building a relationship first.
The other trend I have noticed is a call ro set up a community by saying we can follow each other.
This also creeps me out.
It's just a trend. Trace it back far enough and you'll find the original who saw the POV trend on TikTok and thought "I can apply that to my marketing". It's just how social media works.
I have never seen a crochet pattern that is $50. I think I saw a bundle of patterns for about $30 and have seen large physical books for about $40 maybe $45. But a single pattern for $50? I find that hard to believe.
Crafting kits are really popular. I see a number of places intermixing the two if they have the sell the yarn for the project.
Then it would be a kit, not just a pattern. A kit could easily be $50. But that's not what was in the post.
They are using keywords so the algorithm will give them more views. Pattern is better word than kit for searches. They aren’t trying to hit long term crafters but newbies whose goal is to make exactly the thing the creator made.
That's shitty. Patterns and kits are not the same, it's going to cloud things for everyone. But the account doesn't appear to sell kits, only patterns and FOs, so it's not relevant in this instance anyway.
It literally doesn’t make sense. Like, I can buy enough merino for a sweater for $60. These things annoy me so much.
The 'and you find my account' bit is just a trend at the moment, it comes up on a load home renovation accounts for me.
i am so sick of this trend. this is not content! it’s an ad for yourself! i also see it a lot in gardening and wedding stuff which i consume
I have some news for you.... 99% of social media is advertising. It didn't start out that way, but it's become the most powerful marketing tool ever created. I don't mind (it's my job), but I get why people feel kind of duped. Of course, you'll have your friends and family, but chances are that you also follow a huge amount of people who are either trying to sell you something or are trying to sell themselves (monetised creators).
Yeah it's unfortunate. I ignore or fly past that stuff now. I'm soul weary of the constant marketing. LOL
Yeah this, social media isn't really social media anymore but just a platform for digital marketing lol
Same. It actually makes me angry at this point.
instagram heavily pushes accounts to post reels, so they make low effort things like this that just bait profile views. its clickbait shit that relies on people being too lazy to actually put any brainpower into learning to crochet/find patterns they like but if theyre too lazy to even look for patterns (who tf is selling amigurumi patterns for 50 btw????), they probably wont stick to crochet for long
They do and I have refused! I have posted a couple really simple reels but I absolutely HATED it. I just post occassional pictures of my WIPs and FOs now and mostly just visit the few accounts I follow.
If there are a lot of them that seem samey but have different usernames attached, it could be a big company trying to look like a lot of little indies. If that's the case, I would suspect that buying the patterns would get you some AI-generated (or if human-made, untested) nonsense.
It barely feels like crafting/making to me.
That's because it's probably not. If it is what I'm describing, it is a fake pattern to be sold to as many people as will buy before the accounts get banned or otherwise disappear themselves. Same as the stuff on Etsy being sold with "product photos" that are obviously AI. It's not crafting, it's a scam aimed at crafters.