Orange peel theory.

The guy punching a puzzle.

Truly, a solid third of my FYP is this stuff.

screenshot of a video that's captioned puzzle destroyed by my future ex husband

Hours of entertainment, right?

Basically, everyone has fears around their relationship:What if theyre not right for me?

What if I dont really love them?

graphic showing the thought cycle of OCD

the aim of every social media app.

I now notice that the kinds of discussions I see in such videos would exacerbate my worst thinking.

When I asked her why she made the video, she replied, I was scrolling.

hand holding an orange

I don’t feel a lot of relationship anxiety personally, I’m in a stable relationship.

I’m very happy.

[But] I got maybe like 20 videos in a row.Husband left!

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Girlfriend stole their money!

A lot of people related more than I thought they would.

So you just get deeper and deeper and deeper into this anxiety torture realm, she noted.

comments left on the video relating to her

Now, Emma tends to scroll past videos that she thinks fall into this category.

That’s not true.

Thats somebody doing engagement bait..

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But often, that tends to be the kind of content that is really quite popular.

How did you find yourself in these relationships?

Obviously, that’s not what we’re trying to do, Matt said.

emma talking into the camera

That’s not that’s not something that the media of social media is well attuned to.

So, did I get off TikTok?

My semi-reasonable justification is that I also use it for work.

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Maybe I’m just not ready.

circle around the number of viewers being 17.9 million

signs he's a narcissist

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angry man about to throw his phone