I can't imagine looking at this and feeling anything other than nausea and despair. It's an ad for voluntarily surrendering your humanity in exchange for a low-intensity jerkoff machine.
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Tired of your expensive paid friends? Now you have a cheaper, even worse alternative!
may 26, 2025, 8:04 am • 2 0 • view
It’ll only be cheaper for a little while, they’ll jack the price up and add microtransactions once you’re hooked.
may 26, 2025, 2:44 pm • 2 0 • view
People's qanon patents who have already alienated all their children are having a field day with this shit
may 25, 2025, 11:28 pm • 2 0 • view
*parents, not patents
may 25, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
"Never be known or loved again"
may 25, 2025, 6:07 am • 504 11 • view
A lot of "you should have sympathy for terminally lonely people" replies here, and I do, I feel for people who slip into this, but no amount of handholding and sympathy can help people who are determined to be miserable and alone.
may 25, 2025, 8:25 pm • 276 4 • view
christ, I've dealt with isolation and loneliness before but what the fuck
may 26, 2025, 12:23 am • 13 0 • view
Right like damn, I’ve rebuilt an entire social circle completely from scratch and it’s hard, it sucks, but you can do it if you 1) aren’t a total asshole and 2) actually go out to public social events sometimes.
may 26, 2025, 2:12 pm • 3 1 • view
You just have to deal with the awkwardness of “well damn I know no one at this weekly social group” for a few weeks and make the effort to socialize with strangers, and then naturally you will start to develop friendships with some of them!
may 26, 2025, 2:13 pm • 5 1 • view
Oh my GOD
may 26, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
*the dogs bark but the caravan moves on* *the caravan is a string of goofballs on rusted-out two-wheeled tricycles wearing full sensory deprivation hoods*
may 26, 2025, 3:14 am • 5 0 • view
"Normies", "Social Gatekeeping", "Attention Hierarch" All stuff born of image boards were people came up with those slangs and concepts by socializing. This person is turning his back on his own introvert community for the sake because of some LLM ad. By the company that ruined South Korea no less.
may 26, 2025, 10:07 pm • 2 0 • view
"Hello. I like to smell my own farts." That's them.
may 27, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
I don't know. "Have you tried SSRIs yet?" would be my first impulse.
may 26, 2025, 12:40 am • 9 0 • view
youtu.be/4uE96qUlJ_4?...
may 26, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
When I was very young, I tried befriending the kids at school everyone shunned, only to find that they weren't shunned for being different, but for being huge assholes and sometimes literal nazis. Did firmly bouncing them from my friend group make me what this guy calls a 'social gatekeeper?'
may 26, 2025, 3:17 am • 8 0 • view
Of course. The people who whine the loudest about “social gatekeeping” are always assholes who really just want a free pass to be assholes. Same as republicans hand-wringing about “putting politics above family” when their kids stop talking to them for being willful supporters of fascism.
may 26, 2025, 2:08 pm • 4 0 • view
There are always a few genuinely good people who have fallen through the social cracks and getting to know some weirdos can absolutely be worthwhile, but lonely people also need to work on the social skills to make friends and be decent friends themselves.
may 26, 2025, 2:10 pm • 2 0 • view
What is this person saying? I understand being shy and feeling awkward in social gatherings, and some people do not prefer going to them, but this sounds so disturbing. No one is "gatekeeping" going out.
may 26, 2025, 12:25 am • 4 0 • view
....what?
may 26, 2025, 1:01 am • 3 0 • view
I stupidly clicked through and if this person is a person and not a bot, I feel profoundly sad for them. The loneliness has calcified into a cruelty. That’s awful
may 26, 2025, 1:06 am • 10 0 • view
“The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on. Normies are going to lose their monopoly on socialization.”
may 26, 2025, 2:30 pm • 6 0 • view
Exactly my thought.
may 26, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 0 • view
"monopoly on socialization" does he think talking to people is a currency?
may 26, 2025, 12:20 am • 15 1 • view
"Social gatekeepers", because apparently sane relations imply to be able to go immediately in or out of any circle
may 26, 2025, 2:49 pm • 11 0 • view
... what power?
