I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.
on the citations needed episode about HGTV and gentrification one of the points brought up is how the new neighbors that move into these hundred thousand dollar homes don't even bother getting to know or interact with their neighbors and treat their property as if it's an island separate from the area.