A New Start

by cutebeans 3/6/2026

After using social media since the 7th grade I have noticed big toxic changes over the past 5 years. Addicting short form content, algorithm hell, generative ai-slop, beauty filters and many more... I have good reason to believe it is not a safe place any longer. Gone are the days of personalized blogs and enter the era of almost dystopian-like people that all want the same things, same trends and are fed the same news and slop over and over.

In 2020 I started to realize this when I started to feel ugly and strange since I did not look like any of the women being fed to me by my Tik Tok algorithm. After a lot of therapy and growth I can safely say I have been out of Tik Tok, Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter (or X?) for a while (Tik tok being the first, been off it for 5 years).

I do not say this to elevate myself. I still struggle with short form content addiction since Youtube has Youtube shorts. I occasionally struggle with my self image due to trends making it out into the world. However, I can safely say I am much happier and freer since I let go of it all. Yay!

I want to remain creative and fight my addiction with hobbies that make me grow not shrink. I discovered that people still make blogs through this youtube channel. I have experience in programming and love making artwork in my freetime so why not combine the two? This will always be a work in progress. You will see my mistakes, my success and hopefully my personality show through.

Thank you for reading

cutebeans