Pearl - January 03, 2026Gen Z Can't Put Down Their Phones
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In this episode, we re reacting to modern women being addicted to their phones. We re talking Kylie Jenner, Kylie Minogue, and more! If you re struggling with a phone addiction, this episode is for you!
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kind of like fat women getting like losing weight you kind of expect it to come back
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except me damn it what up guys welcome to my reaction series today we are reacting to modern
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women being addicted to phones so gen z women um and i would even say millennial women um even
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boomer moms with facebook have just a terrible phone addictions uh to the point that i would say
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social media is far worse for women than corn is for men um women are getting on tiktok and
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divorcing their husbands. Women are getting on Instagram, finding a side dude. It just is what
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it is. I don't vape, but I do kind of use my phone like a vape. I just watched a video of
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talking about how he fixed his phone addiction and it was honestly very real and honestly a
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little validating. So again, it's because we're kind of lonely as women by choice, right? But
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we're choosing to use our phones instead of being in real life. I really, if you want to overcome
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a phone addiction, in all honesty, because I would say I have, I have a bit of one being in
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this industry, be in a city because you have more access to real life. Like I know there's this like
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trad fantasy online. We're living in the country. You'll just have this community
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non 2025 and I've lived it. I've, you know, when I was in my parents' house,
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i was like an hour from the city and like i was bored you know 10 hours of screen time a day
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and that's normal so mind you if she's left you unread i got bad news for you king
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and um i will like hit my phone like people would hit vape not my dog deciding to start
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drinking water right now like i'll get off a stressful work call that's what i'm picking up
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my phone i'm opening tiktok i start scrolling you know like whenever i'm stressed or bored or
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don't want to think or i'm tired and don't want to get up or um pretty much any thing ever i am
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picking up my phone and scrolling and kyle peru made the really good point of like what am i
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hiding from and um because i can tell she has a lack of social skills i mean i'm not judging
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don't we all you know what i'm talking about in therapy today anyway does anyone else feel like
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that like you literally pick up your phone mindlessly and use it as like an instant
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dopamine rush like i feel like it like it's like it's a literal drug anyway one of my goals every
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day is no screen time for the first hour of the day and i'm gonna try it again tomorrow
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haven't haven't done it any day this week the week before that but uh today it's been okay
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let's see the next woman that's addicted to her phones i mean these women when we start to mess
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up our faces usually it's because we think the people we see in our phones um look like i get
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called ugly on the internet a lot i kind of lean into it right but a lot of people are very critical
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of the face like my face could be it could be better you know uh but really i'm kind of a
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normal looking woman like i'm really not that ugly i'm just kind of ugly for tv does that make
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sense like like in real life i'm pretty normal like average i don't really like nobody looks
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Examine is like, oh, you know, they're just kind of like, oh, they might say she's got
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Believe, and this might sound crazy, that in 10 years, people will be going to rehab
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When I was in rehab in 2006, I was at this place in Arizona called The Meadows, and there
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like i think even to lose the last 20 pounds i would love a fat camp i would really love it
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i i like i think a fat camp would be really fun i think of like just to see how long i could go
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without it i'm like put me in this phone prison a girl that was there for phone addiction do people
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make fun of her or do people just curious about it people were more curious i mean we're all in
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rehab like you're not really making fun of other people right what are you gonna what are you gonna
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uh, I actually love when you're kind of in a place where nobody can have an ego
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because everybody's got shit that would destroy them. I mean, I pray every, there's some
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embarrassing things I've done in my life that I pray to God every day. Don't make it to the
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internet. I mean, you know, I haven't done anything that crazy, like no drugs other than weed,
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but like barely, barely, you know, I'm not going to pretend I didn't try it ever though.
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Um, but you know, there's some embarrassing things I've done in my life that if they ever
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get on the internet i will be i will be embarrassed so but back to my point when you're in a place
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where everybody's kind of like we all are trash here there's a very little judgment you almost
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can make the best of friends oh it's come to this it was just a little curious because we were like
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addicted to your phone how i mean i just think having boundaries around your phone is really
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important just like you would have boundaries in a relationship stay at home mom or work from her
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mom who is distracted by her phone you know it's ruining your motherhood experience you're anxious
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you're overwhelmed but you're using your phone and scrolling to cope with the stress and you feel
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guilty because you know you're distracted from motherhood you know you're distracted from your
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children you know that all they see is you looking at your phone you're waiting for them to be
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distracted so that you can go kids are so boring like kids are not these entertaining like we gotta
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we gotta stop saying motherhood is this special amazing thing it's cool but I don't really see
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mothers being that excited to be mothers you know they're kind of bored so your phone and scroll and
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then when they need something from you you become frustrated that they need you their caretaker
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because you're so addicted to your phone if you're like oh my gosh how does she know my life it's
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because that was me for a few months my phone addiction was absolutely ruining my life and
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absolutely ruining my motherhood experience here's what i did i got off social media for 30 days i
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use that time to reflect how much i'm really using my phone doesn't feel good now she's back on tiktok
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it won't you know one of those moments where you're like oh my gosh thank goodness kind of
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like fat women getting like losing weight you kind of expect it to come back except me damn it
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um women on social media addiction yeah i mean she'll go back i took time away because this is
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actually repulsive and i'm wasting so much time on my phone then what i did for the next 30 days
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was just trial what it would look like to be on my phone only in the evenings or only during his
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nap time or only during lunchtime and i came up with a really good flow and boundaries for me and
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my phone and i feel a million times better i have so much peace i feel healthy the best way i can
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describe it is i feel like i have a six-pack when it comes to like digital wellness though i don't
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feel guilty anxious or overwhelmed during the day or this desire to okay i'm moving on you're not
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that entertaining all right another one white women i would say phone addiction is mostly for
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white women because again we're the ones doing these messed up things that are marketed to us
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because we want it so it's our own fault but like for example the trans stuff the mom's on the phone
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too much and the dad's the conservatives will say men just lead better it's like what the dad is
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supposed to watch his wife and what she consumes on her phone all day doesn't he have better things
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to do you're an adult it's your problem I know there's literally a direct correlation with me
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going on my phone when I wake up and having a bad day and yet I still constantly do that this
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morning i got up and i went on my phone yeah i was productive like i got dressed i went to class
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but i was sitting in chapel and i was talking to my friend and i was like yeah there's this
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correlation that every time i go on my phone i have a bad day and now i'm feeling like crap
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and then i came back to my dorm to change my outfit haven't changed out of my outfit
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sitting in my bed scrolling out my phone i'm realizing every day more and more i'm so addicted
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to my phone and it's so normalized because everyone does it everyone does it
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i don't know what to do anymore i don't know what to do i'm so addicted to my phone and it doesn't
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even it doesn't make me feel good like when i'm on it yeah it's nice after i feel like crap
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every time every time and yet i still go on my phone yeah and eight to 12 hours a day is not
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abnormal i think the average let me look it up the average screen time for gen z women
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six and a half hours a day and if it's self-reported it's probably higher it says gen z
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men or an hour less, but I don't really believe, I don't know. I just have not seen Gen Z men have
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the phone addiction that Gen Z women do. But again, that's a social life. So again, Gen Z is
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not really going to have social lives. You know, they still will, but it'll just be different. I
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mean, a lot of my friends I've made online and I don't hate it. Like some of them are pretty cool.
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So all right, guys, like the video, subscribe to the channel and I'll see you next time.