How Quitting Social Media for 4 Months Affected My Personal Style

Ever wondered how a social media detox could impact your personal style? In this video, I'm sharing my journey of quitting social media for 4 months and the surprising changes it brought to my wardrobe and fashion choices (as well as what happened when I got back on social media). From discovering new inspiration offline, to developing a more authentic and curated sense of style, this experience has been eye-opening and refreshing. Let's dive into how disconnecting from the online world helped me reconnect with my true personal style.

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name: Jemi
birthday: 9/14
based in NYC

chapters:
0:00 - why I quit social media
1:20 - what changed when I took a break from social media
9:27 - what changed when I resumed using social media

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taking a break from social media, quitting social media, social media detox, how to find your personal style, personal style, artsy style, pinterest style, pinterest outfits, outfit ideas, outfit inspo, 2024, thrifted fashion, artsy outfits, thrifted outfits, aesthetic trends, sustainable fashion, vintage, diy, secondhand, ootd, thrifty, upcycle, thrift flip, trendy outfits, fashion trends, steal the spotlight, underconsumption-core, underconsumption

[sztmi]

Social media is a stronger weapon for capitalism than we expected. I never felt the need to buy so many things 10 years ago. When I limit my screen time I always get better from a depressive state. Your hair looks gorgeous btw! 😍

[DonJuan-exid]

Bro that self punishment mindset's too reaaaal 😭
Also, I'm glad u made this video. I currently have an unhealthy relationship with my phone, so seeing ur experience with cutting out social media's definately given me motivation to do so as well. Besides, I want to see how my style evolves!

[Ashleybmakingvideos]

I love me a cute outfit, but the lack of sustainability takes the fun out of it for me. That’s why I love thrifting.. I did find that thrifting made it easier to have too many clothes, and that desire to own less combined with a lack of money, forced me to work with the clothes I already owned.
I *love* dressing up, but I will *not* sacrifice comfort for a “look”. My outfits are either straight up pajamas, or a super cute but super comfy outfit.

[lesliemoreno]

Loved the video! Refreshing to see ppl with this type of clarity and mentality.
Totally love the childhood interest concept! I totally agree on it, fashion inspiration from mom and family, extracurricular activities you grew up doing, and overall everything you liked back then. I’m 23 and can say that I’ve noticed how after deleting socials, I automatically started doing everything I used to do when I was a kid. Inner child healing

[peachistrawberry]

Love the idea about a video of exploring how childhood interests influence personal style!

Glad to hear your time away from social media was so relaxing for you and improved your health too!

Much like the idea of "the secret room" in interior design, I think it makes sense that removing the external influences and pressures, allowed space for you to really tune into what you needed/brought you joy. As well as give you better insights about what really matters to you in the long run, such as your personal health or your priority for comfort first. Your body is truly your first "forever home" and in being so, it should become a place where you can feel safe to actually relax. ❤

[quenepacrossing]

It’s so sad i can’t bring myself to just delete all these apps, but this video at least inspired me to save them in a separate folder many slides away and attempt not to touch them.

[CreoTan]

Yes!! This comment would prob be more fitting on the trend v personal style vid, but I haven't seen that one yet since this is my first vid of yours!

But I was talking with a friend who's into scene culture, and we both agreed that a huge part of why gatekeepers are running rampant in young/new gens of alt subcultures is because of trend-based buying. Traditionally, a scene, alt, punk, etc wardrobe would be built up over years of collecting pieces, and learning to mix and match them. But if you're buying everything in bulk, and specifically modeling what you're buying off of other people's outfits, you won't be able to truly _know_ your wardrobe or understand how the individual pieces can work together and be used.

It really feels like the same concept to how you described feeling like you now have too many clothes! And how youre using your clothes in new ways! It's overall a better relationship to building a wardrobe.

It feels like when you've got a cartoon and one character genuinely loves a hobby and started from the ground up to work at it, and another character is the rich and shallow one who gets all the best equipment and trainers and diamond encrusted gold clubs bought for them from the beginning but can't understand why they're not having fun like the first character. To the latter type: are you doing this for you, or are you doing this because you want to be as happy, confident, and fulfilled as the other people you're emulating?

[TinyFlyThing]

Good timing :, ) I was thinking of 'starting' over my social media. But first to just let it go for a while. I have nothing to do with fashion, i'm just a digital artist, but I feel like i never developed a voice because I always got influenced by what other artists are doing online. And I do have my own specific interests in what to draw, but I never spend much time with it, because I know it doesn't really do well on social media.
So yeah. I just take a break now and draw what I like for a bit without the thought of "i have to show this to somebody" in my head all the time.

[slappinbass]

Selfishly, I hope you don’t quit again because you’re a breath of fresh air.

[heartfrill]

oo i would love a video on how childhood interests and personal style is linked!

[allyrobertson]

this is a cool video concept because usually people talk about the effects of quitting on their mental health, but this is super new!

[CharlieBirnie]

Ooooh good luck with your crochet journey! I learned crochet last winter and it is truly such a wonderful art form.

[almasemai]

I am packing my things now to move from Kazakhstan to the US for Masters, and your video was a perfect watch while I was deciding if I actually need that tight but gorgeous but makes-me-insecure mermaid skirt. Just in the last two years I have accumulated so many clothes (my family’s + thrifted + bought), and experimenting so much because of social media but also the pressure to use the most of what I get (especially my mom’s and sister’s old things) has completely blurred my understanding of what I like. I have already given up one third of my things when I was moving home from college, and detoxing from fashion trends this summer (just a coincidence because I got busy, not a conscious choice in my case) has shown me that I still own too much… It’s also kind of hard to choose because I keep thinking of how I want to appear in front of so many new people, but your video reminded me to shift the focus from that to how I feel about myself and when I feel the best. Thank you!

[hafdisbjarnadottir]

This was so interesting and wholesome. I'm on a similar journey, I found myself one day feeling that social media had gotten too boring, but I was scrolling anyway. I've not taken a complete break, but I locked some features away with browser extensions and hidden my social media apps on my phone, and put the library app in an accessible place instead. I'm experimenting with opening the library app instead when I reach for my phone, because I do reach for the phone sometimes, on autopilot.

[lillilium]

Social Media is a tool for Capitalism, it maskes us what to get something over the fear that we are missing out, that we are uncool and don't fit in. Everyone is always trying to selling something, it's about sell, sell, sell.
Style doen's change much and at some point what is out today may be in tomorow and vice-versa, fashion is cyclical it goes round and round, sometimes it overlaps other times it opposite.
I like a multitude of styles, I like to experiment and use stuff that aren't sometimes in my confort zone, but even with that I have some confortable styles for every day use. Personal style is what you like to wear, what you feel confortable wearing and what you think looks good on you, it's about you and no one else.
Also you look amazing and the hairstyle suits you a lot

[hipitchedboyfriend]

Don't donate to thrift stores! Donate to a women's shelter they usually need clothes!

[Ashleybmakingvideos]

Ah yes, the clothes not fitting :, ) almost all of my shorts are too small on me now, and my main pair of jeans stopped fitting me last winter. Had a mini crisis the other day bc I was gonna go roller skating and didn’t have “cute” shorts to wear. I just ended up wearing basketball shorts and had a really good time anyway.

[azurac]

Becuase of your video and a few other reasons i'm going to try this, escpically becuase I'm a shopoholic and have a lot of clothes but none of them are "in style"

[KZesty]

I just realized that Pinterest is where I doom scroll. Instead of inspiring my creativity, it makes me feel like my art or fashion is not good enough. I just uninstalled the app.