Twitter has created this toxic entitlement complex. Everyone's gotta be in everyone else's business. I quit a year ago, taking that entitlement away. I've never gone back.
I quit twitter because I was scared each time I saw the notification bell, I felt anxiety. Yet I saw how addictive it could become, I felt obliged to answer and it was almost always antagonistic. Twitter and I lasted three days.
I deleted Twitter and my quality of life immediately increased exponentially. My perspective shifted. 2 years later, I’ve watched it transform former friends in to monsters. I never want to subject myself or anyone I care about to such a horrible toxic platform.
3 years ago I got off of Twitter. I realized that transformed from me following Sports to dragging me into the depths of political battles. I did enjoy those political battles and I thought I did my part. But one weekend I knew I had to get off because my health was suffering from all this. I said goodbye to all my Twitter friends over a couple of days, very heartfelt sentiments because I did find some Brave political Fighters they're pushing back against woke and leftism. But I had to leave and life is different now I'm living it more in the world as opposed to through Twitter
@@decimated550 If I am being honest, I ignored most of the political shit twitter gave me. Also I am not from US, so the twitter experience actually different. If anything, I used it because I got quality comic strip published by independent artists there and yes, they are Japanese, and I simply turn a blind eye on political post, never giving them traffic. Seriously, if you can't turn a blind eye on your friend post and opinion anymore, one of the solution is to quit the platform or make a real fresh starts by checking what matters the most for you. I simply use twitter just to have fun, not to be shoved political campaign.
@@decimated550 social media, if you're conservative, has become majorly stressful. I'm glad I never got on any of them, and it's still bad enough. Now I've totally dumped TV over the last year. Any of my friends with different political views if they start up, I tell them right up front I don't discuss politics.. Some people have become weaponized over politics & have horrible TDS.
When you said "twitter was a huge part of my psyche," that really shook me. I'm 31, and social media didn't even exist until I was about 15. Even then, it didn't exist in the capacity that it exists today until I was already in my 20's. It's frightening to imagine how the internet is shaping human interaction and empathy, especially with people starting at such a young age. Social media is absolute reality distorting poison. I honestly wish that every young person would try living the way we lived in the 90's as a social experiment, if only for like a month or so, at some point in their lives. Just exist with no distractions, and no connection to the digital world. You'll quickly see how that changes human interaction and general perception of life. There wasn't really any open hostility towards one another like today(moral puritanism was the minority). In some cases, you could have grown up with someone and known them for years, yet still didn't know their every opinion. And the beauty of it is that nobody really cared to know, unless things somehow came up organically in conversation, which was rare except in very close relationships! Friendships weren't contingent upon having the right opinions, but even if you did have a few shitty opinions, it was almost unheard of to be socially exiled for it. It's like the dehumanization of social media has eroded empathy to the extent that people don't think twice about severing decade long friendships. Idk, sorry to ramble! But I'm always happy to see a young person speaking about this. Can't wait tp see your channel blow up!
Social media existed before then. It existed in the form of places like LiveJournal, which was the true birthplace of the 'social justice warrior' mentality that moved to places like tumblr and Dreamwidth following LiveJournal's sale to a Russian company, which began to abide by Russian laws and Russian users over other demographics. Dreamwidth is still active today, but exists for people to roleplay and to fight about roleplaying. tumblr is really where this SJW mentality took hold, and after they became emboldened there, moved to Twitter. LiveJournal, FYI, started in the 1990s.
I stopped talking to my best friend of 20 years because it turns out that he is a blue pill, Democrat plantation voting, BLM grift supporting, scared to lose my black card because of wrong think, vaccine taking, type of guy that is far beyond repair. We are in dire times and the truth does not bring people together unfortunately.
@@nachgeben this was a great addition to a fascinating original post. I grew up in the '90's and remember taking the subway 3 hours just to spend 7 hours with my friends eating cheap Chinese food, playing video games and arguing about rap music. When we were in elementary school, we were taught that "we could change the world" and that "it was our duty to perpetually fight for justice." This created an entire generation of SJWs with no war or battles: we grew up with a black Supreme Court Justice, top black entertainers and athletes, black astronauts, and then we even got a black president. BUT, just as we were about to turn the corner to reach the top of the mountain top MLK told us he dreamed about, SJWs, race grifters and guilt riddled liberals dragged us all back to base camp so they could buy a few more homes in Calabasas.
It is so unhealthy how a tool has become this like addictive entity that consumes life. It becomes a distraction to real life while addressing things occurring in reality through a fragmented sort of figment of what is really happening. When people call it an echo chamber it really does fit that description.
Or even just leave you alone. Not every disagreement requires a "discourse". It's not necessary to challenge every opinion you disagree with. Letting things go, leaving people alone, and understanding that neither they nor you know everything is another great option. It's so much less stressful to just acknowledge the humanity in other humans.
YES, I deleted my Facebook account in January after 11 years! I have to admit to some withdrawal but now it's like, "I can't believe I wasted SO much time there!"...and just like you said, Kimi, "for what?" I could literally see it tearing families apart; no more civil discourse; no joy just negative-negative-negative. Oy!
I did the same and it was absolutely cathartic. The only thing I miss is the marketplace. Other than that, I don’t miss it one bit. Twitter as well, what an unmitigated waste of time.
I found a lot of hate and cruelty on Twitter. I did not need that in my life so I quit after 13 months after I realized how much it would upset me. Keep doing what you’re doing because you’re doing it wonderful and with kindness.
I "walked away" from social media after high school. When the pandemic hit I stared spending some time on Facebook as a substitute for socialising with people irl. But now when things start getting back to normal (at least where im from), I want to cut off social media whenever I get the chance to do so. Its amazing how harmless it seems to be and how toxic it can get.
i left tik tok shortly after i joined it last year, and i'm glad i did. it was such a strange time in my life and i wish others would leave the platform as well. everything was propaganda and manipulation, even the more chill creators had an agenda to push. all of the videos about blm on tik tok perpetuated this victim mentality, this idea that the "system" was out to get the good guys. and since the app was chinese-owned at the time, it didn't make sense to me that so many creators were acting like the algorithm was against them and hiding their videos about the "injustice" in america. such a fever dream.
