In the 20th century, it was channel surfing. You'd lay on your couch, merely pressing your thumb down on a button, and because shows were just 30 minutes, by the time you made your way back to the channel you started from, a new show had started, and the cycle repeated. I'm not convinced this is all that different.
@@jason_v12345 I would argue it stems from the same origin, but is worse in the case of social media and the internet, because there is more dopamine produced. after zapping through all the channels I had, I would often think "nah it's all boring" and do something else, while with modern technologies content is practically infinite and can be filtered and precisely tailored to give you dopamine, which the traditional TV couldn't
Exactly my thoughts. It would be like a TV trying to predict what channel you liked best and filtering out everything else to give you more personalized advertising to buy shit you don't need. You are in control of changing the channel. You have zero control over an algorithm.
A big realization for me was: after an hour of doomscrolling, try remembering 1-3 things you just watched. Your mind will go blank. It’s literally mind numbing brain rot, even if you catch a “good” video. You won’t remember it.
Worse yet is that it's always telling you what you want so it creates victim mentality (for some). Further contributing to the divide of our society and hostility towards the "wrong" side. This is what new generations have to grow up in (gen alpha+) as the world burns, why shouldn't they disrespect their elders? We clearly hate them or we would have made a better world.
UA-cam needs to add the ability to turn of Shorts (the UA-cam equivelent of Tik Tok) at LEAST for those who PAY for Premium. UA-cam is the only social media I use, and it's for talks, podcasts, etc. and I pay for Premium to avoid ads. They've turned my phone into a brain rot machine as much as I tried to avoid that. Now I am working on a way to deal with this, but companies don't care about us .00001% it's up to use to protect ourselves.
"Friends" used to be easy to get, now that social media exists, everyone has moved there and now have irrational social expectations that I don't feel like keeping up with.
Yeah, I feel it's like some messed up cycle when you consume someones 'perfect' life over and over (friendships included) to the point where you realise it's fake but at the same time, your brain gets rewired into thinking that's the norm. This than makes you think that the real world is 'fake' in a sense. The worst part is I started to feel like people are either fake and don't care about me at all or want to use me for something whenever there's someone starting small talk with me or any other type of interaction. It's so bad I just stopped talking practically, replaying with a series of 'oks'. I'm scared honestly, it will always be like this now. Like I'll never get back the 'naive' approach. Anyway, sorry for the vent, no one to talk to 😥. I was hurt a lot recently by people so may just be that not social media alone.
@@borealis5379 Most friend groups contain cocky people and I don't have the mental capacity to do that and leech on other people to compensate for my degraded abilities.
It's their problem to solve and not your responsibility to cater to those people, setting boundaries is beneficial for them; seeing as when you have reached that point where you're fed up they will just whine for more and you will snap at them.
My dad is a HS teacher. He reads books on how bad social media is for the attention spans of kids, and tries to implement policies in his classroom that help them not be distracted by their phones. He also endlessly scrolls UA-cam in his free time 😞
It depends on what he Scrolls on, and whether free time is all day long or just a little bit of time. Nothing wrong with scrolling, it's just endless scrolling when you should be learning that is the problem
@@carpo719 I’ve just noticed him occasionally just sitting there scrolling his recommended. I do that sometimes, and it quickly feels like my mind is melting
Morning. And yes, although this might be wasted on ears that already know this, the youtube algorithm gives out good videos, in order to keep you going through all the crappy videos... Which heck, those crappy videos, can make slightly less crappy videos, look good enough for anyone to watch after going through so much crap that they "don't know" what's a waste of time and what's not anymore, i.e. sans undertale but its *insert thing here*, vs christian weston chandler documentary, with the documentary being the better of the two, but still probably a waste of time sorta... still great content tho. Take this and repeat it multiple times with totally different topics, i.e. vtubers being happy and weird and making themselves look ugly via changing vtuber models to intentionally boyish avatars vs distressed anime girl vibes... yeah distressed anime girl vibes takes the cake for me... But a lot of this is also very dependent on preferences, so uhh... forget you heard my preferences.
They're not wrong. Social media and the fight for keeping users spending as much time as possible on a specific app is going to be the fall of mankind. Companies have got so good at grabbing our attention, manipulating our choices, and predicting our actions that it's terrifying.
one thing i hate the most is the lack of memory for most of the things i watch, often i catch myself not remembering what i watched 3 scrolls ago on tiktok and reels. its super irritating
maturity is realizing that topics like this and how to be rich quickly, why porn is harmful etc are now just general working video topics for many creators and real value is dying out because of these trends
I'm on day 3 of no social media and the constant dread/fatigue/despair i was feeling is going away and it feels like my world is getting smaller, in a good more controllable way. I hope more people get to this point
Don't forget that UA-cam is also a form of social media (with infinite scrolling) :D I'm glad you found it helpful though, I cut almost all of the major social media channels out of my life. Yet UA-cam has stuck, that needs to go as well eventually I think. A first step for me towards that goal was consequently unsubscribing content that no longer brought entertainment or is overly negatively phrased, hopefully mostly leaving science and informative channels, rather than what I personally consider "meaningless content".