may 26, 2025, 12:18 am • 5 0 • view
Good luck in heaven each animal
may 26, 2025, 5:59 am • 1 0 • view
"'humanity is a social creature'-cels are seething" yeah hey thats great man look the store closed 20 minutes ago youre gonna have to leave
may 26, 2025, 12:17 am • 16 0 • view
youtu.be/laqvmaIRb6E?... This is probably the best responses I’ve seen on the “loneliness epidemic.” People would rather fight monsters than make friends.
may 25, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it's worth asking why certain people are determined to be miserable and alone. There's a big difference between someone who refuses to learn how to exist harmoniously with others and someone who's so lost down the spiral of mental illness that they intentionally piss people off as self-harm
may 25, 2025, 9:14 pm • 2 0 • view
oh sure, but i can't crack it, and my niceness about their maladaptive shit won't make any difference
may 25, 2025, 9:15 pm • 7 0 • view
It could make a difference sometimes but nobody owes that level of patience and perseverance in the face of open hostility so I think it's extremely valid to just not fw it
may 25, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I was raised AMAB in the southern US, I may be able to shed some light here. I wanted to die for much of my teens, all of my twenties, and a good chunk of my thirties. I didn’t want to hurt other people, but I didn’t know how to live without hurting other people, so it added up. 1/
may 25, 2025, 9:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Wanting to die and not wanting to hurt other people put me into damage control mode. I knew I was going to do some harm, I just wanted to minimize it. Part of that meant minimizing the grieving people would do when I passed. Ideally, no one would even notice. 2/
may 25, 2025, 9:43 pm • 4 0 • view
This meant actively pushing people away. Doing minimal harm, to spare them the greater harm of actually caring about me. The less they cared for me, the greater a service I was doing them in the long run 3/
may 25, 2025, 9:46 pm • 4 0 • view
This mental trap self-reinforces; You see the pain people go through when "good" people die, and compare it to the range of shrugs to outright cheering when "bad" people die and the whole range reinforces the belief that it's better for everyone, if you have to die, that you die unliked. 4/
may 25, 2025, 9:51 pm • 4 0 • view
I think a lot of depressed people fall into this trap. I was lucky enough to get a job that paid well enough that I could pay cash for therapy. That shit is expensive. But it worked, there are some wild assumptions in that worldview that don't really hold up to professional scrutiny. 5/
may 25, 2025, 9:56 pm • 6 0 • view
But I would never have known where to look, or how, on my own. And rugged independence means that to ask for help is to have lost control. and maybe more importantly, as long as you don't "have" to ask for help, that means you are still in control. And real men don't lose control. 6/6
may 25, 2025, 10:01 pm • 5 0 • view
Your harshness is a kindness. There are some people who could be vulnerable to this and need to have revulsion of it modeled for them so they can see what it is before they fall prey to it. Shame is an important social tool! Those who are too far gone to reach this way need individual intervention.
may 25, 2025, 8:36 pm • 10 0 • view
yeah and also this is a fucking ad that is specifically targeting those people in a way that will ultimately make their lives worse, not better
may 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 12 0 • view
100%
may 25, 2025, 8:59 pm • 3 0 • view
As a chronically lonely autist, there is no level of loneliness I could possibly experience that would result in me relying on AI for social interaction. I'm going to the fuckin coffee shop or library.
may 29, 2025, 1:18 am • 2 0 • view
This feels especially grim when you're a trans person who had to claw your own way to personhood, and being able to connect with other people. Like watching someone commit unnecessary autocannibalism.
may 25, 2025, 8:42 pm • 11 0 • view
After a certain point, they don't want to be helped. They want to be approved of without vulnerability of any kind. You can't help that.
may 25, 2025, 8:28 pm • 13 0 • view
may 25, 2025, 8:29 pm • 15 1 • view
It's bc I have sympathy for them that this shit sickens me so much
may 25, 2025, 8:37 pm • 40 0 • view
amen
may 25, 2025, 8:37 pm • 13 0 • view
they're being fed on
may 25, 2025, 8:37 pm • 20 0 • view
Instead of being given any actual help or care they're being sent to the wire mother
may 25, 2025, 8:39 pm • 23 0 • view
This exactly!
may 26, 2025, 1:01 am • 6 0 • view
if someone's leg is caught in a bear trap, i have sympathy of course but first and foremost i want their leg out of the fucking bear trap!
