Hot Dogs Broke My Algorithm

A few months ago, a friend invented a back story for my character — the character being me in my everyday life. According to this lore, I am obsessed with hot dogs — it's the reason I have a Costco membership and go to baseball games.What started as a silly joke ended up hilariously destroying my Instagram algorithm. We'll get to that in a minute, but first, the escalation.The hot dog backstory is funny and not grounded in reality — I mean, I do enjoy a hot dog from time to time but wouldn't say I'm obsessed. Though, to be fair, a classic Chicago dog is peak weenier. And a one of my current hyper-fixation meals is hot dogs and baked beans over sweet potatoes, but is that because of the gaslighting or something that would have occurred naturally?Anyway, there's a philosophical concept called the frequency illusion. It asserts that when our brains are introduced to a new word or concept, we start to recognize it everywhere in our lives — for a deep cut look at this phenomenon, check out…