“He is glorifying shooting somebody who is part of LGBT which is gross in itself but then I looked at the comments… And to the people that think this is ok, we’re stronger than you. The more that you do this, the more that we stand in unity”

Watch the live chat with Preston and the film’s director Liz Smith in the run up to the United Nations Association Film Festival where Preston will be representing the film. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVVAi-Gqkna/

“If you look today at kid’s engagement with the crises of our day, if you look at gun violence, if you look at climate change, who is actually speaking up and screaming about it? It’s kids, it’s Gen Z, it’s millennials. It’s not us, we’ve messed it up”

“Generation Z is the one who is so ready to fight against every injustice for the betterment of each other’s lives”

“Millennials may have invented social media, but Gen Z is the one who weaponised it!”

“If technology knows me better than I know myself those questions about who has agency, the answers to those become really confusing.”

“I have this idea in my head, I’d love to be with someone and have our story be that we actually met in person. That’s something I hold close to my heart”

“The one area other than body image of mental health where I think you can see an actual causal link is in the rise of perfectionism”

“This app has fucked my self esteem up so badly, because everytime I see a girl on here who looks like me, she always looks like but like the better version of me and it fucking dah!”

“The notion that there is a difference between fact and fiction is being undermined”

“I don’t think people understand how powerful people who were born after 1995 are. They just don’t care about anything. Like if there was a Hunger Games, the gays and the girls would just get together and just sit there. Cops are throwing tear gas at people at protests – people are just picking it up and throwing it back or hitting back with a tennis racket”

“Social cooling I think is one of the greatest threats to childhood happiness that the technology world has brought upon us.”

“I’m completely aware of the fact that tiktok is responsible for 95% of my mental illness but I’m also completely aware of the fact That tiktok is the reason for 95% of my mental Stability. Because y’all are funny sometimes y’all put me in a good mood. Y’all like ha ha laugh funny – That’s what you guys are. But you guys are also turning tiktok into 2016 Tumblr, Which I do not like at all, so, stop!”

“The power of Silicon Valley is far too big for one person to do anything about but it’s not too big for 10 million people to do anything about”.

“I’m not going to lie, trying to date or talk to anybody in this generation or world in honestly worse than wearing a fucking wet sock”

“One of the problems with coders’ obsession with efficiency is that they don’t know when to turn it off. They wind up wanting to optimise everything even when it shouldn’t be optimised”

“10 seconds after I took this video a police officer threw a mace bomb at my feet, but I have my safety goggles on, bitch. Ha!”

“The biggest digital disruption is the one that is actually happening in our heads, it is changing our expectations, it is changing our relationships and one of the biggest changes that we’ve seen is an expectation of instant gratification”

“I’m a 1997 baby so people argue that I am a Gen Z, people argue that I am a millenial. I actually want to be part of the Gen Z movement. It’s about accepting everyone and I really do feel that that’s the way Gen Z is going.

“We can’t have a lifeguard at every pond and river and pool and spot of water so we have to teach our kids how to swim”

“I am seeing highly competitive people with eating disorders not only broadcasting their eating disorders in way innapropriate ways in their videos but then continuing to compete with people about their eating disorders in the comments”

“Automation, AI, these things are already with us. They’re only going to get better over time, which means there won’t be a need for a huge amount of the jobs that we have”

“You can go down this rabbit hole. Suddenly its been 25 minutes and you’ve clicked on somebody’s profile and they’ve tagged somebody, they’ve tagged their boyfriend’s sister. I don’t know this person, they have no bearing on my happiness and suddenly I feel, you know, shitty”

“That allows them to create a hugely effective behaviour change capability which you have virtually no defence against because it attacks you at a subconscious level”

“One downside to Silicon Valley, all the technology, is that it makes it a lot easier to spread racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, xenophobic propaganda – things that are just really not good and we don’t want”

“To be able to carry out our dreams it requires, concentration, it requires follow through, it requires the ability to think deeply about things, none of those things are possible when we are constantly distracted”

“It’s in young women from about 16 to the age of 24 where there has been a true population increase in anxiety and depression rising from around 18% to 24%, which doesn’t sound very much but actually in population terms it is quite substantial and it’s definitely new.

“One of the key changes in the digital world is the ability to test and refine those techniques whether you know it or not, most consumers are continually being subject to experiments”

“Some of the rules haven’t been sorted out like understanding a relationship in this new world of social and digital media”