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How The Instagram Algorithm Psy-Ops You Into Staying Single For Life

Social media pushes trends that market the feminist lifestyle while concealing its costs.

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A new trend is spreading across TikTok and Instagram, and young women are vulnerable to its feminist messaging. These popular videos use an audio excerpt from the 2024 movie Here, in which a character breaks down over the opportunities she thinks she has missed.

“But I never made it to law school,” she says, voice trembling, “and I never got to see Paris in the spring, and I never got to stay over in Yellowstone because it was too crowded.”

In video after video on social media, the audio plays over a montage of women traveling, enjoying “girl time,” and pursuing higher education. Across the colorful clips appears a warning: Don’t let your figs rot.

That line comes from a concept in Sylvia Plath’s book, The Bell Jar. She describes all the potential future paths she could choose, stretching out before her like a fig tree, with each fig representing a different future. Paralyzed by indecision, she fails to act before the figs rot, leaving her life wasted.

These social media videos instruct young women to fear wasting their potential,........

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