consuming content to make my brain go quiet
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song at the end is "cooper ave" by the westerlies
why did the algorithm allow me see this ?
god bless you
Instead before bed, read an anodyne humor book that won't challenge you much. A comedian's autobiography (Norm's is good) or the Discworld series.
thanks i hate it
No it's not! It's a Ska cover of This is the End (For You My Friend) by Anti-Flag
The irony of this video is that it serves as just another thing for us to consume before 99.9% of us inevitably move onto the next thing.
and video's ending acknowledges that
I am in this picture and I don't like it 😂
yeah.. :(
i also moved to other video but it was also about content consumption so it doesn't count
I’m leaving youtube for the rest of the night after watching this video, lets see how long its effect lasts
The “2 clicks amnesia” point clicked with the “smash that like button” ending. It erased all the feelings i felt during the video lol
Because social media is a drug.
We are pavlov's dogs.. only some of us are aware enough to know we are being manipulated..but not wise enough to do anything about it
@@skittlezthatkittlez time to take my pills
@@billjamal4764
But my pills are so much cooler, they're see-through. Oh wait.. that's just a piece of plastic...
@@ultimatdanklin1473 my pills are actually just a ton of benadryl until I drool and can't talk and laugh maniacally
I hate that I will most likely forget about this video and move on. But damn, it's too accurate and I hate it. Over the past couple years, I've built up a habit of mindlessly watching things and just overloading my brain with information day by day. And then eventually, I don't even remember what I watched in a certain day. Nothing gets retained anymore. I used to be able to pick up things I learned from videos, and maybe share them with friends or family in conversation. But now, nothing. I don't consume the internet. It's consumed me. It's unreal how dystopian this concept is, but it really is happening right now, and I'm terrified.
I have the same struggle, and everyday I regret not doing something more productive that could benefit my life
I was comenting to remind you about this.
Btw there's an option on TH-cam to set a reminder to take a break, we should activate that to create a habit of getting bored sometimes
Here to remind you about this video
@@joelcoll4034 Thanks for the reminder yall. Jesus, this was 4 weeks ago? Nearly forgot about it, ngl. I could tell myself that I'm gonna change all day but nothing's gonna happen if I don't actually put in the effort. I still dump hours of my day into TH-cam. Some days I try to do something productive... while I have a TH-cam video open on the side. Now that school is back, it's face-to-face this time, not online. This time, I'll be forced to go through most of my day, without distracting myself with TH-cam content. (I don't have internet on my phone). Hopefully, this time I can address my thoughts instead of just ignoring them.
I finally did it. It was hard , but the only thing that changed everything was not looking at the phone. Going into the subway and knowing that i cant look at my phone was scary at first. But i know it’s the same for everyone. Everyday i look around and everyone is just on their phone. My addiction was too much and i used to spend all my time doing nothing. If you can set a time limit it would be very helpful but before you start this thing , you have to know Your DIRECTION. I wasted all my time because i didnt know what to do. But if you know where you should be in 10 years , you also know how to get there step by step
This is creepy. I was watching this laying on my bed instead of sleeping and just realised it's almost morning. I'm going to sleep now.
omg punpun
I like the pfp
4:30am ehh…
same
4:50pm for me and im gonna sleep now :D
It kinda feels like we are lab monkeys, cables hooked up to our brains, an instant dopamine button in front of us and all we can do about it is to philosophise about how it's ruining everyones lives. What can we do? Can we do anything? Just surrendering to it sounds pretty dystopian to me, yet here I am. Doing exactly that...
Kinda feel like chucking my phone away lately, better to just command myself to do that then to turn my back from this and be back on the next day
Same was said about books. I believe eventually we evolve as a species to handle the things better, our children's children will be much more adapted, well your walls children, I ain't doing that shit, ima die happy not responsible for the end of humanity
I have a friend that regularly leaves her phone at home, others bought an old phone that only can do calls and sms. What also helps if you feel not comfortable enough leaving your phone at home is putting it off completely whenever you don't need it for calls.
It's absolutely possible to live in this world without having the dopamin button always right at your hands, it's just hard sometimes to find the right strategies that work for you.
You can fight back. We will fight back, we have to.
@@lolasonne1772 You friend hv a good strat.. I'm going to inculcate this one after buying an old phone just to break this damn dopamine cycle..
All I do is consume to make my brain go vroooom
Then lets race till the end
Mine goes vrrrr phaaa
okay bars tho
B A R S
I’m gonna continue coming back to this video whenever I need to remember why I’ve deleted all socials on my phone.
Goodbye everyone! See you all in therapy~!
hows life going for you now
@@xxursolovelyxxX not OP but I deleted TikTok and Twitter permanently a little less than a year ago and I’m so much less depressed and anxious. It’s not that I don’t suffer anymore, but I can cope with my suffering in much healthier ways. I can also just sit and stare at a wall and I’m unstimulated but I don’t feel bored, I can be alone with my thoughts and be fine, entertained even. Reading comes easier, too, and that’s what I try to fill the time I spent on my phone with now
@@vsiny thank you for responding though :) im so happy to hear that - i dont have a tiktok account but i still use and i use pinterest and youtube obsessively, so it kind of sucks because those have a lot of usefulness and so it feels like its not valid to struggle with them....but I think I'll try not using tiktok at least, too.
