You are never alone at school, and Instagram accounts like @wshsbadparking_, @wshs_sleeping and @wshs_bathroom_feet are a constant reminder. Whether you’re parking, sleeping or even just peeing, White Station students are there observing, and maybe you’ll be lucky enough to be featured on one of these popular White Station student-led accounts for it.

All of these accounts are run by anonymous students. At first, the account owners relied on taking their own pictures to post, but as these accounts grew in popularity, other students began doing their work for them by sending in pictures they wanted to be posted on the account.

“I’m not gonna lie. I did [send in a picture] once; sometimes it’s funny,” Freddie Baldwin (12) said. “It’s kinda this big thing for the students, a big inside joke only we understand. People want to participate.”

@wshsbadparking_

It’s 7:14 a.m. You have about 45 seconds to get to class. Whipping into the last open parking spot, you’re half way out of the white lines, but there’s 30 seconds until the bell rings, which means there’s no time to fix your parking. Chances are, your car is the next to be featured on @wshsbadparking_. 

“I actually was inspired to come up with this account because I kept seeing videos on TikTok about other schools’ bad parking accounts,” the owner said. “I’m also a bad parker, so I thought it would be funny to start one and see if I would ever get sent in.”

With countless new teen drivers, the account inevitably took off. As of Jan. 20, it has accumulated 423 followers and receives new photo submissions almost everyday. 

@wshs_sleeping

Sleeping in public has never been so public. One minute you’re napping in math class, and the next, a picture of your face squished against the desk is posted on @wshs_sleeping, not to mention on all your friends’ stories as well. 

“It was like going slow at first,” the owner said. “Like [I] couldn’t get to 100 followers for quite some time, and I think people started putting it on their story, and it just blew up.”

Everyone is guilty of taking funny pictures of their friends sleeping, so after seeing the other accounts rise in popularity, the owner of @wshs_sleeping knew this account would be a great idea. 

“I saw like different accounts, for example the WSHS bathroom feet account and bad parking one,” the owner said. “And I thought to myself, why not make an account myself, and the idea of making a sleeping one just came in. I just wanted to make an account to have fun. I didn’t think it would’ve took off the way it did.”

@wshs_bathroom_feet

Why do bathroom stall doors always expose your feet? Maybe it’s because bathrooms are easier to clean that way, maybe the air circulates better with that gap, or maybe it’s just so that when we crouch down or back up far enough we can see if the stall is free. Either way, @wshs_bathroom_feet has taken full advantage of the design — posting pictures of people’s feet while they are “taking care of business.” 

“I thought it would be a funny and cool way to see how many people would contribute. Plus people get laughs out of it,” the owner said. “I knew that people would follow to see if they ended up on it or to post their friends on it.”

Receiving content about four to five times a day, the account owner has to choose content wisely. Since the account can borderline on overbearing, the owner has standards that posts must meet. 

“There was one where this girl had her pants pulled down to where you could see her pad, and they tried to get me to post it,” the owner said. “[The picture] has to be appropriate, has to be in the bathroom with no faces showing.”

To ensure that the account is ethical, the account owner asked their 441 followers how they feel.

“I put a poll up, and only three out of over half my followers thought it was a violation,” the owner said. 

Maintaining anonymity 

Privacy with these accounts has at times become an issue, especially when a MILF account was created posting certain members of the school’s faculty. One teacher, Rachel Kannady, took the initiative of offering students incentives to find the identity of the MILF account owner and others. 

“She went live on Instagram to offer 100 bucks to whoever told her who ran them,” Baldwin said. “Then, she offered a 100 [dollars] in quarter three in-person to her students.”

All three account owners have expressed that only a few people know their identity, and they intend to keep it that way. 

“Maybe if there is a demand for it, I will [reveal my identity],” owner of @wshsbadparking_ said. “I kind of like just hearing people talk about it and them not knowing it’s me who runs it.”