WizeGen Experience
Media literacy · 2 minutes

The Reaction
Machine

Every post you see on Instagram was built to make you feel something. That feeling isn't an accident — it's the product.

You'll scroll through 8 posts. For each one, tell us how it makes you feel. Then we'll show you the strings.

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The Reaction Machine
Post 1 of 8
How does this post make you feel?
Be honest — pick the strongest pull.
Your emotion meter 0%
The machine hasn't touched you yet.
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How this post was built
Simulation complete
Your results
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posts where you spotted the pull.

The post didn't make you feel something by accident.
The feeling was the function.

Calm content doesn't get shared. So the machine never shows you calm. Every post in your feed is competing to pull a reaction out of you — and the stronger the pull, the more the post wins.

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Name the pull
Before you react, ask: "What is this post trying to make me feel?" Naming it out loud breaks the spell.
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The pause is power
The machine wins on speed. A three-second pause before liking, sharing, or commenting is enough to think for yourself.
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Strong feeling? Look closer
A post that makes you suddenly furious, jealous, or scared is the one most worth a second, slower look.
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See the whole feed in X-ray
Walk back through all 8 posts with the strings made visible — every emotion the machine was built to pull, and exactly how.
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X-ray mode
The strings, made visible
Here's the same feed you just scrolled — with the machinery exposed. Each post, and the exact emotion it was engineered to pull.