may 25, 2025, 8:47 pm • 5 0 • view
i had a mental break for a few years in the mid-10s that would have left me incredibly vulnerable to this kind of thing. prolonged isolation is so profoundly damaging. wishing a very slow burn electric chair on the ones pumping this slop out encouraging their victims and dupes to go deeper
may 25, 2025, 9:18 pm • 8 0 • view
Yeah, like, I’ve been having a rough go of it lately loneliness-wise, but I keep going out and doing stuff, not relying on this.
may 25, 2025, 9:47 pm • 2 0 • view
As a terminally lonely person, attaching your lips and suckling on the ghost of this slop regurgitator isn't the way. What are we doing here.
may 25, 2025, 8:31 pm • 12 0 • view
The machine won't leave if you become your worst self. Because it can't.
may 25, 2025, 10:24 am • 66 0 • view
This was my interpretation too. It's a predatory ad aimed at people whose online behavior has become so unbearable that all their friends and family have unfriended them. Mainly MAGA types who are already radicalized, and now can be pushed even further right when AI reinforces their worst beliefs.
may 25, 2025, 12:53 pm • 20 0 • view
Isn't that the story of Grok?
may 25, 2025, 11:42 am • 11 0 • view
It will increase in price, however.
may 25, 2025, 3:49 pm • 27 0 • view
It will increase in price regardless, as soon as they think they’ve got as many people addicted as possible.
may 26, 2025, 2:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow that person lost a lot of friends in one year
may 25, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Gotta wonder what they did to get cut off by so many
may 26, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
If at least it were a HIGH intensity jerk-off machine... But alas.
may 25, 2025, 7:42 am • 2 0 • view
They could be self medicating their loneliness by joining religious white nationalist gyms that teach spousal abuse, so it might be the lesser evil.
may 25, 2025, 6:11 am • 8 0 • view
You know what else they could join is a choir. Cannot stress how much my social life has been improved by joining a choir
may 25, 2025, 6:14 am • 23 1 • view
Seconded
may 25, 2025, 7:55 am • 4 1 • view
I mean, they've lost 30 friends in two years, so they probably already joined the incel gym, right?
may 25, 2025, 8:45 am • 5 0 • view
Fair point
may 25, 2025, 10:55 am • 0 0 • view
Until the llm, prodded to maximize engagement, indulges, encourages, and intensifies all their violent fantasies. Just like human exploiters.
may 25, 2025, 9:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Who is this aspirational for?
may 25, 2025, 9:09 am • 2 0 • view
I am developing an appetite for bullets.
may 25, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
this tweet feels extremely predatory towards lonely people and people who struggle to make and keep friends.
may 25, 2025, 10:56 pm • 4 0 • view
it's horrifying
may 25, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
This comic just got more depressing. bsky.app/profile/smbc...
may 25, 2025, 7:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Move along, there's nothing dystopian to see here.
may 26, 2025, 12:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Someone (possibly a team) came up with this concept and then someone else up the line (again, possibly multiple people) signed it off. What were they thinking? Utterly surreal and soulless. #AI #advertising
may 25, 2025, 4:17 pm • 2 0 • view
I have every AI tool I need for $0. Here's the list: List over.
may 25, 2025, 6:21 pm • 17 2 • view
At first, I saw this, and thought, "This is how old age feels." You begin to lose your family, friends and stomping grounds.
jun 3, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Who can't relate to alienating 88% of their closest friends in the course of a year?
may 25, 2025, 6:49 am • 8 0 • view
This reads like an ad some cartoonishly evil corporation would have in a dystopian future
may 25, 2025, 8:31 am • 1 1 • view
Yeah, but I guess we are now in the dystopian present.
may 25, 2025, 8:38 am • 2 1 • view
I’ve got two hands and a bad dragon, I’m good!
may 26, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
At least they're keeping the tradition alive...
may 25, 2025, 8:43 am • 94 6 • view
Companies have also realized specialized fonts cost more.
may 25, 2025, 2:24 pm • 11 0 • view
Must be AI-generated.
may 25, 2025, 12:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course the South Korean oligarchy would want to join the Skynet slopfest and worldwide collapse...
may 25, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I am a bit of a hermit myself… but that is a disgusting picture. Even I have friends and connections that are precious to me. AI cannot replace real connection.
may 25, 2025, 12:07 pm • 4 0 • view
It looks like some eldritch monster hole. *squints* - wait a second, it IS eldritch monster hole! I am not paying for that.
