Ypsilenna Gloomvale

You’re falling into your doom, and suddenly an advertiser materializes next to you and asks if you’ve already heard of their new internet banking accounts for minors. The situation is so ridiculous that you realize it’s a dream, and you can fly. You start flying, but suddenly you get a popup: “Flying is a premium feature; upgrade now!” You try to get a free trial, but the popup insists that you already used one with this e-mail address, so you try to subscribe to the premium plan. Suddenly your card declines, and you return to falling down, crying as more and more advertisers spawn around you, showing you random things.

With sound, and it’s going to track your eyeballs so that you won’t look away!

For real, I once had a Xiaomi phone and for a long time it was giving me jumpscares with ads. I thought my phone has malware, and I went through every single antivirus I found in the Play Store until one day I googled it and found out that their phones are just brimming with ads by design. Delightful.

I can relate to that. Most of the info I usually need from Reddit is about gaming, and the majority of games I play aren’t even mentioned here. I also agree on the political ragebait part. I narrow my feed down to the communities I follow only, because the moment I use “All”, I get a lot of these.

This is me. Then I shake it off and wonder where all that time went because I didn’t do anything, but it’s suddenly late.

I recently re-joined Lemmy, so I am not sure how it changed, but I am mostly a Mastodon user and I noticed that people were flooding it in large quantities when something stupid happened on Twitter (again), and then leaving it after a short while to go back to Twitter or quitting social media altogether. I would suspect that people either started going back to Reddit, or decided to get a mental health break from the internet as a whole (which wouldn’t surprise me, the internet is pretty depressing lately).

I thought it was about the cat figuring out the optimal way of pushing objects off the counter 😂

Girl, same. Sometimes I too

This is an excellent pick-up line; unfortunately, I phased out somewhere around “are you”, and now I am just nodding and hoping it wasn’t an important question.