A few days ago, I saw a random account called “Cockroach Janta Party” jump from around 2 million followers to over 22 million almost overnight. And honestly, the craziest part was not the growth itself. It was how nobody really questioned it.

People just consumed it, shared it, laughed for five seconds, and moved on.

I think that says a lot about our generation’s relationship with content today.

We scroll so fast that we rarely interact deeply with anything anymore. Everything exists on the surface level: headlines instead of articles, clips instead of conversations, aesthetics instead of understanding. People know a little about everything but rarely enough to truly engage with it.

And algorithms reward exactly that.

The louder, stranger, and more absurd something is, the faster it spreads. Not because people genuinely care, but because attention spans have become so fragmented that absurdity is one of the few things powerful enough to stop the scroll.

As Gen Z, I think we are one of the most informed generations technically, yet sometimes one of the least intellectually engaged. Information is everywhere, but reflection is rare. We consume opinions before forming our own, trends before context, and reactions before understanding.

The internet gave us access to the entire world, yet somehow many of us only interact with the tip of the iceberg.