Slop*Detector

HAND-CRAFTED — slop score 13/100

The evidence here points to a site built by hand rather than pieced together from a template. Instagram's homepage scores 13 out of 100, and the only blemish is a dead Terms of Service link at /legal/terms/ that leads nowhere, which looks more like an internal slip than an AI signature. There's a gradient-clipped headline on the words "close friends," but one gradient treatment on a page this large barely counts against it. Given how short the findings list is and how minor each item is on its own, I'm confident in the hand-crafted verdict.

Findings

• Gradient backgrounds / gradient text — Large gradient washes and gradient-clipped headline text (usually blue→purple) are the default decoration of generated UI.
• Dead Terms of Service link — The Terms of Service link exists but leads to an empty or broken page — the template put the link there and nobody wrote the page.