I’ve been noticing this for a while. I’m going back to reading books. I used to love KZfaq (never been a fan of TikTok) but the content is just so RECYCLED. I think we’ve surpassed the peak of authenticity and creativity. They regurgitate the same talking points over and over and over again. It’s beyond boring….and I no longer have the desire to hear it anymore. It’s like how many times can y’all tell the same story different ways?!? It’s like once you’ve watched one video, you’ve watched them all. The most common videos I see “Stanley cups” “Sephora kids” “Modern dating is hard” “Everybody’s lonely” “Making friends as an adult is hard” “Social media is bad” “Feminine energy/dark feminine energy” “How to get what you want through law or attraction/assumption ” “How to be productive” “Sustainability, SHEIN and fast fashion is bad” “Lack of third spaces” “The wealth gap” “Influencers are bad” “Doom scrolling” “Overconsumption is bad” “My 5am routine” And then a shit ton of people just trying to self you stuff. Like 80% of content is just a commercial/advertisement now. YAWWWWWNNNNNNN. I’m beyond tired of it. Everybody’s just hopping on whatever train will get the most profit. That’s it. Everybody’s literally the same. And even the people that “think outside the box” do it in a way that they can’t get “ canceled”, so them “thinking outside the box” is really them still conforming to group think.

"We need to talk about-" no we don't! we been talking about [THING] please make it STOP

glad i’m not the only one who noticed this! it’s like we’re all stuck in high school gossiping about the same person 😭

I don't have the "addicted" feeling towards social media anymore. It's mostly just shopping and recycled relationship topics and it doesn't feel like you're missing anything anymore.

Now are other KZfaqrs gonna copy your idea and make a video about how unoriginal KZfaq has become? 😅

This is why I watch hardly watch any youtube video essays nowadays because no one is saying anything new, and if they are, the algorithm isn't pushing their videos anyways so I don't know they exist. Everything is either derivative or self-referential (referencing phenomenons that only exist on social media) that the "real world" doesn't know or care about. I have realized that limiting my time on social media/news cycle means I may be left out of most of the "discourse" but there are so many things on social media/news cycle that 1) I don't need to know about and 2) can't do anything about but 3) it sits in my brain and causes me unnecessary stress that I already have enough of. Like, is knowing anything about stanley cups or sephora kids important for my life? It's not. And learning things like "everyone is lonely" just makes me feel worse. It's not helpful for me to consume this content.

KZfaqrs have to do what sells to pay their bills. And it's now very rapidly turning the platform into a content mill of nearly identical ads. I can't ever hear people talk about their life. If I look up "life updates" the results will be "how to level up your life!!!" With those thumbnails of the person making some ridiculous face with high saturation and contrast. Nothing is ever just...normal anymore. I'm over it.

I miss the old KZfaq days, stuff I grew up on. I loved the music video era on here🥰

It is so insane that everyone decided to make a Stanley cup video at the same time. Does no one realize that everyone was buying those cups a year and a half ago????? That whole thing has been done for a long time and suddenly people are talking about it. Crazy

Agreed. KZfaq used to be a lot of fun. I used to find new music artists, fun makeup tutorials, travel vlogs, theme park food vlogs, some really funny comedy, cooking videos, and flash mobs. It was a lot more fun back then. Now all I find are video essays on the same thing. Shorts are better now.

I watched sooo many videos on Stanley cups, 9yr old Sephora girls, the harms of social media, gen Alpha not reading, iPad kids, all that… and after a while it was like I was in an echo chamber. After this, I can’t wait to see how many “there’s too many videos about too many repetitive…” videos and so on and so forth lol

It’s so unfortunate that in order to stay relevant you have to constantly push out content. As a big Meat Canyon/Papa Meat fan, as soon as he began to deviate from horror I knew it was because he wasn’t making animations fast enough. Flash forward a couple of months and now he’s talking about some of his cartoons representing that exact thought process. Flash forward another few months and he’s taking a hiatus from animation all together. It breaks my heart seeing these people quit what they love because they can’t do it fast enough for social media’s tastes.

