Social media trains people to believe every environment, every experience, should be reframed into something enjoyable, clickable, “positive.”

 Social media always presents what exists as something better than it really is. Because if a person posts something there that cannot be consumed—something that isn’t funny or entertaining—then it will neither be liked nor help them make friends. What is actually ugly or even disgusting is not confronted as it is, but dressed up until it looks palatable or “aesthetic.” For example, if there is a plain, colorless, and dull street, and someone takes a photo there, maybe they are mocking the street for being like that. Or maybe they are highlighting the fact that although all the streets look like this, they still find themselves standing there. That might be an interesting gesture, but it pulls attention away from the reality of the matter. Because what is, at its core, filthy, is no longer seen as filth—it is turned into a commodity, something to be bought, sold, liked, and commented on. In other words, people become desensitized to the dirtiness of it. Dirt isn’t dirt anymore; it’s “content.” Streets aren’t bleak anymore; they’re “relatable.” If instead of these filters and effects that conceal reality, someone simply shared a picture of a bare wall, of course, it would seem unbearably boring to minds that are addicted to pleasure. Because the sick culture that governs social media always demands excessive optimism and happiness. And in the end, it becomes like placing a lounge chair in the middle of a swamp or a dump just to sunbathe.