Hasan Piker

barometer for when i should be going and when it's time to talk to somebody and when it's you know when i feel like all right like i do it's not about going until you feel okay because you can still go and feel okay i think it can still be very important but i think knowing when it's serving you versus like you're just doing it to do it and so i feel like sometimes if i think i'm gonna be just going to like

do it in a way that's not productive.

I do take a little break, you know?

I mean, I don't know how new it is, but I know it's been building up and it needed something like the pandemic to fully be exposed because I think that before anyone was ever talking about anything 2020, even in 2016, you could feel a little something like bubbling up and there were just practices that we had of like how social...

had the opportunity to connect everyone as far as like all the apps, all the different ways of communicating, but then all of it was also very isolating in and of itself.

You could feel like you had had a bunch of little interactions with people all day while not having a single intimate conversation with anyone.

And so I think that that's something that I think was gearing up that just like, I mean, even if you wanna talk about

2020 exposed a lot of stuff because just people being like inside for two months and not having the air and the pictures, the aerial pictures of cities was like incredibly clean.

It looked like whole cities were healed in a month, you know?

And so I think that as far as an epidemic of loneliness, there are certain practices that are gonna be really hard to get out of just because it's human nature.

Like for instance, even with the phone, there's that phantom reach.

Have you heard about that?

I haven't heard about that, but I've done it.

The Phantom reaches this thing where let's say you are on like a cruise ship and you have no reception and your phone is useless and you have all these people around you to talk to.

Even if you are, whether you're a kid or you're middle-aged, there will be times throughout the day, just because of how much we're on our phones, that you'll reach for your phone and you may even open it and then be like, oh wait, yeah, I can't do anything with this.

And those are some of the only indicators that we have of how much we're actually on our phone.

Because if you ask someone,

how much they're on their phone.

They might say a lot or they might give you a certain like metric, but it wasn't until Apple itself decided to expose our screen time and tell us every week how much we had been on our phone.

The bro vote, especially on college campuses, broke heavily for Trump.