I just arrived at the conclusion that endless scrolling on instagram or any equally shallow app is terrible for my game.

First off, it shows me women. Women in many forms; sexual, suggestive, funny, skits, educational, spiritual, gym etc etc. Women are attractive because why would it show me unattractive women? These women taking up all of my screen space, women that I'd like to talk to. Women that I wish liked me. Women that I wish hugged me and kissed me. Women who aren't real.

You can not cold approach the women you see on your phone. They do not exist. You can't open them, do your routines on them, DHV for them, or anything at all! They aren't really women. They are pixels, and they're only arranged in that specific way to appeal to you. I am wasting my time liking and appreciating all these pixelated women. Not only so, the sheer availability and excess of them is almost incomprehensible. I can't even truly stay liking one because my "for you page" will show me another more attractive woman doing something even cooler. I'm spending all this time thinking about one after one. Meanwhile, they may as well not be real because if they're not AI, they're probably on the other side of the world. This literally makes you feel that women are unattainable (game suffering), especially when you're seeing pixelated ones more than real ones.

Social media profits from views. Views are generated from outrageous content. "Modern dating" is very outrageous. I see girls brag about their sugar daddies, fake tits, their body count, their onlyfans, how many guys they use and the general culture of girl dating (e.g icks, simps, rizz etc). I've been alive for 22 years, and I've only ever seen 2 girls in real life that are remotely close to this social media girl persona. Are these the kind of women I risk it all when I try to do a cold approach? Why should I even bother (game suffering)? I don't want this. Not just that, I don't even measure up (game sufferin). I'm not a millionaire at 19. I don't drive a Bugatti, and I'm not 6 feet tall and white. It's not real. Most of it is an act to get you angry and watch their content and comment shit on their videos. While that sucks, that's not the REAL problem.

The problem is that I get this persistent fear in the bottom of my heart that makes me feel debilitated (game suffering). I start thinking that these types of women are everywhere and that this is what femininity is. That they're all fake onlyfans girls. They're all shallow, they're all the same, and I can't even talk to any of them. By all means, you try messaging any one of them. What a fantastic way to stand out because no other guy has thought "GEE, ID SURE LOVE TO MESSAGE HER AND ASK HER OUT ON A DATE" like she doesn't get 100s of these a day. Pathetic.

I've only been made glaringly aware of this cold fact these past couple of days. I've been publishing field reports, and for some reason, they're getting ALOT of traction. A lot of advice, hateful comments, questions, and just people generally being inspired not by my failure, but by my persistence. The time I would've spent on instagram over the last week, I instead spent it all on reddit. Replying to comments/messages while critically thinking and analysing game. My instagram time yesterday was 25 minutes. That's down from the embarrassing 3 hours and a half... I have instead gone out twice and spent all my time on reddit.

I woke up yesterday feeling like I owned the world. I thought this was what playing the game feels like. No, this is what is staying off of instagram, having a life, and critically thinking about hard tasks feels like. I went on instagram a lot yesterday because I managed to respond to all reddit comments. I woke up today feeling like shit. It's back. Even my approach anxiety is ramping back up. I've been stuck on Day 7 of the stylelife challenge for 2 days now. The last 2 days, I was genuinely busy. Today, I had no excuse, and a lot of instagram influenced inner game that I need to brute force out of yet again.

I'm a practical man. Deleting instagram is not practical. It is key for building social proof. It is an EXCELLENT backup when you can't number close. I need to just do this the old-fashioned way and not open the app. I implore you to do the same. We need more of this. More of us getting together and getting excited to go out in the field and try out new routines. We need to do this the old-fashioned way. Not the influencer "quick & easy" way. I want to see more field reports, more original routines, and more material in general.

I'm going to open 3 girls tomorrow and post about it. So should you (OPTIONAL: tag me in it).