I wish people would start realizing that addiction (even to one’s own phone) isn’t exactly a choice, and begin the first step of fighting it in doing so. I feel like so many people around me deny having an “addiction to their device,” simply for the fact our generation (gen z, in my case) is so criticized for it. We don’t want to be seen as “every other kid” so we avoid facing the fact we DO have that problem, and hence never begin the acceptance phase of overcoming that issue. If we can’t accept that we’re addicted, we’ll never be able to escape it, which is why I ask two things of anyone reading this: 1. Don’t judge people for what they essentially can’t control. I grew up with social media at my hands, and it’s not my fault I had no clue the damage mindlessly indulging in it could cause. 2. Be aware of yourself. Listen to this video, and really think about those signs of addiction. Take a step back, and ask yourself, what can I do to get better? It’s OKAY to be struggling, and I encourage you to reflect, and accept any part of you which may think, “I have a problem” It sounds a little silly to be putting the alcoholic or drug addict speech into the context of social media, but physical and mental effect differences aside, all of it presents an issue in the fact they are addictive and screw with your quality of life, simple as that
This is one of the most in-tune and in-touch with the reality of addiction comments I've ever read. This speaks of understanding and compassion: 2 key, crucial elements in the first steps to working on solutions to the problem of addictions.
So long as you teach him of the dangers prior + your reasoning rather than refusing all access. Parents do the same with drugs and alcohol and then the second the children get access to it without parental supervision then it goes crazy. It’s healthy to introduce things to them appropriately than restricting all access.
You say that now ...until the absolute panic of him simply wanting to stay at a friend's house. And you'll def want that contact. Or to track him .. and then he'll have it .. and he will use it . That's how it turned out for me anyway. Doesn't necessarily mean it will to you :( there are other options of keeping in touch I guess
I don't have social media, i had facebook aged 13-17 but that's it.... im 30 now, I do seem to scroll on UA-cam quite alot tho and that feels bad to me
I'm glad you made this video, it reminds me of my transformation from a nobody to good home, honest wife, $75k biweekly and a good daughter full of love ❤️
I raised 75k and Christina Ann Tucker is to be thanked. I got my self my dream car 🚗 just last weekend, My journey with her started after my best friend came back from New York and saw me suffering in dept then told me about her and how to change my life through her. Christina A. Tucker is the kind of person one needs in his or her life! I got a home, a good wife, and a beautiful daughter. Note: this is not a promotion but me trying to make a point that no matter what happens, always have faith and keep living!
I know that woman (Christina Ann Tucker) If you were born and raised in new York you'd know too, she's my family's Broker for 3yrs till now and a very good one if you asked me. No doubt she is the one that helped you get where you are!!!!
While we look for endless products online . We fail to understand they see us as the ultimate product...use news and media to entertain yourself..don't become the entertainment..❤
Imagine what you would need to have infinite scroll in the 1700s, a team of people assembling papers together, cartoons, stories, essays riddles, treatises and other creations being constantly at the ready.
I stopped all scrolling but if I do scroll my algorithm is all self-improvement motivational content - and it’s like “oh that was insightful” and put it away after a few reels
My friends would rather talk to me on Discord and Instagram. Rather than through text messages. I broke the habit of doomscrolling weeks ago. Yet I see them stuck in the same loop. I don't interact with anything they send because it will only grease the grears. Much happier now and my attention span is better. I can actually hear and understand music again which feels weird to say. Like comprehend the lyrics. Another thought to add. I've said to my dad: "The problem with people my age is short form content. Short form content; short term goals. Short form everything." I don't have alot of friends but they call me an old man despite being young. "How you do one thing is how you do everything." Some truly don't let this quote sink in.
some of that short term everything literally comes from the economy not allowing for this younger generation to even financially plan ahead long term. Eventually they'll think "why even socially plan ahead?". Why would they care about the dangers of doom scrolling in such case? Either way, I hear you man.
I visit social media like facebook every 4 or 5 years and it reminds me why I don't bother with it. I see a sea of people living mediocre lives who could be doing so much better if they traded their social media time for actually living instead. I've been using computers since my first C64 in the 80's, I use computers every day for work as an engineer, there are so many good ways to use technology. Instead, society is filled with zombies, infinite scrolling, and going nowhere.
Tired of scrolling so I just deleted the apps I don’t like anymore. One day I want to just not have any of the main social media apps. UA-cam doesn’t count as social media to me either.
And thats why i enjoyed the ending to "Ready player one" where he shuts down the whole network on tuesdays so people can be in sync with reality instead of being glued to a screen.
Exactly why this is one of my favourite youtube channels. A channel designed to inform, using his platform as a positive force for the world. Amongst all the bs
honestly it feels so good to be away from my phone having my data cut off for a day makes me plan out the usage of my time and if need my phone where to get internet from. even before my phone is about to die i feel relieved that i can get disconnected from my screen, but when it does it’s always did i miss an important text or feeling the need to search something up. idk i need my mobile device to live😂😂
Brainrot could turn out to be a form of escape mechanism. Society's new drug of choice: mindless content to numb the pain of meaningless-ness. We're not just wasting time - we're hiding from ourselves.
