I genuinely think a lot of millennials are reaching the same conclusion at the same time.
We grew up watching technology make life better every year. Cell phones. iPods. Smartphones. An app for everything. It felt like the future was arriving right in front of us, and we couldn’t wait for what came next.
Then somewhere along the way, it changed.
Everything became a subscription. Social media became algorithms. Every day feels like another once-in-a-lifetime event. The things that were supposed to save us time somehow ended up demanding more of our attention than ever.
We were sold convenience.
What we got was a world that feels faster, louder, more expensive, and somehow less human.
And that’s why so many people I know dream about a completely different life now. Not more technology. Not more optimization.
Just a quiet job, a flip phone, a small town, and a place where life feels real again.
@andrew_soloj Another time I saw Deadpool 3 and a couple brought a bunch of kids and a toddler in our row. The kids were noisy and the mom had the toddler in her lap letting them watch tiktok on full brightness the whole film
@andrew_soloj It’s been getting worse since covid. I had to ask for my first refund at a theater for Five Nights at Freddys 2. The ENTIRE film teens were on their phones, chatting like it was a lunchroom, making moaning noises, throwing popcorn, screaming every couple of minutes.
@NessasDead Bruh fr I was worried the teenage boys next to me would be a nuisance cause they started making fart noises once the movie started but luckily they locked in and cut it out shortly after