@Noahpinion it's actually the internet, the phones just made it easily accessible and useful everywhere you go.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
IT'S THE FUCKING PHONES
3:54 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 1.5K Views
Vox argues smartphones and AI chatbots accelerate the global fertility crisis by replacing human relationships
Synthetic companionship risks replacing traditional dating and emotional bonds
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Many users dismissed claims that AI smartphones and chatbots are worsening the fertility crisis, sarcastically mocking the idea or blaming alternatives like Tinder instead.
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Paweł J Lisowski@PawelJLisowski
@Noahpinion it's tinder. released in 2012, its sharp rise in populariy lines up exactly with that line.
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Lydia DePillis@lydiadepillis
@Noahpinion sigh
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Eric 🐇@Mammoth
@Noahpinion We should only be allowed to use social media on these
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
@orntwo https://www.nber.org/papers/w35310?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg14
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Orn “Nullius in verba” Two@orntwo
@Noahpinion Noah can’t draw an imaginary trend line.
I’m sure it was the phones in Ancient Rome too 🙄
https://www.vindolanda.com/blog/roman-women-and-children-part-1
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fantastic@fantasticarg3
@Noahpinion No, it's not.
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
@fantasticarg3 YES IT FUCKING IS
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35310?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg14
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investingLive@investingLive_
@Noahpinion Pretty sure it's the non-****ing phones?
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Impatient Capital@ImpatientCap
@Noahpinion The graph kind of suggests that it's more broadly consumer internet (circa 2000) than phones... Flat before the, upward trend since. Acceleration as access became handheld, for sure.
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Michael@mgrczyk
@Noahpinion Is there a pithy statement that summarizes why the various graphs like the one linked here show a trend that doesn't seem to have changed in when smartphones became common?
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Marta Tafalla@TafallaMarta
@voxdotcom This is good news for the rest of species.
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
@lydiadepillis How much more careful thought do you want??? Do you think that there's some amount of careful thought that will eventually lead me to dismiss this crisis?
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Big Billy - 😗/acc@ArchaeusGlimpse
@Noahpinion We need to pause these phones and social medias for 6 months until we figure out what the hell is going on
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sys@ksusys
@Noahpinion the crisis of exactly what the world needs.
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Rahul@rahul5974
@Noahpinion This video and pic is 9/11 for RW Whites
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Orlando@Orlando74180344
@Noahpinion What if you could only unlock extra phone time each week if you have relations with the opposite sex
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Tim Muirhead@TimMuirhead
@Noahpinion If you want your sex-life back, try a phoneless cord.
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Michael Kleyn@KleynMichael
@Noahpinion seems like the jumping off point there is at the 2003-04 mark, or around the time DSL connections were widely available. IT'S THE INTERNET! lol
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Just one curmudgeon 😤 🇺🇸@Just1Curmudgeon
@Noahpinion AI seems to be our only way out of financial crisis through abundance and might help reduce screen time
It also could kill us
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fantastic@fantasticarg3
@Noahpinion Not even that graph shows that. Let alone that low birth rates started earlier.
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