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I am legally prescribed stimulants.
I also stay far the hell away from short-form dopamine hits, because holy shit.
Used to literally eat until I was sick because my brain craved the “nice chemicals” I was unable to produce naturally. I can’t imagine self-medicating with digital brain-rot content, and I feel awful for the people these days that may be unknowingly doing just that. Even worse: that it’s incentivised by big companies!
Same. They tried to get me with Vine, then TikTok. No way, not even once. I know my brain.
Same here, with both of you.
I do like to joke about the whole “our attention spans are getting shorter” crowd that now they’re experiencing my life before medication, but… I really wish the neurologically typical people in my life would listen when I warn them about what waits for them if they keep abusing those stimulants.
The internet used to be way crazier back in 2000’s or smth.
It was less popular, so now there’s just way more stuff, but a larger % used to be crazy shit.
Crazier as in, less controlled. Less moderated from corporations. A lot more flew back in the day both in terms of content sharing and what you could say and do, but it was very difficult to access.
The closest thing we had to algorithmic short-form content was YTMND.
hey man grandma can be fun too
It was like smoking weed on a hot summer weekend for the first time. We’'ll never experience that again.
Ah yes, like Grandma’s coffee, where you are trying to download some cracked games on mIRC and you get 15 DMs with people asking if you want to “trade pics” and you are 13 so you have no idea what they are talking about, you just want the new Commander Keen rip, but then it hits you like a ton of bricks one day 20 years later…
Only someone who has smoked meth from a lightbulb would know that meth is smoked from a lightbulb.
I gotta admit I have tried it
I’ve smoked meth out of a pipe, a bong, the lungs of another man, had it pissed into me, shoved it in my ass, snorted it, swallowed it, and injected it.
But since I’ve never smoked it from a lightbulb I am safe from TikTok.
