Silence Without Scrolling

Last night, my phone died. Like… actually dead. No charger. No notifications.

No dopamine. And that’s when it hit me. We don’t get bored anymore.

We get anxious. I reached for my phone without thinking. Then remembered—there was nothing there.

No Shorts. No Reels. No AI voice telling me “bro you won’t believe this.”

So my brain started doing something insane. Thinking. I replayed old conversations.

Cringe moments. People I ghosted. People who ghosted me. And I realized—

we use content to outrun ourselves. We scroll to forget. We meme our trauma. We call it “brainrot”

like it’s a joke. But here’s the scary part. AI knows this. Your For You page