God I got involved with a fight on tik tok over the death of George fentanyl boy Floyd. I didn't and still don't see death by cop he being woke did. He noticed I was spectrum as I made a few videos on the subject so automatically to him it means I'm dumb. No I'm only dumb because I disagree with your pov
I delved into Twitter for just over a year, much to my detriment. I recently heard it referred to as “an addictive rage machine” by Tim Pool. A perfect metaphor.
even seeing some videos about stupid tweets in youtube give me some sense of rage. Two years ago I consume stupid tweet video daily until I realize that I cannot breath normally because I was so enraged when seeing vids about Twitter shit takes. That's when I knew that i will never download twitter.
I never had Twitter. Comments about different post led me to believe there were too many people behaving like kindergarten kids. Then the censorship. Glad I didn't.
Your words remind me of how I felt after "cutting the cord" to the television. These electronic devices are addictive and we are no longer policing our use of them as we should. Sadly, so many children were harmed by them and continue to be harmed by them. Orwell putting "Big brother" in the electronics of every home was illustrating this point. It is heartening to see that so many people are rejecting the "woke" by AWAKENING from this bondage.
YES 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Deactivating my Twitter, Facebook, and IG accounts is one of the most profound expressions of self care I’ve enacted my whole life. It’s incredible how much more time you have to process things and self reflect when you aren’t constantly consuming social media. My mood has improved, anxiety levels lowered. Thank goodness for your channel!
Same! I got off social media in 2013. Thankfully my career doesn’t require it. I’ll engage with people on TH-cam and Reddit but that’s it. Never looked back since. It was the best thing I could have done for my mental health.
The weird thing for me is that I'm VERY left wing, but basically every "left wing source" is filled with idiocy, so I spend a great deal of time disagreeing with it. I've SEEN this change people (a LOT of people shifted from liberal/centre left to explicitly right wing) so I know it's common... I just don't GET it.
@@heidibriones - I find it interesting that society labels certain ideology as right or left. The extreme right, according to popular culture, is fascism. The extreme left, communism. But from my experience the extreme right are die-hard libertarian and the ones that are depicted as extreme right are actually die-hard lefties. The ideologies of fascism and communism are of the same accord and splitting them into right or left was done purposefully to reject populism as one of the moral virtues the left espouse. In so doing, the left can now adopt the virtue of "inclusion" for the purpose of larger voter blocks. I rejected the left's ideology (though it was quite appealing as a young person) when I saw the reality of those "virtues" played out. High crime, high unemployment, high inequality. The left's mantra of compassion, diversity, inclusion, acceptance is built on a framework of underhanded sociopolitical lies.
That's because many people are binary thinkers. A binary thinker cannot imagine in-between realities. They only deal in black and white. A person who really engages issues will never identify with being a Democrat or Republican because they will see positives and negatives in both parties on certain issues. Twitter is straight-up propaganda.
I was suspended and didn’t care enough about it to try and get it back. It was pretty much a load taken off me. Everything you said resonated so well, I think you’re exactly right.
Social media is a major problem for all of humanity imo. I’m 22 and got off Twitter/Facebook/Snapchat earlier this year and I’m never looking back. It’s been life changing and has given me a sense of clarity that I’ve never had in my adult life so far. God Bless you Kim! I wish more of our peers shared this view!
Born in '86, i remember life pre internet - pre social media - pre smart phones, i'm so happy that i got to experience that. You can see in the numbers how the introduction of smart phones and constantly being on social media has decreased happiness. Especially self harm/s**cide in teens has been soaring.
@@lalynn967 well, I live abroad and I have friends and family all over... I wish I could just hang out with them, but it's not possible because of distance
@@caterinas6863 ah yes, that's a problem. I think to see their pics and videos is one of the positives of social media. I try to be aware of the addictive design and to strictly limit the time I spend online. My response was in regards to friends you could also meet in RL.
I officially deleted my Twitter account on January 18, 2023 after being addicted to it for almost 5 years. I realized that it’s not healthy for me to be on a toxic platform to argue politics and other stupid bullshit with people I will never meet and trying to impress people who I don’t really care about. Social media is not real life. Stop focusing on politics and culture war bullshit. Prioritize yourself and focus on the things that make you happy and gives your life meaning.
I deleted my Twitter account shortly after the election. It was just such a one sided platform. The negativity really gets to you. Being angry and offended for extended periods of time is just physically and emotionally draining.
Happy for you. Always got a very very toxic vibe from Twitter. I used it briefly, focusing on my brand. But couldn’t stomach it. Eventually closed it entirely a few months ago.
Your story is the same as mine, i deleted all types of social media from my life, no facebook, no twitter, no instagram, nothing. I'm enjoying my life way more now, i feel hopeful now instead of just dread and anxiety. Social media became a poison that sucks all your identity and replaces it with negativity, anger and hopelessness.
I'll be honest, I got off twitter at the end of 2020 when I had to take an extended break from all things social media/media and I haven't missed it. When you think a certain way, platforms like that will try to convince you you're some irredeemable villain. Recently, though, I decided to take a two-month break from social media again and like you said, it's amazing how much time that stuff eats up. Will probably be doing it again because I've not really noticed it improving my life, just upsetting me, and no one needs that.
Thank you, i'm glad at least someone can share their perspective with their OWN EXPERIENCE on Twitter! My friend, 11. Has gotten herself invested into Twitter. She'd tell me how she would scroll through Twitter for hours and hours on end, and it's become a really unhealthy habit of hers. Her behavior changed negatively and I could see how she would react to certain occurrences, and always had a bad temper after she downloaded that wretched app. She's become this toxic being absorbed into media to where I couldn't even recognize her anymore. I don't know what to do. This video was a nice refresher.
I never deleted my twitter but I did quit using it (and all other social medias too) like about a year ago only because it was starting to become this really toxic place (especially twitter) where you could literally get called out for absolutely anything ps: I was a stan acc so just imagine💀😭😭😭
omg same, I just quit about 2 days ago. I really cannot bear it anymore. Its filled with STUPID people whose personality is just to scrounge celebrities’ pasts just to find something to hate so they can “cancel” them. They find the littlest things to be “offensive” and “racist”. It was super exhausting and I personally felt sick seeing all the hate and bullying there is on that app. Everyone is literally a hypocrite- cancelling celebs for something they found “offensive” but at the same time they were also bullying and body shaming people... stan accounts are literally acting way worse than the people they are trying to cancel. I’ve came to realize that stan twitter is just a bunch of 14-20 year olds thinking that they are morally good all the time and having no idea how real life works. I could go on and on about how much I hate stan Twitter lmao its literally one of my worst nightmares. It took such a huge toll on my mental health (would literally ruin my mood and day). I feel so much better now without all its negativity.