I feel like youtube and social media in general are really dying for me. I don't have any interest bc shit just isn't fun anymore. I try to encourage the algorithm to give me some funny, stupid, light hearted things to enjoy. No matter what I do, every time I open the app there's something devastating, depressing and sad in every single title and thumbnail and maybe one video of someone making a cool outfit or a dog video.

I agree. I also think a lot of people exaggerate world problems like saying “everyone is obsessed with cups, kids don’t act like kids anymore” when in reality that’s far from true at least in my perspective. And I notice that like 90% of popular influencers have gotten into some type of drama because people find unproblematic people boring.

This is why I am still un ironically on Tumblr. It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s so different to other social media, both in how the platform is designed and the culture of it. It just feels like way less pressure than others 🤷🏼‍♀️

this is very well done. everything (big) feels the same because it is the same, and it's frustrating because i understand why people do it (to eat and pay their bills), but also, this truly is a contribution to why art and creativity are forever suffering.

im so tired.... blah blah blah gen z... gen alpha.... cups.... tiktok things that wouldnt be things if we ignored it. it so hard to leave tho cause its like a lil window into ppl my age, something to discuss abt.

I'm glad that this showed up in my recommendations because I have been feeling like this for a while, and I thought I was going crazy. I am doing a "deep clean" right now of sorts where I am unsubscribing from creators that I don't watch anymore, and I am hitting "do not recommend" on every "video essayist" channel that does TikTok or social media commentary. It's still a work in progress, but it's made me feel a lot lighter.

YES. I just said this to my co-worker. I want better content less often but the algorithm isn’t built for that. Also, so many re-packaged ideas and theories. All this talk about “pretty privilege” with responses saying “pretty women get harassed or treated like objects”….misogyny. Y’all are describing misogyny. Women’s value = their looks; less attractive women = dehumanized; more attractive women = objectified…that’s misogyny. People are speaking on things they haven’t really thought enough about just to stay relevant because there’s money to be made. Also, “pretty privilege” is more catchy and speaks to insecurity (best audience bait there is). There’s no depth or originality. Just regression and marketing.

The internet was my comfortable refuge from the real world for close to a decade. I would go as far as to say I was addicted for sure. But with the direction its rapidly been going in? Ive been putting all this junk down and getting back into reading and drawing. I go on social media and it just makes me angry now. I've started dialing back my youtube to cut out content that isn't either related to my passions or fosters and extremely healthy, positive community. I come online to have FUN. Not to get involved in the latest discourse and fight with complete strangers. If the culture is changing, then I'm leaving!

The trend of "quitting KZfaq" videos last month was such a weird regurgitation of content.

Suddenly feels like content creation is not a job with a lot of freedom, the pressure is huge.

What a coincidence, yesterday night I “cleaned” up my KZfaq recommandations and unsubscribed and hit “don’t recommend” on *all* the social media commentary channel that pop up in my feed (including the content creator I liked, I knew they’d pop up back at some point in my feed). I had to do 4 rounds after refreshing because several channel/youtube kept being recommended. In a few weeks my history/science/rpdr feed has turned into 90% about Stanley cup and Sephora kids. Your video was the first thing I saw when I opened the app this morning.

I recently saw a video about a woman encouraging everyone who needs to promote content to ditch social media and to make yourself a website instead and tbh, i think we need to go back to that. It would also discourage doomscrolling and you have a bit more control over adds showing up or not

Thank god. Now back to life pre social media. Nothing lasts forever. We should be celebrating the world was better before social media

I liked your comment on the expectation of “building your brand”. I have been on a job hunt for honestly too long. On top of the issues of the job market right now, I worry that part of my failure to get hired is because I don’t have a large media presence. Like… I got a degree (STEM), great grades, past jobs, certifications, multiple languages etc etc etc. But I DONT have a large media presence for my safety! I’m a private person, and I think everyone should have the choice to do so :/

I’m shocked it took people so long to realize KZfaqrs were all making videos of the same things around the same time… It’s been going on for a while, and I’m specifically talking about the social commentary side. I used to be in the animation community on Twitter and a little bit on here but whenever there was drama or anything going on, people would NOT STFU about it, even making videos! Everyone was talking about the same ish and just not letting the negativity go! Annoyed me so much, it was one of the reasons I had to leave animation twitter.

