I accidentally saw what my younger brother has been consuming online all summer and it genuinely disturbed me
I went into my younger brother’s room today to take my charger back and he suddenly hid his phone so fast like I caught him committing a crime 😭
At first I laughed because I thought maybe he was texting some girl.
But later I ended up seeing the kind of content he’s been consuming daily and honestly it made me sad more than anything.
Just endless hyperstimulating stuff.
Ragebait.
Relationship edits.
“Sigma” content.
Random brainrot humor.
Girls vs boys reels.
Short clips designed to keep attention every 2 seconds.
And the scary part is I recently made him install one of those apps that tracks how many reels/short videos you consume because I thought it would be funny to compare stats.
This guy is averaging 1000+ reels a day during summer vacation.
ONE THOUSAND.
At that point it stopped feeling like entertainment and started feeling like behavioral conditioning.
And suddenly I realized this stuff is literally shaping his attention span, personality, confidence, humor, and view of relationships in real time while his brain is still developing.
I know every generation complains about “kids these days” but honestly I don’t think we fully understand yet what nonstop short-form content is doing to teenage brains.