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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2021
You said "my For You page knows me so well".
It knows you're awake and lonely at 2 a.m. That's not a gift. That's data.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You have 47 tabs open. Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a…
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- They're taking time away from social media. You know because they posted about it…
- Fortnite was free to play. It was not free to stop.
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