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Aware and Aggravated

58. Social Media Is In Late Stage Addiction

Aware and Aggravated

Aware and Aggravated

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

5.013.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

I feel like I'm here out of guilt a little bit. Hi, friends. I didn't want to record this week.

0:08.3

I don't have nothing to say, but I didn't post last week, but I wanted the check in and say hi,

0:13.0

at least. I took like two weeks off social media and not scrolling anything. I've been

0:19.2

really, really happy and like in a good mood. I have more trust and

0:23.4

like faith in humanity. People in as fucking stupid as they seem online. Like being out in real

0:29.6

life, I was like, wow, this is kind of nice. Like maybe there's hope. And then I get back on

0:34.6

social media. I start scrolling again. I was on a trip with my friends. And I went to Houston. Then I went to Austin. And then I came back to Houston. And then I came back to Dallas. But I've been driving my little truck all around. But I started getting back on social media like scrolling. Oh, what did I miss? Nothing I missed. Peace and quiet is what I missed. Social media, I swear to God, like after this little two week kind of break and then

0:58.9

getting back on it, I feel sick mentally.

1:02.9

Like I, the phones are an issue.

1:05.2

The social media is a real fucking problem for a lot of reasons.

1:08.6

I don't know why I want to talk about this.

1:10.5

I thought I had nothing to say. Well,'t know why I want to talk about this. I thought I

1:10.8

had nothing to say. Well, here I go. Rambling. Social media is the problem. When I say I feel

1:17.1

mentally sick, the way that social media is no longer fun, it's no longer a distraction.

1:24.2

It's turned into like this attack mentally. And I've known it and I kind of been aware of it

1:31.1

but after experiencing the two weeks without it and then just one night of like scrolling

1:35.2

on fucking Instagram and TikTok for like an hour I'm like my I feel mentally gang banged

1:40.9

like with all these different videos all these different people just bitching and

1:44.2

complaining and the news and politics and then i'm like what happened is just being on the

1:50.2

phone scrolling watching people fall down watching animals be cute like what happens to social media

1:57.9

being a distraction i don't know and then it's just more people

2:01.4

selling courses and selling bullshit and use my code use my code ticto shop buy this thing

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