In my experience, when you rely solely on a single coping strategy to process and handle your emotions, it becomes hard to tell the difference between you personally having a problem and that coping strategy being flawed. So people will come to resent their one coping strategy for becoming less effective over time and extrapolate that across the entire population because it’s easier than recognizing that they lack basic coping skills. Because the reasons for an adult lacking basic coping skills are generally not pretty and can be difficult to accept, especially as the person who lacks coping skills.

TLDR people’s lives suck, they use social media as their main coping strategy, and then when the hedonistic treadmill catches up with them, they blame social media instead of finding a more diverse set of strategies