Man dopamine is not the feel good hormone, its the hunting hormone It makes the chase fun, the hunt fun, and thats the exact reason for doomscrolling We are hunting the next video that interests us, the next video that entertains us, or the next video that might change our life Its fear that keeps us scrolling, like what if the next video might just change my life type shit, which is basically fomo But this is not true, majority of the content is brainrot, and has zerovalue, especially scrolling. Its way better to watch long form content, or just lave the internet. Its hard but i am going to try it out starting today Peace
Lol, I also doomscrolling a lot! I'm doing something about it and are developing my own app to help people in the same situation :D, ua-cam.com/video/-4_Uy3x8WJc/v-deo.html
Im so glad I deleted tiktok. UA-cam and reddit have filled that void instead though, the only difference is that I watch long form content and usually reddit posts are made of a majority of text. Its still unhealthy, looking at my data on my phone, I spent 33 hours on youtube and almost 24 hours on reddit within the last 10 days. That doesnt include the time I spent on my laptop, or the time I spent playing video games. Jesus christ I have no life, what the hell am I actually doing? How do I actually stop this? Maybe i'll try and learn how to code or something in my spare time, but it feels like I dont have time for it because I'm procrastinating studying for my school exams. Holy shit I might actually be cooked
Try not going to grab your phone when you wake up and focus on only completing the hardest tasks of your day. That’s what I did in college. What I do since I work now and am upskilling by studying for certs is putting away my phone as soon as I get home and focusing on what I need/want to get done. Reading is cool too, helps when I want to stimulate myself without resorting to my phone. Obviously, take your time to gradually develop the discipline to do so. Don’t recommend cold turkeying.
Trust me when I say you can get a lot done in a short amount of time and have free time to doom scroll or whatever you want. Time management is key and a good skill to have.
I'm Binge watching youtube and finally I'm here in your video after a while. It's not Infinite scrolling but I comment and watch every video.[ EDIT - On Homepage , not all videos from Recommended right side / windows site] Commenting is just one extra stuff like a BookMark , if I delete my googly history , I know what I watch or " liked videos ". Well I know your video everything most said in old videos like the algorithm one too this is also good . Keep it up ! love the content. Binging at 1.25/5x Speed
There was a tribe in south America that was given internet access and smart phones. They became addicted to social media and porn. The elders became concerned because no one was hunting or collecting food but they didn't want the internet taken away. Wild.
Having a burnout and only doing 3 things a day, I have used it for yt once and regretted is already, only been doing this for a week. But it felt like such a waste of time, ‘cause I didnt have any time left that day to use on my hobby and was than forced to do nothing again. I am watching this now, which I find really interesting, and do notice that I don’t feel like watching other videos right after.
Thank youuuu for your great work on this piece 💕 it’s really inspiring and a great piece to learn about how apps work in different ways 💕 thank youuuu and thank youuuu
I feel like I'm the only person who still prefers desktop/laptop to smartphone and I don't like scrolling for too long, I'd much rather spent the time drawing or gaming ✨ I do watch a lot of YT videos but mostly just during work hours as background during boring/easy tasks 🤭
All I have now is Reddit, and youtube. Eventually I’ll have to delete them both. I’ll have to go back to a flip phone. Doom scrolling is ruining my life 😢
I managed to quit infinite scrolling, because i started to hate myself for doing it. And i felt better after quitting because I was able to see it from the outside and saw how bad it was.
For those saying youtube should have an option to remove shorts - It has an option. Just add all the shorts on your feed to not interested. Once you do it, you wont get the shorts in recommendation for days. Once they comeback you can repeat the steps again and it'll disappear for some days again.
A little Sensational to say it "ruined Society forever," but it definitely takes a toll on Mental Health. I've had my UA-cam channel for over a decade so I'm as guilty as anyone, however I don't use Facebook or Instagram and I have never been to tiktok. On purpose. Getting rid of basic social media has been the best thing ever, I don't waste my time scrolling. Not only have I not missed anything important, I have avoided the pitfalls of being obsessed with everything that's going on in the news at every moment. It's a trap
I love your channel, Why are you skiping connecting with over than 600 million of spanish speakers in Latam? it is easy to have subtitutles in spanish, keep it on mind and help tons of people in my region that really need to know about you and your mindset! Saludos desde México!
Great vid, just one gripe: your explanation makes it sound like dopamine itself makes you feel good, or IS the reward. As I recently found out via Cal Newport (and fact-checked), dopamine drives the behaviour to seek the reward, but isn’t a reward in and of itself, nor does it make you feel good - it just compels you to engage in behaviours that feel good. Finding something interesting feels good in this context, in the same way eating nice food does… it’s the dopamine that compels you to scroll or to find (and eat) the nice food in order to gain that reward. ADHD meds cause the body to create dopamine but the medicine itself doesn’t make you feel good (at least not after the first couple doses), it simply gives you the impetus and energy to get up and do things. If dopamine itself made you feel good, people on ADHD meds would high as a kite nonstop haha
I refuse to download TikTok. Too many people underestimate the power social media has had over our lives. They act like it's perfectly normal to stare at a screen all day, when 20 years ago things were much different.
Apps like TikTok should limit the number of scrolls for each user, and that a user must pay for premium to get unlimited scrolls. However I don't think the companies would agree to that
I'm not hopeful for the future to be honest; not enough people have the awareness of this, and even out of those who do only a small percentage will actually do something about it. Social media needs to be recognised as the drug that it is, as harmful as any other destructive addiction.
