We're apes that compete for status to attract mates. There's always going to be some of this kind of thing in everything. I'd accept the concentration of it in

We're apes that compete for status to attract mates. There's always going to be some of this kind of thing in everything. I'd accept the concentration of it in social media (TikTok is probably the worst of them) is not healthy, but the issues themselves are independent of the medium of the time imo.