It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that the world is getting dumber. Science has identified several possible culprits: ranging from undiagnosed long-COVID reducing mental faculties, lead in the brain from vaping, or our attention spans being destroyed by endlessly scrolling through social media.
Now, the one man everyone looks to for societal diagnoses and mass-psychological insight has logged in. Yep, I’m talking about Jake Paul, who took to X to opine that: “Idicoracy the movie is happening in front of our eyes. So sad. People are so miserably dumb. So dumb and they don’t even know it. How do we help them? Seriously asking…”:
Idicoracy the movie is happening in front of our eyes
— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) July 13, 2025
So sad
People are so miserably dumb
So dumb and they don’t even know it
How do we help them? Seriously asking…
First up, “Physician, heal thyself!” Bemoaning people getting dumber while misspelling Idiocracy as “Idicoracy” is very much a “throwing stones in glass houses” kind of move. But, let’s face it, we all mak typos from tim to tim, so we’ll frogive!
https://t.co/ltSAoMHbXt pic.twitter.com/Kwmk4D0m8u
— (No) Signal (@NopeSignal) July 13, 2025
TikTok brain
But, beyond that, Jake Paul personally bears major responsibility for the dumbification of modern society. The most-liked reply, from someone who professes to be a Jake Paul fan, accuses him of being a “full-on player” in this process:
“You built a media empire on viral stunts, flex culture, and chaos. That is idiocracy fuel. You didn’t just participate you helped accelerate the algorithmic decay. You’ve monetized the exact short attention span dopamine trap you’re now lamenting. Your entire career was forged in the fire of TikTok brain, and now you’re shocked that people can’t think long-term?”
Paul then tries his best to play down his role in this, replying: “In the grand scheme of things I was just such a minuscule player”. To be fair, Paul didn’t design the algorithms that prioritize IQ-killing slop, only exploited and monetized them beyond most people’s wildest dreams.
Paul goes on to argue he simply became “addicted to making money” and that he “wasn’t wise enough to see my impact on a grand scale”. The replies are having none of it:
“You speak like someone who stumbled into this by accident but let’s not pretend this was all incidental. You’ve made a calculated career to fame and infamy solely based on catering to the dumbed down populace you’re referring to. You can’t benefit from the exposure when it’s convenient and then claim to be “just a guy” when you see the machine *You* helped build.”
Well, Mike Tyson may have failed to knock out Jake Paul, but this random X user just scored a haymaker on him and sent him plunging to the canvas. But, though Paul may be a giant hypocrite, perhaps we should give him a sliver of the benefit of the doubt.
Sure, he may have done way more than most in turning ordinary people into hooting morons, but at least he seems to want to change. Here’s hoping Paul’s next project is a multi-hour podcast series analysing and deconstructing the works of famed Chilean poet and writer Pablo Neruda.
