Wendy DayCEO/Coach, PowerPlays Coaching, LLC · Helping rappers make money with their music. Building millionaires in the urban music industry since 1992.

Is flossing bad for your mental health?

5 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Wendy Day argues that social media's competitive culture encourages constant self-promotion, or "flossing," which actually deepens insecurity and harms mental health. The internet rewards one-upping others rather than genuine education, leaving creators feeling worse about themselves.

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has killed the business. Yes. So that's what's changed, the, the clout. Um, it's one of the things I thought when the internet came along it would educate artists and they'd get smarter about the music industry, but it hasn't. No, I made it dumber. It's made people dumber, and it's made them use the internet to one-up everybody else. It's, it's now used as a weapon and a tool to feel better about your insecure self when in reality, the more you floss, the, the less you feel about yourself, like the worst you feel about yourself. So the thing that's making people think that they need, and they're— it's making them feel like they're doing better, it's not. It's actually making it worse. Yes. You know, as somebody who's— and that's problematic.
As somebody that's heavy in the culture, right?