We all spend countless hours forever refreshing our for you pages, chasing glimpses of influencers. Whether it’s the loud glamour or quiet luxury we can’t escape it. It’s everywhere. 

Even if you curate your feed, these contents will once in a while seep in. So how do we combat this? Of course we can tell ourselves to stop using social media but we’ve tried that and failed. Tried again and failed. Whether we admit it or not social media can b a really fun way of switching off our brains after a long day.  

No one wants to be stuck watching a boring video after a tiring day. You want some giggles and to kill time maybe that’s why the tiktok logo is a clock. 

Either way we overindulge as we do with every thing else. Almost like we can’t help ourselves. 

To combat this I’ve decided to commit to de-influencing video per week to keep me grounded or as the kids are saying touch grass ( I’m the kid saying that).

I’ve spent years carving my tiktok feed to only show me funny videos, quick and easy and you get a few laughs but once in a while those over the top, out of touch videos creep in and it’s very easy to spiral and forget that the internet is some made up place on the internet. All a fabrication, an aesthetically pleasing one at that and we can’t help but feed our eyes. 

To balance it out, I’ll actively seek out contents of videos to de-influence me and remind me that regular people exist on the internet too. It’s not all glitz and glamour because no matter how many times you hear not to trust what you see on social media we need constant reminders to put that in practice. 

The videos I seek out are not the witch hunt type of content that claim we would burn them all at the stake rather the videos I seek out call out irregularities or absurdity amongst influencer culture and reminds me that it’s just a video and no one knows what happens behind the camera. 

Just like how we see “ Packages  I got from amazon” on a video and now how many packages were sent back. And how a day in my life videos can be misleading. I’m reminded that tiktok’s are full production videos not quick and easy makes. It’s tiring, stressful and most of all unreal. 

So try de-influencing today and keep our feet grounded. Like your car rear view mirror reminds you that objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. These videos will remind you that social media is not as shiny as it may appear.