Brain Rot Paradox
8 hours of sleep become 5
Its pretty sad how much of a chokehold short form media has on me. This will be the 3rd time in just this year alone that I delete both TikTok and IG.
Everytime I reinstall Tiktok I spend the first day or so trying to catch up to all the new pop culture refs/memes. The algorithm throws me head first into the third season of some drama that follows the new celebrity of the day. The person making the video speaks to you as if you SHOULD KNOW this non-sense - while simultaneously, shoehorning an AD in the mix. Every. GODDAMN. VID. NOW. IS. AN. AD.
All the knowledge I have about these temporary famous people have been against my will.
While IG, doesn’t matter how much I tap “not interested”, is gore or somehow a woman will try every opportunity to squeeze her ass into frame no matter the subject.
IG has become the new LiveLeak. There are dedicated pages to “showing you the videos they don’t want you to see”. Which is ironic because you’ll get banned into oblivion on Facebook for calling someone dumb in the comment section. As if they aren’t the same company (I think who knows anymore for real.). It’s gotten so bad that every time I see a CCTV video I automatically assume someone is going to die. It’s not a matter of if anymore but who and how. Either it’s two men fighting in the street and one of the fellas catches the other with a haymaker leaving him whispering secrets to the ground. Is he going to get back up? Probably not, LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE .
OR Man working in a factory, usually alone, I don’t know why, usually foreign as well, leaning on big circular….doohickey… I have no idea what it does besides kill people and remind me how fragile and small I am as a human. Who cares if you can bench 300lbs, how much money you have in stocks or how many women you slept with. You can take a deep breath and die of an Aneurysm or Survive getting hit by a sober pick up truck driver in Texas because they were in a rush to argue with the receiving guy at the back Sam’s Club TALKING ABOUT SOME FUCKIN “OH DONT SCRATCH MY TRUCK BED” LIKE YOU DIDN’T ORDER A GIANT PALLET OF WATER OH IM SORRY LET ME BE CAREFUL WITH MY FORKLIFT WHY IS YOUR FINGER NAILS DIRTY BUT YOUR SHIRT IS CLEAN DON’T SHAKE MY HAND YOU DIRTY FU-
Thank you, Professor Doohickey.
Tiktok has #booktok and the equivalent on IG is something like #bookstagram (doesnt roll off the tongue as well). One day, I’m going down a rabbit hole of people talking about different sci-fi or horror books they’ve read. One of those videos was this white woman, shes cute but thats not important, she says what shes reading then proceeds to jump on her bed. The camera swaps to the ceiling camera where you see her butt jiggling for the rest of the video while she “reads”.
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
How do you even fit a 2 hour video on IG?
In the matter of minutes I’m horny and desensitized.
I FEEL LIKE A SERIAL KILLER.
“Sorry babe, Small Town murder stays on in bed.”
“Could you at least put on headphones-”
“SHHHHHUUUUTTT UP AND GIVE ME MURD——The Condom broke.”
Don’t get me wrong, Im a butt man like alot of other guys but it gets to a point. I like Reese’s Fastbreak candy bars...i can’t eat them all the time because my teeth would explode.
It’s not all sex and gore that steals precious time that I should be sleeping.
Today alone I saw a guy catching AI lying - he asks it to time his jog for him (because it said that it could) AI agrees - Man says start but stops like 3 seconds later and asks for his time - AI pauses to “think” and says he ran for seven mins. That lie is killing someone right now in a smalltown.
Then later, a wrinkled face old white man with the beard of a homeless wizard has the camera too close to his face - turns the camera around to a bunch of scribbles on a notebook - he, for 5 mins, blurts a bunch of gibberish....and I watch every second. He points at symbols, misspelled words, and drawings. He’s literally barking, shaking, hooten and hollerin. The speed of which he is moving the camera, the light bouncing off the white page would kill an epileptic person. Funny, not the epilepsy but him as a whole, I wonder what he was like as a child. What was the decisions that was made to get to this point? Cant be doing that bad, he’s in a home of some sort. How does he make enough money?
People in the comments joke that he might know something we dont. I check his page. He has a million followers (almost). Oh thats whats paying the bills....good for him. I comment “when you pass can I get your notebook?”....because he might know something I don’t.
Before I deleted the app, I saw a video of a gay feller “teaching” women how to “catch print”. What’s that? Don’t worry about it. There’s more important things to worry about like people dying in the Big Beautiful Pedophile War.
Im wasting my time.
I’ll reinstall when I need a laugh.
Note for the OG The Whomst Podcast listeners. If it’s not obvious the show is on a long hiatus. Just don’t feel like talking to myself. Going to try out blogging again.
These next few months there might be a change to the name (most likely not) and Ill will be posting on random topics until I figure out what exactly I feel comfortable on….same as the podcast…except you can read my terrible grammar instead of listen to it. Good news all around.
If you want to unsubscribe, I totally understand. I will hate you though.
Kidding.