Deleted my Twitter years ago. There were too many trolls and the platform in general gave me anxiety. It’s a competition of who can be the wittiest mean person. No thanks.
Woow same here.. soon as I open it I feel instant anxiety before even checking the feed.. just knowing I'm going see so much useless negativity, drama, and hoping to get at least one or 2 chuckles after all that .. was it hard letting go ? Or did u delete it cold turkey
Twitters formatting doesn't allow nuanced discussion, and with so many different viewpoints being shared, conflicts leading to productive discussion is nearly impossible.
I want to quit some TV channels as well as Twitter because of the control freaks that feel that whatever they say is atomically right and refuse contradiction.
I noticed the comments about Facebook and other social media being toxic. Nextdoor is also very toxic. I am thinking of quitting there also. I sty on Facebook because of my health information. There is no toxicity there, only learning and informing.
Nextdoor threatened to remove my account because an unhinged man attacked me over Brexit conversation and reported me for nit having my own name. Given that hus profile showed this man lived two roads down from me. You would think they would view the content and be concerned for my safety 🤨🙄. Showed them ghe middle finger because it was all politics instead of community.
Gal, this is horrible... Not having SM make us better heathly but let that morons to take control over society... I dunno what to do... Perhaps i need to lose fear...and litterally going to Hell. This cant be stay like this.
Oh my gosh thank you for this. It had become speak up! Then ya do, and it's sit down and shush! There's a lot of good but, but the bad is really tough now. Too easy to fall into that trap.
Sadly, most will not give her a chance, or start formulating their attack before she's done, comment and run. I'm glad I stumbled on this channel. Great job. Just say no to twitter & facebook. I did and now I'm on Gab, minds odysee and newtube, for now. Lot's of options.
I left twitter for the exact same reason. Like... it was kind of weird seeing my friends shift from posting about shows and sharing art to talking on and on about politics and enabling rude and toxic behavior. It's been a year that I've been off and I've never been happier.
I ditched FB about a year ago now. One of the best things I've done for my sanity. Last week I deleted Twitter and Instagram apps off my phone because I need a break. I may go back or not. I'll see. In general SM of all kinds is a time suck.
I have never embraced Social Media for reasons you stated. TH-cam is one of the few if not only I do see about have communication on occasion I have a facebook for years that was the first that left a sour taste in my mouth from the experience. I go on occasionally for a person I may know. I'm strictly an e-mail. Value my privacy.
If what happened on Twitter stayed on Twitter, that would be one thing. But Twitter has distorted everyday life as we know it. It has ruined journalism for one thing: a lot of new articles these days are little more than a series of embedded tweets!
Hi Kimi, once again, your psychological analysis is super on point. I’m not formally educated in psychology, but I am following your explanations of how these various issues you have been discussing affect people’s psyche (even if I need to rewind and listen a couple of times, lol). I would like to hear your expanded thoughts on the part of this video where you talk about the 80/20 principle and how you believe you weren’t getting anything out of the time you invested in Twitter. I would suggest that perhaps you *were* getting something out of all that time, albeit nothing positive.
The app was never meant for the things it's being used for today. As you said, it was for bands, businesses and individuals to give short updates on what was going on. Attempting to cram meaningful discussion about political or philosophical topics into the character limit is completely counter-productive because anything you might want to say, you have to oversimplify. Then, you get attacked because of that with an oversimplified rebuttal and the cycle of negativity never ends.
I deleted my Facebook because I realized, after I got into a heated discussion with one of my friends over the cancellation of Dr. Seuss, that I didn't want to associate my friends with their politics anymore. Too many times I was silently hurt by some of the political posts that I would see in my feed, not because someone out there felt that way about me for the color of my skin but that these were the ideas of some of my closest and dearest friends, people I would consider family. I have never thought less of them because they are darker than me but now racism is "trending"
I really like seeing your videos. You truly are giving some positivity that is really needed right now. I personally still have a fb but I haven’t used it in probably 2 years now. I keep it for messenger right now. I dropped Twitter maybe 6-8 months ago. I’m much happier in my life without them. Just wanted to say hi and let you know I appreciate you.
Hey girl I just deleted mine. There are pros of social media however the cons outweighs it (depending on how certain platforms are set up. I was like you ….spent up so much time up there it was taking away from me. I don’t need Twitter to succeed. I’m just on apps that help show my creativity.d
Never had twitter but so many friends warned me to stay away. Completely off topic, you are so beautiful! Your skin is flawless in every video. Love your opinionvideos also, I appreciate how you speak out on topics a lot of people shy away from. Keep it up
This is something I have been thinking about for a while. I also got into Twitter because I could talk about my favorite music there. But soon I was spending most of my day there, and it felt necessary to keep checking it all day. But I realized the reality- none of what is on there is important to my life, I do not NEED it, and basically every tweet will never actually be remembered throughout time.
i just deleted my account for the second time (the first time; it was between august 2020 and march 2021). you're so right it can be fun etc. but it is toxic. i could not do it anymore. phew! i am having a blast love from Senegal
I signed up for Twitter when it first came out but never used it and so glad I didn't. Seems like such a toxic and cruel environment. I can't handle that much hate being splattered everywhere. And good for you in realizing it wasn't a healthy social platform for you. More people need to think like you! Love your channel by the way and so glad I discovered you.
I lost my phone about a month ago, and ever since getting a new one I decided to not redownload any of my social media except TH-cam (if that count) and I feel sooo much better! I spend far less time on my phone and have been incredibly more productive.
I'm of the "older" variety and I can remember when everyone I knew from church and school got on Facebook. It was the next Sunday at church looking at these people that I knew intimately and feeling like I didn't, in fact, know them at all. What was represented online was completely antithetical to who they were in person. I knew then, nearly 20 years ago, that social media was a lie and I began to hate it.
Just discovered your videos, they’re wonderful, you’re so different than others out there who get so outraged and angry by every real or perceived injustice. I’ve never had a Twitter account and don’t understand the point of it. Why do you have to let everyone know what you’re thinking or what your opinions are 24/7? I keep mine to myself unless asked and then have to be cautious nowadays because I lean conservative and that’s anathema nowadays. Then people get upset that they get so much backlash from their tweets (is that correct?) Just stay away from it, a waste of time IMO. I can’t imagine evening having a Twitter account, seems more trouble than it’s worth. Keep up the good work, Kimi!
