They don’t want to be doctors, nurses, engineers, or teachers…
They want to be famous. Recognized. Followed. Liked.
They want to “live off content.”
We are shaping a generation that doesn’t grow…
it is molded.
Molded by filters.
By viral trends.
By algorithms.
By likes that last seconds, but leave deep marks.
Welcome to what I call the Influencence era.
A time when teenagers don’t grow up — they go viral.
Where identity is a feed,
and worth is just a metric.
And amid it all, the “imcels” emerge.
Isolated, resentful youth, fed by hate disguised as “opinion.”
Echoing toxic masculinity, despising women, rejecting empathy.
Forged in forums.
Shaped by algorithms.
They are the products of the same system that profits from the emotional chaos of lost boys and girls.
Teenagers are no longer in development.
They are on display.
And the price of exposure?
Adults disconnected from reality.
Addicted to validation.
Anxious, narcissistic, unable to form healthy relationships.
No — this isn’t just about social media.
It’s about what it’s producing:
Adults who were never truly children.
Young people who never had the right to fail off-camera.
Lives filtered until they lose focus.
From a distance, it may look beautiful.
But up close? It’s becoming terrifying.
The question is:
Who will influence them when everyone is already deformed?
Because many parents are following the same digital path as their kids.
Is there a way back?
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6
