ITT: cancer
This is a non-fact. It's like horoscopes, it's incredibly general and could be applied to pretty much everyone.
Everyone tries to act 'cool', to a certain degree, to try and get people to like them or try to be part of some group. Maybe to some degree you decided to be 'anti-mainstream', not be like the conventional 'cool' kids you saw in highscool, but that's probably because at the time, on some level, you thought being unconventional was cool. That's just an example but I think everybody tries to subscribe to a stereotype or community, do things that other people do because you want to be a part of something bigger than yourself. Everybody at some point must have filtered themselves for others, to try and be a person that other people like, work colleagues, school friends, love interests, whatever. Maybe now you've outgrown that but I bet everybody's done it at some point. Now I would class trying to be a certain way as trying to be cool, what else does it mean for an individual to try and act cool? whether it's to subscribe to one specific stereotype that others think is cool, to subscribe to some stereotype because you think it's cool or to do just act in whatever way you think is cool, it's all pretty much the same thing in this context of it leading to problems later in life. People acting like their above this shit,
"yeah, I never did this ever, but no shock because the people I hated in highschool done this and now have alcohol and relationship problems".
or
"some bullied, nerd, loser must have wrote this"
It' an incredibly pretentious and utterly cancerous way to look at the situation when it's actually such a ubiquitous problem.
Everybody struggles with addiction and relationships nowadays, it's not a product of some fucking "teenage personality trait" it's really just what it means to be human in today's consumerist, digital, world.
Everybody has addiction problems just a different vice, If it's being lazy, procrastinating, eating, shopping, drugs, alcohol, sex, they're all addictions, they make us happy and we want instant access to happiness so we feel guilty when we abuse that, and if we do it too much it doesn't make us as happy as we want, and then we feel even worst. Again everybody struggles with this.
And relationship problems is pretty obviously a very general problem, if your on reddit you see people talk about their struggles with other people or social situations in every other thread. In general it's made worst by our abundance and utter reliance on social media.
tl;dr this effects everybody so it's utterly meaningless and I felt I had to comment because there's a lot of people spewing guff.