Social Media is Ruining Your Life

So like... I quit social media to see how it's like on the other side. I touched some grass, sniffed a couple of dogs, became more mentally unstable... or stable. I'm not really sure. But hi! hello!

Let's go on this adventure together!

Thumbnail Artist:

🌸 SOCIAL MEDIA 🌸

#cypherden #animation #cartoon

[CypherDen]

Ohiyooo! I'm back again finally. u_u!

[HeisenbergFam]

Gotta love Cypher casually returning after 4 months, she is more consistent than 50% of US marriages

[Tigerclaw_]

This is so relatable. I use to be so addicted to Twitter and constantly thinking about how many followers/friends I can gain, what’s trending, and how many likes I can get on certain posts to make me feel happy. It’s been about 1 month and a half since I’ve been active on twitter and my self esteem has improved plus I’ve gained 4 irl friends.

[UnfilteredBoredom]

Wow I didn't realize how much your animation style changed.

[distinctthoughts]

I know a lot of people probably wont like hearing this video, but you made great points. I am guilty of spending way too much time online, and slowly letting the toxicity of the internet consume me. My attention span is horrible, so I think I too need to get off social media more. I would rather be having a happier life, living my own life to my best, than just not knowing an internet meme that will go away in two months tops.

[paballomolata]

Damn, it's feels like it's been 1000 years since we last we heard of you

[ChristopherMoreno]

I logged off of twitter recently primarily to avoid potential spoilers for the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and it has actually made me feel better mentally and I’m more encouraged to do other things more often. I still need to get my fat ass off the couch but I’m working on it.

[nevvartt]

so crazy how social media makes us become so insecure about a lot of things that didn't even matter to us 5-10 years ago

[Trixta_Void]

Social media is so toxic these days I honestly don’t blame you for quitting but don’t quiet YouTube you have so much talent ❤😊

[kiwilemontea]

I quit social media once. What I found was... I no longer had "real friends." I tried to reach out to the few local people who I had maintained tenuous contact with entirely through social media, but nobody was interested in physically meeting up or making phone calls anymore. Nobody let me know about important things happening in their life, because they assumed that once they shared it on social media, everyone who needed to know about it already knew. My entire social life was online. I was SO. LONELY. I tried making new friends, but I live in an area affected by the Seattle Freeze; if you don't know, that's a regional social phenomenon where basically adults never ever make new friends. So I went back online, and I don't regret it.

[negligible_reality]

i haven't deleted my socials and i have no plans to, but i did stop consuming political content recently. i used to be the type of person to constantly be up to date on all the breaking news and literally everything politics, i felt like if i wasn't up to date on everything all the time that i was missing vital information and was a bad/uneducated person because of it. i realized that not only were those things not true, but also that keeping a news feed glued to my eyeballs 24/7 was causing me to fall back into depression and worsening my anxiety. i felt hopeless and trapped, like life wasn't even worth living. i came to the realization one day that i didn't NEED to look at these things at all, and it was all just a warped mindset i had developed for myself. it wasn't super easy, but i did it, i stopped engaging with political content online and it was the best decision i've made in a long time! not only am i much happier than before, but i've also been able to use my time to engage with my other interests that bring me so much more joy! now instead of feeling hopelessly depressed because of politics, i've been vibing by playing Animal Crossing and watching Scooby-Doo. now don't get me wrong, i still plan on voting and such in the future; when i say that i don't engage with politics anymore, i mean political commentary and online discourse. voting is important, but driving yourself to becoming depressed and installing a news feed in your brain is not.

[tomboyangel]

Gotta say, I quit social media for 3 reasons:
1) Toxic people on Tumblr; not only that, but I began to feel sick whenever I would scroll through it.
2) Account deactivation BS: I tried to log into my FB account only to learn it was taken down bc I "violated the guidelines" (despite I hadn't posted anything in months and just used it to chat with my bf on Messenger)
-Tried making a Twitter account, only to get locked out *while I was in the middle of creating my profile!*
3) Reddit said I had to have a Twitter/Apple+ account to post anything.

Finally decided I really have no need for it, and decided to leave it behind.

[kingkirby]

As a social medi-atheist myslef. I respect the decision Den, I respect ✊

[Oceane]

This made me realize how much different my experience with social media is from everyone else's.

I started social media (outside of Youtube) with Amino in... 2017, I think ? On there, I started a few of my first creative projects and it was awesome, I made a bunch of awesome online friends I'm still in contact with to this day.

Over the years I joined other social media either out of curiosity, to stay in contact with people who left Amino because it sucks now, or because school made me.

But now I'm inactive on Amino since my tablet is old and the app isn't compatible with it anymore, and not only the app isn't great now, but the site is worse.

And since then I haven't been active on online communities at all. No matter the social media, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr... I rarely post or even look at posts.

The only social media I'm active on nowadays is Discord, and I spend most of my time on it speaking to the friends I made all these years ago that I mentioned earlier.

As for Youtube, I'm obviously a lot more active on there, and I even post more too. I'm trying to show my creativity but even the people who subscribed don't seem to care that much about my writing.

So as you said, being on there affected my self esteem in a bad way. I just want to do what I love but I apparently I'm not good enough. My creations aren't good enough.

But right now I'm fine, I don't feel like that. And personally, I'd rather watch longer videos that required work and research than shorts, so I suppose I have a longer attention span.

As for TikTok and Facebook, I just don't have them. TikTok isn't exactly known for having the most interesting and relevant content out there.

And the only reason I have Twitter is to upload images and videos from my Switch on there and then go on it with my tablet to download and use them for my content.

My lack of presence on social media isn't great to advertise my content, but I can't convince myself to post regularly again due to how high my anxiety and lack of self esteem have gotten since then because of how much my life sucks right now...

Now that I wrote all of this, I realize it's an even more complicated situation than I thought it was.

[thehyperstar]

“You don’t even know what you’re missing out on” that hit hard. I keep going on social media thinking I’ll get SOMETHING, but I don’t know what. And you’re right, you CANT get time back, and I think I’ve lost so much time from social media. Thanks for this, Den. :)

[harjeetsinghaic]

Even if you try to return to social media or delete social media, there are still online versions and websites where you can access social media so technically, it is hard to actually stay away from social media

[Fil]

Ironically I just uninstalled all my social media apps so this video is perfect for me.

[horamigaun]

actually, I can relate. What you said about the attention span is what I'm struggling with right now. As a youtuber who wants to make more videos in order to get audience I always forget what spending 1 straight hour on one activity without being disturbed with a new message or without taking a "food break"

[mskiara]

I agree with the amount of the time we consume social media, including if we are not socializing and utilizing these platforms to improve our lives. That is why I balance my time with my internet usage by following mostly artists and news accounts, while also doing brain training games on my smartphone. I am also reading more books at least an hour a day and change my routine so I am not glued to a computer or phone.

[annemabrie]

I've deleted all social media on my phone for about half a year now, I'm only allowing myself to watch youtube for an hour every day on the website version instead of the app. My attention span is a lot better, I'm feeling a lot better and I'm overall more 'living in the moment'. Would recommend to everyone.