Jessica Murray
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328 appearances
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first heard May 2026
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I have absolutely no girlfriends.
I'm talking about like
Plan.
I mean it sounds really shocking, doesn't it?
You think of young people being the ones who have the most friends and to think that actually we're heading in a direction where young people just have an increasingly smaller amount of friends is it sounds really worrying.
there's a lot of different theories about why it's happening, things like social media, economic factors, mental health factors.
There's a lot of potential factors that are are causing this, but we don't have any kind of concrete evidence as to ac exactly why it's happening.
And also it's part of a kind of long term trend happening slowly over the course of a decade, potentially accelerated by COVID nineteen and then the pandemic.
I was just scrolling on my Instagram feed one day and I remember seeing a video which was um something along the lines of
you know, a day in the life of a twenty one year old woman with no friends.
But I remember thinking it was quite unusual to see someone sort of very openly saying as someone with no friends and really making that the focus of the video.
There's certain search terms that you can look for, things like
loneliness influenza or solo maxing or no friends aesthetic.
There's all these kind of hashtags that are proliferated around this and there's literally hundreds and hundreds of videos now.
I mean they're very big in America, but there's a growing number in the UK as well.
Can you understand the appeal of these
Yeah, well I think there's kind of two elements to it.
I think there is a sort of sense that they're romanticising or creating a certain kind of aesthetic around this, of making people want this really peaceful, really calm.
life and making people feel like you don't need any friends, you can live a kind of full and whole life without that.
But I think some people might criticize that and say that it's romanticizing something that's not the reality.
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