Taylor Lorenz
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Give them other avenues to do that, and they won't be on their screen so much.
A hundred percent.
And like, what are you actually seeking out of it?
And what content like isn't serving you, you know, like what are you reacting to in the minute and like changing your algorithm a little bit?
Like we've all kind of learned these behaviors of like, when I see a bunch of bad stuff, it's like, okay, I got to go like some X, Y, Z videos and hopefully get some of that on my feed, you know, but use the tools that you can mute the people that you need to mute.
Do the best you can it's very hard.
yeah i think it's you know this outgrowth of like broader trends in culture towards like sort of self-optimization so like documenting live streaming every aspect of your life tracking like the brian johnson kind of like tracking everything to um also you know i've seen people just be like claviculars just sort of appropriating like women's culture or we like we've been look smacking forever or like gay male culture like it's just being brought to straight men now um
You know, for him specifically, I feel very sad for him because this guy is a 20-year-old.
You know, he's spoken about being, like, extremely neurodivergent and having a really hard time finding friends.
And I think the bad thing about the current, like, algorithmic internet that we all live in now that rewards attention and over everything else is, like, I don't think that this kid is served by live streaming his life 24-7 with these other, like, kick streamers.
Like, I feel sad.
I'm like, I hope his parents can, like...
get him out of whatever system that he's in.
But yeah, he's gotten, I mean, he talked, so he got out of the hospital this morning.
He talked about the fact that he basically takes drugs to cope with being neurodivergent because it's hard for him to stream 14 hours a day with the way he is.
And so he took this sort of toxic cocktail of drugs.
He's also on peptides.
He's also talked about doing meth, things like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.