@@vsiny That's awesome to hear!! Happy for you, and I'm heading there too :)
Is that a plankton quote?
I dont know about you guys, but consuming though provoking content like this does the opposite of keeping my brain quiet. It is permanently exploding with conclusions.
Thats why i cant leave social media definitely!!!!! I would miss these type of videos lol
@@narutojaja111 reading can probably provide you with these experiences more
Exactly. It acts as a distraction and replacement, and a pretty damn good one. It’s like saying “don’t think about pink elephants.” Clearly you will. Your brain can’t occupy nothing, there has to be a replacement. But if you say “look at the crumbling state of our society, and also here’s a cute cat video and that pair of shoes you wanted” you’re not going to think about pink elephants.
@Clive I know what you mean, and yes, a lot of ideas have been reached millionfold, but there are also a lot of special ideas that come out of it. I know because some of mine are NOT being spewed back to me from a youtuber that serves them on a silver platter, "evidenced" by my urge to put out content that has not been seen before. I agree that the probability of being original is going down , but thats just mathematics.
What I did is I swore off of scrolling like you do on TikTok or Instagram or pretty much any other platform, and I stay on TH-cam for videos like this, and Instagram to only see content from people I follow
I noticed as someone who tries to be artistic and creative and also does academic science, my brain STRUGGLES to do any of those things when I’m over stimulated. I spent quite a while this summer living in the wilderness and I felt so much more able to create, but it was because I was forced to really sit with the gravity of my thoughts
Same here. You seem cool. Have a good day.
@@xw591 lol thank you!!! Rare nice comment on the internet dub. I actually have a TH-cam series on my channel documenting the experience!
@@BlackThoughts0 genuinely interested.. will take a look now
That's cool
yup. Im the exact same way. Whenever I try to create something I get distracted by the inernet and feel too overwhelmed to do anything.
Same bro. Days become a blur and suddenly a month passes by and you realize you haven't accomplished any goals you set up for yourself. The nagging anxiety 24/7 at the back of your mind telling you, you will never get that time back, another semester's going to start and you won't have the time to pursue your personal projects you hoped to do over the summer 💀
Boy I sure felt that one
Fuck why’s this me
Its like looking into a mirror reading this comment
yes same, like its been 4 months since my new year started and i dont know how even the time went i literally didnt study anything or even attend classes
Bro this is so true I will cry tonight
I took a class about these social media algorithms and I always think about something the Professor said in the lectures, "We're all so concerned with when/how Artificial Intelligence will surpass human strengths, we fail to recognize it has surpassed human weakness."
I'm aware that I can't survive without constant stimulation, but the awareness doesn't make it any less true. Just because I know what's happening doesn't mean it isn't happening - I still need to consistently consume content. to (mis)quote Bo Burnham - I think - "self awareness never absolved anyone of anything".
I hate how people seem to assume that knowing you have a problem will either automatically fix it or make it actually easy to fix. Neither are true. Knowing you have a problem is said to be the first step to solving it, but it’s only the first step, and often it’s actually easier than many people think it is. For me, the biggest challenge is getting to the later steps.
Ambatukam ... omaygot. Ambatunut 😔
@@nlmb28s14 not the time dawg 🗿
This is bs. You can quit constant stimulation. There is no thing as terminally constant stimilation user
@@SuicideApple-wm6et Amba Singh ... ooooooh
This is literally me, I never stop listening/watching things
And I always dread taking showers and going to bed because I know I’m going to be left without stimulation for awhile
Same, sometimes if I know I'm not able to get to a device I can feel a bit of a panic attack coming on
Or when my phone hits 30% and I'm already put it to charge while using my computer, just so if I need to leave the PC I'm still able to be 'entertained'.
jokes on you i take my phone to both 😃
@@fran-yt4ok 😂😂😂me too
True crime podcasts in the shower and when i sleep
this is exactly why i always shower with songs (songs that i've tied with my original characters that live in my head rent free) and pick a theme/characters to daydream about before bed... and no i am not a writer, i just can't go a second without thinking about /something/💀
Vids like this help me to realize the importance of being alone with your thoughts and bored sometimes - it's uncomfortable, but I think it's a useful thing to go through, without numbing yourself to it through hours of scrolling - those moments of vulnerability give us the opportunity to learn more about ourselves through quiet introspection, without distraction
Great video man, keep it up
Exactly! I've been making baby steps to free some moments of my routine from this constant numbing through content. Release showers from the speakers and some podcast, for example, let my mind wander or be quiet at least for a moment
I went camping last weekend and definitely can relate to that
You should find a balance on the scale of rumination and mind-numbing. Both are harmful if not regulated.
For the majority of my life, I was alone with my thoughts. I came from an abusive household where I was made to believe that my very being was abnormal and I would go hours on end staring at the walls and ceiling wondering to myself what was wrong with me. Just the very notion of crossing the street was very frightening because I was told numerous times throughout my life I would be kidnapped and sold as organs on the black market. Then I discovered the Internet. Prior to then I had no real passion, then I found it by reading Wikipedia articles and other community-made works. For the first time I finally felt a part of something. I made friends that felt more real than anything on this side of the screen. There were people like me with the same interests and experiences going through the same struggles. I could scream, I could laugh, and I could cry with others like me. I finally had a voice when I thought I had none.
