Joe Henzi
Filed under #social-media 1 post No. 1 — Sept 2026

#social-media

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Oct 2
2026
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Illustration titled "Social Media Brain." A bearded man in a dark hoodie hunches over a glowing phone. Above his head, a brain crackles with TikTok, X, Instagram and YouTube icons, ringed by comment bubbles reading "You're wrong," "Clueless," "Ugh. Blocked," "What a moron," "So ignorant," "Do your research," "You're a ...," "Unfollowed" and "Go away." Behind him on the left, a wall of influencer video screens. On the right, in warm sunlight, friends laugh together, two people embrace, and two people sit on a hillside at sunset with a black dog, beside the words "Real people. Real relationships. Worth more." The bottom reads "It's not just an opinion. It's a pattern. And it's tearing us apart."

Social media brain

Somebody disagrees with your post, so they have to be insulted and put down. We side with influencers and strangers over the people we love, and it's costing real relationships.