Update: November 3, 3:20 PM

After a whirlwind few days of garnering attention for the way she quit most traditional kinds of social media, Essena O'Neill opened up again about how she feels about the way people have responded to her radical shift to quitting Instagram.

"I don't ever think I've been happier than this moment," she begins in another raw video that then goes into how she's felt so overwhelmed by the way people have reached out to her and responded to her story. "I was scared that no one wants to hear the truth, that everyone's going to think I'm an attention-seeker, that I'm just complaining. But this message that likes, followers, views — that we're more than a number — it's going global."

She added in a caption for the video, "I am just so grateful to think of how many young men and women might see this movement and stop limiting themselves to artificial ideas of happiness online."

And while there's already backlash stirring (which is to be expected when a story of this magnitude takes hold) it has started an important conversation about the way we use social media. There is a happy balance somewhere — a lot of people have said that they use social media to keep in touch with friends and family, and don't gauge their popularity by likes at all, which is valid. But for some, they can't get past the numbers of it all. Whether or not you have a happy balance with social media — and whether you have 5 followers or 5 million — it's good to check in with yourself regardless and stay healthy before it tips in another direction.

People in this world are paid to live their lives on social media. If you've ever spent time on the Instagram "explore" feature, you know this to be true. By featuring tons of beautiful, curated photos; key placed products; and the kind of beauty that seems at once aspirational and completely untouchable, a handful of people seem to be living the dream. Though so many people constantly chase more followers and numbers, offering to trade likes for likes and follows for follows, few people truly know what it's like up at the top. And fewer still will abandon those posts after they've "made it."

Essena O'Neill, an 18-year-old social media superstar from Australia, however, did just that.