r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dannylopuz • 17h ago

Ruined by Technology This viral post about enshittification is fake

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Why do people keep falling for this?

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u/StaticSystemShock 14h ago

Why do people look at this shit and somehow still manage to miss the message by obsessing over some irrelevant detail? The fact that everything is getting enshitified is not a new thing. And we all know it's just getting worse. This may be an exaggerated example made with image manipulation, but in general I've seen this irl. Those soldiers in 1968 probably came in a box each in its individual compartment in the box, because plastics were a novelty and they really put more effort into making them. Now they just stamp these in millions of pieces cheaply in China and dump them in a cheap bag and off it goes on the shelves. That's the message.

Also, just because something has Ai marking, no one knows what was the actual manipulation. Was it just cropped, was it just added text, are all the images made up, which is it?

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u/Hoshyro 14h ago

To be fair, if someone used AI to crop an image instead of opening the editor and dragging two lines they deserve the hate.