I wasn’t with the drums. But I’ve been watching videos for a few weeks now to see what the internet is teaching me. It’s obsessive, addictive, I flip to the next video. The algorithm gives me a dopamine rush and I want to scroll even more. So I realized that the world (the simulacrum world I see on the reels) had become, as Freud would say, monstrous. I mean weird.

It’s like nothing I’ve ever known. Time is measured differently on drums.

The hours fly like a high-speed train. I pass as if it never happened. Criticize reel culture? why How much does a coil cost me? It gives me pleasure. He offers me forgiveness from the prison of my own emotional mind. But time goes by and I don’t see anything real or substantial on the reels. Why not real? Because on the Internet we build a “persona”. Because we apply filters that soften our features. Because you can put a filter on the reels that turns your face into a mouse face. Oh, and because on the internet, time means 30 seconds of video. What should I do with this mess?

What are teenagers doing with their tiktok life? Tik Tok shows them girls in Balenciaga.

That’s why teenagers also ask for Balenciaga. If you don’t wear Balenciaga, you will suffer from what is called “brand bullying” at school, as I read in a post by Vasyl Ernu the other day. What does it mean? Maybe it means that me, teenagers, and everyone else want to escape reality because the unreality sold online is more vivid. And you know what? I avoid my surroundings and sell my time to an algorithm. And the algorithm gives me peace of mind. It gives me a whirlwind of unnecessary information. It washes over my worried and anxious brain. I started dreaming of scrolls because I watch too many videos. Because there is also something called a “trend” on the reels. That is, something that goes viral and sneaks into your brain like a parasite. For example, Ariana Grande released a music video for the song “Yes, and”.

The trend is this: millions of people imitate his dance in a video within 30 seconds.

There are also challenges you can do (How do you know if your boyfriend loves you? You ask him to open an orange 10 times a day, and if he doesn’t get angry, it means…). There are muscles on the drums, you have a gym, eat chia seeds!, there is a guy on tik tok who directly tells you how you can solve your problems by consulting angels, but also asks for gifts; – he asks, because there is no more money in his account. On live TV, several people are sleeping while you watch them snoring. If you give money, you probably generate some sounds on their phone, in the room where they are sleeping, and wake them up. An AI-generated voice (a male voice similar to a 1970s US TV ad) offers you many self-help tips that tell you to break the cycle of depression through willpower.

There are Koreans, Europeans, Americans, Indians, Sri Lankans, Koreans, Europeans, Americans, etc. that do ASMR.

The phrase “ASMR” is an acronym that translates to “sensory autonomic meridian response.” It refers to a genre of YouTube videos that evoke the ASMR sensation, which is the relaxation and tingling sensation that some people experience when they hear certain sounds. In these videos, people are eating and you can clearly hear them chewing. The sounds are getting louder. Or stroke the microphones with long fingernails. Creates soothing sounds. They eat noodles and fish and stuff more than they can swallow into their mouths, stuffing themselves with sauce, but the sound of gurgling, chewing, swallowing is soothing.

It gives you a moment of relaxation. Do you have ADHD, OCD?

All the troubles can be justified on the drums, you have a coach, you have self-improvement, sometimes you also have Jordan Peterson preaching to you like a pastor about how women should be. Do you want to do yoga? You will also find yogis. Want to make guacamole? There are cooks. Do you want to learn how to brush your teeth? There are people who show in which position to hold the brush. Do you want to clean the toilet? And that’s exactly what you need advice and tips for. Want to learn about the brain? About the nucleus accumbens, what gives you motivation and self-confidence?

There are also students at Harvard who will explain to you what is wrong with this brain of ours.

Ray Jackendorf in the book “Consciousness and Computational Intelligence” compares the modern human brain with a computer in the expression “computational intelligence”. To navigate the world, we must be able to perform the same bifurcated operations as a computer. In order to perceive everything that devices, advertising, media offer us, we have to connect our minds to an algorithm. Is this the key? Will we become dehumanized computers? Or does the computer have a soul? Or is our relaxation an algorithm? Is this how we pray today? And yet: why do we like this chaos? Why do we love going from tarot reading videos to granola making videos? Because we sure do like it. I wonder: has the world around us become so monotonous and black and white that we turn it into colorful only online? Why do we cram only the trivial into our brains? Are we losing something deep and complex? Have we become the “30-second video people”? There is a plush dog that has millions of likes on Tik Tok. An American talking about toilets who has millions of likes just because he learned Japanese and talks about toilets in bars in Japanese. There are girls like me and you (that is, ordinary people) who have millions of views, likes. People over people with millions of views and likes. Millions upon millions of new programs?

Do we like being alone so much that we isolate ourselves even more in our capsule of solitude with our coils and all?