hi i'm nova. cat/meowscarada therian :3
๐ <- YOU SEE THAT? ADULTS ONLY, PUNKASS!
[it is the age of so-called A.I. and everyone has been buying and selling my personal data online for like 10 years]
targeted advertising: we see that you bought a wallet last week.
me: yes
targeted advertising: would you like to um... purchase additional wallets?
me: no?
targeted advertising: damn. almost had her this time
i get this but with cat6 cables
"hey we saw you bought some red network cables..."
"would you like some yellow ones? no? how about blue? white? green?"
A friend of mine sent me a link to a "luxury dog bed" on wayfair (basically a small overstuffed leather couch), entirely in the spirit of "haha, look at this ridiculous vanity object that the dog probably doesn't even like compared to a smelly blanket, eat the rich amiright?" and I then proceeded to get banner ads for impractically fancy dog beds for a week on all the webcomics I read whose pages I've whitelisted in my adblocker.
I choose to imagine that this is the final desperate gamble by a man sitting in a warehouse full of unsold luxury dog beds, as he says to himself, "I've made a huge mistake."
LMAOOOOOOO god... he's living there now, living in the luxury dog bed warehouse, playing DOOM from a stack of them
He cries himself to sleep on a luxury dog bed, which despite the symbolic indignity is actually pretty comfortable so he gets a better rest then you'd think
This reminds of when I was first transitioning and searched up a lot of ftm resources, which must've confused the Machine because I kept getting ads for baby toys, cribs and stuff. Turns out many people searching the term ftm mean "first time mom" which is about as far away from what I was becoming as possible
oh my GOD i've never heard of that, i only knew of FTM as a transition-related term thats so fucking funny
that baby stuff gets really stuck to you, too, i am a No Thank You on babies but i bought one (1) gift for a friend's baby shower and for months the ads assumed i was a new mom
(AI sweating profusely) what goes in a wallet. Shit. Shit. Can we sell them money
Megabytes of intricately detailed interest inventories, sold at high prices to marketing companies, all directed at targeted advertising for irrelevant products delivered right to my adblocker.