The Internet for all of it's flaws and shortcomings is also a place where one may find themselves and open doors one previously had thought were only meant for others more deserving or on better standing. It can be a place of empowerment but your mileage may vary.
@@yyyaaa3928 I think you're right.. using your phone for mind-numbing entertainment every so often is perfectly fine, I think.
As with most things in life, I reckon the key is moderation, and being able to know when the habits that dictate your actions are starting to have a detrimental effect on your well-being - Easier said than done however!!
Alright well that settles it. I'm deleting TH-cam and Tiktok and Instagram right after this comment. I'm gonna try and escape this. Thanks for this video, and thanks for this kick in the ass reality breaking existential crisis. Wish me luck boys, I'll come back to this comment some day and update you on how well I did
how are you? were you able to get away from social media?
@ksalarang I haven't used anything except for youtube since. So I kind of accomplished something. My life is much much better now than it was a year ago. Thank you for reminding me to come back to this
@@theawemazingcrew9702damn bro I did the same thing but I downloaded instagram and snap again. Your comment makes me want to start again
@@theawemazingcrew9702wow you responded. Good to hear that you're doing much better!
You're almost there. You just have to leave *this* world...but TH-cam is just too useful for other things. :(
The irony of it is that this video encompasses all that I am constantly thinking about. It’s like it was custom made for me and in a way it was. The algorithm brought it to me.
The end of the video had me cackling, running to type a comment about how it subverted my expectations, then realizing that I had forgotten about the video's contents for a brief moment for "haha funi sound". Then proving the point of the video.
Sisyphus playing 5D chess with my emotions like a king.
Im writing this reply because no one else has written one, even though there are 1.1k likes. Yay, i win 😔
He's closer to playing 10D
I'm glad you got to laugh I want to kill myself
@@kathychen9426 definitely 10D, -I mean have you seen --3:39-
it wins over your thoughts because its unexpected as fuck
"We've given full permission for these things to monitor us at the weakest of moments"
"We've given *passive permission..." imo
@@Ellipsis115 I am not sure. As technology becomes more and more advanced it'll begin to assess our moods and temperaments to suggest interventions accordingly. And we have given them and the makers of such apps the permission to carry out surveillance of ourselves
It's ok people
The internet taco's are on me 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮 👈😎👍
Plenty to go around, remember live out of spite 🕯️
I read this comment in my brain and was watching exactly that part of the video, such that my inner voice synchronized with the video.
@אלף החרב Same
I don't remember where I read this but it was like try to do nothing for ten minutes and just be alone with your thoughts and try not to be bored, you will become creative, I know the video isn't about creativity but if you be able to spend minutes with positive thoughts and not be bored you can do without social media
true af man
This is just relatable on a whole other level. I'm scared to be left alone with my thoughts. They're too toxic. I always try to fill the "empty voids" by constantly scrolling or playing music, leaving videos on play
so what do we do?
Contact a psychologist, with his help, disconnect to virtual and reconnect to reality, meditate, re-learn to appreciate the beauty of nature, world, understand and forgives dumb people because they are just dumb and they can’t control it, relearn patience…. Do it now, after it’s too late
@@emilied9210 hey, thanks for your answer. i started meditating everyday since I commented this (4weeks now), it has been better. i put my phone on focus mode so I don't use it often, for the first few days , it was very very Hard. but i overcame the desire and i still have that urge to listen to music at times but I rarely do, I always try to keep my mind " clean " in a sense now , I have also started journaling everyday , it helps me to keep calm and not depend on anyone to vent to, also exercising and hitting the gym daily, and i won't stop until I become the best version of myself 🙏
one must imagine sisyphus infinite scrolling through instagram while browsing reddit on his pc as a youtube video plays on his second monitor
**slow clap** well done
This is ADHD culture
xd
modern day sisyphus with his modern rock 😭😭😭
But is he happy?
I love how you're able describe this issue so poignantly & make it into a digestible video, & thus easier for the layman to understand, while also keeping it personal & unique to you. This whole video describes one of my biggest personal problems better than I could myself, & I think there are a lot more people out there who are still under the influence of the algorithms but don't understand it yet. Knowledge is power, right? I've been trying to break the cycle for so long but it's just so hard. 10/10 great vid caught another one
I am aware of how much the algorithm can learn from what I consume, so I teach it to give me good content like this Chanel, that’s somehow useful (or with no BS) and avoid at all cost entering a rabbit hole. It’s like I let the algorithm do his thing, with me lightly guiding it.
It also learns my weird taste for music and I descomer a lot of hidden gems!
