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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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0:00.0 | You know what? It's pathetic. How addicted I am to YouTube shorts. It's pathetic. Okay. It's pathetic because I've taken extreme measures to manage my social media addiction. And yet somehow I found a way to get addicted to YouTube shorts. Okay. I got two phones. One phone that has all of the social media apps downloaded that I keep |
0:24.1 | in my office on the floor for moments when I need to post on social media. And then I have another |
0:30.5 | phone that has no social media apps downloaded on it except for YouTube, because I have a soft spot |
0:36.2 | for YouTube, that I carry around all the time |
0:39.6 | that is used mainly for utility purposes, right? And for a long time, this worked for me. My social media |
0:50.4 | addiction was cured. But then I discovered YouTube shorts. And over the last few months, |
0:56.6 | my addiction to YouTube shorts has now just completely erased all of the work I've done to manage |
1:04.9 | my social media addiction. So yes, I did have to delete YouTube off of my phone because I could not go to the bathroom |
1:13.2 | without scrolling on YouTube shorts. |
1:15.1 | I could not go to sleep without watching at least a few YouTube shorts beforehand. |
1:20.3 | Like, I fully became addicted. |
1:22.5 | And so I had to delete it off of my phone. |
1:25.2 | I'm talking about my main phone, like the phone, the healthy phone, |
1:28.4 | that doesn't have all the social media apps on it. It's still downloaded on the unhealthy phone, |
1:33.6 | but I don't go on that one. So on my main phone, I got nothing, okay? YouTube shorts was the last |
1:42.9 | chance I had to scroll, Or so I thought, I already found something else to scroll on. |
1:51.0 | But this is a little bit healthier. And I don't think I'm going to become addicted to this. |
1:57.0 | But it allows me to scroll in a way that is mentally stimulating. |
2:02.6 | And when I'm on the toilet, I open this app and I look. |
2:07.0 | This is the app Tag Walk, okay? |
2:10.2 | Tagwalk is an app that basically just shows you runway collections, like fashion runway collections. |
2:21.6 | It's actually really an incredible app. |
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