We’re being pushed to create simulacra of not only ourselves but the topics we are allowed to talk about. Discussions about the consumption of Stanleys are not actually critiques of consumerism, they’re just regurgitations of the same video over and over again. Instead of anything that sheds light into the nature of society or cultural phenomena, we get surface level discussions about the same things 100 times over with no self awareness. I’m sick of it

I liked youtube because we were able to LEARN something new, things that will add value to our lives, but nowadays people just react to tik tok or tell the "dark side" of everything, but in the end it's just opinion. KZfaq became a place where people come to talk trash about other people, so is really hard to spend time here nowdays.

not swell entertainment on the thumbnail 😂

I hate that the video essay format has been co-opted by grifters who don't really have anything of substance to say, cause now everyone is formatting their videos that way, and as a person who watches actual informative video essays that are often 2h long I now get my rec page flooded with 20 minute long, drawn out to put as many ads as possible recycled takes on stanley cups and gen alpha's inability to read. I remember a year or two ago YT was very good at suggesting me new creators who talked about a variety of topics that were not widely covered and nowadays all I see is channels that all look the same and when you click on the video it starts with a 3 minute long plug of their instagram and tik tok, then its the sponsor, and they end up talking about the actual topic for maybe 10 minutes, saying nothing new. I subscribe to +100 channels and majority of them I discovered through YT's algorythm randomly putting a rec on my main. This hasn't happened in months at this point, if not close to a year.

I used to love the creator Keisha she’s British and in the thumbnail. She seemed to start just talking about whatever was trending on Tik Tok and it got so repetitive

Thanks for talking about this. It is so true. I am older (41)and was a precocious neglected kid, babysat by MTV and Rolling Stones, starting at the age of seven in 1989. I was hyper vigilant so I was obsessed with absorbing cultural vibes and still do to some extent. I’m also a wee bit of an amateur history nut. This has led me to see without a doubt, cultural topics recycle themselves regularly. The talk about gender was around during emo time, metrosexual time, 80s alternative music and hairbands, the hippie era, it was even freaking around during the Victorian era when flappers started to emerge. A year ago there was this very on point quote about the ‘breakdown of gender norms’, and how ‘disturbing it is for young people and society’, and reading it, you’d think it would be from 2022, but it was honestly from 1920. Older generations have always criticized younger generations, and said they were terrible brats, again it happened to boomers, Gen X, millennials, Gen Z, and now it’s even happening to GEN alpha, even though they’re not coming of age. I used to work with kids and I read so many books about how modern parenting techniques are ruining children and how children can’t read and they’re too addicted to novelty/technology and leisure. Some of them going back to the late 1800s! Yes it’s all been done. But there is something frightening about how things come through TikTok, it’s like it’s flooding mass conciousness. It feels like a bigger deal than it is, thus it can lead to people wanting to talk about it. But still these topics are called “trending” when they really should be called “fadding”. That’s probably not a word but it should be. They are mass hysteria fads, not even trends. It is also annoying how I am not on TT but yet I still can’t escape it. It’s annoying how TT discourse is shaping YT discourse. My prediction is that TT becomes so demented that it feels as cringe as a 60 year old conspiracy theorist being on FB and people won’t want to be known to even be on there. But shorts will live on on other platforms with a more slower paced feel.

The moment KZfaq became a "career" for people was the moment KZfaq changed. At one point KZfaq was not a place to start a career on. People came here to make videos simply for fun and creativity. Sure, a career could come out of making videos, but the platform itself was not used for that by and large. And then KZfaq turning it into that meant they had to conform to advertisements and investors.

social media is becoming so boring I'm actually just reading more books now lol

Like did we really need 20 think pieces on sephora kids?