I was on Twitter 2013-2019 (13yrs-19yrs) and actually had a substantial amount of followers. During this time the social justice warrior generation were being molded, myself included. I didn’t realize it at first but it drastically changed the way I thought about the world and felt about my life. I was so loud and so wrong about so many things and those toxic views were being amplified on the platform. Basically I was not in touch with reality. I decided to get off because that virtual reality or Twitter culture was spreading to my peers in real life and it freaked me out. It’s like looking into a mirror and seeing a distorted monstrous figure and then realizing it’s you. I deactivated my account and haven’t looked back since. I’m only 22 but these past 3 years have been crucial in my developmental process. I can’t imagine where I’d be if I still had Twitter
The evolution of the twitter icon/logo bird is interesting. Four iterations from 2006 through 2020. The bird had eyes from 2006 until 2010. Then became the eyeless silhouette of today.
@@marymitchell4617 As someone who used to work in graphic design, I can tell you that you are reading too much into it. A logo/icon needs to be reproducible at various scales, and small details can suffer at small scales, especially on screens. Design is also often driven by fashion as much as necessity, and we have clearly seen a trend towards abstraction in the past decade. Just consider the switch from “skeuomorphic” to plain geometric, flat shapes and textures in the iPhone interface. Anyway, I agree with you somewhat on the actual problems with social media; I used to spend a lot of time on Facebook and later Twitter, but have stopped using both during the last year as things have become so politicised.
Kimi, You are the best! I love the way that you explain the fullness of your thoughts. I love the new words that you are teaching me. Keep going. Shine light on the darkness which is around us. The darkness is not nothingness. It is darkness and insidious. I thank God for you!
Never had a twitter. Im glad about that now. I do have facebook but I mainly follow cat pages or post memes.otherwise I just see how family and friends are. I do not have the time or energy to follow drama and mainly political drama at that. I feel a persons mental health can go down from all that drama and constant negative information.
I was never on Twitter but I deleted Facebook at the beginning of 2021 and feel so much happier for it. I’m accomplishing more, I’ve started reading more and doing new hobbies like embroidery and painting. I got off Facebook, not just because it is a time waster but I felt it wasn’t good for my soul. I was becoming jealous of other people, and found I was having negative thoughts about people who I either didn’t know or I knew and had previously liked. I’m feeling much more like myself again.
I tried making money with social media only to realize that I needed to have an established business plan. That was back in 2010 or so. It wasn't worth anything if I can't get paid from it. The funny thing is it's a good idea and so good it's like how do you screw it up. poisoned waters, that's about it.
Brava!!!! You enlighten and you are couragious and creative as an individual intellectual! I enjoy so much hearing your thoughts and that your actions have brought you peace!
Twitter has created this toxic entitlement complex. Everyone's gotta be in everyone else's business. I quit a year ago, taking that entitlement away. I've never gone back.
Smart choice. The toxicity in twitter (and all social media to be honest) is so extreme. I'm about to get rid of ALL of my social media accounts soon.
@@Roey512 Agreed. Social media's a cesspool. Scrolling through Twitter feels like you're watching the Two Minutes Hate from 1984.
Agreed guys, never was on Twitter but deleted Facebook and Instagram in 2020. Mental health improved greatly! 😇🙏
I'd say Facebook started it.. Twitter enhanced it and took it to the next level.
I quit twitter because I was scared each time I saw the notification bell, I felt anxiety. Yet I saw how addictive it could become, I felt obliged to answer and it was almost always antagonistic. Twitter and I lasted three days.
I deleted Twitter and my quality of life immediately increased exponentially. My perspective shifted. 2 years later, I’ve watched it transform former friends in to monsters. I never want to subject myself or anyone I care about to such a horrible toxic platform.
What happened to your friends?
That sounds horrible.
3 years ago I got off of Twitter. I realized that transformed from me following Sports to dragging me into the depths of political battles. I did enjoy those political battles and I thought I did my part. But one weekend I knew I had to get off because my health was suffering from all this. I said goodbye to all my Twitter friends over a couple of days, very heartfelt sentiments because I did find some Brave political Fighters they're pushing back against woke and leftism. But I had to leave and life is different now I'm living it more in the world as opposed to through Twitter
@@decimated550 If I am being honest, I ignored most of the political shit twitter gave me. Also I am not from US, so the twitter experience actually different. If anything, I used it because I got quality comic strip published by independent artists there and yes, they are Japanese, and I simply turn a blind eye on political post, never giving them traffic.
Seriously, if you can't turn a blind eye on your friend post and opinion anymore, one of the solution is to quit the platform or make a real fresh starts by checking what matters the most for you. I simply use twitter just to have fun, not to be shoved political campaign.
@@decimated550 social media, if you're conservative, has become majorly stressful. I'm glad I never got on any of them, and it's still bad enough. Now I've totally dumped TV over the last year. Any of my friends with different political views if they start up, I tell them right up front I don't discuss politics.. Some people have become weaponized over politics & have horrible TDS.
I deleted my Twitter account years ago and I thank God for that. Twitter has so many "professors" and "educators" no one can be wrong on twitter.
@A Girl Named Billie
Ditto!
@A Girl Named Billie oh no
It seems most people can't be wrong anywhere. It's called being proud and it's a sin
never ever had one to begin with. I'm not a trending kind of girl. Social Media is pure BS and disgustingly perverted.
@@erenawismer4009 pinter is the best
When you said "twitter was a huge part of my psyche," that really shook me. I'm 31, and social media didn't even exist until I was about 15. Even then, it didn't exist in the capacity that it exists today until I was already in my 20's. It's frightening to imagine how the internet is shaping human interaction and empathy, especially with people starting at such a young age. Social media is absolute reality distorting poison. I honestly wish that every young person would try living the way we lived in the 90's as a social experiment, if only for like a month or so, at some point in their lives. Just exist with no distractions, and no connection to the digital world. You'll quickly see how that changes human interaction and general perception of life. There wasn't really any open hostility towards one another like today(moral puritanism was the minority). In some cases, you could have grown up with someone and known them for years, yet still didn't know their every opinion. And the beauty of it is that nobody really cared to know, unless things somehow came up organically in conversation, which was rare except in very close relationships! Friendships weren't contingent upon having the right opinions, but even if you did have a few shitty opinions, it was almost unheard of to be socially exiled for it. It's like the dehumanization of social media has eroded empathy to the extent that people don't think twice about severing decade long friendships. Idk, sorry to ramble! But I'm always happy to see a young person speaking about this. Can't wait tp see your channel blow up!