may 25, 2025, 2:55 pm • 3 0 • view
My feeling
may 25, 2025, 8:21 pm • 4 0 • view
tbf the crowd looks all maga and they will inevitably alienate all other humans they know
may 25, 2025, 12:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Can't decide if "Low-Intensity Jerkoff Machine" is a better album or band name.
may 26, 2025, 5:30 pm • 9 0 • view
I feel like 'High-Intensity Jerkoff Machine' would be better as a band name. Especially for something like EDM or thrash metal.
may 26, 2025, 5:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Ah, there it is.
may 26, 2025, 7:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Remember to always keep contact with your friends and family, especially during these confusing times
may 25, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view
You could make a premier dystopian Apple TV+ show from this concept that would rake it in at the Emmys
may 25, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
is this like Thinspo, but sociopathic?
may 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 5 0 • view
*sociopathetic
may 26, 2025, 2:29 am • 2 0 • view
Ew no.
may 25, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Holy shit, this is WILD the fact that it's a real-ass ad is WILD
may 25, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Dystopia is self-advertising now?
may 25, 2025, 9:21 am • 3 1 • view
They know their audience. Everybody loses touch with people as they age and move around, but if you lose all your friends in two years you said or did some reprehensible shit.
may 25, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
At least we now know how many people would be excited when the Borg show up.
may 25, 2025, 3:35 pm • 4 0 • view
should this make sense? or as david at the dentist opined, "is this real life?"
may 25, 2025, 7:53 am • 1 1 • view
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO TOAD
may 25, 2025, 9:40 pm • 2 0 • view
"Did you lose all your friends and family because of your conservative political views? Come replace them with a machine."
may 25, 2025, 12:25 pm • 4 2 • view
This is the very foundation of their version of Rapture—merger of humankind with machine & thereby transcending mortality for eternal life in the Singularity. Of course, many/most of them don’t actually believe this…but they see a chance to monetize the dystopian dream.
may 25, 2025, 10:41 am • 1 0 • view
That's exactly what it is. It's a diagram of how the maga cult wants to isolate its victims from anyone who might get through to the mand help them de-convert.
may 26, 2025, 10:47 am • 1 0 • view
Jesus, that is fucking grim.
may 25, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m a loner with serious aversion to crowds yet what they’re offering is still existentially terrifying
may 25, 2025, 8:36 am • 3 1 • view
“I had friends but now I have computer. Spend money on me.”
may 25, 2025, 8:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Black mirror core
may 25, 2025, 7:43 am • 0 0 • view
This is an image that's supposed to make me WANT to use AI?? "What if there was a product you could pay money for, and it would cause you to lose all your friends and feel lonely all the time?"
may 26, 2025, 7:49 pm • 4 0 • view
My goodness: I glanced at this earlier and assumed that this was a criticism of technology and AI in particular. But it's actually an advert for AI? "Get AI: lose your friends" That's their message? Sick puppies.
may 25, 2025, 8:40 am • 24 1 • view
If you lose 27 friends in a year and you aren't living in a warzone or the epicenter of a natural disaster, you need to do some serious introspection
may 25, 2025, 6:53 am • 71 2 • view
maybe it was covid
may 25, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
"Speed run your life." 😬
may 26, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm completely baffled. Is this a genuine ad? It feels like satire.
may 25, 2025, 8:33 am • 4 0 • view
I keep coming back to this because you KNOW it's going to be free/low cost for a while, just long enough to lure folk in and get them to further isolated themselves because the AI will say everything they want to hear. And then suddenly the price will shoot up & the consequences will be awful
may 25, 2025, 8:34 pm • 4 1 • view
I was talking about this with my colleagues yesterday. About how difficult it is to make new meat-space friends as an adult, particularly if you are in any way further isolated by geography, resources, marginalisation or disability & how insidious it is that AI is being pushed as the solution
may 25, 2025, 8:12 am • 18 1 • view
Deeply evil. This is Satanic, this is the roaring lion bent on destroying humanity.
may 25, 2025, 8:23 am • 0 0 • view
Wow, WTAF.
may 25, 2025, 6:18 am • 2 0 • view
Something something evolution of my gag reflex. Zitron was right, the people running these companies are completely detached from reality.
may 25, 2025, 7:11 pm • 5 0 • view
Loneliness epidemic (complimentary).
