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They're going to come across it.
It's just one of the...
harms that come as a side effect of living life through a digital lens.
You know, I think that is one of the huge things, Matt, that we've got to understand that when primarily we're looking at our lives and interact with other human beings through devices, that there are harms that come to that, whether it is addiction or whether it is that, you know, the lack of friction in relationships because people are looking to create relationships, synthetic relationships.
People are looking to create synthetic relationships with chatbots or, you know, even don't get me started on dating apps.
I was on a dating app for about three weeks before I went.
This is the worst.
Not to say that people can't, but I think in the last few years from what I've inherited, what I've heard from friends,
Again, another addictive model.
The swipe is another dopamine hit.
And I think doing that over time, you stop looking for the thing that you thought you were signing up to before.
You're looking just for the hit.
And then again, you think you get that blurred reality because anonymously you can hide behind a profile, you can hide behind a character, and then you can start hurling troll abuse to other people, likely to other women on these platforms and get away with it.
There's no policing.
There's no intervention.
And people are doing that.
I think of the amount of girlfriends that have talked to me about, they're just terrified.
They are just terrified of men.
And a lot of these platforms, it just harbors a lot of this activity.
So yeah, it is one of the greatest harms that I think come as looking at life through a digital lens like this.