That’s what you think, until you bite into a mouthful of advertisements.

This is a poignant illustration of enshittification.

Imagine you’re in Photoshop “retouching” your own portrait. First, you remove the little bit of makeup that smudged near your eye. Fair enough. It was distracting. But now that it’s gone, your eye sees a wrinkle and decides that’s probably distracting too.

Now the wrinkle’s gone and you’re studying the image again. Aha! A mole near your temple! That can go, too.

So now the makeup smudge, the wrinkle, and the mole are gone. You study the image again for flaws…

And that’s how it happens. Every time you “fix” something you re-evaluate and will always find something to change because your goal has slowly shifted from making you beautiful by reducing “distractions”, it’s to find and fix “flaws” which, turns out, are infinite when you take this approach.

Fake eye lashes. Holy God do they look stupid but somehow are so normalized. No idea how some women find the courage to walk outside with what look to me like Muppet eyes.

For the love of God ladies, tone it down. Your eyes are beautiful as they are! Mascara is one thing, but if I feel a fucking breeze every time you blink, it’s gone too far.

Jack Black. Seems like a nice dude, but he’s a an annoying presence in every movie he’s in. His is the definition of a “sweat act”.

I’d put ChatGPT in the white house over Trump every day of the week.

To the people who need reaching about this, any number will be scary and confusing…

Just remember that good relationships never end in breakups. So you’re mourning the idea of a successful relationship you thought you had or wanted to have (perfectly normal thing to grieve over!), but you can also celebrate that you’re now one major hurdle closer to the right relationship.

It’s a fresh start and now you’re armed with a whole lot more knowledge about what your boundaries should be, what to look for (or out for) next time.

Basically, the glass is half full! In fact, it’s more full than empty if you really take stock.

He convinced the government to subsidize the sale of his products to consumers. It makes sense on paper because we want more people driving electric cars. However, Tesla of all companies doesn’t deserve the “handout”, even though it’s to consumers. They don’t deserve the boost in sales, recognition, etc.

It’s not technically a scam (the best kind!) but it’s helping out the richest man and biggest asshole in the world, so it might as well be.

Even if there were, would the current administration respect it? Of course not.

From hungry children.

My “Pow-Pow-Power Wheels” quad. Would also swap out those bald ass plastic wheels for some rubber.

Play stupid games, forfeit your country’s democracy.

Your fatigue with it all is kind of their end game, I think? They’re doing stuff that probably should be talked about everywhere because it affects everyone. When people with authority grow tired of people complaining about it and trying to moderate it out, you’ve got problems.

That’s a fad I can get behind!

Ten years later: “Tell us again about typing, Grandpa!”

For the last time, I am not your fiancée and I don’t want to see that shit! 😭

But have you tried not? 🧐

And then later, catching and eating the vermin.

Four years is wicked optimistic