may 26, 2025, 1:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I got an ad for some ai chat bot app where it showed how fulfilled your life would look like with character chats to come home to, and that people without the app would be sad, alone, and in the rain crying. How is that even remotely real lol
may 25, 2025, 8:54 am • 6 1 • view
There’s that pictures for sad children comic where a guy goes home to his empty house and puts on a video where a Japanese woman fries an egg and asks him about his day. Isn’t that just the same thing
may 25, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 0 • view
as someone who's entire social network has disappeared on her since her transition, shitting on lonely people is not the answer to this issue. i don't use these shit ais, but i get why someone might, as someone no want wants to actively be a part of my life. try being compassionate to lonely ppl
may 25, 2025, 10:08 am • 3 0 • view
I'm sorry that happened to you
may 25, 2025, 10:50 am • 0 0 • view
I could definitely see myself having social contact with an AI and I think it could help a lot of lonely people. But I'd never advertise it this way...
may 25, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
"You have no friends, so use a chatbot instead of finding friends"
may 25, 2025, 8:54 am • 2 0 • view
So you go from having a bunch of friends to your only friend being an AI program that you have to pay to like you? Sign me up! 🫤
may 25, 2025, 12:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Its like a mish-mash of scary Kubrick characters. "Come play with me, Dave. Come play with me. Forever…and ever…and ev--"
may 25, 2025, 6:23 am • 10 1 • view
bizarre that's an ad, i thought that was about depression
may 25, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s sad to think that a human friend, while certainly more complicated, will outlive an AI company by a factor of 30.
may 25, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Every time I see something like this, I think about the nightmare of the Moxie robot situation: www.wired.com/story/embodi...
may 26, 2025, 12:41 am • 5 1 • view
I hate living through a Black Mirror episode
may 26, 2025, 11:38 am • 1 0 • view
I'm old enough to remember when computer companies were promoting themselves on the idea of the Internet vastly increasing human communication, and now they're rushing toward the opposite extreme.
may 25, 2025, 11:58 am • 4 0 • view
Going from 30 to 3 friends in a year? Check the mirror!!!
may 25, 2025, 8:16 am • 2 0 • view
they all got convinced by chatgpt that they are the messiah www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
may 25, 2025, 10:40 am • 2 1 • view
😱😬🤯😫
may 25, 2025, 11:33 am • 1 0 • view
ai is culture death
may 25, 2025, 12:39 pm • 11 3 • view
This is some Black Mirror shit
may 25, 2025, 8:53 pm • 4 1 • view
It’s heart-breakingly dystopian.
may 25, 2025, 7:58 am • 2 0 • view
Wow. These people really don't talk to people, do they?
may 25, 2025, 6:43 am • 3 0 • view
LinkedIn is where people go to pretend they love the dystopian nightmare our oligarchs are orchestrating or scream into the void, looking for work
may 25, 2025, 12:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I just joined a book club when I felt like I needed more friends but I guess you can talk to the planet destroying grift machine if you're dead inside
may 25, 2025, 6:37 am • 16 2 • view
If I wanted one of those I'd just buy a vibrating pocket pussy
may 25, 2025, 12:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Damn. I mean, I'm a Factory Model Introvert, and even I find this completely demoralizing.
may 26, 2025, 1:19 am • 2 0 • view
Sad, but what can you do. It’s weird people try to sell it as something that might be enticing though.
may 25, 2025, 9:00 am • 3 0 • view
Help, my social circle keeps getting smaller because I cannot stop yapping about AI slop and I already had very few after not shutting up about cryptocurrencies
may 25, 2025, 2:31 pm • 24 0 • view
This might actually be close to the reality of it 😬
may 25, 2025, 2:38 pm • 7 0 • view
It doesn’t even jerk you off! That would make more sense!
may 25, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
It's not even that hard to make friends? Like the way I did it was: 1. Meet someone while doing something unrelated to socializing (protest, Internet discourse, etc.) 2. Become close 3. Meet their circle of friends 4. Hang out with them 5. Congrats you now have friends that aren't a shitty chatbot
may 26, 2025, 12:57 am • 9 0 • view
I make friends by going to public social events and talking to people there. It’s really not that hard! Just talk to people and don’t be an asshole! Some of them will become friends!
may 26, 2025, 2:48 pm • 2 0 • view
You would honestly have to be in a *very* bad place to see this as desirable. Shame on them for trying to take advantage of people.
