Everyone’s a mental health expert: “Nike Advice”
2021 began in earnest with many a folk looking to move on from the #Rona lockdown 3.0 (in the UK anyway) and so glib and cliché posts were the soup of the day on social media about leaving it behind and a better year for humanity and health. The ‘new year new me’ replaced with new year ‘new outlook’ on life hit the cyber airwaves and so my social media feeds became a place of mass onslaught of positivity and sometimes ludicrous claims.
Lockdown has given many people time to think, read, explore online and of course take in the new fads, inventions and cures for a viral infection and online viral infection of self-help, self-indulgence and newfound expertise. Course is being sold online that cost the same as weeks’ worth of take away coffee that can teach you skills in a short space of time that take other professionals years to learn. New apps became the topic of conversations and have resulted in an explosion of expertise, entrepreneurial hustle porn promising you seven-figure incomes if you just follow their formulae.
