There are many reasons why people left their homes to travel the Oregon Trail: a better life, free land, exploration. Mine was to get off TikTok. Instead of writing or at least reading, I, like many other geniuses of my time, find myself scrolling my never-ending TikTok feed. Recently, the lack of control over my For You Page has swung my emotions like a pendulum: For every Tarot card video I saw that really had me thinking he’d text me back, I got a “what to pack for an apocalypse” clip. For every GRWM video, one about a grisly unsolved crime was certain to follow. To make a long story short, my days of doom scrolling were over.
