Your Feed is Foreplay: The Neuroscience of The Social Media Goon Trance.
Short-form media is optimized for anticipation , not satisfaction and wants you to stay on the app for as long as humanly possible. In this video we cover the underlying dopamine prediction signals, variable rewards, parasocial intimacy cues at play —and practical ways to de-goon your social media feed
Who’s most to blame for terminal mental goonerism—creators, users, or platforms?