Episode 3: Instagram Feels Like an Abusive Ex

This is An Existential Prison

This is my entire experience with social media addiction from start to finish, plus a little extra. Also, there's a chainsaw massacre.

Timestamps:

00:00 I don’t wanna do this, so let’s do this

9:15 Nevada Chainsaw Massacre

10:20 Extension cord hanging

13:15 The end of the beginning

22:30 My first hit

28:00 Immediate ostracization from the meme community

31:30 Accounts that inspired me

35:00 My first account gets deleted

36:00 Birth of @thisisafleshprison

43:00 My first viral meme

46:00 My account blows up

50:00 The success feels empty

53:30 Reshadowbanned

57:00 Instagram clandestinely alters follower numbers

58:00 Insidious industry insider intel

1:00:00 Beginning of the end

1:02:00 The view from halfway down

1:06:00 @thisisadigitalprison gets deleted

1:07:30 DMT trip/fuck this universe

1:10:00 Instagram gets deleted

1:10:48 Tommy Lee uses my meme to aw shucks showing full cock on main

1:13:00 Instagram is like an abusive ex, they’ll never change for the better

1:14:00 First attempt at stand up on 4/20

1:17:00 On trolls

1:21:00 What life is like after quitting instagram

1:25:00 Instagram is evil and causes teen suicide, but there were positives to my experience and I don’t regret it

1:26:00 Life is beautiful

1:27:00 Unreachable until further notice

1:28:00 What the fuck is reality even

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