OVERTIME · 12 MIN NO FOLLOWER COUNTS, ON PURPOSE
Midjourney User Profiles: Live Tutorial + First Reactions
The short version
Drew and Rory give a live first look at Midjourney's new User Profiles, walking through the Spotlight, Archive, and Following tabs as they appear. They test what's public versus stealth, spotlight other users' images like a retweet, and flag a like-button bug that doesn't reliably save to favorites. Both praise Midjourney for hiding follower counts on purpose, arguing the feature reads as a portfolio tool rather than a social-media popularity contest.
Key takeaways
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Midjourney's Spotlight section can mix public and stealth-generated images, letting you curate a portfolio without exposing everything in your Archive.
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Make an image private and the whole four-image grid disappears from your Archive at once, not just the single image you clicked.
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You can spotlight someone else's image to your own profile, working like a retweet, though it's unclear if the original creator gets notified.
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The hosts hit an apparent bug: liking an image on someone's profile didn't reliably save it to a visible favorites list.
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Clicking into any image on a profile shows its full prompt, making it easy to tell real craft from a lucky one-off generation.
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Videos can go in Spotlight too, but they need a specific aspect ratio and must be tied to a mood board or reference.
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Midjourney deliberately hides follower counts to keep profiles feeling like a portfolio instead of a gamified popularity contest, the hosts say.
Receipts · said on the record
“I don't want numbers. I don't want followers. I don't want it to be about like who's who's doing what and like can this be monetized in that way?”
“It's going to take all four of that grid generation of those images and make them all private. So all four of those will disappear.”
“I think you can hotkey this too. … If you use your arrows left and right, you can navigate this too.”
“This is your portfolio now. Like you can just have Spotlight as your portfolio and that's a easy thing to share now.”
Questions this episode answers
What can you do with Midjourney's new User Profiles?
Drew and Rory show that User Profiles add a Spotlight section for curated highlights, a public Archive of your generations, and a Following tab, plus the ability to make images private or trash them, all functioning like a personal portfolio.
Why doesn't Midjourney show follower counts on profiles?
The hosts say Midjourney deliberately hid follower counts and total-follower numbers to keep profiles focused on image generation rather than becoming a vanity-driven social feed.
Can you make a Midjourney image private after posting it?
Yes. From the Archive's hamburger menu you can make an image private or trash it entirely, and marking one image private takes the whole four-image grid private along with it.
Is there a hidden way to browse Midjourney user profiles quickly?
Yes: Rory and Drew found you can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate between random profiles, the same hotkey pattern used in Midjourney's personalization feature.
Show notes
Drew and Rory jump into Midjourney’s new User Profiles and provide a live tutorial, along with their first reactions.
They walk through the layout live, show what you can actually customize, dig into Spotlight vs Archive, and talk through the weird little UX choices that make the feature feel equal parts useful and slightly chaotic.
You’ll see how public vs private images really work, what the “following” tab unlocks, why Midjourney hid follower counts on purpose, and how creators can start treating their profile like a legit mini-portfolio.
