Photo of Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted to Instagram (© @khamenei_ir via Instragram, http://aka.ms/Khamenei)

Iran's Supreme Leader just made Instagram much less cool

8/2/2012

Instagram's newest user is one of its most unexpected, and he might have just made the photo-sharing app decidedly uncool. Iran's Supreme Leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has taken to sprucing up his otherwise mundane pics with quirky filters for a retro feel. That walk down a hallway with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is totally forgettable—until it gets saturation and shadowed corners to give it depth. Still, they're better than those faux artistic shots of your morning latte. (Sorry, but we're just saying what everyone is thinking.) And now that the ayatollah’s on Instagram, we wonder what will happen next time his government decides to shut down the Internet amid mass protest. [Source]

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