Social media existed before then. It existed in the form of places like LiveJournal, which was the true birthplace of the 'social justice warrior' mentality that moved to places like tumblr and Dreamwidth following LiveJournal's sale to a Russian company, which began to abide by Russian laws and Russian users over other demographics. Dreamwidth is still active today, but exists for people to roleplay and to fight about roleplaying. tumblr is really where this SJW mentality took hold, and after they became emboldened there, moved to Twitter.
LiveJournal, FYI, started in the 1990s.
Rambling or not I thought this was very insightful and well put. A great analysis basically. 🖖
I stopped talking to my best friend of 20 years because it turns out that he is a blue pill, Democrat plantation voting, BLM grift supporting, scared to lose my black card because of wrong think, vaccine taking, type of guy that is far beyond repair. We are in dire times and the truth does not bring people together unfortunately.
@@nachgeben this was a great addition to a fascinating original post. I grew up in the '90's and remember taking the subway 3 hours just to spend 7 hours with my friends eating cheap Chinese food, playing video games and arguing about rap music. When we were in elementary school, we were taught that "we could change the world" and that "it was our duty to perpetually fight for justice." This created an entire generation of SJWs with no war or battles: we grew up with a black Supreme Court Justice, top black entertainers and athletes, black astronauts, and then we even got a black president. BUT, just as we were about to turn the corner to reach the top of the mountain top MLK told us he dreamed about, SJWs, race grifters and guilt riddled liberals dragged us all back to base camp so they could buy a few more homes in Calabasas.
It is so unhealthy how a tool has become this like addictive entity that consumes life. It becomes a distraction to real life while addressing things occurring in reality through a fragmented sort of figment of what is really happening. When people call it an echo chamber it really does fit that description.
People who choose to "cancel" you for your opposing opinion rather than engage in respectful discourse are cowards.
Facts. I feel the best friends are the ones who'll vehemently disagree with you but also take a moment to see why you stand where you stand.
And intellectually lazy.
Or even just leave you alone. Not every disagreement requires a "discourse". It's not necessary to challenge every opinion you disagree with. Letting things go, leaving people alone, and understanding that neither they nor you know everything is another great option. It's so much less stressful to just acknowledge the humanity in other humans.
@@vlo4829 Yes, absolutely. If someone doesn't care to engage that is 100% valid as well.
Which basically sums up the user base of Twitter
YES, I deleted my Facebook account in January after 11 years! I have to admit to some withdrawal but now it's like, "I can't believe I wasted SO much time there!"...and just like you said, Kimi, "for what?" I could literally see it tearing families apart; no more civil discourse; no joy just negative-negative-negative. Oy!
I did the same and it was absolutely cathartic. The only thing I miss is the marketplace. Other than that, I don’t miss it one bit. Twitter as well, what an unmitigated waste of time.
Deleted my 2 years ago, and I don’t miss it!
“Then Facist Book is involved with child trafficking!”
SAME!!!
Who even uses Facebook other than 30+ year olds :/
I found a lot of hate and cruelty on Twitter. I did not need that in my life so I quit after 13 months after I realized how much it would upset me. Keep doing what you’re doing because you’re doing it wonderful and with kindness.
I "walked away" from social media after high school. When the pandemic hit I stared spending some time on Facebook as a substitute for socialising with people irl. But now when things start getting back to normal (at least where im from), I want to cut off social media whenever I get the chance to do so. Its amazing how harmless it seems to be and how toxic it can get.
I too deleted mine last year. It’s just bad vibes and couldn’t stand it anymore.
i left tik tok shortly after i joined it last year, and i'm glad i did. it was such a strange time in my life and i wish others would leave the platform as well. everything was propaganda and manipulation, even the more chill creators had an agenda to push. all of the videos about blm on tik tok perpetuated this victim mentality, this idea that the "system" was out to get the good guys. and since the app was chinese-owned at the time, it didn't make sense to me that so many creators were acting like the algorithm was against them and hiding their videos about the "injustice" in america. such a fever dream.
"and since the app was chinese-owned at the time," Implying it's not anymore?
@@ZeroSmoke. Trump made China sell tik tok us.
@@wendyokoopa7048 I don't understand what you just said.
God I got involved with a fight on tik tok over the death of George fentanyl boy Floyd. I didn't and still don't see death by cop he being woke did. He noticed I was spectrum as I made a few videos on the subject so automatically to him it means I'm dumb. No I'm only dumb because I disagree with your pov
@@ZeroSmoke. what don’t you understand? Tiktok is now owned by the US because trump threatened to have the app banned in the US.
I just deleted my Twitter account last night and it’s such a breath of fresh air. Twitter is so hateful and draining. I couldn’t stand it anymore.
I delved into Twitter for just over a year, much to my detriment. I recently heard it referred to as “an addictive rage machine” by Tim Pool. A perfect metaphor.
even seeing some videos about stupid tweets in youtube give me some sense of rage. Two years ago I consume stupid tweet video daily until I realize that I cannot breath normally because I was so enraged when seeing vids about Twitter shit takes. That's when I knew that i will never download twitter.
I never had Twitter. Comments about different post led me to believe there were too many people behaving like kindergarten kids. Then the censorship. Glad I didn't.
This. Is why I abandoned Twitter after only a few weeks of having an account.
I deleted my Twitter account and Facebook accounts a few years ago... Best for mental health.
Your words remind me of how I felt after "cutting the cord" to the television. These electronic devices are addictive and we are no longer policing our use of them as we should. Sadly, so many children were harmed by them and continue to be harmed by them. Orwell putting "Big brother" in the electronics of every home was illustrating this point. It is heartening to see that so many people are rejecting the "woke" by AWAKENING from this bondage.
YES 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Deactivating my Twitter, Facebook, and IG accounts is one of the most profound expressions of self care I’ve enacted my whole life.
It’s incredible how much more time you have to process things and self reflect when you aren’t constantly consuming social media. My mood has improved, anxiety levels lowered. Thank goodness for your channel!
