Creature of the New Page

I hate the videoification of everything. If I have to hear one more video of someone speaking closely into their shitty mic and I have to have all their yucky wet mouth noises and plosives and nose whistles and throat clearings and sniffles I am going to dig a vertical hole the exact dimensions of my body and I’m going to slither in head first

as someone with misophonia, the widespread popularization of asmr audio editing + people that are being pushed to make video content with no formal training and have no idea how to edit their audio (ex college professors, average joe tiktokers, etc) is literally my nightmare scenario. this is hell I am in hell

the goal is to always have days so good that you forget you have a phone

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

sorry im absolutely too floored by the fact you just called me 'lizardsex' to give you an answer

This exact phenomenon is why there’s now a hyphen in my url.

Something something- prevalence of generated content (in all of its forms) symptom of an ever-hungry algorithm which demands that content be farmed by any means necessary to satisfy an imaginary customer something something.

The algorithm is not the audience, nor an actual person, and yet it must be catered to with frequent content, tagged for visibility and scanned for inappropriate materials- all of which must be done correctly or it falls into a pit of obscurity.

The algorithm demands content faster than the average person can make, and so a machine is made to create content to feed it. But it is always hungry, and so the machine makes more, and faster. And the algorithm demands more, and faster. And so a machine feeds a machine, both pretending to be human, each providing nothing of substance in return- and thus mimics the cold corporate hands that pretend to have invented it.