25 Instagram Accounts That Will Help You Have a Better Day

Turn doomscrolling into joyscrolling

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10 min readNov 13, 2020

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Blue filtered image of a woman with curly hair looking at her phone with a smile.
Photo illustration; Image source: Delmaine Donson/Getty Images

At this point, we’re all pros at doomscrolling. The end of the presidential election brought a brief respite, but we could really use a longer break. Or a sabbatical, if we’re being honest.

Let us offer you a digital palate cleanser from the gloom: 25 Instagram accounts that will uplift you, make you laugh, and help you feel a little bit more human. Some of these folks share highly relatable illustrations. Others make you feel like you just walked out of a free therapy session. All will help your social-media feed become a place you actually enjoy spending time in.

Read about them below, and follow the ones that resonate (or all of them!). Your day will be better for it each time you pick up your phone.

Gemma Correll

@gemmacorrell

With her charming, all-too-relatable cartoons about video calls (“Oh God, is that what I look like?”), at-home date night ideas (“It’s called a ‘quarantini’ — the ingredients are vodka and my own tears”), and quarantine looks (“Am I hungry or just bored?”)…

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