I've always wondered.... Where do you get your stock footage? Do you shoot it all yourself? Or do you doom scroll thru endless databases of videos? I really am generally curious.
th ebest way to escape it is to literally sell your phone for one that can only do stuff such as call and text. A laptop can meet the rest of your needs, and youare less likely to turn on a computer just to go on tiktok (for example)
It's basically one device One mission at this point and when it rains for almost a solid week straight that doesn't help at all I kind of sort of knew what was coming back in the days of Android 4.0 ice cream sandwich but it was nowhere near as self-evident back then.
Infinite scrolling is bad but it’s not really the problem tho because a lot of people have been addicted to UA-cam before Infinite scrolling. I’ve been watching UA-cam videos every night before going to sleep since I got my first iPod in elementary school
Nothing is forever. Saying that, I admittedly don't have any solutions other than personal discipline (which who knows, the kids growing up with social media might develop an innate sense of and thus when to stop scrolling).
The advertising angle is confusing to me because I don't buy stuff like that. If you can buy ads and guarantee sales you are reliant on people being stupid enough to just buy what they are told to buy. What would happen if people didn't respond to ads? If they weren't so stupid. Thatd be great.
When I was in my home country for a few weeks in 2023 I was in a family friend's house with an adult and 2 other girls my age (below 18 at the time) and one of the days the 3 of them were in the living room just sitting on the couches scrolling on their phones, at the time I was laying down in bed watching a livestream but when it ended I went downstairs to ask what they were up to and I saw them on the couches so I decided to sit down beside one of them, 30mins to an hour later and the one that I sat beside asked me how I was so quiet and not on my phone (I was just thinking about random stuff I wanted to do). I don't know if that means I'm ''weird'' in today's standards or if I'm just a rare case in the new generation. (I have never seen the benefit of using social media either, although some would argue that discord is a social media although its more private. Until now the only post I've ever made was on X and it was for a Science week where a group from my school went to a university and we were asked to post photos from activities during the week)
Social media is already the “turns out smoking is bad for us” of the 21st century.
Even asbestos is healthier than social media.
Except the government won’t spend a bunch of taxpayer money to tell you that
In the 20th century, it was channel surfing. You'd lay on your couch, merely pressing your thumb down on a button, and because shows were just 30 minutes, by the time you made your way back to the channel you started from, a new show had started, and the cycle repeated. I'm not convinced this is all that different.
@@jason_v12345 I would argue it stems from the same origin, but is worse in the case of social media and the internet, because there is more dopamine produced.
after zapping through all the channels I had, I would often think "nah it's all boring" and do something else, while with modern technologies content is practically infinite and can be filtered and precisely tailored to give you dopamine, which the traditional TV couldn't
Exactly my thoughts. It would be like a TV trying to predict what channel you liked best and filtering out everything else to give you more personalized advertising to buy shit you don't need. You are in control of changing the channel. You have zero control over an algorithm.
A big realization for me was: after an hour of doomscrolling, try remembering 1-3 things you just watched. Your mind will go blank. It’s literally mind numbing brain rot, even if you catch a “good” video. You won’t remember it.
Not for me, but I know I'm an exception and not the rule
Worse yet is that it's always telling you what you want so it creates victim mentality (for some). Further contributing to the divide of our society and hostility towards the "wrong" side. This is what new generations have to grow up in (gen alpha+) as the world burns, why shouldn't they disrespect their elders? We clearly hate them or we would have made a better world.
@@deathbydeviceable your not kid. Ur a loser 😭😭
Can you be more specific about which platforms?
@@MartB-tx5lb tiktok, Instagram reels, UA-cam shorts, any short form video content where you just can vegetate and scroll with your thumb
UA-cam needs to add the ability to turn of Shorts (the UA-cam equivelent of Tik Tok) at LEAST for those who PAY for Premium. UA-cam is the only social media I use, and it's for talks, podcasts, etc. and I pay for Premium to avoid ads. They've turned my phone into a brain rot machine as much as I tried to avoid that. Now I am working on a way to deal with this, but companies don't care about us .00001% it's up to use to protect ourselves.
Indeed
Just turn off the reccomendations. I did it and now I don't have any vids on my feed except for the ones I'm subbed to or search for.
@@storyleaks1681 ANY "Shorts" are distracting.
They used to let you hide it from recommended but it always comes back
@@storyleaks1681 How do you do this??
It’s crazy how addicting this stuff is. I’m thankfully not on TikTok and don’t have it downloaded but insta and UA-cam still take up hours of my days
What's stopping you from deleting Insta?
Even if you uninstall it 99% of other people will still use it, thus it won't really make much of a difference socially. The world is fucked.
@@axel3689 Change has to start somewhere.
Same. UA-cam is my only media I still consider addicting.
"Friends" used to be easy to get, now that social media exists, everyone has moved there and now have irrational social expectations that I don't feel like keeping up with.
Yeah, I feel it's like some messed up cycle when you consume someones 'perfect' life over and over (friendships included) to the point where you realise it's fake but at the same time, your brain gets rewired into thinking that's the norm. This than makes you think that the real world is 'fake' in a sense.