Hello! This is the first video of yours I've seen & I agree 100%. Everyone's videos are the same tight now. Stanley cup, kids in Sephora, 9 month cruise.... Like 🙄🙄🙄🙄. Thank you for calling it out!

Being original or different is becoming shunned. We need to allow ourselves to unapologetically be ourselves. And have real convictions.

You just verbalized exactly how I feel as someone who posts content, especially from 13:00-13:49. I always feel like i have to post what is trending just to get decent views and the moment I deviate from that to post what I enjoy the algorithm is no longer supportive. I've just come to realization that its better for me to enjoy posting than to post to get the best views possible. All in all, whenever I post just to be on trend theres a lack of enjoyment I feel while filming and editing, or a sense of stress when I mainly do this for fun and to be a bit creative. It shouldn't be like that. Thanks for this video!

One of the best KZfaqrs I just discovered is interlexual media who is a history content creator. Her videos are always fresh and bring awareness to those who really don’t know a lot about the past.

One of the things that I learned a long time ago that made a lot of sense was that the reason why people across different genres felt so burned out was because they are all labeling themselves the same thing: Content creators. But if everything is content where some people can put things out once or even twice a week then that means that projects that normally take much longer have to be produced in the exact same time. Music, clothing, ALL artwork, literal creations that take time and thought and honestly, some deep down spiritual and emotional offerings. These things just can’t be produced on a dime. The only reason why talkshows can be produced every day is because they are so many people who have a particular job to make it happen. All the host has to do was show up. But normal people are forcing themselves to learn and properly operate cameras, lights, makeup, editing, audio, animation, and MORE. If you are a musician, then create like a musician. If you create pottery then pour love into each piece as it’s being made by one person, not one that’s being mass produced.

Authenticity and creativity is going to win now

As someone getting her master's in communication right now, thank you so much for your videos!! They keep me tethered to the present day and bring me out of (often) outdated theory. Really eager to continue on hearing your thoughts about the state of social media and how it continuously develops

As someone with a small business, it is SO exhausting feeling the pressure to make trending/viral content just to share my work. I wish it was as easy as just sharing what I've made and letting the work speak for itself instead of having to do all this performing for an algorithm. I've kind of just given up completely on trying to follow what's trending at the moment and trying to get back into feeling like sharing what I make is fun, without adding any unnecessary pressures.

I feel that; its exhausting to flip through media, everyone is exactly the same no deviations. Same clothes, makeup, outfit, books, goals. Are we really unique anymore?

This is me with the Taylor Swift discourse especially after the Grammys night because do we really care and do we need to care so much about extremely famous and rich people who are in no way and will never be relatable to our lives? I struggle with articulating my opinion but nowadays I find that a good thing online because looking back at many paragraphs I typed out and deleted it was often never that serious and we all stopped caring 2 days later

I definitely agree. SM has become a place where the main focus is $. Therefore it makes it less fun to be creative and make genuine connections with people.

Absolutely loved this video!!! Along with every video you make. I have been feeling the pull to just get off social media, and have limited my screen time to 8 minutes a day. I used to spend 6 hours scrolling away my life. Like you said, these algorithms are designed to see how much they can keep you on the app, wasting time. I’m happy I woke up. None of the metrics matter and we have a ANTI-social media epidemic of people placing their value on the metrics. A search for identity that is truly never found in that worm hole. Thank you for making this.

Thank you so much for this! It’s interesting to hear about this from someone who actually makes videos. I’m really happy I came across this because I thought I was in some kind of weird algorithm bubble that I’d accidentally made for myself and was starting to feel a little crazy. But it turns out other people are experiencing it too

This video encouraged me to uninstall the KZfaq app. I often listen to videos when doing chores - especially because my favorite podcast has been on hiatus for a while now. I’m probably better off listening to audiobooks from my public library instead. More originality and creativityz

It's just very frustrated how we're forced to become content creators, wether we are actually making content or not. I've become skeptical and very wary of most viral things I see on social media. Everything is just so calculated, so much copywriting, so much "storytelling", rage baiting, and it's getting more exhausting by the day. Also I hate the fact I spend hours creating and planning content that Meta could wipe away if so they wish. I'm considering having a blog again and getting back to long-form concent like the good old days.

