I don't like what's happening to social media.
I got a Facebook account back in 2013 when I started blogging because it was a good way to get traffic to your website.
Back then you could scroll for five minutes and see ten completely different things from ten different people, all with different aesthetics, voices, and ideas. It felt like a place where creativity actually thrived. Sure, it wasn't all good, but it was better than it is now.
Now I scroll for an hour and feel like I watched the same video fifty times. Everyone uses the same audio, hooks, and formats, and everything is AI! No one has a unique voice anymore.
I get why it happened, you have to "keep the algorithm happy" but the pressure to only post what "performs" is why were in this mess, and I don't know about you, but I don't want to do some dumb dance to become Instagram famous.
I want real, hard work to get recognized and I keep coming back to this thought that if everyone is doing the exact same thing, the most powerful thing you can do is just be yourself.
I think people are hungry for authentic content and I think 2026 is the year creators need to start pushing back on the copy-paste culture.
Do you feel like social media has gotten less creative, or is it just me?
3 days ago