We didn’t wake up one morning buried in monthly fees because we suddenly became irresponsible consumers. We didn’t all collectively forget how budgeting works. We didn’t just “start buying too much stuff.

For the first time in history, the barrier between having ideas and producing output has almost disappeared. You don’t need decades of drawing. You don’t need years of music theory. You don’t even need to know how cameras, lighting, or editing actually work. You just need to know what to ask.

What began as a promise of connection slowly mutated into something else entirely. A system that feeds on attention, rewards outrage, and monetizes distraction at industrial scale. What we are living inside now isn’t a neutral platform. It’s a contagion.