Related to the grind, there is a subtle form of coercion - sometimes not subtle at all in fact - that goes on with internet advice. It stems from the simple fact that a lot of stuff that is shoved into our digital feeds hasn't gone through the basic questions of: "what do I care about" or "what do I need".1 This is incredibly obvious but the consequences aren't so.
The thing is that social media is basically bound to give you unsolicited advice in one way or the other, either because
It has gone viral and landed into your feed, which tends to happen with "inspiring" comments, particularly the kind that reaffirms what people want to hear.
The people you follow make videos centered around life advice or the likes, because you were or are still interested in it, which is rather common because personal problems are the norm in the modern world.
People who have benefited from something will share about it, which is unlikely to match your current context.
The problem with unsolicited advice is that well ... it's unsolicited. You can only work on so many things at once, and having this stream of advice and opinions can seriously undermine your ability to focus on your projects.
It then creates this sort of backlog in your mind of unfinished "projects", which were never projects in the first place because you didn't set the intention to care about those. But in the mind, it registers as FOMO — the fear of missing out — or an inability to focus on your current tasks, both common symptoms of social media.
Footnotes
1 Obviously people frequently look for specific advice about a problem they actively want to solve, and even there there's a whole host of problems of incentives and coercion, but this isn't the subject of this, because I wouldn't say it's the majority of what people come across.