Nah I get all that, and I was never one for drama-bait or click-bait slop. I don't particularly care for trends or social media at all. That last tangent was a little too out of the scope of the original discussion and a bit of a vent. Shutting off the world doesn't change the world around me; doesn't change the instability and unpleasantness of it all; though I do it many days anyways.

For the bigger picture, I generally think TikTok and other social media is how racism and misogyny got popular. I'm old enough to remember when it seemed Leftist ideas dominated the internet. That fell, and I attribute much of that to the low-attention atmosphere and the way rage and hatred can remain captivating in that information ecosystem.

Again, this content is not something I subscribe to; but that doesn't stop them from gaining relevance. So I'm sick of all the constant stress; the stupidity of the masses; the absurdity of this all. "Polycrisis" is a term I recall reading in an article; and that's what I'm feeling.

Content is whatever. I fully subscribe to "Don't like it? Find something else". I just wish the bigger problems in my life and the overall changes in the wider world and internet could be "turned off" like a video or TV channel.