What you scroll past at midnight is quietly shaping what you think is normal.

Repeated exposure does not feel like persuasion, which is exactly why it works. Whatever you see a hundred times becomes the baseline: what a room should look like, how much money people have, how a conversation is supposed to go. You never agreed to any of that, and the comparison happens anyway, at speed, in the dark.

Look at what your feed has been calling ordinary. Then check it against what is actually in front of you, at your school, on your street, in your house. Cutting even two accounts that leave you feeling behind moves the baseline within a fortnight.