The Role of IG Reels in Relaxation
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Essay of the week - The Role of IG Reels in Relaxation
I asked a question on Twitter
Most people said no. My folks on Twitter have a higher IQ and better mental fitness but I feel sometimes when I had a long day I just want to watch a few IG reels and dose off.
Then it hit me what part of the reel relaxes me the most
Is it the song or the visual?
or is it the song getting repeated but with different visuals?
or is it the same song, same kind of visual but presented by a different person creatively?
Then I started working on a thesis.
One of the biggest difference between music then (1970s-80s) and music now is that the 70s and 80s were heavy on lyrics.
They had to be heavy on the lyrics because radio was the shizzz. No TV. No Visuals.
Being heavy on lyrics lead to people visualising the song themselves.
But the music now is different.
Music now is more like a… idk what to say… “Feel good music”
Don’t have to be heavy on the lyrics, it just need to sound good and make it go viral by paying the top artists to make small reels.
Soon, everybody is listening to a song even without actually clicking to listen to it.
This lead to three things:
Make the song short and fun.
Recent hit “Just wanna rock” by Lil Uzi Vert* has only one stanza
Making short songs also help the artist make more money on Spotify. More listen = more money.
Feel good music are good templates for reels.
Visuals are given to people, you don’t have to imagine them anymore.
Conclusion:
The algorithm decides what you listen to.
The algo decides what you should watch.
The algo decides should I make this person feel relaxed, educated, cringe, sad, every feeling out there.
Honestly I don’t know how to proceed forward… I kind of like it too. Maybe it’s okay to relax a bit and maybe it’s not.
I recently learned this about me and added a notification if I spend more than 30mins.
Search for Time spent in settings. 👇
This whole essay came about after I had an interesting thought when I was at the gym and the gym guy played a famous reel song.
My mind got confused on should I relax or hit harder because the song is high energy (motivational kinda song)
What do you think? It’ll be great, if you can answer all three questions 👇
10 Interesting things for you 🙌
1. Check out TheresanAIforthat.com 👀 (Tag me if you share it on Twitter)
2. Something from my Twitter👇
This tweet was written by ChatGPT 👀
3. Microchips are the new oil (Video)
4. You need a second brain (Watch)
5. Most interesting thing I saw this week (First saw it on this IG reel) and here’s the full video 👇
6. Question of the week:- $36,266,400 a year, how much do you make a minute?
7. Picture of the week:- This is one of my favourite things to do ❤️ (Taking Paris for a walk) I’ve been doing it everyday.
8. Current read: Started “Skin in the game” by Nassem Taleb - Page 11
9. Meme of the week:- This is more of TIL rather than a meme.
10. Quote of the week:
“Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; its to raise kids who become great adults.” ― Andy Andrews
(Tweet this quote)"Today you.... tomorrow me."
Context 👇
The reddit post - “Today you… tomorrow me” - I read this here
Here’s the video of Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian talking about his favourite post (Youtube) also, Tweet this quote
“The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.” - Simon Sinek
(Tweet this quote)
Thanks to Daniel for making this out of my words :))) This is an incredible sugarcube.
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Not sure about insta reel, I am fond of watching Yt shorts, the shorts of KGF and other action movies makes me feel good.
In addition to it, I'm also big fan of Bgm, listening them on yt shorts energizes me.