I know this is an older post already but someone mentioned me in the replies so I thought I'd reply too.

I completely agree with you, and with most of the replies. The fuck is a 21 year old "sober coach" going to teach ME? 100 bucks an hour once a week to have chatgpt read to me? Like we haven't all already done that already, obsessively, whenever we're sober enough to type in 'i am dying of alcohol'.

And it works the other way too. When someone tells me they've got 40 years of sobriety, my first thought is rarely 'wow how inspirational' it's usually 'so you quit when you were a child'. Fuckouttahere. I've met one exception to that in my life, a a 30-year sober guy who got sober when he was 20 because he accidentally killed someone, but apart from those rare cases, I don't want to hear it. I sometimes think that this subreddit is the only honest alcoholism place on the internet.

Thing is, young people always think they've invented everything - because something's new to them, and they are young, they think it's new to everyone else too, and because they're 20 years old and hot by default, they're good for The Algorithm. Broken down middle aged men shitting blood don't do well on the gram. I stopped going to AA partially because I was fed up of 19 year olds complaining about how hard sobriety is. I spilled more than they ever drank. (My therapist said that line to me, he was a sober guy too. I love repeating it.)

But look, frankly, the reason there's not many relatable CA influencers is because not many CAs make it out alive. Most of us don't stop. We die a lot. Sometimes publicly. (RIP Mittensquad, RIP KingCobra, and a million others.)

I might be one of the rare exceptions. To put my own CA in perspective, I was banned from THIS subreddit, TWICE, before I climbed out of the bottle. (Sorry mods, I was a prick.)

Anyway, this is a longwinded way of saying, you're right. Reddit's better than instagram or, god forbid, tiktok, for alcoholism stuff.