Subjects/subject
social media
2016-11-29, 3 mentions2016-12-06, 1 mention2017-03-14, 1 mention2017-06-20, 1 mention2018-01-08, 1 mention2018-05-02, 1 mention2018-08-09, 1 mention2018-10-05, 1 mention2018-11-09, 1 mention2019-07-07, 1 mention2019-08-04, 1 mention2019-11-17, 1 mention2020-01-05, 1 mention2020-07-12, 1 mention2020-08-09, 1 mention2021-09-05, 1 mention2021-10-24, 1 mention2022-05-15, 1 mention2022-11-20, 1 mention2023-08-16, 1 mention2023-09-25, 2 mentions2023-11-18, 1 mention2023-12-02, 1 mention2024-04-06, 1 mention2024-04-27, 1 mention2024-08-10, 1 mention2024-12-21, 1 mention2025-03-22, 1 mention2026-04-25, 1 mention2026-07-11, 1 mention2026-08-08, 2 mentions
Tim’s take
His baseline position is that social media replaced collapsing institutions like religion and reshaped how people think, and he keeps calling it toxic in escalating terms — a "disease," something "legitimately hazardous to people's health," the engine behind bullying and cancel culture 50:21 35:49 1:17:18. He points to reality TV and social media together as the two forces that actually changed culture in his lifetime, which is as close as he gets to a real thesis rather than a complaint 18:32 1:35:59.
Most of the rest is a catalogue of specific grievances rather than an argument: comedians who quit writing jokes to just exist online 4:19, the girl who Snapchatted her severed finger instead of calling an ambulance 35:49, influencers gaming the Instagram algorithm by fake-loving every comment 46:04, and a riffed sitcom pitch about a family living off a kid's TikTok fame 1:06:53. He's not consistent about wanting out of it either — he uses Facebook to promote his own shows while saying he'd be thrilled if the whole thing disappeared 4:19 25:12.
Every Reference (35)
"operating system by which the majority of us, many of us live, social media. These things are really, I mean, they're everywhere. You go"
"have to have a posture. And this is, a lot of this is that social media show and tell. Because what you see on the, what's your hot"
"I think now we live in a culture where people are, they feel that they must have a hot take on every news story and it's really exhausting and you realize that the happiest people you know are not on social media"
"There's a whole group of comics who like, they exist only on social media. Yeah, they found a way to fast. Not personally, they try to"
Social Media Strategy: Facebook vs Twitter and Comedians Gone Political — Bully Queen (With Robert Kelly)+99s into the segment"to people who are just listening. But this is how unhealthy social media, I have called social media on this show a disease before."
The Girl Who Snapchatted Her Severed Finger — Second Life (with Alex Steinberg)+31s into the segment"friends and he's paying for all of it right because he's great on social media Does it I get it folks? Tim the log comedy comms in transition"
The Weird Sexual Undercurrent of Parasocial Internet Fame — You Can't Have Everything+240s into the segment"the answer is, but I just think that that's the thing about social media is like, you know, it doesn't end. Me and my friend would talk"
Team 10 Wikipedia Mixup and the Endless Internet Outrage Machine — Kump Joins Team 10+76s into the segment"day That type of individualism like if you were do not have social media, for example, if you do not participate in You know in the"
Scripted Conversations, Social Media, and the Death of Individualism — Philosophy King+226s into the segment"there's studies about how addictive Facebook is, how addictive social media is. I mean, it was done, you know, deliberately. The whole"
Alex Jones Gets Banned: Free Speech, Corporate Power, and Historical Precedent — Not A Fancy Man+104s into the segment"it's ruining your love by the way it's it's ruining your life social media social media is ruining if you want to be a political activist do it"
"just being in the moment with you. And it's also about living online. Nobody cares about a real life. If you suggest that people should"
The Cult of Being Terminally Online and Knowing Everything — America's Election Headquarters+127s into the segment"know red yeah and so it was that and then when you look at social media those are the two biggest forces that have changed culture"
The Trump Documentary and Reality TV's Fake News Origins — 155 - Death By Chocolate+73s into the segment"popular. I was bullied. And I was not bullied in the era of social media. That's got to be very tough. But I will tell you this. In"
Eighth Grade, Bullying, and the Upcoming 'How to Be Popular' Kids Episode — 159 - Bomb Disney World+45s into the segment"I think now we're like just realizing how addictive social media is how it's like this bullying thing with young kids and kids who commit suicide there's like this cancel culture and this hate culture on there"
Social Media, TikTok, and Instagram Killing Likes — #174 - Brendan Schaub | The Tim Dillon Show+32s into the segment"social media being the only way out you have this Rust Belt family that's taking orders from this 15 year old tic-tock er because he's their only shot"
Forgetting as Real Therapy and the Podcasting Money Boom — 181- Low Cost, High Quality | The Tim Dillon Show+189s into the segment"the only thing that's changed anything substantive lis is the fact that we now see the effect of social media and smartphones have on society"
