Like many of their 2.3 million followers, I was transfixed – their unvarnished, unfiltered lives felt like a homespun antidote to the ultra-glossy, polished videos that are all over Instagram and TikTok.
Grody isn’t the only person who is drawn to clutter and mess – both literal and metaphorical – as a means of defining ourselves against an increasingly homogenous, tech-enabled future. Kyla Scanlon, the financial educator and author of In This Economy?, argues that mess (or “friction”, as she calls it) can actually be a good thing for humans.
Take, for instance, the experience of ordering from a takeaway. Before the advent of UberEats and Deliveroo, you had to phone in your order or pick it up in person. All of this would take extra work; you had to speak to someone or leave the house. Boring!
I don’t mean to romanticise a pre-internet age. There were plenty of annoying things about life before apps – after all, sometimes you just want to flop on the sofa hungover and have various treats delivered to you like a Roman child emperor.
When I think about frictionless experiences, I think of sleek, Instagrammable places like Kim Kardashian’s uber-luxe $60m Californian mansion, where there isn’t a comfily worn sofa – let alone a stray cereal bowl – in sight. These are show homes for people who have hired help to tidy away the detritus of human existence. They are a mirror to our online lives, where everything we desire is merely a tap away on our phone or laptop, enabled by the invisible labour of countless others, like that faceless Deliveroo rider.
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That’s not to say that all mess is desirable, or that using an app or getting ChatGPT to help you with an email isn’t convenient, particularly for those of us whose lives are already plenty difficult or stressful. I’m not arguing for us to go back to a pre-internet age. (Some feel even stronger about it than I do – according to one recent survey, almost half of 16 to 21-year-olds would prefer a world without the internet.)
But, as Scanlon puts it, “the idea of friction is that there is value in things being a tiny bit difficult”. To be alive is to embrace mess and friction, not seek to eliminate it completely. So go on – this summer, feel free to be your truest, messiest self. If someone asks you why you haven’t tidied away the dishes, just say that it’s all part of being human.
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