Rant on Social Media
Hey person! This is my rant on social media.
I know this might come off as biased, unstructured, and not very pragmatic. But if you find this post offensive or feel personally attacked, you’ve just proven my point.
It scares me.
Social media has influenced everyone who uses it—not the influencers. Influencers are merely just some instruments that social engineers of social media uses to prompt the social media users to act, think, and behave subconciously. The contents of social media is superficial than episodic show and games. I personally think that non-episodic shows (serialized/procedural), movies, story-driven video games, or even animes have better influence effect than social media.
The sheer depthlessness of social media really beats any entertaintment or media contents that ever exists.
I don’t personally use TikTok. It’s really astonishing of TikTok’s algorithm capability is. I don’t use it because I hate it, I don’t use it because it terrifies me. The way that they design its personalized contents to be ready consumed by the users really scares me, everytime I see people who scrolls TikTok, or short-video based social media content in general, they looked like they’re detached, from the very spatial they’re currently in.
Whenever I see them scrolling, I be more sober; piloted to refrain myself from scrolling.
Try to record yourself scrolling social media for an hour, or some more time until you no longer concious of the surroundings. If you came back from it, stop the recording, then watch it, no skipping. Tell yourself what do you feel.
Everyone is introverted and autistic now.
I’m AI-ing this a bit, sorry haha.
Social media has finally done it. It’s achieved what years of self-help books, childhood trauma, public therapy sessions, and awkward school activities could never quite manage on their own: it has comforted you from the very scary reality of the real world.
It starts harmlessly enough. You open an app. The feed greets you like a pet that’s been waiting all day. It’s eager. It knows you. Not in the real, messy, unpredictable way that people do—but in the comforting, sterile way an algorithm does. You scroll. You nod. You smile. Wow, this is so me. And it is! Because the algorithm isn’t showing you the world. It’s showing you you—the only thing you’ve ever really wanted to see. Over and over again, like a mirror that only reflects back the most interesting, palatable parts.
“I built my algorithm brick-by-brick.” A statement that used to mean “I curated my taste” now means “I built a simulation of reality so tailored to my preferences that I no longer require actual reality.”
In your very own crafted world, every-every is very you. Talks like you. Has your problems. Your aesthetics. Your particular brand of disaffection. It’s like living in a city where everyone is you, doing what you do, behaving like you do, and done what you’ve done. Beautiful. Beautiful. You. Oh, me.
This is where the autistic part comes in—not the clinical diagnosis, but the social media flavor: hyperfixations, and niche communities. Your favorite content loops endlessly, comforting like a fidget toy. You don’t talk to strangers anymore; you follow accounts. You don’t read the room; you refresh the feed. There’s no such thing as “awkward silences” when everyone is just muttering into their own curated echo chamber. It’s all very efficient.
Meanwhile, the introversion was an inevitable side-effect. Why go outside, where the people don’t understand your references and the lighting is all wrong, when inside there’s a glowing screen that understands you better than your parents ever did? You don’t have to fake a laugh or maintain eye contact. You can just be—or at least, be the version of yourself you’ve optimized for engagement.
The lines between identity, performance, and preference collapse into a feed. And that’s where you live now.
Socializing in person now feels… off. Too unpredictable. Too laggy. No captions. No ability to pause and rewatch the conversation. Real life lacks filters. It lacks the dopamine of likes and algorithmic approval. You say something witty at a party and nobody bookmarks it. What’s even the point?
So here we are. A generation of people in perfect sync with their screens, increasingly out of sync with each other. Everyone introverted, everyone autistic—because that’s what happens when the primary mode of human interaction becomes a hyper-personalized simulation of reality optimized to never challenge you, never confuse you, never really touch you.
And sure, it’s isolating. But at least it’s relatable.
The corrupt government is using it to controls the mass!
At one point, a certain government was paying around $5.29 million to social media influencers. No, not for anything like infrastructure or healthcare—but to vibe.; to meme; to “shift narratives.”
Because why bother with propaganda posters when you can just sponsor a 19-year-old TikTok creator to say, “guys I just think we should stop the hate on our new lovely government peeps 💅✨ #sponsored”
Let us restrain ourselves.
Cold turkey quit, or find some activities and communities that don’t require having your phone or internet around.
Social Media as Social Control - Luke Smith
Sorry guys, I think I underperform this post. But thank you. I’ll do a proper one when I’m able to do a better research and phrasing.