@@chris_0266 Or maybe that's exactly what the algorithm wants you to think
@@oshawootian685 dun dun dun
Everyone obviously is. But we can't live like this. This ain't living. At least not good living. Sometimes i think that religion is the right way for putting material possessions aside, or even buddhism, sometimes i think we might need instincts so we don't become static. Being at peace with life is good enough, instincts do have a good ammount of share of the problems that humanity is facing, even though my deep logic leads me to conclude this otherwise because all we have is instincts. Being proved wrong could be good, for our sanity.. Not just winning debates.
damn you for tricking me into forcing myself to watch this whole video, so I don’t feel like I have a short attention span
it's 4 minutes and it's scripted voice over with intriguing animations discussing a very interesting topic in a unique way.
if this was some how hard for you to watch you should definitely try to work on increasing your attention span imo
@@Toupanu tell em
I WAS LITERALLY THINKING THE SAME
Its 4 minutes bro😭 I hope you actually watch longer. But if you don’t then just tried to lol❤
ikr its sad how much the internet damaged people@@Toupan
“Rather than inform ourselves of the crumbling reality we were born into, why not plunge further into one that is shaped just for us?” is a perfect description of what’s happening to our youth
"Body without organs", someone's been reading Deleuze and Guattari
I KNEW IT SOUNDED FAMILIAR
Ok you got me, so what i like myself some anal machines …
Someone’s a second year philosophy minor
@@macstrong1284 I am actually in biotech, i read just as a hobby
@@shivamchatterjee2714 Godddd you're so cool😱😱
BIOTECH and PHILOSOPHY.
What's biotech though? And what led to you study biotech? Is it really cool??
This came at just the right time. I'd just finished crying my eyes out for no reason, remembering everything that had happened to me in the past. I tried to stop myself from spiralling further into reminiscing by mindlessly scrolling through content, but it didn't work, so I simply gave up, turned on a playlist, put my phone down, and let myself cry. It was painful, but also euphoric. Just letting myself indulge in my own overwhelming emotions. Maybe I'll do this more, just let myself be in with my thoughts. It can be boring, painful, and can even make me cry a lot, but at least I keep a bit of myself to, well, myself. Thank you. I've been struggling with this for a very long time now, having grown up with and practically raised by the internet. It was really nice to have someone finally put it into words.
17 hours later do you still remember this moment?
@@jammyonrice3904 I actually do. Last night, especially this video's message really stuck with me.
@@maxe_mini just think about all the unimaginable horrific shit that’s happened to people throughout history and is probably happening to people right now as we speak, and reflect on your own situation in comparison to people being tortured to death, living lives of absolute misery and pain, people maybe going through what you’re going through but a million times worse and with a much worse outcome, etc. Idk it might help just to put things into perspective. Nothing really matters anyway tho if u think about it, so take that for what it’s worth.
@@gh0st1ng28 of course. But it might make you feel better knowing you are in all likelihood not the only one going through the same thing, no matter what the situation or how ridiculous or fucked up it may seem, and that people have probably went through similar shit except a thousand times worse.
I felt it when you said “raised by the internet”
Whenever I try to sleep all my regrets and worries pile on me and I can't handle it, this describes me exactly.
It’s 9:30am on another night with no sleep. Ive spent my last hours feeling my attention span decay to a few seconds on each thing. I’m bored. I don’t want to be awake. Lying down to try and drift to sleep makes me instantly regret the decision and I shift myself back to my phone again. I’m not enjoying anything. I’m not sad. I’m not angry, I feel nothing, an overwhelmingly uncomfortable feeling of nothing. It’s nice to know that I’m not alone in these thoughts and feelings
I am here with you friend. it's 430am and I haven't been asleep in a few hours, and only slept for a few before that. I honestly have no idea what to even do to start getting myself out of this pit
Spending hours on youtube was one of the ways to quell my brain's awful thoughts and anxieties. Now, when need this critical thinking time the most I cant. Unable to ask questions to further define beliefs. To forge a path for the future. Unwilling to ask the hard questions; To explore further. In an effort to escape feeling I have lost it. I have been stripped of one of the most valuable traits any human person could have. Meaningful thought.
^ this
i've been there. you should spend less time on that phone, go outside, do some activities.
Wait so you're saying, spending too much time on youtube irreversibly impaired your ability to think? What the fuck?
Same thing happened to me when I started smoking pot lol. That only happens if you overdo it but the same is true of everything
@@janfungusamon4926 true
2x speed is the cocaine to my brain
😆
What's cool about this video is that it encourages you to think by yourself for a moment, ultimately driving the message home. You have made art here, and for that I am thankful. Time to spend time on my own creative studies.
As art is widely regarded as a reflection of society and culture, I got to hand it to you, you've written a master piece. Poetic, thought-provoking and undeniably relatable. Gonna take a break from watching videos just to take everything in. Well done!
i once got so into this thing i was working on that i worked on it all day, no music, nothing playing in the background. it was emotionally the weirdest experience i've ever had: in the silence and the flow-state i was in, i found myself cycling through like every emotion i've ever had in my life. out of nowhere memories of shame and embarrassment and joy and anger washed through my mind. it didn't stay for long, and it didn't affect my current mood, but it was noticeable enough to be weird. i guess that's what happens when you stop drowning out your thoughts? sometimes i wonder if that was like a taste of what meditation's supposed to be like.
Meditation is a state of focus and calm. Probably similar to what you experienced. Try to replicate that.
That’s literally meditation lol.
@@enk335 if you don’t know enough to make a statement without saying “probably,” maybe you don’t know enough to comment. Meditation is not a mental or emotional state but a practice that leads to “letting go.” The success is not in achieving calm, but in accepting emotions as they come.
