Instagram has officially entered its vintage-photo-booth era, and honestly, the internet was emotionally prepared for this moment. The app's latest update, the Photostrip sticker, is already flooding Stories with blurry flash selfies, chaotic friendship dumps, mirror pictures, and hyper-curated "accidental" moments that somehow still look editorial.
ChatGPT | Users without access to the sticker, or people craving maximum creative control, are now building custom photostrips manually through Story mode. Instagram wants your Stories to look like a 2007 sleepover montage
The new Photostrip feature transforms three to four photos into a vertical film-strip layout directly inside Stories. Think old-school arcade photo booths, but redesigned for people who own claw clips, drink matcha, and romanticise grocery shopping.Instead of downloading third-party editing apps or spending forty minutes arranging collages, users can now create aesthetic mini photo dumps within Instagram itself. The feature comes with different styling options, giving Stories that nostalgic, messy-but-cute energy currently dominating Gen Z social media.
And yes, it absolutely screams "I had the best night of my life" even if the photos were taken during a two-minute café visit.
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ChatGPT | Instagrams Layout feature, layering stickers, and creating fake white film borders with the Deco font trick, users are crafting personalised strips that look straight out of a Tumblr fever dream. How to use Instagram's Photostrip sticker
The process is dangerously simple.Open Instagram Stories, choose a background image, and tap the sticker icon at the top of the screen. From there, select the Photostrip sticker and pick three to four photos from your camera roll. Once you tap "Done", Instagram automatically generates the vertical strip layout for you.
Suddenly your random camera roll chaos looks suspiciously cinematic.
X | The apps latest update, the Photostrip sticker, is already flooding Stories with blurry flash selfies, chaotic friendship dumps, mirror pictures, and hyper-curated accidental moments that somehow still look editorial. The chaotic DIY hack people are obsessed with
Of course, the internet immediately found a way to make the trend even more extra.Users without access to the sticker, or people craving maximum creative control, are now building custom photostrips manually through Story mode. By using Instagram's Layout feature, layering stickers, and creating fake white film borders with the Deco font trick, users are crafting personalised strips that look straight out of a Tumblr fever dream.
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The result feels less like a normal Story and more like evidence that somebody is either deeply in love, mildly heartbroken, or coming back from a rooftop party at 2 am.