I don’t want to be old grumpy fartcaster but there are too many cutie selfies in my feed I didn’t ask for

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You speak for a majority of people here who’ve been thinking the same thing.

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My reach is so low now I cannot connect with folks and ramble about this :-(

Images and videos are definitely weighted highly at the moment. Forget the selfies. 
Easiest way to take advantage of this is to package your thoughts into an image or meme and then just drop them in a mixture of channels (i.e /memes ) and your personal feed. 
(Can easily create theses with a variety of apps like Canva/ text -> image gen models)

I feel confident that if you packed your thoughts in these formats once or twice a day for the next 7 days something would change in your favor.

What I mean is my engagement and view count is much lower in last couple of weeks. Not sure how to escape that other than post selfies of my beautiful face

Not true. 
Even if your 29k follow account is mostly bots or fake users, there's still enough of a percentage of that total count that would interact, and as a result, bump it up.