@@maddieb.4282 You should "meditate" on why you find it necessary to air your grievances with someone who moreorless shares the same sentiment as you...
@@maddieb.4282 if the goal is to the calm the mind then meditation can achieve that. there isnt one end all be all point of “success” when it comes to it
I've been struggling with this for almost a year now. Thought it was a side effect from other vices in my life. It's been 3 months since I've literally quit all of them cold turkey but I can't seem to shake this. Brilliant writing and a well made video!
Yeah, I think it's a matter of trying to acknowledge the problem, and figure out how to find a balance. Figuring out when you wish to watch or listen, and when your brain just craves for it.
Maybe try to slowly scale back instead of going cold turkey. It's going to feel (and be) a lot slower, but if you scale back a little every week, eventually you only spend an hour a day or less. I know you didn't ask for this advice, so please feel free to ignore it, but I was hopeing that it might help you a little bit
@@AngryPeopleStudios thank you! This is great advice actually. Cold turkey worked fine for cigarettes and I did it by reading a boom. I never thought this would take effort but I'm going to actively keep my device away from me while I try to focus on tasks I want to do. I've set writing and music as my main areas of interest now. I believe we can all get better :)
Social Media is a part of current life, there's no escaping it. It's all about adapting and using it more intentionally. Watching channels like Sisyphus and being conscious of the amount of time you're spending :)
Same man,i have quit alcohool,smoking pornography and most of social media but youtube is just the hardest to quit,i can relate so much.
And somehow the video reminded me that it's okay to be alone. And that my emotional state depends solely on myself.
I recently realised.. I don't want my brain to be quiet anymore... It used to be so bright, so alive, teeming with ideas. Now it's being puppeteered by a little black square and everything inside it. When will it end, when will I be given myself back..
I obliterated that shit now feed me more second hand philosophy so i never have to finish the stack of books i bought about the exact same things being condensed into much less risky consumable ten minute youtube videos🥵💦
I can't believe we are all the same bruh😭😭literally the whole human species sharing one braincell
LMAOO 🤣🤣
then get rid of the books if you're not going to use them tho, what's the point in owning a stack of books?
@@worstusernameintheworld9871 social status
much pesimistic, I find this funny box much more helpfulk then I could ever imagine. What I found out about myslef, what artust I discovered and friends I made. It helps when Im anxious, wanting to scratch myself and destroy my head in the wall. I think it has more good than we think it has
When you said ‘why not plunge further into one shaped just for us’ it made me think of Junji Ito’s Amigara Fault story, except our phones are the holes that are made just for us. In both cases the people come out distorted and disfigured on the other side
The irony that after watching this video that inner voice we so desperately try to quieten is all of a sudden yelling now, until the next video.
Exactly like thanks for making it worse 🙄
It's like being on autopilot. Drifting through the day numbing your brain. This video really hit home, I'm currently in a perpetual state of being high all the time and consuming too much TH-cam videos. Constantly chasing fleeting pleasures to try and suppress my reality.
Sounds like me. How are you doing now a year later?
Been listening to your content for half to an hour, and this... this video made made me subscribe.
honestly i don’t know where it ends. my mind feels like and endless spiral of mediocre thoughts, decadence is inevitable in its tiredness. my art is nowhere to be found, sometimes my day eats it all, i can’t even try to understand a book anymore. how am i supposed to enter an university when i’m constantly putting myself down all because of perfect people online? overstimulation becomes procrastination, which becomes (depression). i spend my life trapped in dreams, i can’t sleep. we are not meant to be living in our state of endless production, endless consumption, where do i sign to live far from this? i don’t want to consume everything, everywhere all at once. i want to be nothing, nowhere trying multiple miserable attempts of existence in a total blank forth dimension. time. if i were time i could be timeless and refuse to be part of this cruel system. and i hope the algorithm do its thing and no one ever find this desperate pile of meaningless word.
My only social media was TH-cam which I was planning on leaving. I guess this video just made my decision firm. Goodbye everyone~🌸
Did it stick?
let's send another notification
Maybe he could see this one
hi
@0x8ff you guys are weird and coping way too hard if you think looking at your phone is the problem 😂
You’re so raw in your videos that they become pure art, man
Its like my brain cant create anything or struggle with getting anything out of it, only being able to consume content made from other people. I also feel like in some point of my life i was productive and creative until i find out these fast dopamine engines which i would spend an significant time scrolling over and over and i did that for a long time until i realize this would destroy my attention span and then i stopped cuz i got scared
Its kinda Sad too cuz when i didnt discover that i had solid ideas that i would work and get happy w It like i was normal once i wanna Go back where i was like that
You put everything I feel into words. Wow.
Thank you for properly wording the biggest psychological problem our curent generation is facing
😂
I think it get exponentially harder when you aren't neurotypical. OCD, ADHD, Depression etc. Sometimes the only thing that can keep you sane is a distraction. But learning how to be with yourself and calm is the ultimate goal I think, especially when it comes to having a different brain.
my brain want too much dopamine :(
I feel you. I am still not sure if I am actually neurodivergent or neurotypical, but there is a likelihood for the first case. It would explain so many things, add so many missing pieces to the puzzle. Only towards the end of my university times, I've came to the realization (despite the fact that some (neurodivergent) friends were telling me this for years, but I didn't want to listen) and tried to find an appropriate doctor to get me checked and finally gain the long awaited certainty. I'm 27 now and feel like I've missed lots of my life, or "actual life" to put it that way.