I’m so glad that I am not the only one noticing this. It is also trendy to be negative and complain about anyone and everything…. But it’s so boring!

It’s gotten to the point that not only do I know what said repetitive video essay will probably say, I also can almost always predict the exact top comments and how people will respond to them.

Now watch all the KZfaqrs start making a video about how everyone is talking about the same thing and no one stands out 😭

❤ I finally got monetized on KZfaq and decided I wanted to do what I wanted. I got tired of trying to please the algorithm, chasing trends and not feeling fulfilled in my content because I was obsessed with growth. I deleted my social media (except KZfaq) so I don’t have to be peer pressured into posting things for money. This was a great video! Very good insights you articulated your thoughts very clearly. I noticed that content creators are losing their minds over the algorithm shifts and that seems exhausting. So I went back to my fulltime job instead of chasing this idea of being a fulltime creator.

We really need to talk about how these millions of posts a day take up physical space in data centers and are using up MASS amounts of real life resources. We are talking a nations worth of electricity at all times.

I have a larger Instagram account. Honestly, after a while you get tired of constantly being taken out of context/canceled for things. It’s gets old so then to avoid it you basically have to be bland. It sucks but that’s it. A lot of people don’t understand nuance, context, or sarcasm.

The only digital medium that isnt tiring is videogames because they're forced to try and be unique. But even though majority of entertainment and social media is so bland.

THANK YOU. OH MY GOD, THANK YOU!!! I thought I was going CRAZY?!! Like, no creativity, same format, same topic in these video essays. It’s almost like a hive mind!! May I add, I also feel like this is the reason why social media addiction is even more harmful nowadays, because the content you’re watching is essentially the same mind-numbing thing. At least back then, there was more authentic, genuine, FUN content. Again, thank you so much for this video! I’m already a huge fan! ❤

ive had a youtube account since 2008 (lol) and its my main form of viewing content - the past few months i have found it harder and harder to find something to watch def the end as we knew it

It's really interesting that the lack of critical thinking I encounter more these days mirrors this "blandness"/"sameness" of social media. I also wonder how much is needing to be seen and heard vs needing stability and predictable comfort. Could be unrelated, but it definitely gets my mind pondering

So people now woke up to now just realize that social media was like this,ridiculous it’s always been like that..despite how the world is changing so much and now one or nothing is going to change.

This is how I’ve been feeling for a while. Social media has been becoming boring

I miss when Instagram was just photos.

ive gotten to a point where i exclusively use youtube for very niche interests or for education. i miss being able to find simply entertaining videos (that arent based on spending x amount of money). i have noticed that the old vibes of youtube are more present in podcasts now which is interesting. in 2019 everyone was complaining about reaction based content but id rather watch pewdiepie reacting to a silly subreddit rather than watch a badly made video essay on an extremely vague subject.

I noticed that too 😩 And I hate what social media has become… Agree 100%

This is why I’ve been thinking heavily about creating content about my life as a restaurant manager. It’s a less chosen path that isn’t “awarded” like many other careers. I truly believe it would be a different type of content.

As an anthropologist, I have been thinking a lot about this. I have hated and been suspicious of IG from day one and never really got into it because I could see how manipulative it was and that they artificially boost views to hook people into continuing to create content. I have two brands and refuse to put them on socials even though I am told how detrimental it will be to my business. I think a huge part of the issue lately is how EVERYONE is a brand now and EVERYONE is a super insightful, special influencer with soooo much to offer (I say this sarcastically).😳🙄With so many people creating all this content now, nothing has a chance to stand out anymore. It is absurdly narcissistic and weird. I can’t fathom why anyone would voluntarily turn themselves into a brand when having an ACTUAL brand is hard enough as is. I hate seeing reels or shorts even when it is content I would generally like because it’s all so repetitive, mediocre, and boring at this point, even when technically it is highly produced and beautiful. I’m over it.

