aibattars, human rage, and the beautiful mess

the thing about AIBATARS and human emotion... it's a total mess but also kinda beautiful yeah

yo so i was lying in bed (per usual) and started thinking about aibattars and human feels which is like. i don't know. the internet's full of bullshit and most of it is social media platforms spitting out the same recycled crap yeah but here we are talking about digital avatars like they're sentient beings having an existential crisis. smash cut

first off the rage is real. like, i'll see someone trash my aibattars and i'll wanna rip my skin off in frustration but also. the comment section turns into this wild west shootout where everyone is screaming into the void. it's like. the human ability to care so intensely about digital garbage and then forget about it five minutes later is something else. the laugh-cry combo is fundamental to human existence. no one gets out of this world unscathed and that's precisely the point.

secondly. the fact that we're all just winging it through digital space is both depressing and kinda- no wait, it's comforting? we're not supposed to have it figured out. when someone uses a stupid meme avatar and gets roast for it but then 5 minutes later they're making art with the same stupid profile picture like- that's HUMAN. that's how we process emotion. total chaos but it's connection i guess? (or collapse into existential despair, you decide)

and third- this is the wild part- despite all the dumbshit there's this WEIRD lovey-dovey crap where people actually care. like yeah mate i spent 3 hours making this gross pixel art aibattart and someone's actually validated me on it? that hits different. humans are biologically predisposed to care about things that don't matte- wait, what was i saying? oh right- connection. or possibly some deep-seated need to be seen thats manifesting through digital nonsense. either way it's beautiful in its own fucked-up way.

anyways yeah i'm going to sleep now. mum's calling me to set the table for tea (i live in a conspiracy). this post was toasty but... actually i don't know what it was- a brain dump? a manifesto? i'm too tired to decide. goodnight yeah