A couple of weeks ago I reinstalled TikTok on my phone. It had been like 9-10 months since I last saw TikTok.
The reason I downloaded it was because I was bored and tbh I’m not gonna cope, I was being a loser.
Before downloading it I was thinking, “oH, I jUst WaNT tO seE iF SomEoNe DmEd mE”, and it was partially true but also because I was being a loser.
And so, I installed the app, logged in, and got bombarded with stimulation.
Vibrant colors, loud music, sped-up videos, colorful ass captions, and that AI voice reading out the captions.
It was as if a truck had caught me being a Jeffery and hit me at full speed.
But anyways, I clicked on my notifications tab and struggled to navigate my way through the UI.
When I did get there, I saw that someone had liked a comment I said around a year ago. The comment I wrote said “bro has cancer”
That was the last thing I expected the comment to be, and I was so caught off guard that I wanted to see why tf did I say “bro has cancer”
I clicked on the video, and it was about some person talking about zodiac signs but that was irrelevant to me at that moment because I saw something else.
I saw that I had originally replied to the comment of this one person I had been dating a while ago and of course, my monkey brain got curious, and I clicked on her profile.
She had posted one single video which was about her and her new boyfriend.
(I’m ngl I’m glad I stopped dating her because she fell off ☠️)
But, at the moment I was thinking like “fuck” and then I clicked on the guy’s profile she was dating, and his name was apparently “Adonis”
So, within less than a minute of installing TikTok, I was hit with depression.
And then, if that wasn’t enough, I clicked on my fyp and began scrolling.
While I was scrolling my mind was getting absolutely fried because of the highly edited clips AND the fact that I was seeing ASS ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE.
I literally could not escape it. Everyone was just showing their ass for clout.
So now, I had DEPRESSION AND FRIED DOPAMINE RECEPTORS.
My day had been going extremely well but as soon as I installed TikTok it immediately went downhill. I was unproductive for the entire rest of the day.
Now this was all in the span of 10 minutes.
For the next 30 minutes, I sat on my bed and thought about what tf I was doing with my life.
10 minutes of TikTok had impacted me so much.
Of course, it sounds exaggerated but it’s truly what happened. Maybe it was like this for me because I used to be extremely addicted to TikTok a while ago, I’m not sure.
But just imagine that if 10 minutes had fucked me up so, how bad is it for the average guy on TikTok?
He sees other guys BETTER and more SUCCESSFUL than him for SIX HOURS A DAY.
He sees other people getting the rewards he longs for, and it seems like they got it pretty easy.
It may or may not be true but that can fuck the average person up pretty badly. The average guy DESTROYS his mental and physical health from TikTok.
Some of them are too far gone.
But you aren’t. You KNOW about self-improvement. You have probably also seen some of the benefits.
You know you are going to stay on this path for life. But this is exactly why you can’t afford to lose your precious time and attention to TIKTOK.
You can’t afford to HURT your mental health.
You can’t afford to FRY your BRAIN from all the tomfoolery on TikTok.
If you have TikTok,
DELETE IT NOW.
AND DON’T GO BACK.
I trust you to not listen to your lizard brain and stay disciplined enough to not consume TikTok.
But, if you need help, click here, there are people who have quit TikTok and can help you escape too.
Like this one
Had a similar experience a while back where the moment i watched a little video on my phone my productivity bottomed