Why I don't post anymore 🫠 

can't wait for the info on apartment swaps!!

I REMEMBER! 👏🏾 Can't wait!😅

What does that mean? @@lourdesgil9825

I remember and I'm looking forward to hacking my corporate job and traveling! ❤️❤️

yessss i was so and still am so excited!!!

oh shit

This!!!!

Uuuuuuuw ❤

Exactly… I don’t use social media anymore, because it actually repulses me. Sure there is some quality content, i dont doubt that, but i just dont care.

@@antonios111 right there with you, I stopped using social media and it was the best thing. Then I started to get into photography and I feel like I have to use IG for that. Now I’m just downloading the app whenever I have new photos to post but I’d my hair rather not use it at all.. idk

It weirds me out that on TikTok people refer to each other as "creators", and not people. "No hate to this creator", "Go watch this other creator's video". We all upload on other social media and still are just people there... but are we all becoming just content creators instead? Bizarre.

yeah it's like who's influencing influencers if they're so many?

Very. At that point it doesn't seem like influencers would be a thing because there's so many of them. You can't effectively influence a bunch of people who are also influencers...can you?

@@haute03 maybe if they tend to be a whole army, they'll just be become regular instagram users, and super influencers will born idk

and underwhelming at the same time😂😢😅

You spoke my mind!!

Me too

Same!! Don’t see enough of this anymore!!

THIS.

Wow what you said resonates with a podcast I just listened to. A researcher explained that, in neuroscience, when an individual is calm/relaxed, we can observe that the brain is almost “turned off”.

This comment >>>>>

Wow can guide me to a book or video that speaks more about this

​@@FarahNuitwhat podcast is this pls

I agree. Recently with some friends we were talking about podcasts and one of them asked 'if you had a podcast, what would it be?' and I was like, 'i wouldn't have one cause I got nothin to say anymore'. I spent the years from age 5 to age 35 analysing, decoding, interpreting, assessing, understanding, discussing and now I reach a point where I've said it all. I also have a therapist for the heavy stuff I don't want to burden others with. It's like, we've decluttered our minds and finally got some peace and quiet.

Like why'd we forget that its okay to admit you don't know everything, or simply dont want to share anything that serves negligible purpose

I just love that Damon owned this fact. 🎉

Allow my to introduce myself

I’m all for people using social media to spread factual information that the news refuses to broadcast with certain political or social issues. Because the mass traditional media is still very biased. However, for the videos that have a sliver of a comment about a rare human experience that is “not that deep” but the public somehow makes it deep-that’s getting ridiculous. For example, I saw a tiktok about a woman talking about how women that don’t have sisters are less toxic. The whole comment section and people stitching to that video were people just adding on top of each other why women in general are toxic. And how sisterhood is more toxic than brotherhood. Somewhere down the line the videos stitching to it got more saturated with the same reaction and eventually it was just people hating women lol yes it became a rabbit hole of hate but the other thing was that it wasn’t even a comment to dig that deep into. The woman originally said it because she explained that she grew up with no siblings to begin with. And she noticed, from her experience, that women who grew up with no sisters tend to be less lenient towards all women including toxic women. Whereas women with sister(s) are used to fighting over mundane things with another woman (their sister) that it seeps into them getting used to women that they befriend as being toxic because that’s how they usually are with their sisters 😂 the way people so cheaply psychoanalyses that statement she made and ran miles with it just to end up hating women was what shocked me. It wasn’t that deep to begin with and not even true. Women with sisters would argue that it just makes them more confident to be around women without judging them for little things. And most likely to stand up to male toxicity because they didn’t grow up “male centered”. But it just kept adding and all I’m thinking is that original content creator just didn’t have sisters-so she got philosophical about her experience and the world reacted with hate and accusations about her as a woman hating women, or just simply they themselves claiming that women are toxic and that’s why sisters are toxic. All based one short video she made. Insane. So much was said about a statement that is not a real issue in society or in personal life experiences yet the public really squeezed a whole lot of nothing or hate from it somehow.

I clicked on this soooo fast!!!

Darling same 😄 Earl grey in hand 🫖

Listen!! I just paused work. They can wait a min

samee here!

*girls, gays, and theys.

delete for 30 days. I just did that and it's heaven. think i'm done with instagram now

i deleted it 6 yrs ago trust u won’t miss it

rlly just delete it! i was at your point and didn't do it and it only got worse.. i got anxious everytime i opened the app and still couldn't stop and only then i realized couldn't handle it anymore.. it reaaally was an instant relieve to delete it ... i couldn't go back to it despite still sometimes having the urge to install it... the moment i actually think about it i get anxious again lol gave myself ptsd of some kind 😅

same deleted last month, life feels good now @@chicblossom

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What

Ava!!!❤

You’re sat and I hope you’re listening because you are one of the influencers contributing to this.

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Love your channel Ava!

1000% agree!

Ikrrr

He is the epitome of what RU-vid influencer is. Such a inspiration

This and that I want to delete all the pictures from my album and make Polaroid pictures of only the important ones 😂

We’re in the age of long form, not short 😅 TikTok is becoming RU-vid

Right!!

YES THIS

yeh same, I'm not a traveller or a language person and I fuck with Damon just because of who he is

^^^ Russell Brand is a conspiracy theorist faux-intellectual spiritual guru who is full of shit BUT ON TOP OF THAT has been accused of rape and sexual assault. He doesn't deserve any admiration.