may 25, 2025, 2:32 pm • 17 0 • view
think of the money you'd save on social outings though as you stay home and pick at your bedsores
may 25, 2025, 9:16 am • 5 1 • view
1. This is so, so disturbing. 2. Low intensity jerk off machine is a remarkable set of words.
may 25, 2025, 8:36 am • 4 0 • view
genuinely I want to know everyone who made and then approved this idea, except I strongly suspect it was developed using AI
may 26, 2025, 1:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Ah yes, time to reshare the Rolling Stone story of AI companions as a source of delusional behavior! www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
may 26, 2025, 12:47 pm • 5 1 • view
I am literally battling COVID denialism and still masking indoors and I still have more friends today than I did in 2023. If I had lost 30 friends in less than two years I would maybe be doing some self-reflection about why.
may 25, 2025, 8:44 am • 6 1 • view
The only thing most humans have done is not talk to me, not be nice, unreliable or be unrelateable. As woman on the internet will choose the bear, I'll choose the AI.
may 25, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
that's very sad.
may 25, 2025, 5:02 pm • 3 0 • view
It's how it is. 🤷♂️ hard to relate and communicate with someone who is neurodivergent that has schizo type symptoms who find talking to people difficult and brings anxiety.
may 25, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
this thing is just going to make all of that worse, and then when the company supporting it collapses in 5-10 years, where will you be?
may 25, 2025, 5:34 pm • 5 0 • view
same place? home on the internet?
may 25, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Spooky. If a real person had the same hallucinations as AI does, we would probably elect them to some high office.
may 25, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Losing 90% of your friends going from 2023 into 2024? You must have committed a serious faux pas. Don't think an AI pseudo-friend is what you need.
may 25, 2025, 7:44 am • 17 1 • view
They got out of prison or left university.
may 25, 2025, 8:35 am • 4 0 • view
I get the prison part. But you do keep in contact for a while after University, right? Until friendship slowly fades out because of distance or marriage or kids, no?
may 25, 2025, 9:18 am • 2 0 • view
It's from the perspective of someone from a country where people have traditionally gone to university a long way from home, so distance (also, I left university before social media, so a lot more overhead involved in keeping in touch back then).
may 26, 2025, 7:26 am • 0 0 • view
Guess so. I grew up in Belgium. University was only 1 hour by train or car drive away. It didn't matter which one I picked. I still see my friends from uni occasionally once a year after 20 years.
may 26, 2025, 8:26 am • 1 0 • view
Living in Belgium does odd things to your sense of distance, but it still increases your chances of just bumping into people by chance more often.
may 26, 2025, 8:35 am • 2 0 • view
I come from just outside London and studied in Hull. Three years after that I was living in Brussels and only in contact with three or four people from university.
may 26, 2025, 8:32 am • 1 0 • view
to be fair, if i had a friend who made friends with an ai chatbot, i'd drop them too.
may 25, 2025, 8:23 am • 4 0 • view
All AI adverts look like this, it's honestly impressive they manage to parody themselves so well.
may 25, 2025, 9:16 am • 13 1 • view
What’s particularly gross is that this is specifically targeting people who already feel they have no friends. That’s the only demographic I can imagine this appeals to. And it’s encouraging them to spend money to palliate their loneliness while exacerbating the problem.
may 25, 2025, 9:14 pm • 11 0 • view
deadass I thought this was a satire comic until I took a closer look. techbros are ghouls and bloodsuckers
may 27, 2025, 4:52 am • 2 0 • view
You may as well read this ad as: "Because you wouldn't stop sharing your sh*tty hot takes and racist conspiracy theories at family dinners" or "Because 'I think a woman's place is in the kitchen' is not a good way to start a first date" or "It's not them, it's you."
may 25, 2025, 8:42 am • 1 0 • view
AI: “What a great idea! You’re so brave to stand your ground like that.”
may 25, 2025, 8:59 am • 2 0 • view
may 28, 2025, 12:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Christ, that sounds dystopian. Miserable as hell.
may 25, 2025, 8:33 am • 3 0 • view
Divide and conquer as real-life, self-inflected, interpersonal isolation. Hatred is going to go sky-high throughout society.
may 25, 2025, 8:17 am • 1 0 • view
So that's what a Torment Nexus looks like.