We ought to train our algorithms to push non-sensationalised content to us. I love philosophical video essays or analytical video essays which focus on books, movies or art... cos then I actually learn something new. Also kinda controversial but I love some news channels like DW which started putting out youtube content, cos it's actually educational.

as a current college student, i am struggling with the idea of a digital personal brand. i believe that how you present yourself in the real world is important, but now we are all expected to have linkden, Instagram, X, etc. to stay relevant in the job market. having these platforms and keeping them up to date gives you a competitive advantage these days. i quit social media almost entirely about a year ago, and it was one of the best things ive ever done. now, i don't know if it will hurt me in the long run. does anyone have some advice/a different perspective on this topic?

this is why you gotta find your niche. i have a couple youtubers that i LOVE watching (that aren’t commentary or video essays), it’s just for fun.

If I see one more video essay in my homepage complaining about kids' Stanley cups, 10 year olds at Sephora, or gen alpha apparently being the new "worst generation ever" who apparently all "can't read", I'm gonna scream. Complaining about gen alpha and saying the same stuff thousands of other KZfaqrs have been saying is not going to fix the alleged problems, but rather give people more reasons to discrimination against young people all while these problems continue, and most of these KZfaqrs know this. Please, lets move on and leave these poor kids alone. KZfaqrs need to stop bullying kids and disguising it as "spreading awareness" just because they know the video will go viral. They don't care. They just know that regardless of how big of an issue it actually is, they know that viewers eat it up whenever they see videos making fun of the generations after them, implying that their own generation is superior. There is nothing to gain but anger and frustration. There's no point. I get that they need views, but at what cost? They could at least partake in a different trending topic that isn't ageist towards people who are too young to have a voice or be taken seriously.

"the end of social media" Good.

i used to have so much variety in the commentary and video essays i would get on my homepage now this stanley cup and sephora kids thing has been dragging on for like 4 weeks and ill watch the other ones sometimes bc theres NOTHING else and its always the same 3 points 😭😭 i used to get a bunch of different videos even if it was commentary it wasnt the same 3 topics over and over again a month after it initially happened like its just beating a dead horse bc some videos are coming out a few weeks later so it isn’t as relevant

OMG 13:02...if I see one more video about the lack of third places lmaoo

When I started my fb page in 2004, i never thought i would see social media become so negative. Clout chasing and these relationship gurus are becoming redundant. Im going back to reading books and magazines. Its healthier for ya!

Honestly… I only notice this in English language social media. I’m from Brazil and I live in the US, and I noticed that most American/English speaking creators I see on my feed are talking about the same things, which is usually TikTok commentary. The Brazilian creators I follow tend to be way more creative.

I do think its cool people can make a living off KZfaq now but this was my mindset of why I don’t think its good for the videos or platform itself, it breads in-creativity/diversity in content. People want to hop on to what everyone else is doing so they can rake in the most cash and now we all get the same boring few content. Its a shame.

If it is not the Stanley Cups then it is the Sephora kids. No one is talking about fun, niche shit!

Just wait till they all start making this video too 🫢

Please free me from the Stanley Cup commentaries

"Let's get rid of anybody with any originality" "Oh no, it's bland"

THIS!! I have been struggling with this because I’ve always been a creative person but I don’t want to compromise who I am in order to grow a following because algorithms are pushing content that plays by the rules. Thank you for sharing this in such an elegant way

I have recently deleted tiktok because it was just getting so boring. I would go on there to have a laugh but recently it has just been people talking about the same topics or promoting tiktok shop over and over again. Not to mention how almost all the music got removed which is making it worse. The trends used to be fun and creative but now its just videos of people talking.

i love this so bad, i've been thinking the same. watching this and reading the comments, i'm glad i'm not the only one.