At first, I was going to get myself diagnosed for ADHD, but during the last session with my doc, he said that I don't seem to meet the criteria for typical ADHD, at least I apparently missed the threshold by a tiny bit.
However, he also said that he thinks that this might not be all and I might be a complicated case. His current suspicion goes towards autism paired with ADHD.
I didn't really expect it, didn't consider myself being autistic in any way, not even remotely, neither did my family observe any such traits in me, so the words "autistic spectrum disorder" left me shocked, I was like paralysed, couldn't say anything as an answer, I've almost fell from the chair after hearing the hypothesis. Could this all explain why I am the way I am? I honestly don't know.
@@thedoublek4816 I have a friend named Andrei who has a really similar story (at least from what he told me until now). What the fuck!
Yup. Not to mention the dopamine deficiency in ADHD makes algorithms all the more irresistable. My brain is constantly searching for an escape from boredom. I don't know if it's ADHD, internet addiction, or both.
sure hope depression can just go away and be squashed in a way other than this cause boy, i'd hate being like this forever
i’ve binged 4 of your videos in a row, thank you for all you do. smashed that subscribe button so fast.
The irony of the caption right at the beginning saying ,,we caught one"
This freaked me the hell out realising how all of this could be replaced with any kind of harddrug and it would be literally the same.
I have tried to tell others the same thing and they take that one as a fucking joke
yea the entire world is addicted to multimedia
Ehhhhhh not quite. Drugs do a lot more to your brain than social media. I'd recommend the video by a youtuber called Zatzman about Dopamine Detox. Yes, I know, that's a different topic. But it's a long video-essay that covers many different areas but in short, and you can confirm it yourself, drug addiction is NOT like this and it is extremely dangerous to equate the two as it drastically decreases the severity of this already misunderstood issue.
It isn't comparable. Watching TH-cam will not get you a felony that will follow you your entire life, making you entirely unemployable (even if you can sober up).
@@XhuffuydrhhddyuNot everyone lives in the usa, you know. Over here in Europe, drug users are not punishable. Only the supplier, which is a good thing in my opinion
I was just indulging in this sort of avoidance and distraction. I was mindlessly scrolling before I found this video. Reality and loneliness can be such difficult things to cope with, especially when we're hopelessness and powerless. Good video, I have 2am depression now.
watched it at 3:45 when I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep after scrolling for an hour at least (at this point I lose track and can't tell you it wasn't all fucking night for sure) I think it's time to sleep now, or at least lay with my thoughts
why is this so true though 😰except my thoughts don't actually leave they just shift into whatever I'm doing on the phone and become less terrible
I use social media to avoid anxiety and worrying about everything. I know I'm making everything worse and I think I know how to change, but somehow I've been stuck in this painful loop for way too long. Every morning I think today I'm going to do things differently, but the second I pick up my phone I get lost and the day is basically over. I'm addicted.
It's ironic how I still used this topic as a pacifier for my mind. It's nice, though, to think about this and reflect about our lifestyle and routines, and at least acknowledge the stuff we don't really like about it.
Sometimes it's like soma. Do I like to take it, or am I just accustomed to?
Tanks for you insight
Your brash truths cannot topple my will to be ignorant SMASHHH
oh my fuckign good. please a brave new world is so so relevant to today, way more scarier than 1984. people are slaves to pleasure, and wont question their freedom because what is the point if they truly enjoy what they're doing? This dude summed it up pretty well: B.R. Skinner, Walden Two - “We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled… nevertheless feel free. They are doing what they want to do, not what they are forced to do. That’s the source of the tremendous power of positive reinforcement - there’s no restraint and no revolt. The curious thing is that in that case the question of freedom never arises.”
These ideas definitely remind me of Adolus Huxley's Brave New World. We are enslaved by the things that undo out capacity to think. But what is terrifying is that we LOVE those things.
I was assigned 1984 to read in high-school. Years late I read Brave New World and it is so much more pertinent to western society it isn't even funny.
@@Jason47D I absolutely agree!Reading about Soma was what got me the most I think. I mean, the end of the book has John crying out for suffering. But throughout the rest of the story, humanity blunts their pain with this drug.
How about instead on dwelling on a novel which is old and comparing it to what he have now we try to support the people who are suffering because of it?? How about we stop treating teenagers like they are just whining? How about we stop being fucking boomers and actually respect our contemporaries?
@@agstinacueva1673 too hard, phone bad, 1984 is our present (never read it tho), western world has fallen
It seems even the self-help and inspiring videos are just a clever way of consuming without feeling guilty.
You sir are hilarious and very insightful! Just found your page. You put a funny and still semi serious spin on some heavy shit! 🤙🏻
"I read a book and one insightful passage leads me into a mental tangent of isolation, melancholy and anhedonia" hit the hardest. I've tried to explain this to a friend earlier today but failed to find the right words
Also "to be aware and perceptive is to exist in a state of self-torment" describes it perfectly. The more I think, the clearer the issues, connections, solutions become, the less I want to think.