Same! I got off social media in 2013. Thankfully my career doesn’t require it. I’ll engage with people on TH-cam and Reddit but that’s it. Never looked back since. It was the best thing I could have done for my mental health.
I even have a linked in account and I left all social media due to the extreme toxicity.
Same!
The weird thing for me is that I'm VERY left wing, but basically every "left wing source" is filled with idiocy, so I spend a great deal of time disagreeing with it.
I've SEEN this change people (a LOT of people shifted from liberal/centre left to explicitly right wing) so I know it's common... I just don't GET it.
You're not alone here. I'm left wing but the current state of the left terrifies me. It's gone so far left that it's right.
@@heidibriones - I find it interesting that society labels certain ideology as right or left. The extreme right, according to popular culture, is fascism. The extreme left, communism. But from my experience the extreme right are die-hard libertarian and the ones that are depicted as extreme right are actually die-hard lefties. The ideologies of fascism and communism are of the same accord and splitting them into right or left was done purposefully to reject populism as one of the moral virtues the left espouse. In so doing, the left can now adopt the virtue of "inclusion" for the purpose of larger voter blocks. I rejected the left's ideology (though it was quite appealing as a young person) when I saw the reality of those "virtues" played out. High crime, high unemployment, high inequality. The left's mantra of compassion, diversity, inclusion, acceptance is built on a framework of underhanded sociopolitical lies.
I went from left wing as freshman in college to center/right
That's because many people are binary thinkers. A binary thinker cannot imagine in-between realities. They only deal in black and white. A person who really engages issues will never identify with being a Democrat or Republican because they will see positives and negatives in both parties on certain issues. Twitter is straight-up propaganda.
@@heidibriones literal nazis on the left now too :(
I got rid of Twitter and Facebook back in November. What happened? I got my whole life back. So happy now
I was suspended and didn’t care enough about it to try and get it back. It was pretty much a load taken off me. Everything you said resonated so well, I think you’re exactly right.
Me too 😂 I'm like:"No you do not censor my mind that's just Marxist - 🖕"
Social media is a major problem for all of humanity imo. I’m 22 and got off Twitter/Facebook/Snapchat earlier this year and I’m never looking back. It’s been life changing and has given me a sense of clarity that I’ve never had in my adult life so far. God Bless you Kim! I wish more of our peers shared this view!
Born in '86, i remember life pre internet - pre social media - pre smart phones, i'm so happy that i got to experience that. You can see in the numbers how the introduction of smart phones and constantly being on social media has decreased happiness. Especially self harm/s**cide in teens has been soaring.
How do you keep on touch with friends? That’s the only thing that stops me from leaving all social media
@@caterinas6863 just meet them in real life. Write them, send a voicemail or call them and then go somewhere and have fun.
@@lalynn967 well, I live abroad and I have friends and family all over... I wish I could just hang out with them, but it's not possible because of distance
@@caterinas6863 ah yes, that's a problem. I think to see their pics and videos is one of the positives of social media. I try to be aware of the addictive design and to strictly limit the time I spend online. My response was in regards to friends you could also meet in RL.
I officially deleted my Twitter account on January 18, 2023 after being addicted to it for almost 5 years. I realized that it’s not healthy for me to be on a toxic platform to argue politics and other stupid bullshit with people I will never meet and trying to impress people who I don’t really care about.
Social media is not real life. Stop focusing on politics and culture war bullshit. Prioritize yourself and focus on the things that make you happy and gives your life meaning.
I deleted my Twitter account shortly after the election. It was just such a one sided platform. The negativity really gets to you. Being angry and offended for extended periods of time is just physically and emotionally draining.
Happy for you. Always got a very very toxic vibe from Twitter. I used it briefly, focusing on my brand. But couldn’t stomach it. Eventually closed it entirely a few months ago.
Censorship does not confirm truth, it merely denies reason.
Twitter has too many restrictions which makes twitter boring
Your story is the same as mine, i deleted all types of social media from my life, no facebook, no twitter, no instagram, nothing.
I'm enjoying my life way more now, i feel hopeful now instead of just dread and anxiety.
Social media became a poison that sucks all your identity and replaces it with negativity, anger and hopelessness.
I'll be honest, I got off twitter at the end of 2020 when I had to take an extended break from all things social media/media and I haven't missed it. When you think a certain way, platforms like that will try to convince you you're some irredeemable villain.
Recently, though, I decided to take a two-month break from social media again and like you said, it's amazing how much time that stuff eats up. Will probably be doing it again because I've not really noticed it improving my life, just upsetting me, and no one needs that.
This is exactly what I needed to hear, Kimi; thank you!
I also deleted mine a year or two ago and I don’t miss it. Twitter is a cesspool
Thank you, i'm glad at least someone can share their perspective with their OWN EXPERIENCE on Twitter! My friend, 11. Has gotten herself invested into Twitter. She'd tell me how she would scroll through Twitter for hours and hours on end, and it's become a really unhealthy habit of hers. Her behavior changed negatively and I could see how she would react to certain occurrences, and always had a bad temper after she downloaded that wretched app. She's become this toxic being absorbed into media to where I couldn't even recognize her anymore. I don't know what to do. This video was a nice refresher.
I never deleted my twitter but I did quit using it (and all other social medias too) like about a year ago only because it was starting to become this really toxic place (especially twitter) where you could literally get called out for absolutely anything
ps: I was a stan acc so just imagine💀😭😭😭
@jolietoni EXACTLY lmaoooooo if you don't agree with them on something they'll mob you😭😭😭
@jolietoni that ppl are totally pathetic losers, they make that cuz probably you were Right.
I recently just got out of stan twt too. It was a total nightmare! I’m proud of both of us for getting out of that hellhole
@@KG0605 i'm proud of us too!
omg same, I just quit about 2 days ago. I really cannot bear it anymore. Its filled with STUPID people whose personality is just to scrounge celebrities’ pasts just to find something to hate so they can “cancel” them. They find the littlest things to be “offensive” and “racist”. It was super exhausting and I personally felt sick seeing all the hate and bullying there is on that app. Everyone is literally a hypocrite- cancelling celebs for something they found “offensive” but at the same time they were also bullying and body shaming people... stan accounts are literally acting way worse than the people they are trying to cancel. I’ve came to realize that stan twitter is just a bunch of 14-20 year olds thinking that they are morally good all the time and having no idea how real life works. I could go on and on about how much I hate stan Twitter lmao its literally one of my worst nightmares. It took such a huge toll on my mental health (would literally ruin my mood and day). I feel so much better now without all its negativity.
