“Drugs & the Internet” is Lauv revealing his personal struggles with social media and anxiety. Earlier in 2019, he revealed on Twitter that he had personally struggled with anxiety and depression after finishing his music from I met you when I was 18. and resorted to medication as suggested by his therapist. During this time he was lightly active on social media.

I started to recognize my obsessive bad thoughts and depression was not based on rational events or thinking. I still went to the dark places and had days where I could do little but stay in my bed and obsess.

After, he says he began to process things differently and slowly began to fall back in love with creating music.

I started being able to write songs again. Feelings of general emptiness, anxiety, and doubt began to be replaced with this extreme gratitude.