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My sleep was disrupted this morning by this annoying sound coming from the phone of my sister who decided to sleep in my room last night. Alarms are aggravating. The unnerving sounds that phone made this morning made me so angry. But I didn’t take it out on her. Her phone went off three times. Each time those sounds screeched into my ears, she decided to press snooze. Ten minutes later, the same sound went off. Another ten minutes later, and it was the same thing.
I know she uses it to wake up in the morning and not be late for her job, but wow! I can’t. It was so annoying. Which leads me to my second point!
Watching TikTok and YouTube and scrolling through Reddit and Twitter used to be fun… until ads came along. Were ads always this bad? Every single time I open one of these apps, my eyes are bombarded with ads. I’m not okay with ads. I never was okay with ads back when marketers actually used to put effort into selling you something, but nowadays I find them even more disgusting. Their quality has significantly decreased and they’re glaringly bad.
Just because you have the budget to continue advertising what you’re selling doesn’t mean you’re actually selling something. You’re just annoying people into remembering the dumb name you gave your game and the intrepid, unoriginal characters that are most definitely knock offs from other games. Wait a second… I think this is an actual strategy of theirs. I think they want to bore us and bombard our minds into remembering their stupid, banal, and boring games. And I’m not bashing any one game company or developer. I’m just stating what I’ve observed when I was scrolling on TikTok the other day.
Every single industry these days poach content creators and pay them a couple of cents to preach to their audience about your stupid lipstick, game, or clothing brand. It’s very annoying. I hate how people who work all day turn to these apps to let some steam off of their stressed brains, only for them to watch their favourite YouTuber spewing some nonsense about the company that sponsored their video. I get that many YouTubers need sponsorships because their literal job is to make money off of videotaping their own mundane lives and making it seem like its actually interesting, but something needs to change. We need to stop allowing these companies to take advantage of our time. They already made us addicted to their apps. We need to draw the line somewhere.