The worst part is I started to feel like people are either fake and don't care about me at all or want to use me for something whenever there's someone starting small talk with me or any other type of interaction. It's so bad I just stopped talking practically, replaying with a series of 'oks'. I'm scared honestly, it will always be like this now. Like I'll never get back the 'naive' approach.
Anyway, sorry for the vent, no one to talk to 😥. I was hurt a lot recently by people so may just be that not social media alone.
@@borealis5379 Most friend groups contain cocky people and I don't have the mental capacity to do that and leech on other people to compensate for my degraded abilities.
@@borealis5379 im feeling the same, i just want to let you know, you are not alone in feeling like this
That, and I can't relate to those w social media cause I only have UA-cam and don't want to be put on social media either
It's their problem to solve and not your responsibility to cater to those people, setting boundaries is beneficial for them; seeing as when you have reached that point where you're fed up they will just whine for more and you will snap at them.
My dad is a HS teacher. He reads books on how bad social media is for the attention spans of kids, and tries to implement policies in his classroom that help them not be distracted by their phones. He also endlessly scrolls UA-cam in his free time 😞
practice what you preach
Much of UA-cam can be considered educational and informative. However scrolling through most of the shorts, I consider mindless scrolling.
It depends on what he Scrolls on, and whether free time is all day long or just a little bit of time. Nothing wrong with scrolling, it's just endless scrolling when you should be learning that is the problem
@@carpo719 I’ve just noticed him occasionally just sitting there scrolling his recommended. I do that sometimes, and it quickly feels like my mind is melting
@@littlebilly8747 scrolling to find something to watch is different than infinite scrolling of content.
Just wondering if the internet were to be shut down just for 1 day all around the world. What exactly would happen?
A lot of bad than good.
I want to see an entire year
It came quite close a couple weeks ago by a bad crowd strike update. Didn't affect the scrolling media much but did mess up lots of critical services.
Financial collapse.
maybe we can do that just for social media!
It has ironically led me to this video. Morning y’all.
morning
Morning 😊
Morning. And yes, although this might be wasted on ears that already know this, the youtube algorithm gives out good videos, in order to keep you going through all the crappy videos... Which heck, those crappy videos, can make slightly less crappy videos, look good enough for anyone to watch after going through so much crap that they "don't know" what's a waste of time and what's not anymore, i.e. sans undertale but its *insert thing here*, vs christian weston chandler documentary, with the documentary being the better of the two, but still probably a waste of time sorta... still great content tho. Take this and repeat it multiple times with totally different topics, i.e. vtubers being happy and weird and making themselves look ugly via changing vtuber models to intentionally boyish avatars vs distressed anime girl vibes... yeah distressed anime girl vibes takes the cake for me... But a lot of this is also very dependent on preferences, so uhh... forget you heard my preferences.
Yeah we are not recovering from this bro
Sheesh. That's a bit harsh to say, don't you think?
They're not wrong. Social media and the fight for keeping users spending as much time as possible on a specific app is going to be the fall of mankind. Companies have got so good at grabbing our attention, manipulating our choices, and predicting our actions that it's terrifying.
one thing i hate the most is the lack of memory for most of the things i watch, often i catch myself not remembering what i watched 3 scrolls ago on tiktok and reels. its super irritating
Social media has become incredibly toxic too.
It always was. But yeh it gotten worse
frrr
maturity is realizing that topics like this and how to be rich quickly, why porn is harmful etc are now just general working video topics for many creators and real value is dying out because of these trends
True
Yooo
Deep
I'm on day 3 of no social media and the constant dread/fatigue/despair i was feeling is going away and it feels like my world is getting smaller, in a good more controllable way. I hope more people get to this point
Don't forget that UA-cam is also a form of social media (with infinite scrolling) :D
I'm glad you found it helpful though, I cut almost all of the major social media channels out of my life. Yet UA-cam has stuck, that needs to go as well eventually I think.
A first step for me towards that goal was consequently unsubscribing content that no longer brought entertainment or is overly negatively phrased, hopefully mostly leaving science and informative channels, rather than what I personally consider "meaningless content".
I wish people would start realizing that addiction (even to one’s own phone) isn’t exactly a choice, and begin the first step of fighting it in doing so. I feel like so many people around me deny having an “addiction to their device,” simply for the fact our generation (gen z, in my case) is so criticized for it. We don’t want to be seen as “every other kid” so we avoid facing the fact we DO have that problem, and hence never begin the acceptance phase of overcoming that issue. If we can’t accept that we’re addicted, we’ll never be able to escape it, which is why I ask two things of anyone reading this: 1. Don’t judge people for what they essentially can’t control. I grew up with social media at my hands, and it’s not my fault I had no clue the damage mindlessly indulging in it could cause. 2. Be aware of yourself. Listen to this video, and really think about those signs of addiction. Take a step back, and ask yourself, what can I do to get better? It’s OKAY to be struggling, and I encourage you to reflect, and accept any part of you which may think, “I have a problem”
It sounds a little silly to be putting the alcoholic or drug addict speech into the context of social media, but physical and mental effect differences aside, all of it presents an issue in the fact they are addictive and screw with your quality of life, simple as that
You're so correct. Life before social media is probably the realest reality we would ever have.
