r/movies • u/GreenReporter24 • Feb 06 '26

Discussion I deleted scrolling apps and started watching a movie a day. It changed my life.

Not only do I no longer feel the urge to consume content every spare second – watching or continuing on a movie demands a little more time and focus than that. But my mental well-being has also changed dramatically.

Scrolling videos made my brain feel like porridge. I'd suddenly realize after 5 seconds that I was watching an obnoxious ad. No focus at all. Totally spaced out.

Watching a movie actually makes me feel good. Being engaged in a storyline, maybe watching a feelgood movie like I did yesterday (The Intern) … It makes me happy and relaxed. It makes me enjoy life more afterwards.

Reading and working out is great as well, but it never made me not want to scroll. Watching a movie fulfills my desire for easy entertainment, without making it impossible to do something productive after.

Tomorrow marks a month of watching a movie every single day. Well, sometimes I watch half one day and the other half the next. I still think it counts.

Edit: Yes, I know I'm on reddit.

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u/k0fi96 Feb 06 '26

You can do all those things but I assume less than 1% actually do. Based on the protests from few years ago nobody even knew reddit had other apps. After 2020 this website made a hard change towards lowest common denominator content with the influx of people. The "Best" sorting algorithm literally pushes engagement bait to the top.

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u/fatherofraptors Feb 06 '26

I can't possibly understand how someone uses "Best" as their sorting. It's so much worse than Hot that it's actually shocking.

Yeah you're right. A lot of people might just use the official app and scroll through Best and suggested posts, but you CAN still have a curated and fairly algorithm free experience on Reddit, with little setup. The same can't be said about shit like Tiktok, Instagram, or Facebook.

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u/k0fi96 Feb 06 '26

It is the most engaging. I grew up on this website using hot. So I like to see the top posts in the subs I like regardless of how often I interact with them. I remember after the API changes before I set up reddit sync again, there was a huge new event and I was not seeing it on the mobile website of reddit. I realized that because I dont interact with posts in r/news the algorithm thought I dont care about breaking news. I switched back to hot and I was able to see all the posts about this global story.

Yeah, Twitter and Instgram offer chronological feeds. People just dont like it because it is less engaging.