SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “The feed knows exactly where to hit me”, including the private rule underneath it: If the feed can trigger envy in me, it must be engineered to do so. If I feel the sting of comparison, the sting was predicted and placed. If I post to fix how I feel, that proves the algorithm was right about what moves me.
QUIET
“The feed knows exactly where to hit me” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “The app showed me what I was already primed to envy. That's not targeting. That's just how feeds work at scale.”
PRESENT
“The feed knows exactly where to hit me” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “I drafted that post because I felt small, not because the algorithm orchestrated smallness.”
ACTIVE
“The feed knows exactly where to hit me” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Write down the last three posts that made you feel behind. For each one, write one sentence about what you actually know about that person's life outside the photo. Notice what's missing.
DOMINANT
Right now, “The feed knows exactly where to hit me” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Write down the last three posts that made you feel behind. For each one, write one sentence about what you actually know about that person's life outside the photo. Notice what's missing.