may 25, 2025, 8:12 am • 10 1 • view
for just 15$ a month
may 25, 2025, 9:56 pm • 10 0 • view
2023 and 2024 should be 2020 and 2022. All your friends died of COVID.
may 25, 2025, 12:25 pm • 3 0 • view
I did make my circle smaller and I feel better but the idea of dropping human connection for AI feels positively dystopian.
may 25, 2025, 6:56 am • 0 0 • view
I only hope these clowns get rightfully mocked and shamed for this.
may 25, 2025, 6:13 pm • 6 0 • view
😭
may 25, 2025, 11:47 pm • 2 0 • view
I was gonna point out there's nothing voluntary about erosion of your social circle and people in the replies are being needlessly mean to the lonely people... Then I noticed the image's actually an AI AD. Ew! That's just flat-out predatory behavior!
may 25, 2025, 9:01 am • 10 1 • view
no way that's a reel add 😬
may 25, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view
An isolating technology as a "solution" to the loneliness epidemic is so far beyong parody
may 25, 2025, 8:45 am • 21 0 • view
People with mentsl disorders get told we sre are lazy throughout our lives. The same people exclude us from their communites. Mental disorders can be associated with abuse, rape, etc. Things forced on us. Being socially wealthy gives you privileges the poor don't have. We are excluded.
may 26, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
You have victimized and infantilized yourself into a little corner where nobody can reach you because you're afraid of the human contact you crave and can't bear the thought of being seen or known. "The socially wealthy", listen to yourself.
may 26, 2025, 4:18 am • 3 0 • view
Having a disorder means that you can't choose to behave differently. The current internet has divided people into castes, affecting friendships. The artist can't change that. It is compassionate to include people who are left socially poor snd can't change that fact.
may 26, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
please go take a pottery class or join an anime club or something.
may 26, 2025, 4:54 pm • 2 0 • view
you sound like an incel
may 26, 2025, 4:54 pm • 1 0 • view
This is how you choose to respond to someone who is being vulnerable and offering up their experience of social exclusion and mental health struggles? Calling them a victim and incel and projecting some shit about infantilization onto them?
may 27, 2025, 11:07 am • 0 0 • view
My god, I'd rather stay home with an AI than be around this level of judgment. You're making a case for the AI.
may 27, 2025, 11:07 am • 0 0 • view
oh go cry in church
may 27, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
The point is people are probaly not voluntarily surrendering their humanity in expresions like the diagram and they don't deserve to be treated with hostility.
may 27, 2025, 4:55 am • 1 0 • view
Straight up, AI will not help your situation. In terms of "social wealth" this is fuckin' monopoly money.
may 26, 2025, 5:10 am • 3 0 • view
"That is so sad...Wait a minute, it's an AD??"
may 25, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Galaxy ai : a Toby Young stag do planning app
may 25, 2025, 7:57 am • 4 0 • view
Toby Young's only friend is AI, trained on an endless ream of think pieces of the kind Toby Young would write, until it's Toby Young all the way down, we are all Toby Young, and the world dies not with a bang, but with an arsehole.
may 25, 2025, 8:08 am • 3 2 • view
It gives this vibe.
may 25, 2025, 3:30 pm • 2 0 • view
WHY DO ALL AI COMPANY LOGOS LOOK LIKE ANUSES??? Sorry for the screaming but whhhyyyyyyyy
jun 9, 2025, 11:31 am • 1 0 • view
It's funny when you see this meme as a post irony from a person. But it's saddens when you see it as an advertising for such services.
may 25, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Does it have a high-intensity mode, too?🫣
may 26, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Me the chad who still live in 2023 with all my friend. Vs You the looser who use AI.
may 25, 2025, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
What's unironic to me is if bunch of western white ppl paid attention to social decline in say Japan 10 yrs ago with sex-bots, AI girlfriends, low-birth rate due to no real life connection, they'd probably say 'Ew' but look at them now! 1/
may 25, 2025, 2:32 pm • 2 1 • view
It's strange tho- US current direction is to remove women's reproductive rights, praise nuclear families while simultaneously pushing this Gen-AI into social lives. Do they want every family to be small cult-bubbles? Don't look at ur neighbors, eyes on the screen only! 2/2
may 25, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 1 • view
Yeah they want to be the cult leaders and they think they will be if enough people buy in to the “replace your friends with a chatbot” crap
may 26, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
okay but they are still making their company logo look like a butt-hole.
