Life without socialmedia in 2026

I did actually delete the apps back in dec 2024, but there I felt it would be overwhelming to upload every art from 2025 in 2026, so I re-installed in feb, exactly after about 2 months.

1. So what is the problem with social media!?

First-of, the audience are all saturated in doom scrolling and mindless scrolling, and they especially lightup when they see a random celebrity’s post, or random memes. Ofcourse there’s simps ruining the reach of other contents.

People hardly show any response to art posts, unless it’s been showcased like a meme, which makes it that everyone are there just for the entertainment.

10/177 followers actually responded to a figurine I spent 8 hours.

2. The endless distractions

Even if it’s used just as a portfolio, there’s other posts you see that has 100s and 1000s of likes, and pointless reels that went viral. Well, any content needs likes for reaching wider audience, but it just won’t cut through for me.

Journaling to remember thoughts since 2022

Most of the content in there simply distract from being in the present moment, wasting away years of time, yes years. Which brings to the next problem..

3. The disconnect with timeline

I’m sure i’m not the only person to feel time moves faster after 2020. Everything is a blur to me, I can’t tell what happened after what. Definitely years worth time has slipped into doom scrolling.

It’s all gone

For me it still feels like i’m in 2023. And the number of art I did kept decreasing sice the pandemic, which leads to the next problem..

4. Lesser art year after year

2017 has always been my peak year for the number of art I did, but I’ve only felt I was not upto the mark back then. All i did was sculpt for the whole 2020 & 21. And i did some 13 in 2022 to hit 100 that june.

Used a pastel after years

But there was art done in just 2 digits. The less response from audience, the distractions of consuming random junk, it all kept me from actively making art. The less art an Artist makes, the less happier he/she is, leading into the next problem..

5. The never ending “I’ll do it tomorrow”

No day was just perfect enough for me to make art. I kept giving excuses to do it tomorrow. The longer I postponed, the harder it got to get myself sit and do art. Infact, I even couldn’t feel like an Artist anymore, I couldn’t feel anything, my thoughts just weren’t in my control.

pic from 2018.

Being lost on the inside and not knowing where to start from to get back on track, was getting out of hands with still being on social media. The brai needed silence, not noise but silence for regaining control and focus.

6. The good in bad

Just after I re-installed social media in feb, I got my first stye, which happened to keep coming back at both eyes. The pain and discomfort was ummm no i don’t get a proper word to put it in. It went on for 2 months, and I finally uninstalled them again in april 3rd week.

stye images are graphic, so i’m not using them

If it weren’t for the stye I’d have still been rotting in there for another year. Well, the dry eyes needed to be reversed back to normal, and I can’t be staring at screens for hours.

7. 8 more months

Yep, that is all I got to finish all of the 100s of pending art from 2020. That’s 5 years worth of art. I don’t know, I feel I can make atleast half this year, and may be half by next summer. But, I can’t go on by avoiding all of those artworks I never got to do.

Last post of 2025

I even had to stop Silambam classes, cuz there’s high winds and sand (both not good for dry eyes), so it’s just art and gym for now. After lots of different medications, I guess I’m given the right ones atlast, the dry eyes alone is still lingering a bit, which I hope will improve in the coming weeks.

So, it’s been 2 weeks since without the apps again, I’ll update more about living without audience in some months.