This feels timely and accurate. Found it personally touching.
it’s nice that you highlighted TH-cam and Reddit. For many of us, deleting TikTok and Instagram was easy, I cannot say the same about YT and Reddit.
When I'm not on my phone I'm dwelling on all the terrible things I've learned about but can't effect much in the reality outside my phone but learned from my phone.
I’m sure people have already said this but I appreciate the closed captions on these videos. They are easy to read and out of the way so thank you
Jokes on all you addicts. I watched this at 0.5x speed so watching again at 1x speed gives me the dopamine I need
That's like the pothead who take a tolerance break so they can get higher later
Just watch it at 1.5x or 2x.
i watch it at 2x so the dopaminr hits my brain faster
Try 4x, you'll thank me later
Actually so glued to my phone im watching this while in the shower
Global catastrophes out of my control give me a strange sense of comfort, finding out about them makes me think "It'll all be over soon, you can be as insignificant as you like"
It works better if you watch it at 2x speed.
oh and add a family guy clip at the bottom pls
Never would I have expected an ending like that after all the time I have been watching your videos.
I am absolutely looking forward to your newer style of content.
Thanks for the video. I love the word choice, and the animations. ❤
Content consumption keeps me from suffering so I’m thankful for it
I love that the autumn leaves plays in the background
Same!
Knew I recognised that song
can you please provide a link of the song ? thanks
@@hede638 autumn leaves has been recorded a million times, look up autumn leaves in TH-cam until u find a version u dig, look up "autumn leaves guitar" on TH-cam maybe you'll find something similar to what we hear on the video
Facing the silence, facing our thoughts is the most painful yet meaningful experience. Initially it will be very painful, but after learning to organise/filter our thoughts, it is a great tool. Hours of reflecting, contemplating, recognising proves to be very useful in order to grow as a person. At least it is for me.
Great video btw, its hard to explain this kind of stuff
Awesome man, good message, keep up the work!
Omg this is how I stop anxiety… I can’t be left alone with my thoughts ! Hahs !!
when i’m not on my phone i feel completely numb. my issues are muted and tossed to the side, leaving me with emptiness. and then when i inevitably open my phone again and start scrolling, my mental issues are pushed back to the surface only to be drowned out by teeth rotting content, shoving temporary smiles on my face and pulling me deeper and deeper into mental illness and addiction. i cant stop. it’s so toxically enjoyable.
Jokes on you, this wasn’t relatable because I wasn’t “looking at my little black box in bed” I was looking at my little black box on the floor because I was crying because I realized I’m super ugly from all the teenage tiktok supermodels i follow and my inability to act on this addiction. Better luck next time
Jokes on you, I was looking at my little black box while floating above the sky because the idea of me not achieving my dreams made me lose my sanity... or maybe I'm just being abducted by aliens... one of those things makes more sense then the other...
just lift weights bro
Our body’s are just shells for our soul broski it’s not too much about our looks
wow quirky
Why do you still feel the need to make yourself feel worse from looking at people curated by an algorithm? Do you really hate yourself that much? Tiktok is unbearable. Why is it so hard to delete it?
Thank you this video explained many feelings I have right now with this current system. I still take part in it and as you said my little black box emulating blue light calms me down. This video is a more then a hidden gem. It’s star that everyone should see once and remember forever. You have explained so much but you’ll most likely never read this. You have my eternal gratitude
Dude not even contents make my head quiet. I guess I have mastered multitasking skill. I even watched this video while thinking about something else
I don't think the algorithms shape me. I am a transient goblin, surfing these webs. I see what I like and I pick it up and take it home with me. I get bored of seeing the same stuff and I stop visiting those creators. Some things stick and become a part of me, revealing my true self. Sometimes I change though and I will shed these parts of me. I am an everchanging compilation of what I want to be, built with only the best bricks, and stacked into only the best architecture, and sometimes a wrecking ball comes by and breaks me down and I politely thank it for giving me new inspiration.
But on the whole, I'm just tryna get memes, bro
content goblin requires more shinies for his shitpost pile, you can keep the meme, or you can keep your kneecaps pal; your choice.
same, my interest with a particular topic remain for few days, i obsess over it but then suddenly one day that dies down and i somehow hook to some other thing , which may be polar opposite. i feel most of us youtube junkies are this way only.
@@priyasharmax yeah, we’re all just looking forward to the next hit of dopamine. It’s the way our great kingdom is built
@@priyasharmax rats hitting a feeder bar… running through little mazes, trapped in cages; watched and documented for prosperity’s sake
I never knew that people hated being alone with their thoughts, I love to just sit and stare at a wall going over past memories good and bad. As well as just testing myself by putting myself in different scenarios and asking what I would do in that situation. One of my favorite things to do is just sit and have a conversation with myself discussing different things about me.
People don't hate they fear to face.
@@priyasharmax “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.” -Yoda
No it’s not these type of thoughts ofc the one you are talking about are great but these awful thoughts that gives us anxiety are the one that we fear
That maybe is symptom of ASD, sorry if I was irrelevant
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literally dealing with this right now. my mind is never quiet
Thank you for making this video, it puts a lot of those thoughts we all share but never really deep dive on into a cohesive thought. This is what I'm making my whole channel about. Dopamine detoxing from screen addiction is the greatest challenge for the modern man!