Yes! Thank you! A million people talking about the exact same thing!!

watching a few videos about people complaining about things online and then getting recommended a video complaining about other people i just watched is my "goddamn it, i need to log off" moment

THANK YOU, finally someone notices how BORING youtubers are becoming I wish they would talk about anything but "trends" like oh my god how bORING talk about book, food, a game, ANYTHING! TOUCH GRASS

Thank you for this video! I Think KZfaq won't die, but something will have to change. I personally feel extremely fed up with how things are, considering I work in marketing and social media is no longer fun for me, but is used to. I am a millennial, so I was there where KZfaq first popular creators rise up to fame and maaan those were good times. First make up tutorials, you felt so connected to the creators, they felt like a friend from a different country. Now even for personal use, you have to curate everything, there is huge pressure to treat yourself like a "product". With that being said social media gives great benefits but it's a double edge sword. I am getting off topic though😁 My point is that I don't thing KZfaq will die, creators will change and the algorithm. A few years ago with the first wave of KZfaq creators quitting KZfaq was dead for a while, but it didn't last long and I like how advanced some content is right now. You can learn so much from other people about literally any topic. I have seen one video, I don't remember who made it but the point was that with society changing from labor to creators. What we have on social media is a reflection of our society, 2009 KZfaq was Wild West 😁 2013 KZfaq was luxury, drag makeup, drama, nowadays there is a lot of "woke" and commentary content due to recession and political correctness. So I'm curious to see what's next, despite of being depressed with consumerism and overstimulation.

This is why I mainly watch the booktube side because at least I can learn something interesting lmao.

This has always been the problem with trends, honestly. People hop on a bandwagon, and everyone on the bandwagon takes off, and the people who are trying to do their own thing get left behind. It almost feels like people are trying to have a conversation, and if you try to change the “topic” of discussion, you’re seen as weird. Story of my life! I never cared for trends and always been the odd one for being “off topic.”

watching social networking sites and streaming meet the same cruel demise as cable tv is so damn funny rn lmao

I love watching video essays but lately it’s all the same? It’s kinda sad ngl. Also Videos that are basically just reactions get much more attention than the actual creative video which is SO sad. I want to see ppl express themselves & share what they love more again. I want creativity/authenticity; not just the same stuff over and over again Like I just upload stuff containing my passion for Cosplay and Kpop. Does it get views? Not at all. But it’s fun and I’m not here to be a content farm. I think ppl have gotten too obsessed with the idea of becoming a public figure so that they result in pumping out as much and as frequent with the most ,,controversial“ topics possible. It’s sad to see that a platform for self expression became like this

Yeah, I recently permanently deleted my social media accounts- all but KZfaq, and it's made a seriously positive impact on my entire life. So imagine my disdain when my employer began encouraging me to build a personal brand on linkedin. Like, I just walked away from all that and I'm better for it, no thank you. Will it impact my future career maybe. But it's not worth the negatives to me.

personally, I ONLY follow people who are authentic. this is a non negotiable for me. I can always tell when people are not .

Your videos are fantastic. Been watching for a while and each one is great!

I'm glad the algorithm pushed this video to me. I really appreciate your perspective on this issue surrounding social media and having to immediately jump on the 'issue' trending. Like I saw all these water-tok vids pop off within days of each other.

Great vid! I have felt for a long time that social media is bland and has nothing to offer and im starting to feel the same way about youtube. Finding a real life community has been so refreshing and gives much more substance to my life.

For me I used to have social media back in school when it was a new thing - a novelty. But I don't have a public social media account nowadays. I mostly just use messaging apps like whatsapp or telegram or discord. Other than that, I just use Twitter & Reddit to follow artists or my interests. I don't post. Maybe I should start building a new account now.

this reminds me of that era where colleen ballinger did her ukulele apology and every single popular ‘funny’ commentary youtuber did a vid about it with the exact same thumbnail lmaooo