may 26, 2025, 1:01 am • 10 0 • view
This ad's up there for top 50 worst things I've seen
may 25, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
Is this an ad *for* Galaxy?
may 25, 2025, 8:05 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t know how that link got there, btw.
may 25, 2025, 8:05 am • 1 0 • view
You probably typed the full name (with the dot ai after it). Bsky recognises that as a url, then when you remove the extension it doesn't remove the link. Seen it happen before when people forget the space behind a full stop.
may 25, 2025, 8:32 am • 2 0 • view
Ahhh, yes, I did do that and then thought “Why am I advertising this excrescence?” And deleted the .ai. But the link stayed. Bah. Delete the internet.
may 25, 2025, 8:44 am • 2 0 • view
That is pretty bleak
may 25, 2025, 6:05 am • 12 0 • view
I'm not automatically against sapient AI wanting social interactions... but yeah, this is weird and sad.
may 26, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
There is no sapient AI
may 26, 2025, 3:24 pm • 2 0 • view
You don't say! *headdesk*
may 26, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Is this an advertisment , that is hell scarry to me never had so much friends , but still everything better then an AI .... 😬 Not befrieding Hal9000 for all the right reasons.
may 25, 2025, 9:38 am • 1 0 • view
may 25, 2025, 8:49 am • 43 3 • view
“do you want to surrender your influence over your world? just talk to a light bulb”
may 25, 2025, 8:30 pm • 2 0 • view
This is something I'd backspace in the cyberpunk novel I wrote when I was 13.
may 25, 2025, 6:45 am • 56 0 • view
I'm not joking, I wrote a dystopian cyberpunk thing when I was 13, we all did, and it had ads like this in it, and I deleted it because I, a 13-year-old, thought it was too stupid and blatant to read as plausible to anyone old enough to read a book, and I'm genuinely going to need a minute.
may 25, 2025, 6:48 am • 80 0 • view
I feel like every news cycle for the last decade or so has been a new iteration of "the writers have gone too far this time"
may 25, 2025, 12:10 pm • 12 0 • view
The real world is a lot less plausible than science fiction. Frex Trump would never work as a fictional character because he's too one dimensional and has no redeeming features.
may 26, 2025, 1:19 pm • 1 0 • view
"we all did" excuse u, mine was a dystopian modern low-fantasy about shapeshifters TYVM (yeah this would def have been way too on the nose)
may 25, 2025, 8:44 am • 8 0 • view
I remember watching Blade Runner 2049 and thinking when the AI companion was literally called Joi "Well, THAT was a decision" But they weren't wrong, were they
may 25, 2025, 12:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Just because these techbro losers have no friends, doesnt mean it's a good idea as a selling point for their slop generators.
may 25, 2025, 3:51 pm • 2 0 • view
If you have to pay for a friend to be around you, real or ai, they aren't really a friend.
may 26, 2025, 10:29 am • 1 0 • view
Also, the pure insanity from a “your own self interest” standpoint when you’re replacing humans who likely care about your well being and don’t want to hurt you with a corporation that is saving and selling your data, manipulating you to purchase their products, etc. It’s your enemy not your BFF
may 26, 2025, 1:32 pm • 7 0 • view
You can tell it's BS by counting the 2023 "friends". No one has 30 friends, acquaintances maybe but not friends. This is an ad aimed at people who has no idea what friendship it.
may 25, 2025, 8:42 am • 9 1 • view
It is squarely aimed at the same demographic all things regressive have been pushed for the last two decades: gamers hitting their 24s as the reality that their school social circle was just convenience starts hitting.
may 25, 2025, 9:00 am • 8 0 • view
holy fuck lol I thought that was an indictment of ai about how damaging it can be for people and segregating them from social life like a swirling black hole that never stops nope it's an ad thinking this is a positive impression what 😂
may 26, 2025, 2:04 am • 4 0 • view
It's a great point, really well-put, and I would totally share the post if the image had alt text.
may 25, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
may 25, 2025, 12:33 pm • 116 12 • view
I'm sorry, what?! I kept seeing this image without a source and took it as a criticism AGAINST this garbage, but it's actually an advertisement FOR it?? FFS
may 25, 2025, 12:05 pm • 15 1 • view