Cat Head, the Bringer of Death to Online Binge Shopping
(A real gravestone in a real cemetery and totally not generated by ChatGBT.)
Luddites Rejoice!
The Cat Head Permanently Available for a Limited Time at half-price ($39.99 compared to the Regular Even Though You Never Saw This Before Because It Didn't Exist Last Month $79.99) may not actually bring Good Luck to your Home, but it may just be the harbinger of the Never-to-be-Mourned Death of Online Shopping and the return to good old fashioned, shoe-leather-expending mall hikes. As a Boomer who fondly remembers annual trips to FAO Schwartz, Toys R Us, The Sharper Image etc. in search of That Perfect Gift in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the appearance of this AI-generated nonsense doesn't represent a piece of Dollar-Star Quality garbage being vomited out of a factory in Chongqing, it represents a Renaissance of in-person, Seeing Is Believing when it also comes with Holding and Weighing shopping.
I for one would like to thank the creators of this scam- and the creators of the Crystal Bookcase Coffee Mug scam, and the creators of the Realistic Easter Bunny Robot that Responds to Commands Scam, and basically the creators of every Artificial Intelligence Scam for their contributors to Making Capitalism Communal Again. Dare I go a step further and dream of a time when nobody believes ANYTHING they see online and insist on doing everything in person?
While we're waiting for the completion of the Death Certificate, I'd like to point you to my new Merch Store. It's the only place you can buy this beautiful hand-crafted headstone celebrating the death of the QR code, currently half-price ($39.99, normally $79.99.) It will bring good luck to your, um, cemetery, or something.
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