Teeth Study

Illustration by me for MIKE!

An explainer for why I don't fuck with algorithmic social media

If you give a pigeon a little button to peck that releases pigeon food, it will push the button when it's hungry.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food every 5 pecks, it will peck it more often.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food at a randomly selected, always shifting number of pecks, the pigeon will peck that fucking button all day long.

Algorithm based social media is not set up to give you the best most fun stuff all the time, it is set up to give you a bunch of stress and nothingness with a randomized reward of something that actually makes you happy, because they want you pecking that button all damn day. It is a slot machine of content, meant to keep you putting in quarters made of your time and attention till you've nothing left.

At least if I'm having a shit day on my own Tumblr home feed it's because I've made a bad choice about who to follow and I can fix it.

photos from 08/24/2024

The Amazing Digital Good Place!

[[THE GOOD PLACE SPOILER]]

some ref sketches from late 2022

2018

hand reference sketches from 2022

webp. more like wet ppee.

also on bsky

i need everyone to see these panels from the monster high howilday haunt comic

edit: for everyone asking if this is real/where you can get it, yes it is real! i got mine at my local comic store