Did it ever occur to you that there was no proof that it was just some crazy woman who hates what he believes and says that sort of stuff happens all the time, on both sides and even women who were spurned by some man they liked will accuse him of something

@@slidenapps…

@@slidenappsoh yeah because it’s soooo far fetched that a man would rape a woman 🙄

So true

Fuck Netflix

I've also been on this journey of distancing myself from social media. I often wonder if, at this point in time, it's even worth putting my time into it to showcase my work/art. How do you use social media? Did you find other ways to put your work out there for others to find (for work opportunities or simply for collabs with other creatives)?

Oh my god, I am also in the film industry (as are most of my friends) and at the moment I am finding myself very torn because on one hand I want to delete most of my social media as it is draining me on the daily but on the other hand just like you suggested the importance of networking has me in a chokehold!! especially since I moved half across the world recently to study in Korea as an exchange student and I will be trying to land an internship here in the next half a year. honestly the only reason I am conflicted about deleting my social media is the fear that an internship opportunity is going to pass me by... i have also been quite lonely since i moved here on my own so connecting with people via social media has at least provided me with some way to contact the people i've met so far. sorry for the long paragraph ahaha i just read your comment and it really resonated with me!! this is exactly how I hope I will spend my time with my friends after returning home! :)

I started distancing myself from social media almost 5 years ago when I realized how it made me more and more addicted. So happy people are joining in. There’s nothing fun

love this comment. love that you're spending more time together.

I love your comment.

Insightful, thank you!

@@nanicrash You're welcome! In fact, I just found out that the exact idea was mentioned by a sci-fi author in 1950s (Sturgeon's law), and want to come back to this comment for that 🥰

I relate so much. I deleted it when I was in high school then reactivated my account once I started uni because I felt like I was missing out on connecting with all the new people I was meeting and staying in contact with friends from back home. I graduated last year and deactivated my account again. It’s just not for me. If people are meant to be in your life they will be. I do however can onlyhope that more and more people break free from the shackles of social media.

Litrally!! Thanks for sharing, I’m sure I will end up following in your footsteps

Going on 30... and got teary watching The Batman today 😅

I need to know why sudoku made you emotional because I love sudoku, I’m pushing 30, I need to be prepared

I also want to hear more of this perspective

If you happen to have found the balance, please let me know. I never downloaded tiktok until now but 2024 might be the year i give in unfortunately... Also I don't think you're gonna add to the "garbage pile". For example, i KNOW garbage and shallow content exists out there, but i don't see it, my feed doesn't even pick it up. My point is quality seeking people will find your art.

@@jubiterr then I'll do my best to turn up in the algoritms like the one you have on your feed!! 🥲no but forreal, I find the act of creating for it to do well on socials so sad. So your point about that if our work will not be seen by the masses but a couple of those quality people, is making me happy :) Also, I find Tiktok to be more personal, less general than Insta. On the other hand, wayyy more addicting. But maybe that's what we need to find a couple of those true people!

there’s a REALLY good video about this exact thing by struthless called “the problem with the internet that no one is talking about.” he gives a few ideas for finding a balance, highly recommended

Literally feeling the same way. I really don’t want to have to become a content creator just to be successful creating art. I have no interest in all the work it takes to chase social media and short attention spans. I just want the right seekers to find my work. Some of them don’t even use Instagram or other aggressive marketing avenues. Art comes from the soul but all these things we have to do to monetize it nowadays do not.

100%!!! Ppl who are dealing with the rut end of social media are on Tik Tok. Now I dont have any platforms other than This and Reddit but other than that, this is why I dont like shorts, and the scroll and watch elements.

Cmon chapters!!

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19:40 Wes Anderson DOES make commercials. 25:30 Masterpieces of art & literature are studied & revisited repeatedly. 37:20 Hamas is a terrorist organization. Let's not overlook that. This is a LONG video bemoaning the state of social media & the content churn. These are free platforms that are what you make of them. No one is forcing you to watch garbage content. The double-edged sword of algorithms is that they feed you more of what you want to see. If you're an uncritical person, you will gravitate toward & select easy, unchallenging content. As for what's next, consider completing your degree. It'll help.

Damn this video is going to be good. Thanks for the time stamps

I ended up watching it all *of course* but thanks anyway😂

Please tell us more! Spill the tea.

I worked as content review AND THE first 30 seconds were hell for our attention span… like the amount of stuff that people had to put to capture our intention… Not even talking about thumbnails & titles...

Prada - Candy L'eau

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I feel this! I think it’s also the algorithm pushing all the new stuff, I miss so many videos and content from creators I actually follow

Totalement d’accord c’est juste une periode comme l’epoque des beauty gurus revolue ou tant d’autres qui sont deja passées. J’ai trouvé les opinions un peu simplistes / réductrices personnellement.

So true, a lumpia

oh Ashley, same 😭 I'm so happy to found Damon who has same like minded. haven't heard about Ashley for ages. I know she's active on ig / tt but I don't have any of those. so not bother to know her in and about too.. wish she come back to yt whenever she's ready (or maybe never?)

that's called a NEW camera bébé!

omg he replied im crying

It always is

what camera do you use?@@damondominique

Exactly

What is the time stamp for that?

so....... you dismiss the video because he didn't say exactly what YOU wanted him to say? that's the entire point of the video!!!

@@gabriellas No but it echoes what Damon said, that people forget in a matter of days... 🤦

Well I suspect the reason he hasn't been arrested is because no one is able to prove the allegations. Not saying he's innocent, because I don't know. But then women do accuse men they don't like, especially men who are saying things they disagree with, of bad things. So before you jump to all these fancy conclusions, take a deep breath.

this is such an interesting question! I'm curious too