TULSA, Okla. — Tri-City Collective says their August Teen Talk event will be called ‘The Highlight Reel Effect: Why Everyone is Winning But You Feel Behind’.
The in-person panel discussion will be held on Saturday, August 30, at 3:00 p.m. at Gradient, located at 12 North Cheyenne Avenue. It will be free and open to the public and will be livestreamed on the Tri-City Collective’s YouTube page.
A panel of Youth Action Coalition teens will discuss comparison culture and competition in today’s society.
In a press release the Tri-City Collective says teens are only being given a “highlight reel” of other people’s best moments and can lead to despair.
“We scroll, we compare, we despair,” the press release reads. “Social media and modern culture feed us endless “highlight reels” of other people’s best moments—while we’re stuck seeing every flaw, failure, and behind-the-scenes struggle of our own lives. The result? A warped sense of reality that convinces us we’re falling behind, even when we’re not.”
The organization hopes the panel will expose the “comparison trap” and show why it is “stealing the joy of teens”.
“Our teens decided on this topic because they encounter these experiences every day at school and online,” said Komari Crisp of the Youth Action Coalition. “The consequences of the comparison trap for teens include reduced self-confidence, setting unrealistic expectations, envy toward others, a tendency to dwell on their own shortcomings and past mistakes, and a significant association with depression and anxiety.”