u/Cactus__Juice

A few nights ago I realized I had spent almost 3 hours online and somehow felt worse than when I opened my phone.

Not because anything bad happened to me personally. Just the usual cycle. Bad news, arguments, outrage, people performing for attention, endless stuff designed to keep you staring at the screen.

So I hopped off reels and ended up on some random livestream of a wildlife rescue somewhere. No narration. No dramatic music. Somebody filming a baby bird in a nest they built for wildlife.

That was it.

Nothing “viral” happened. Nobody was yelling opinions at me. Thousands of people probably passed by that moment without ever seeing it. But for some reason it stuck with me more than anything else I saw that night.

It made me realize how little of the internet is built around witnessing normal life happening in real time (outside of curated social media platforms like Instagram).

Not content.
Not creators.
Not news.
Just life continuing.

I honestly can’t tell if this idea is interesting or if I’m just burnt out and projecting.

But I’m curious if anyone else has had that same feeling lately where the internet stopped feeling human for you.