We’ll applaud the doctor for finishing medical school, yet neglect their medical advice. The problem is that people are bored. Despite individual medical history and bodily needs, we know what a healthy lifestyle looks like.
However, social media platforms have created an idealized aspect of everything we do day-to-day. We are unwillingly subjected to better versions of everything we’re experiencing.
You may have decorated your living room, finding joy in its transformation and the work you put into it. Well, guess what? “X” influencer just posted a living room transformation that makes yours look like child’s play.
The recent explosion of the morning routine reminds us of how starved for purpose people are.
Waking up early is a healthy practice. It’s natural to wake up with the sun and wind down your day as it sets.
Despite its simplicity, social media has turned morning routines into a beauty contest where the main point gets lost in the camera work. If you’re unaware, the trend is an aesthetic, chronologically captured video following a person’s morning routine.
No one capitalized more on the trend than fitness influencer Ashton Hall. His viral morning routine took the online community by storm, meeting praise and criticism.
His routine was not bad. A 3:50 a.m. wake-up time, drinking water, journaling, a religious session and working out. But it’s not about that. It’s about how cool his routine was, which captured his audience.
It’s never been more important to find comfort and ease in your life. Simultaneously, it’s never been harder to be content with what you have.
We spend our time admiring others, falling for the lie that their well-made, aesthetic video is selling. The combination of health and wealth creates a manipulated influence that young people think is how their lives should be.
The probability that your morning routine will be as smooth and glamorous as the one you’re watching leaves many downplaying their own lives.
It’s not enough for you to be healthy and get up in the morning. People think they need fancy water and a camera crew in place to find the motivation to get out of bed.
This trend, like others, is an illusion to beautify discipline for easy consumption. No matter the resources we have at our disposal, motivation will always fluctuate.
The morning routine trend gives influencers motivation to continue their routine. Using our views as their fuel, it’s no longer about health.
Instead of talking to our doctors and developing plans that fit our preferences, we seek to emulate the actions of others. Their credibility as influencers makes us want to copy their actions in the hopes that their results become ours.
It’s admirable to find motivation in someone you admire. It’s not the consumer’s fault. The way social media grows is through engagement. Instead of an app engaging with you, the app provides a platform for others to engage with you. It creates a marketplace of personalities and interests vying for your attention.
Creators are incentivized to improve their production and content because of financial factors. It’s not just Gen Z; folks of all ages are finding themselves captivated by the concept. The income potential on social media is limitless. It frees you from your day job and allows your personality to be your moneymaker.
Hollywood is social media, and it’s important not to fall for the allure. Whether we want to admit it, social media is no longer a primitive social networking app; it’s an entire economy. Yes, take bits and pieces of the creators you watch, but don’t fall in love with an aesthetic that makes you feel like what you have or who you are is deficient.
Mohammad Tantawi is a 24-year-old mass communication senior from Smyrna, Tenn.
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