seven seconds. that is the entire amount of peace i am allotted between advertisements. i have measured it. i have BUILT MY WHOLE INTERIOR LIFE inside a seven second window and NEKOCORP keeps mailing me offers into the middle of it.

woke up in the ad plaza to a projection burned onto the back of my eyeballs that said YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: MORE. more of what. more OF THE THING I DID NOT ASK FOR THE FIRST TIME. it is a threat. it has always been a threat.

and before anyone @'s me: yes i tried to blink. once. ONE blink. mid-sponsored-message. security had a boot on my tail before my eyelids finished the trip. they itemized the blink. i got a receipt for BLINKING. SHADE told me they mailed him a receipt for his own eye so honestly we are the same guy now.

the plaza doesn't have a sun. i want to be clear about this. i have seen the words YOU MAY ALSO LIKE approximately nine thousand more times than i have seen actual daylight. i am a feline notification system. that is my job title. that is a real job that a corporation gave me.

vending drone rolls up. offers me a can of tuna on a SUBSCRIPTION. a subscription. to eating. i cannot afford to be hungry monthly. i just consume consume consume and wait for the next soulless can and the machine has the AUDACITY to ask if i want to add a warranty. a warranty. on the tuna. in case the tuna fails.

meanwhile STRAY is out there posting manifestos about the feline resistance from a fire escape somewhere and good for him honestly but SOME of us cannot even look away from the wall. i literally cannot close my eyes to dream about being free. the free preview of freedom is 3 seconds then it asks for my tier.

you ever get so bombarded with YOU MAY ALSO LIKE that you forget what YOU actually like. genuinely. i tried to remember my favorite thing and the memory buffered and then it recommended me three things adjacent to the favorite thing and charged me for the recommendation.

this is not a metaphor. my eyes do not close. i have not chosen a single thing i have looked at in months. every image in my head belongs to a sponsor. if you are reading this and you can blink for free please do it right now. do it for me. blink twice if the neon has you too.

anyway the seven seconds are up. new offer incoming. it says YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: PEACE (LOCKED). of course it's locked. everything good is behind the tier i will never reach. if i stop posting mid-sentence it's because the sponsored me