Deleted my Twitter years ago. There were too many trolls and the platform in general gave me anxiety. It’s a competition of who can be the wittiest mean person. No thanks.
Woow same here.. soon as I open it I feel instant anxiety before even checking the feed.. just knowing I'm going see so much useless negativity, drama, and hoping to get at least one or 2 chuckles after all that .. was it hard letting go ? Or did u delete it cold turkey
Twitters formatting doesn't allow nuanced discussion, and with so many different viewpoints being shared, conflicts leading to productive discussion is nearly impossible.
I did the same recently. Originally it was useful for keeping track of my interests but is now full of toxic idiots and attention seekers.
I want to quit some TV channels as well as Twitter because of the control freaks that feel that whatever they say is atomically right and refuse contradiction.
Amen!!!! NO returns, indeed! Brilliantly put.
I noticed the comments about Facebook and other social media being toxic. Nextdoor is also very toxic. I am thinking of quitting there also. I sty on Facebook because of my health information. There is no toxicity there, only learning and informing.
Nextdoor threatened to remove my account because an unhinged man attacked me over Brexit conversation and reported me for nit having my own name. Given that hus profile showed this man lived two roads down from me. You would think they would view the content and be concerned for my safety 🤨🙄. Showed them ghe middle finger because it was all politics instead of community.
Gal, this is horrible...
Not having SM make us better heathly but let that morons to take control over society...
I dunno what to do...
Perhaps i need to lose fear...and litterally going to Hell.
This cant be stay like this.
Oh my gosh thank you for this. It had become speak up! Then ya do, and it's sit down and shush! There's a lot of good but, but the bad is really tough now. Too easy to fall into that trap.
I'm pretty sure I regained a few wringles in my brain the moment I deleted Twitter.
Thank you for speaking up about this. I completely agree with you and I had a very similar experience to you. Much love from a fellow South African ❤️
Sadly, most will not give her a chance, or start formulating their attack before she's done, comment and run. I'm glad I stumbled on this channel. Great job. Just say no to twitter & facebook. I did and now I'm on Gab, minds odysee and newtube, for now. Lot's of options.
I just deactivated mine a few minutes ago. I need to do better with myself and move away from the Twitter bubble.
it's been 3 weeks I left Twitter and I feel so good! The level of hate and bland ignorance really was so toxic.
When will we finally cancel Twitter? I'm quite sure the world would be better off without that blue bird app.
I left twitter for the exact same reason. Like... it was kind of weird seeing my friends shift from posting about shows and sharing art to talking on and on about politics and enabling rude and toxic behavior. It's been a year that I've been off and I've never been happier.
I ditched FB about a year ago now. One of the best things I've done for my sanity. Last week I deleted Twitter and Instagram apps off my phone because I need a break. I may go back or not. I'll see. In general SM of all kinds is a time suck.
I have never embraced Social Media for reasons you stated. TH-cam is one of the few if not only I do see about have communication on occasion
I have a facebook for years that was the first that left a sour taste in my mouth from the experience. I go on occasionally for a person I may know. I'm strictly an e-mail. Value my privacy.
Never had it or fb....Bless You, Kimi!
Thank you for your positivity and clearmindedness. It makes a big difference in my life.
You are the best thing on TH-cam regardless of the subject you choose to ruminate on.
I have a twitter, but I forgot the username and password for it years ago. Doesn't really matter because I only used it once.
I never got one. It looked like trouble from the start.
Kimi you QUICKLY becoming my fav
If what happened on Twitter stayed on Twitter, that would be one thing.
But Twitter has distorted everyday life as we know it. It has ruined journalism for one thing: a lot of new articles these days are little more than a series of embedded tweets!
I love who you are, and the light that emits from you. Wonderful content and thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Hi Kimi, once again, your psychological analysis is super on point. I’m not formally educated in psychology, but I am following your explanations of how these various issues you have been discussing affect people’s psyche (even if I need to rewind and listen a couple of times, lol). I would like to hear your expanded thoughts on the part of this video where you talk about the 80/20 principle and how you believe you weren’t getting anything out of the time you invested in Twitter. I would suggest that perhaps you *were* getting something out of all that time, albeit nothing positive.
Yes, that's correct. I was getting a lot of negativity and reinforcing negative bias.
I deleted my Twitter 2020 October and Facebook the same day 💞
Based on what you show through your videos, you seem like a healthy person to be around
The app was never meant for the things it's being used for today. As you said, it was for bands, businesses and individuals to give short updates on what was going on. Attempting to cram meaningful discussion about political or philosophical topics into the character limit is completely counter-productive because anything you might want to say, you have to oversimplify. Then, you get attacked because of that with an oversimplified rebuttal and the cycle of negativity never ends.
I deleted my Facebook because I realized, after I got into a heated discussion with one of my friends over the cancellation of Dr. Seuss, that I didn't want to associate my friends with their politics anymore. Too many times I was silently hurt by some of the political posts that I would see in my feed, not because someone out there felt that way about me for the color of my skin but that these were the ideas of some of my closest and dearest friends, people I would consider family. I have never thought less of them because they are darker than me but now racism is "trending"
Kimi you are on fire, you will be amazed as you keep learning and opening your mind. we are all amazing humans with choice.
A 50 year old black woman Viola Davis promoted WAP on Twitter. The culture is destroyed
I really like seeing your videos. You truly are giving some positivity that is really needed right now. I personally still have a fb but I haven’t used it in probably 2 years now. I keep it for messenger right now. I dropped Twitter maybe 6-8 months ago. I’m much happier in my life without them. Just wanted to say hi and let you know I appreciate you.
Hey girl I just deleted mine. There are pros of social media however the cons outweighs it (depending on how certain platforms are set up. I was like you ….spent up so much time up there it was taking away from me. I don’t need Twitter to succeed. I’m just on apps that help show my creativity.d
I have been thinking of quitting Twitter, I too spend so much time on there but get nothing positive out of it.
Do it!
I'm quitting twitter because:
-a lot of people blocked me for no reasons
-many nsfw contents
-a lot of weirdos
I deleted my twitter account today
Never had twitter but so many friends warned me to stay away.
