For my IG profile picture, which is best? I'm using the last one as my profile picture here and I like it, but maybe not looking at the camera is better?

I’m based in Northern California but open to traveling to high-status spots like Vegas if we can get a solid group together. I’m a professional photographer, so I can help create high-quality content for anyone who wants to build their profile or brand while we network. If there’s interest, I can put together a separate group chat so we can start planning future trips, shoots, and meetups. Drop a message if you’d be down — would love to connect with more guys in the program.

I accidentally built a community around my brand a few years ago, and it became one of the biggest hacks for networking and social momentum I’ve ever experienced. What started as a small clothing line turned into meetups, massive shoot fests, and invitations to events in other states, all because people wanted to be part of the world I created. It taught me that you don’t need to chase networking at all. If you build something people are excited to gather around, the right social circle forms on its own. These are things I stumbled upon subconsciously before joining MOA and I hope to provide some value to y'all with some of my more niche advice. Here are the main things I learned from building that community: • Build a world, not a product. People joined because they loved the culture around the brand, not the shirt itself. Create something with energy and people naturally want to be part of it. • Make your IG a hub for activity. My Instagram became the central place people watched what was going on. Posting consistently created momentum and made people feel like they were missing out if they weren’t involved. • Say yes to everything at the start. Meetups, shoots, collabs, events, random invites — all of it helped widen the community fast. Even if only five people show up, they become your core, and you can grow from there. • Give creatives a playground. Photographers, models, stylists, and videographers LOVE having something to rally around. If you give them a cool idea or a vibe to shoot, they’ll bring people you wouldn’t have reached alone. • Make everyone feel welcome and included. People stay in communities where they feel seen. The more supported someone feels at your event or meetup, the more likely they bring friends' next time. • Don’t make it about getting girls. This is why my community actually thrived. No weird vibes, no thirsty energy. Just cool people creating together, which ironically makes you more high-status. • Document everything. Stories, reels, behind the scenes — this created the “gravity” that made new people ask how they could join. The right content builds community faster than invites.

Hi all, are there any coaches available to review my instagram grid? https://www.instagram.com/gedifashionicon/

Okay, Guys ! After the mega-post that wasn't mine, here is my first post that's truly mine. First of all: I found Sartain's Off-Market System extremely interesting, as it brought back to mind and put into perspective things I already used to do automatically in my past, but which I gradually let go of. Why did I let them go ? No, not because girls weren't offering me things (even though I was an idiot who thought he had "ethic and values", and so I gave up on threesomes for reasons that seem trivial in hindsight), but for other reasons. I’d love to hear your opinions on them, especially from those who have already gotten a social circle somewhat started, partly thanks to what they studied here. 1) The first problem I encountered in the social circles I organized (40-50 people) stemmed from certain types of males I defined as "social predators" or "status leeches", who fundamentally enter the group not to have a good time with you and the others, but either to harass/undermine you — the reference point in the group — or to "plunder" the girls, taking advantage of your "halo effect" by saying "I'm friends with X" and then sleeping with girls based on your reputation. You might say, simple, kick these people out of your social circle. The problem I had was that these people are very manipulative, and fundamentally, what they do is act friendly with the group members, while for their own "gain" they constantly needle you, complain about seemingly small things, basically disrespecting you under the radar but repeatedly, as if trying to slowly "eat away" your status. With one of these people from my past, a lot of trouble happened: long story short, he was a dickhead, treaten a girl, I've "saved this girl" telling her to not invite again him when I'm around, she tried to trick me in-to meet him for whatever reason anyway, I called her on her behaviour in private at first and then on our WhatsApp group when I've decided to left it, and she invented that I've choke her in a public place and other crazy stuff.