Constant engagement with social media platforms like TikTok may upregulate 'receptors' or circuit activations, leading to a withdrawal-like effect when usage stops.

“Um, do you think that uh constant engagement in um, let's just say like Tik Tok type social media with it um, upregulates the quote unquote receptors or of expectation for it that make it harder for people to to stop using it because the drug an addiction definition you gave, which I love, um, you know, dopamine receptors for methamphetamine or for cocaine or and so on, but uh, for an experience, for gambling, for social media, um, the the receptors there's become more like circuit activations or like the circuits of the brain anticipate it and if they don't get it, do you think that there's a kind of a withdrawal like effect?”