Completely off topic, you are so beautiful! Your skin is flawless in every video. Love your opinionvideos also, I appreciate how you speak out on topics a lot of people shy away from. Keep it up
Twitter should be deleted
I learn how to torrent on Twitter, but otherwise... Yeah a huge waste of time. I deleted mine in April.
This is something I have been thinking about for a while. I also got into Twitter because I could talk about my favorite music there. But soon I was spending most of my day there, and it felt necessary to keep checking it all day. But I realized the reality- none of what is on there is important to my life, I do not NEED it, and basically every tweet will never actually be remembered throughout time.
i just deleted my account for the second time (the first time; it was between august 2020 and march 2021). you're so right it can be fun etc. but it is toxic. i could not do it anymore. phew! i am having a blast
love from Senegal
Your correct about Twitter also, have you notice when you google a news it one sided.
So glad I found you. Peace and blessings ❤️
Hah, Kimi came late to the party on twitter, haha. Also Kimi in that Jordan Peterson aura
Glad to see your subscribers and views going up.😀
Wise decision !! This has become 1 of my favorite channels...Glad i found it !!
Was never a big twitter person, and over a year ago i finally deleted my account because twitter became like the very worst aspects of Tumblr
I signed up for Twitter when it first came out but never used it and so glad I didn't. Seems like such a toxic and cruel environment. I can't handle that much hate being splattered everywhere. And good for you in realizing it wasn't a healthy social platform for you. More people need to think like you! Love your channel by the way and so glad I discovered you.
I'm in never tweeter. I require at least a paragraph to make any kind of cogent point. It would be like trying to write a short story on a file card.
I realized I need at LEAST a paragraph or a page as well.
I lost my phone about a month ago, and ever since getting a new one I decided to not redownload any of my social media except TH-cam (if that count) and I feel sooo much better! I spend far less time on my phone and have been incredibly more productive.
I love your booklist, Kimi!
Booklist? Where did you see that? Does she have a goodreads account? I can't find it here on her about section. I bet it's really interesting! 😍
Twitter has been nothing but toxic and it’s been getting worse and worse. They did me the favour and suspended my account. Done with them.
I'm of the "older" variety and I can remember when everyone I knew from church and school got on Facebook. It was the next Sunday at church looking at these people that I knew intimately and feeling like I didn't, in fact, know them at all. What was represented online was completely antithetical to who they were in person. I knew then, nearly 20 years ago, that social media was a lie and I began to hate it.
I was banned twice a year ago so I didn’t have to leave.
me right now lol
Just discovered your videos, they’re wonderful, you’re so different than others out there who get so outraged and angry by every real or perceived injustice. I’ve never had a Twitter account and don’t understand the point of it. Why do you have to let everyone know what you’re thinking or what your opinions are 24/7? I keep mine to myself unless asked and then have to be cautious nowadays because I lean conservative and that’s anathema nowadays. Then people get upset that they get so much backlash from their tweets (is that correct?) Just stay away from it, a waste of time IMO. I can’t imagine evening having a Twitter account, seems more trouble than it’s worth. Keep up the good work, Kimi!
I was on Twitter 2013-2019 (13yrs-19yrs) and actually had a substantial amount of followers. During this time the social justice warrior generation were being molded, myself included. I didn’t realize it at first but it drastically changed the way I thought about the world and felt about my life. I was so loud and so wrong about so many things and those toxic views were being amplified on the platform. Basically I was not in touch with reality. I decided to get off because that virtual reality or Twitter culture was spreading to my peers in real life and it freaked me out. It’s like looking into a mirror and seeing a distorted monstrous figure and then realizing it’s you. I deactivated my account and haven’t looked back since. I’m only 22 but these past 3 years have been crucial in my developmental process. I can’t imagine where I’d be if I still had Twitter
The evolution of the twitter icon/logo bird is interesting. Four iterations from 2006 through 2020. The bird had eyes from 2006 until 2010. Then became the eyeless silhouette of today.
It’s called abstraction. I wouldn’t read too much into it.
I do (read a lot into it). Metaphorical. Biblical. Profoundly relevant. I don't do twatter. Or farcebook. All bitching & bragging.
@@marymitchell4617 As someone who used to work in graphic design, I can tell you that you are reading too much into it. A logo/icon needs to be reproducible at various scales, and small details can suffer at small scales, especially on screens. Design is also often driven by fashion as much as necessity, and we have clearly seen a trend towards abstraction in the past decade. Just consider the switch from “skeuomorphic” to plain geometric, flat shapes and textures in the iPhone interface. Anyway, I agree with you somewhat on the actual problems with social media; I used to spend a lot of time on Facebook and later Twitter, but have stopped using both during the last year as things have become so politicised.
Kimi, preach it sister. Thanks, so much. I appreciate you and want you to keep your voice heard.
Kimi, You are the best! I love the way that you explain the fullness of your thoughts. I love the new words that you are teaching me. Keep going. Shine light on the darkness which is around us. The darkness is not nothingness. It is darkness and insidious. I thank God for you!
I have avoided Twitter completely. I am much happier for it! I really enjoy your posts here.
Never had a twitter. Im glad about that now. I do have facebook but I mainly follow cat pages or post memes.otherwise I just see how family and friends are. I do not have the time or energy to follow drama and mainly political drama at that. I feel a persons mental health can go down from all that drama and constant negative information.
I was never on Twitter but I deleted Facebook at the beginning of 2021 and feel so much happier for it. I’m accomplishing more, I’ve started reading more and doing new hobbies like embroidery and painting. I got off Facebook, not just because it is a time waster but I felt it wasn’t good for my soul. I was becoming jealous of other people, and found I was having negative thoughts about people who I either didn’t know or I knew and had previously liked. I’m feeling much more like myself again.
I tried making money with social media only to realize that I needed to have an established business plan. That was back in 2010 or so. It wasn't worth anything if I can't get paid from it.
The funny thing is it's a good idea and so good it's like how do you screw it up. poisoned waters, that's about it.
I am commenting for the algorithm. The world need the messages that you expound.
Brava!!!! You enlighten and you are couragious and creative as an individual intellectual! I enjoy so much hearing your thoughts and that your actions have brought you peace!
such a rad lady... keep it up and keep em coming
I deleted my twitter account around last January. It's been good except I miss it when I watch certain live events, like sports or the Oscar's.
I’m proud to say , I have never ever had a Twitter account. 🥳
I never had Twitter. But after I left Facebook, my mind went through a mental detox. I'm so much better for leaving.