Then, once it became a private entity owned by Facebook, different strains of power-user backlash have emerged, perhaps the result of the fact that now, as a property, Instagram has unfettered access to the drug that is Facebook's distribution channels and can therefor play by different rules.
But Obama's refusal to punish bad actors in the upper echelons of American society reinforced the cynicism that powered the backlash he bemoans.
But with the shift in power comes a backlash.
Suspicions among Sunnis over growing Shiite power — and a backlash by Shiites — have come to the fore during the Iraq war and fighting in Lebanon.
Justified or not, black power produced a white backlash.
This had nothing to do with slums or roads: instead, it massively expanded the government's power of eminent domain.The backlash began immediately.
Sunni Arabs, a minority that has long ruled Iraq, worry that swift elections could bring the Shiite majority to power and unleash a backlash against them.
We know that Carmona overplayed his hand, freezing out organized labor, snubbing potential defectors in the Chavista establishment, and fatally overlooking the furious backlash his power grab was sure to engender.
Barack Obama took personal charge of the campaign for historic new climate change regulations on Monday, defending a 30% cut in carbon pollution from power plants from a backlash by business lobbies, conservative groups and Democrats in oil and coal states.
Obama is hardly the first political leader to reach power and face a backlash from artists who once supported him, but in the absence of the pro-Obama anthems we heard in 2008 or the deep-throated support of legions of performers, the voices of dissent have become especially pronounced.
