This is the quiet logic of platform culture: attention treated like labor, optimized, outsourced, summarized. No experience for yrself, no conversation w/ others. The result is just people skipping everything & depriving themselves of the slow, human process of forming taste, curiosity & connection.

"TikTok-style Music Influencers" are offering a shortcut framed as convenient help, so you can better "optimize" and "direct" your attention, as if art, curiosity, joy or even disappointment when encountering something new were inefficiencies to eliminate.

33mins of pure serotonin for your Pisces friend.

( previously unpublished *in French, to be clear )