This is one of the most in-tune and in-touch with the reality of addiction comments I've ever read. This speaks of understanding and compassion: 2 key, crucial elements in the first steps to working on solutions to the problem of addictions.
This. 100%!
And this is why my son wont be getting a phone until he's much older.
Yes please.
So long as you teach him of the dangers prior + your reasoning rather than refusing all access. Parents do the same with drugs and alcohol and then the second the children get access to it without parental supervision then it goes crazy. It’s healthy to introduce things to them appropriately than restricting all access.
@@Bro-dot-spot on
ua-cam.com/video/-4_Uy3x8WJc/v-deo.html
You say that now ...until the absolute panic of him simply wanting to stay at a friend's house. And you'll def want that contact. Or to track him .. and then he'll have it .. and he will use it . That's how it turned out for me anyway. Doesn't necessarily mean it will to you :( there are other options of keeping in touch I guess
I don't have social media, i had facebook aged 13-17 but that's it.... im 30 now, I do seem to scroll on UA-cam quite alot tho and that feels bad to me
remember moderation is key
Turn off watch history and it will automatically turn shorts off
No Shorts are still there.@@Darsh998
It works it fucking works I Love you@@Darsh998
I'm glad you made this video, it reminds me of my transformation from a nobody to good home, honest wife, $75k biweekly and a good daughter full of love ❤️
I'm inspired.
Please spill some sugar about the biweekly stuff you mentioned
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While we look for endless products online . We fail to understand they see us as the ultimate product...use news and media to entertain yourself..don't become the entertainment..❤
news is shit
Imagine what you would need to have infinite scroll in the 1700s, a team of people assembling papers together, cartoons, stories, essays riddles, treatises and other creations being constantly at the ready.
probably one of the most important videos of our time
I stopped all scrolling but if I do scroll my algorithm is all self-improvement motivational content - and it’s like “oh that was insightful” and put it away after a few reels
same
Exactly what I do
My friends would rather talk to me on Discord and Instagram. Rather than through text messages. I broke the habit of doomscrolling weeks ago. Yet I see them stuck in the same loop. I don't interact with anything they send because it will only grease the grears. Much happier now and my attention span is better. I can actually hear and understand music again which feels weird to say. Like comprehend the lyrics.
Another thought to add. I've said to my dad: "The problem with people my age is short form content. Short form content; short term goals. Short form everything."
I don't have alot of friends but they call me an old man despite being young. "How you do one thing is how you do everything." Some truly don't let this quote sink in.
some of that short term everything literally comes from the economy not allowing for this younger generation to even financially plan ahead long term. Eventually they'll think "why even socially plan ahead?". Why would they care about the dangers of doom scrolling in such case? Either way, I hear you man.
The reason this video didn't get views is because it's not a short.
I visit social media like facebook every 4 or 5 years and it reminds me why I don't bother with it. I see a sea of people living mediocre lives who could be doing so much better if they traded their social media time for actually living instead. I've been using computers since my first C64 in the 80's, I use computers every day for work as an engineer, there are so many good ways to use technology. Instead, society is filled with zombies, infinite scrolling, and going nowhere.
1:49 dinosaur fossils are ethically sourced lol
Bro the gas you are using in your vehicle is much less ethically sourced than those Dinosaur fossils
You are the best content creator of the 2020s. Everyone needs to see these videos.
If I see a short that Im interested in, I'll watch it. When it's done, back to the home page.
Using adblock everywhere since 2011. Still baffles me how this industry still exists.
some stuff (suppresses doom scrolling), 1: don’t have a phone, 2: watch more long form videos
I gave up phones 5 years ago. Now I almost never use the internet in Berlin, Germany.
Tired of scrolling so I just deleted the apps I don’t like anymore. One day I want to just not have any of the main social media apps. UA-cam doesn’t count as social media to me either.
UA-cam is the main problem for me
3:01 I'm still using a desktop computer and "surfing" the internet.
Also, I'm almost not on social media. Only UA-cam.
sounds like a good idea, I'm going to do the same...
Same
And thats why i enjoyed the ending to "Ready player one" where he shuts down the whole network on tuesdays so people can be in sync with reality instead of being glued to a screen.
Just purchased an old school feature flip phone. Getting as far away from my smartphone as possible
Bro i swear, when I was taking a shower, I too hit by this idea. But this idea is quite difficult to apply 😌
I like how the last decade or 2 has made it impossible to ignore that most people lack agency.
Exactly why this is one of my favourite youtube channels. A channel designed to inform, using his platform as a positive force for the world. Amongst all the bs
What I want to know is how or where Aperture get these little clips of people on their phones throughout the majority of the video
People make those clips and sell them to people like him
honestly it feels so good to be away from my phone having my data cut off for a day makes me plan out the usage of my time and if need my phone where to get internet from. even before my phone is about to die i feel relieved that i can get disconnected from my screen, but when it does it’s always did i miss an important text or feeling the need to search something up. idk i need my mobile device to live😂😂
When the servant becomes our master is how the light of humanity dies.
Actively scrolling the comment section
Lol omg. I play the flute, i play videogames, i my job is at a computer, etc. Lol im worried about what my fingers will become when im older
Brainrot could turn out to be a form of escape mechanism. Society's new drug of choice: mindless content to numb the pain of meaningless-ness. We're not just wasting time - we're hiding from ourselves.