Get Off Twitter or Get Murdered, and 20 Years of the Same Arguments — #208 - Let's Have A Party | The Tim Dillon Show"everything up i really believe that do you think that yeah this social media i mean this social media has really [ __ ] everything up it"
Denying the Apartment/Maggots Accusation — #212 - Barnyard Creature | The Tim Dillon Show+576s into the segment"to throw a football i really love oj sometimes people on the internet say bad things about oj but i don't believe them because sometimes"
O.J. Simpson Dating Dixie D'Amelio: The Ultimate Plot Twist — #267 - The D'Amelio Variant | The Tim Dillon Show+47s into the segment"suffering from involuntary tick disorders from their use of social media there is a time when perhaps we should put the phone down how"
Faked Vaccine Side Effects and Performative Cancer Solidarity — #274 - Tourettes Gang | The Tim Dillon Show+9s into the segment"in the morning it's their job to go in very often they have social media managers that are doing it and they respond to every single"
Gaming the Instagram Algorithm with Fake Engagement — #298 - Puerto Rican Papi | The Tim Dillon Show+64s into the segment"making persuasive compelling arguments that the your beloved social media my beloved beloved social media people are sick of yes they're"
Is Social Media Engagement Actually Down? — Two Greatest Minds of The Century (Gary Vaynerchuk) | The Tim Dillon Show #324+35s into the segment"all the people do now when they're in when they're actually in real life is just talk about the the internet things that happened on Tik Tok and no one can have any type of conversation on one of these red carpets without it's almost like people are nervous that they have to say something that isn't related to some Tik Tock they watched"
Noah Schnapp's Smolder and the Bretman Rock Red Carpet Interview — Suburban Villain | The Tim Dillon Show #357+207s into the segment"and there's all these studies coming out now about how bad social media is for children especially when they're developing uh the first"
Three Suicides at Harvard Westlake and Elite Kid Pressure — K5 & Digidog | The Tim Dillon Show #362+14s into the segment"it's very difficult I think in the next few years if like as a country we're going to have to cut out some of the social media man for children it's it's going to get really bad I think if you don't do that"
Why None of His Friends Have Killed Themselves — K5 & Digidog | The Tim Dillon Show #362+3s into the segment"anxiety and depression are huge now for teenagers because of tech social media and mental health I mean this is this this is the huge thing"
Parasocial Obsession and Stalkers Becoming 'Good Fans' — A Loud Shape | The Tim Dillon Show #370+78s into the segment"say get rid of it get rid of it we were happier before we had social media get rid of all of it no we weren't happier I I don't know if"
Crowd Work Clips, TikTok's Future, and Standup Economics — Bastard Radio | The Tim Dillon Show #372+99s into the segment"is how crazy it is so there are a lot of problems with the social media diet were feeding these kids that's what I'm saying and what"
The Arizona Kid Killed and Filmed for Snapchat — Jessica Kirson & The Revenge Of The Basic | The Tim Dillon Show #387+162s into the segment"little by little people start realizing the the negatives of social media but I will tell you this the government doesn't care if you're"
The Government Doesn't Care About Your Mental Health — Harvey Weinstein's Overturned Conviction & TikTok Ban | The Tim Dillon Show #390+15s into the segment"the new group of Hollywood young impact Power Player whatever is all it's a tally it's just a tally of your social media followers"
Quitting the San Vicente Bungalows — Tim Walz The Funnel Cake Dad | The Tim Dillon Show #404+224s into the segment"pool game to me it's like just entertainment and right but the social media thing man I just think most people are not cut out for it I"
Tucker Carlson's Analog Truck and Social Media's Effect on Mental Health — The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422+40s into the segment"think independent without the social pressure of being and social media has made that harder. No, that's a good point. Social media,"
Nostalgia for the 90s and Escaping Groupthink — Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436+27s into the segment"lite so I make my living on the internet. I'm very happy I do and there's no editors and there's nobody who tells me what to say but and"
The Casino Metaphor for the New Economy — The Palantir Manifesto & My Manifesto | The Tim Dillon Show #493+174s into the segment"There's large groups of kids. They they coordinate this on social media. These kids are in high school for the most part. Maybe college"
Newport Beach Flash Mob Riots on July 4th — Teen Takeovers & Netanyahu’s New Nightmare | The Tim Dillon Show #503+48s into the segment"social media is no longer fun, by the way. I don't know if you've been on the the internet recently. Social media is no longer like a hoot. It's not fun."
Social Media's 'Final Phase': Getting People Killed — Perez Hilton, Trump’s Lies, & Data Center Detonation | The Tim Dillon Show #507+101s into the segment"Twitter. Early Instagram. Facebook was the the beginning of social media for most people. And it it you know, was a way for you to kind"
How Early Social Media (MySpace/Facebook) Felt Different — Perez Hilton, Trump’s Lies, & Data Center Detonation | The Tim Dillon Show #507+204s into the segment