'Girl Dinner', Mental Illness, and MySpace

A while ago, there was a meme on TikTok of a girl sing-talking the phrase 'Girl Dinner' alongside what this girl ate for dinner, and the dinner was always very low quality and unhealthy (originally nicotine vape and iced coffee). In my lifetime, I have met a lot of girls that seem to be perpetually ill or sickly, usually with some form of vitamin deficiency and other issues, and only one time have I met one that could actually say they went to a doctor to determine that they are indeed fucked up in the health department.

I am really starting to believe that a lot of the illness in society is based on low quality food: obesity? probably eat high sugar, high seed oil, high fat, high carb diet, indicative of very processed foods. Malnutrition? Probably don't eat enough or have some kind of eating disorder that stops you from eating healthy quantities of food. Or, you eat girl dinner. It seems like a funny concept, but I honestly believe that girl dinner as a concept stems from social media and some form of mass hysteria or collective illness.

Right around the absolute rise and dominating eminence of TikTok began to surface in the public, Tourette's Syndrome became 'trendy' and girls started developing 'TikTokTics', with some actual clinical psychologists calling it a form of "mass hysteria". Don't believe me? This is, in my mind, caused by the overall societal transition away from sites like MySpace, which provide a "house" for the individual, and usenet/userforums, which provide a community or neighborhood for the individual, into sites like Facebook and TikTok, which are aggregate platforms that push "feed". MySpace didn't have any sketchy tactics to increase user engagement because each page was each user's home, and pushing something that the reader didn't like led to them going to a different page. Facebook and TikTok (also Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, the list goes on) generates, using some sort of algorithm, the "optimum posts" for user engagement.

If you are a liberal, you see liberal stuff. If you are a conservative, you see conservative stuff. If you are gay you see gay stuff. If you are a man that likes cars, you see videos from other car guys. If you interact with a lot of girls in low cut tops, the algorithm sends you cuter girls in even lower cut tops. If you are mentally ill (or think you are, or are on the borderline, or pretend you are for clout), you get shown other people that are (or think/pretend they are). In some ways, this is really good as people can find communities within the static. But in other ways, it can lead people to doomscroll for hours and/or waste an extremely considerable amount of time, form unhealthy parasocial relationships (very common with egirls and vtubers), hate and covet thy neighbor, reach radicalism in some form or another, and even develop a sociogenic illness.

The world works to profit off of individuals, and the the only way to stop that is to bring back the idea of MySpace: sections of the internet free from companies and their greed, made by the individual to share what opinions and things that individual does without the call of profits or desire for algorithmic clout. People need to want to be important in a group of 100 people instead of famous to a group of 10 million.