nobody ends up in your DMs by accident
the talking stage has an official venue and it's Instagram. it's also the hardest chat to read from inside, because the app blurs the line between attention and effort. a story reply feels like a message. a like feels like interest. the scan separates what felt like something from what the thread actually shows, and cites the difference.
the story-reply-to-dry-spell pipeline
you know the shape. fire emoji on your story, forty warm minutes, then silence until you post again. it feels like a connection. laid out on a timeline it looks more like a schedule, and the scan will say so, calmly. "breadcrumbing — 64% pattern match", with the receipts underneath and the counterevidence one tap away. if the warm minutes turn into actual plans that actually happen, the scan says that instead.
story reply: 2 minutes. thursday: no reply. it's been 4 days.
orbiting was invented here
watches every story. never misses a post. hasn't answered the question you asked on tuesday. the catalogue calls it orbiting: present in your notifications, absent from the conversation. it's a low-severity pattern and it gets named like one, deadpan, no sirens. but it is a pattern, and once it's on a timeline it stops being a mystery and starts being a decision you can make with better information.
what shows up in a DM scan
- story replies vs actual conversation: how much of the chat is reactions
- the dry spell rhythm: warm for a night, gone for a fortnight, back on schedule
- plans that stay hypothetical: "we should" counted against "we did"
- green flags too: matched energy and straight answers happen in DMs as well
how to analyse Instagram DMs
- screenshot the conversation. DMs don't export neatly, and they don't need to. screenshots go straight in.
- add them to textRay. pasted text works too. no login, no connection to your account.
- run the scan. one credit for the initial scan: the verdict and the headline patterns. the full scan uses three credits and opens every exhibit.
get the read on the thread you keep reopening.
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your reactions count as messages too
the scan reads both sides of the DM, including yours. if the thread is mostly you replying to their stories, that's in the report. if the plans died in your court twice, that's in there as well, with timestamps. patterns in a conversation, never verdicts on a person. the group chat has a theory. the receipts will have their say.
The boring bit, on purpose.
textRay never connects to your Instagram account and never asks for your login. You screenshot the conversation yourself, and nothing is analysed until you agree to AI processing. Reports stay in your history until you delete them, and Remove now does exactly what it says, immediately. Findings describe patterns in a conversation. They are never a diagnosis of a person. textRay is for ages 16 and over.