During the summer a new instagram trend started. #flipsideofme was created by sophomore Grace Meyer and senior Rainey Woodward. According to Meyer, the idea for the hashtag came about when she was having a difficult day. “I just had one really bad day […] and I was studying for one of the languages I’m learning and I accidentally mixed a bunch of them together which made me super frustrated, but then I was like hey but at least I’m trying to learn all these languages,” said Meyer. “Then I refocused and I started thinking about all these little quricky flaws that I have and like try to turn them into something good”.

Scrolling through Instagram got Meyer to reflect upon herself, thinking not all the things you may dislike about yourself are bad. “After I wrote the first one I was like man that was kind of nice and it helped me feel better about myself,” said Meyer “So I was talking to Rainey Woodward about it and she suggested I make it into a hashtag so then I did the second one and it just blew up”.

So far the hashtag has been used on a public instagram account 124 times on instagram. The hashtag appears to be spreading to other communities besides Sandpoint with photos tagged in places like Nevada and Washington.

If you would like to participate in this hashtag all you do is write stuff you may or may not like about yourself and other people may not know about you, post a photo to instagram with that caption and use #flipsideofme to tag your photo.