I think multiple generations need to pass before the population has any immunity to this sort of thing.
Unfortunately the scams will continue to develop in sophistication also.
My paternal grandma died last year. And my dad remarried in 2017.
Not really enough time for his new wife to establish much rapport.
Dad had always been a Mama’s boy and lived most all of his life clinging to his mom’s skirts anyway.
Yet when grandma died it was the new wife who casually sent me a picture taken with her phone of my grandma’s corpse in the hospital bed.
Horrifying, and very inappropriate. All of this is to say that I can relate to your situation and no, you aren’t overreacting.
It’s AI. The trend du jour is uploading a picture to ChatGPT and asking it to recreate it in Studio Ghibli style.
This guy is a LinkedIn comedian.
Why else would anyone be on LinkedIn?
I would like to sit naked in a bog, eating leaves, and sleep in a tree dreaming of nothing at all.
I mean, go and do that now then.
Yet the line south of Texas is inviolable, sacred, a proud bulwark…
You may not want to hear this but if this describes you it simply means you’re an uninteresting person.
Airplane. Dodgeball.
I am prepared for your animosity.
Photopea also!
Change my name to Horatio.
The world would collectively chuckle at my/our stupid reference.
It’s great for the first few weeks , maybe a month or two.
I graduated in September, job searched through December, finally signed a contract, but I don’t start until April. I am counting down the fucking days, my dude.
hamberder*
Nanomachines, PUER
Wait, I remember this kid. What video was he from again?
Having finished graduate school in September, I will be starting my new job soon, and pitching in (voluntarily) at the workplace until then is a refreshing change. It’s nice having something to do.
Verily