Man dopamine is not the feel good hormone, its the hunting hormone
It makes the chase fun, the hunt fun, and thats the exact reason for doomscrolling
We are hunting the next video that interests us, the next video that entertains us, or the next video that might change our life
Its fear that keeps us scrolling, like what if the next video might just change my life type shit, which is basically fomo
But this is not true, majority of the content is brainrot, and has zerovalue, especially scrolling. Its way better to watch long form content, or just lave the internet. Its hard but i am going to try it out starting today
Peace
Your comment reminds me of when I used to pay homeless people to carry my hunting gear deep in the woods and give them a head start.
I am absolutely destroyed by this and I cannot stop.
Well I browsed pages on the forum when I was a teen before the scrolling feature so, I think the scale just grow ... a lot.
Infinite scrolling? Pfft please, my scrolling only approaches infinity.
Lol, I also doomscrolling a lot! I'm doing something about it and are developing my own app to help people in the same situation :D, ua-cam.com/video/-4_Uy3x8WJc/v-deo.html
I can confirm that when i see my family scrolling all day 😢 and I'm only using my phone 1 hour or less a day
Im so glad I deleted tiktok. UA-cam and reddit have filled that void instead though, the only difference is that I watch long form content and usually reddit posts are made of a majority of text. Its still unhealthy, looking at my data on my phone, I spent 33 hours on youtube and almost 24 hours on reddit within the last 10 days. That doesnt include the time I spent on my laptop, or the time I spent playing video games. Jesus christ I have no life, what the hell am I actually doing? How do I actually stop this? Maybe i'll try and learn how to code or something in my spare time, but it feels like I dont have time for it because I'm procrastinating studying for my school exams. Holy shit I might actually be cooked
Try not going to grab your phone when you wake up and focus on only completing the hardest tasks of your day. That’s what I did in college. What I do since I work now and am upskilling by studying for certs is putting away my phone as soon as I get home and focusing on what I need/want to get done. Reading is cool too, helps when I want to stimulate myself without resorting to my phone.
Obviously, take your time to gradually develop the discipline to do so. Don’t recommend cold turkeying.
Trust me when I say you can get a lot done in a short amount of time and have free time to doom scroll or whatever you want. Time management is key and a good skill to have.
I'm Binge watching youtube and finally I'm here in your video after a while. It's not Infinite scrolling but I comment and watch every video.[ EDIT - On Homepage , not all videos from Recommended right side / windows site] Commenting is just one extra stuff like a BookMark , if I delete my googly history , I know what I watch or " liked videos ". Well I know your video everything most said in old videos like the algorithm one too this is also good . Keep it up ! love the content. Binging at 1.25/5x Speed
There was a tribe in south America that was given internet access and smart phones. They became addicted to social media and porn. The elders became concerned because no one was hunting or collecting food but they didn't want the internet taken away. Wild.
Having a burnout and only doing 3 things a day, I have used it for yt once and regretted is already, only been doing this for a week. But it felt like such a waste of time, ‘cause I didnt have any time left that day to use on my hobby and was than forced to do nothing again. I am watching this now, which I find really interesting, and do notice that I don’t feel like watching other videos right after.
I feel called out because I’m scrolling through the other recommended videos rn
Thank youuuu for your great work on this piece 💕 it’s really inspiring and a great piece to learn about how apps work in different ways 💕 thank youuuu and thank youuuu
If I didn't have to use apps for work, I would absolutely not need a smart phone and would much rather have a old flip phone.
This will seperate humanity into those who are self aware and those who are not
I feel like I'm the only person who still prefers desktop/laptop to smartphone and I don't like scrolling for too long, I'd much rather spent the time drawing or gaming ✨ I do watch a lot of YT videos but mostly just during work hours as background during boring/easy tasks 🤭
All I have now is Reddit, and youtube. Eventually I’ll have to delete them both. I’ll have to go back to a flip phone. Doom scrolling is ruining my life 😢
Don't ever leave! We need the memes on yt and reddit xd.
@@NikosM112 nope. I gotta go out and live life. I’ve wasted so much time already
@@TheOddOnesChannel good 👍🏼
It's good to know you have taken first step to protect your mind from social media 😎
@@yamankkumarpathak1899 thanks! Deleted Reddit this morning. UA-cam however.. I can’t really bring myself to delete that just yet 😭
It reslly depends what you look up on youtube most of the time kn just learning about stuff i find interedting at the time
Could've thought you'd heard my sneak peek of a song in the making =O
❤❤ Aperture
The guy who invented the pop up ad also apologized.
I managed to quit infinite scrolling, because i started to hate myself for doing it. And i felt better after quitting because I was able to see it from the outside and saw how bad it was.
I deleted any and all social media back in highschool and never looked back. I still hate my life
Where are you getting all this mini videos from
Probably some stock video websites
For those saying youtube should have an option to remove shorts - It has an option. Just add all the shorts on your feed to not interested. Once you do it, you wont get the shorts in recommendation for days. Once they comeback you can repeat the steps again and it'll disappear for some days again.
