Ava Schultze  

Mr. Barazzuol  

English 10  

12 September 2023  

The Breakdown of VSCO 

VSCO is a popular application among photography enthusiasts and social media lovers. 

“Unlike Instagram, VSCO doesn’t have ads.” (Gampat 2023), Drawing photographers to Vsco over  

Instagram. Vsco offers a wide range of filters and editing tools to enhance photos and give them a  

unique look. You can also explore and follow other users to discover amazing content and get inspired.  

VSCO was created by Joel Flory and Greg Lutze. They developed the application as a platform for  

photographers to share and edit Their photos with a creative and artistic touch. It has since gained a  

huge following and become a very popular application. VSCO was launched in 2012, but started getting  

popular in 2020. VSCO is a 13+ application and is not intended for anyone under 13. 

 Confidential info is a big thing for VSCO, “VSCO hides these numbers appears to take the pressure  

off what user’s post” (Hughes 2023). people can’t see or know if the person people are talking to or  

sending pictures of is real. apart from notifications people cannot check who they are currently  

following or who is following them. VSCO doesn’t have many guidelines to what can and cannot be  

posted, so there are a lot of things that are inappropriate for ages under 13+. 

Vsco hit its peak in 2020 “VSCO girls like Emma and her crew are all over the internet now” (Hughes  

2023).  

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/style/vsco-girls.html 

https://www.thephoblographer.com/2023/04/14/vsco-gave-photographers-a-better-alternative-to-instagram-pods/