The algorithms of today’s online world are a sleight of hand trick in which your personal agency of choice is cleverly replaced with a curated buffet of predetermined options. It’s easy to blame the machinations of well-known profit engines for preying on our most base instincts, but to what degree...
I hate that I’m
Addicted to the internet
It would have been
Nice in moderation
I know my time
Isn’t best spent on the internet
But I can’t look away
From how it knows me
Pretty young girl dancing on the screen
Has to write in her bio she’s seventeen
Cuz the data will show the male thirty-year-olds
And their watch times will grow as she takes off her clothes on the feed
I think about it when I go to sleep
Internet’s you and the internet’s me
It knows what we want and it gives what wе need
We’re to blame for our vapid, dеpraved interest schema
I am broken and searching for passion
But my brain still prefers the distractions
All the porn and the drama
The jokes and the trauma
I can’t fucking help that I like it, and
I hate that I’m
Addicted to the internet
It would have been
Nice in moderation
I know my time
Isn’t best spent on the internet
And the scariest part
Is how it knows me
I hate that I’m
Addicted to the internet
(to the internet)
And the scariest part
Is how it knows me
I Hate That I’m Addicted to the Internet was written by Restless Modern.
I Hate That I’m Addicted to the Internet was produced by Peter Thomas & Restless Modern.
Restless Modern released I Hate That I’m Addicted to the Internet on Wed Feb 23 2022.