How to have success
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I dont have any social media anymore due to scrolling... got called out and checked myself
UA-cam has it too
And yet here you are! 🙄
I dont scroll youtube lol tha phukk? Im referring to tik tok, Facebook, x, ect
@@thomasfholland just cuz they here doesn't mean they scroll all day anymore, UA-cam's main thing is long form content
I think UA-cam is the worst one. It’s harder to let go of UA-cam for some reason.
Deleting most social media is the best thing I ever did
It is so true😢somthing is jus not right
It funny how people suffering from this can't even watch the entire video because of their short attention span
A little Sensational to say it "ruined Society forever," but it definitely takes a toll on Mental Health.
I've had my UA-cam channel for over a decade so I'm as guilty as anyone, however I don't use Facebook or Instagram and I have never been to tiktok. On purpose.
Getting rid of basic social media has been the best thing ever, I don't waste my time scrolling.
Not only have I not missed anything important, I have avoided the pitfalls of being obsessed with everything that's going on in the news at every moment. It's a trap
I love your channel, Why are you skiping connecting with over than 600 million of spanish speakers in Latam? it is easy to have subtitutles in spanish, keep it on mind and help tons of people in my region that really need to know about you and your mindset! Saludos desde México!
Great vid, just one gripe: your explanation makes it sound like dopamine itself makes you feel good, or IS the reward. As I recently found out via Cal Newport (and fact-checked), dopamine drives the behaviour to seek the reward, but isn’t a reward in and of itself, nor does it make you feel good - it just compels you to engage in behaviours that feel good. Finding something interesting feels good in this context, in the same way eating nice food does… it’s the dopamine that compels you to scroll or to find (and eat) the nice food in order to gain that reward. ADHD meds cause the body to create dopamine but the medicine itself doesn’t make you feel good (at least not after the first couple doses), it simply gives you the impetus and energy to get up and do things. If dopamine itself made you feel good, people on ADHD meds would high as a kite nonstop haha
We desreve video on how things work at aperture!
I refuse to download TikTok. Too many people underestimate the power social media has had over our lives. They act like it's perfectly normal to stare at a screen all day, when 20 years ago things were much different.
I just scrolled to Infinity and this is the last video
is there an extension that blocks yt shorts?
unhook try it
Scrolling brought me to your page
babe, aperture uploaded time to fall asleep
Suffering frkm this now. Goodnight.
the link for the shop doesnt work!
Apps like TikTok should limit the number of scrolls for each user, and that a user must pay for premium to get unlimited scrolls. However I don't think the companies would agree to that
Infinite scrolling is just like cancer to mankind!
I'm not hopeful for the future to be honest; not enough people have the awareness of this, and even out of those who do only a small percentage will actually do something about it.
Social media needs to be recognised as the drug that it is, as harmful as any other destructive addiction.
I've always wondered....
Where do you get your stock footage? Do you shoot it all yourself?
Or do you doom scroll thru endless databases of videos?
I really am generally curious.
th ebest way to escape it is to literally sell your phone for one that can only do stuff such as call and text. A laptop can meet the rest of your needs, and youare less likely to turn on a computer just to go on tiktok (for example)
I got here by Doomscrolling
Woot woot!
Took a break from scrolling for this... womp womp
It's basically one device One mission at this point and when it rains for almost a solid week straight that doesn't help at all I kind of sort of knew what was coming back in the days of Android 4.0 ice cream sandwich but it was nowhere near as self-evident back then.
If I wanted to scroll for an hour straight, I'd just open vs code to my spaghetti code
don't forget to refactor it for another 180hrs
think of what to do with your life don’t keep scrolling
I can confidently say that the internet was the worst mistake humanity has ever made.
Hi, my name is [REDACTED] and i am an internet addict.
Infinite scrolling is bad but it’s not really the problem tho because a lot of people have been addicted to UA-cam before Infinite scrolling. I’ve been watching UA-cam videos every night before going to sleep since I got my first iPod in elementary school
6:45 do it hear minecraft music?
Nothing is forever. Saying that, I admittedly don't have any solutions other than personal discipline (which who knows, the kids growing up with social media might develop an innate sense of and thus when to stop scrolling).
The advertising angle is confusing to me because I don't buy stuff like that.
If you can buy ads and guarantee sales you are reliant on people being stupid enough to just buy what they are told to buy.
What would happen if people didn't respond to ads?
If they weren't so stupid.
Thatd be great.
When I was in my home country for a few weeks in 2023 I was in a family friend's house with an adult and 2 other girls my age (below 18 at the time) and one of the days the 3 of them were in the living room just sitting on the couches scrolling on their phones, at the time I was laying down in bed watching a livestream but when it ended I went downstairs to ask what they were up to and I saw them on the couches so I decided to sit down beside one of them, 30mins to an hour later and the one that I sat beside asked me how I was so quiet and not on my phone (I was just thinking about random stuff I wanted to do).
I don't know if that means I'm ''weird'' in today's standards or if I'm just a rare case in the new generation.
(I have never seen the benefit of using social media either, although some would argue that discord is a social media although its more private. Until now the only post I've ever made was on X and it was for a Science week where a group from my school went to a university and we were asked to post photos from activities during the week)
Scrolling past this with integrity
If only Al Gore didn't invent the internet. 😳
It's possible not to fall into the trap. I use my phone about 10 minutes per day on socials and I don't feel the need to consume more.