We started talking about social media burnout… and somehow ended up unpacking generational trauma, food psychosis, internet frenemies, and why Cara’s cat “lost his scrotes.”

In this episode of Caffeine Controversy, Levi and Cara get painfully honest about what it’s like building an identity online while trying not to lose yourself in the process. Cara opens up about eight years of sharing her lipedema journey online — from stage 4 symptoms and seven surgeries to GLP-1s, maintenance mode, and the weird backlash that comes when people decide you no longer “look sick enough.”

The conversation spirals into millennial burnout, body image trauma, relationships after weight loss, and the bizarre reality that people become more comfortable with your suffering than your healing.

They also dive deep into generational trauma — the ...