4:10 Dude 😭😭😭
This video is a summary of my mental journey for the past few months. I've been distancing from social media, negativity and all that and allowing my own thoughts and ideas to flourish. It's been game changing for me and I enjoy my own life again. Not the life I'm told to live by everyone on the internet. It's okay to be bored. Actually, it's better to be bored than suffocated by useless information.
i can't tell if my time on the internet is a hobby, a coping mechanism, an addiction, or a lifestyle. maybe my hopes and dreams have been shaped by screens, and I don't actually know what I want out of my life. and when I say "my time on the internet", I'm not just talking about social media. I'm talking about video games, random questions and rabbit holes, talking to others, drawing, writing... it hurts to think about how dependant I truly am on this reality, yet it's what I've grown up with. I'd rather not think about it, but at the same time it might be for the better.
The problem with social media is it makes everything other then content suck. It over exhausts ur dopamine
moments like these when i stumble upon clarity while scrolling mindlessly sometimes inspire me to change everything. to just cut myself off from social media, from tik tok in paticular cause that feels like rinsing my brain in bleach repeatedly. but i guess the smart thing would be to cut myself off completely. tik tok, youtube, twitch, twitter, tumblr, all of it. yet just imagining it feels scary. so much of me is online now. i have so little of myself left in the physical world. almost no social connections, no ambitions, nothing to do. i don't even know how to look for artistic inspiration in the physical world.
maybe one day i will have the courage to do it. at least for a day or two. to face the boredom and my own inadequacy in just living and being a human being. my excuse for that day not being today is that things are stressful right now and i need an escape. but things are always stressful in the real world, thats just how it is. so maybe that day will never come. if so, i hope that i'm not alone in this and that this shift from one world to the other will be collective. if that won't be the case either... i don't know. i just don't know anythng.
great video man. thank you for making me think about it enough to at least become self-aware. keep it up
You have to directly face your discomforts. Otherwise they will always linger, and your lethargic lifestyle will only grow and fester.
I love how you worded this dreadful feeling
i remember i used to wake up super early around 4-5 am every single morning and i couldn’t control it and it was awful because my brain would just fill with so many overlapping bad thoughts of myself and to stop myself from panicking i had to put on a show or youtube and find something else to do instead of lay there until everyone’s awake
Watching this says to me; "I go through it too. We all do. It's how it is, and you're not the only one in it. It gets lonely, but it's okay.", So, I think I'll re-start sitting with myself like I used to.
This exactly what I do but I realize it never works long term so I have to face my own thoughts it's kind of like substance abuse to forget your emotions but arguably less damaging on a physiological level
Man you make my depression so much worse and my self awareness better
ive gotten to a point where sitting in absolute silence is creepy and scares me, i always either need my sound machine playing or music
I saw that comment joking how this video can become a part of the very content stream described here, and I just couldn't leave it like that. Every few weeks I've been returning here to bask in the quiet melancholy of this bizarre moden life. It's surprisingly comforting. I sometimes rewatch it a few times in a row.
Good vid
this video could not have come at a better time. I’m taking a break off of social media for this exact reason. I realize I use it to escape a lot of my intrusive thoughts but in reality I tend to feel much worse after mindlessly scrolling for hours comparing myself to others or simply realizing I’ve wasted so many precious hours of my day doing .. nothing. so far I’m on day 6 - almost a week! I definitely feel a difference. plus I’m learning to deal with my emotions properly. sometimes it’s best to just sit there with your emotions & feel them. all of them. ❤️🩹
i'm thinking of trying that. did it worked?
@@grimm9166 yes! it was the best thing i could’ve done for my mental health. i encourage you to try it! if & when you eventually go back to social media you will do so in a healthier way & with a much better mindset, wishing you the best! 💗
@@vezthekid How exactly does it work ? Isn't posting that comment the same as having broke up this ? Or maybe you limit your time of use for the day ? This all seems very interesting, and I hope the question won't come as offensive.
@@Retaliatixn no worries, no offense taken! i posted my initial comment a year ago so it’s pretty old by now. back then i completely cut off all access to social media for sometime. before that i would scroll for unhealthy amounts of time but taking a break allowed me to reevaluate my priorities, manage my time in a better way & invest it in truly beneficial things. i noticed a huge positive difference in the way i felt about myself bc i wasn’t so focused on others accomplishments & actually working on goals for myself. i came back to social media once i felt i was ready (as in stable) & limited my intake so i wasn’t abusing of it anymore. there’s an entire world to explore outside of your phone & doing this reminded me that. hope that helps! 💖
whats worse is society makes you rely on phones the more popular they get.
also it seems that social media is the only way most younger people know how to communicate now, ill say hello to someone in a public setting and their brain short circuits
damn this deeply resonated with me. i also believe sitting alone with my thoughts is the worst thing ever, and i choose to fill that void with whatever i do on my phone. there was even period of my life where i avoided thinking all together because of how awful thinking to myself was. i've gotten out of that habit, but i still want to learn to live with my thoughts. anyway, thanks for making this video, it gives me peace of mind knowing i'm not the only one dealing with this.
Damn, I know this feeling. As a person having trouble existing because of my strong mental problems, I usually use social media to calm the mind.