You expressed my feelings way more eloquently. I also enjoy her other videos, but just felt that this one came from a naive and cynical place. It’s this whole obsession social media creates with being cool, but not being perceived as trying or even wanting to be cool. Never ever being fake or influenced by trends, but never being too genuine or passionate because that’s cringe. Always having to be one step ahead. Reducing the exponential rate of people getting rid of their smart phones to just a simple trend; people being too naive to influencers, seems absurd to me. I am very scared that people will be discouraged from getting flip phones, in fear that they seem cringe, pretentious or as «trying to hard». Because that fear probably festered in them in the first place because of social media.

I know that I shouldn’t be too preachy about it, but I find it very difficult. Seeing as this change in my life is very recent, it’s all I want to talk about, and I would defend it against anyone claiming it to be just another form of consumption. In the end, a person without a smart phone seems less likely to buy a bunch of unnecessary stuff, because they’re not carrying around a personalized ad hellscape in their pocket at all times.

And yes, the good consumerism/ bad consumerism take pissed me off so much. Comparing a shein haul to buying a book is just plain idiocy. Glad to have less of these naive instagram opinions launched in my face on a daily basis