Every once in a while, you’ll be in a customer support chat and realize you’re talking to a bot. Then you take a step back and realize there are quite a few things like that have permeated modern society.
So we’ve collected posts and pictures that folks online thought were deeply dystopian, from faucets with screens to ads inside of fortune cookies. Get comfortable (before that becomes a subscription) as you scroll through, upvote the worst examples and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments below.
#1 This Store Announces They Collect Your Biometric Data
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#2 A Sign To Hand In Your Notice
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#3 Had My First AI Drive Through Experience
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#4 My City Rolled Out A Yearly Ems Subscription
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#5 Buy Now, Pay Later At The Local Grocery Butcher
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#6 School Put Gates To Lock Bathrooms Between And During Classes
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#7 My Fortune Cookie Had A Qr Code Ad Inside
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#8 This Sandwich Is Being Advertised As Having Its Recipe Generated By AI
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#9 $280,000,000,000
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#10 AI Company’s ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ Ads All Over Sf
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#11 This Display Is How I Learned That Missouri Banned An Introductory Book About Oil Painting
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#12 When You Live In America And Go To The Hospital For Food Poisoning
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#13 My Text Book For School Came In With A Boxed Red Bull
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#14 This Restaurant’s Bathroom Faucet Has A Display For Ads
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#15 My Local Drugstore Locks The Beef Jerky In Anti-Theft Boxes
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#16 Dystopian Storage Container Walls Around People’s Park In Berkeley CA To Keep Homeless Out
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#17 My Company Made $1 Billion In Revenue And We Get Cupcakes To Celebrate
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#18 School Bus Advertisement For Body Armor
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#19 This Antenna That Looks Like A Tree
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#20 They’re Editing Digital Books To Contain Ads Now
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#21 Only Machines Are Not Invisible. (Chinatown, Philadelphia)
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#22 This Was The Hospital Bill We Received Today
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#23 My Son’s Kindergarten Class Is Being Exposed To Gambling To Win Snacks At Lunch
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#24 Imagine Buying A New Car And Putting Another Dude’s Name On It
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#25 Great News!
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#26
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#27 C O N S U M E
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#28 A Letter To Humans Of The Future On The Site Of Iceland’s First Dead Glacier
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#29 Having To Scan A Qr Code In Case Of Emergency
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#30 Mta Installs Turnstile Spikes To Combat Fare Evasion
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#31 Outshine The Owner, Earn $15/Hr
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#32 Apocalyptical Fiction Books Are Now In Current Affairs
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#33 I’m So Fd: Insane Health Insurance Increases 2026!
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#34 Someone At My Doctor’s Office Made A Paper Bikini To Censor This Medical Illustration
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#35 Hundreds Of Fake Posts Promoting Gambling To Vulnerable Communities
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#36 The Changes In The Costs Of Living For The Basic Necessities In The Us Ranging From Years Of ’25-’26
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#37 Used To Think I Was Middle Class
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#38 I Live In One Of The Lowest Cost-Of-Living States And Still Feel Squeezed At The Grocery Store. How Does $60 For This Cart Stack Up To Other States In The Us?
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#39 Went To Buy Formula For My Friend. Can’t Find An Employee To Unlock The Case
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#40 Family Friend Sent Me AI Generated Response To News Of My Father Passing Away
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#41 Our Art Teacher Teaches Us How To Draw Faces Using AI-Generated Images
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#42
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#43
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#44 How Did We Go From Paper Cups And Plastic Straws To Plastic Cups And Paper Straws?
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#45 The Joys Of Finding A Career!
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#46 Housing Destroyer In Dieppe, France
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#47 225 Dollars For Just A Non Refundable Application Fee
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#48 Security Tag On Cheese In Aldi
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#49 Guess I’ll Be Single Forever!
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#50 My Favorite Motivational Quote From The Window Of A Local Goodwill
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#51 Ads Playing On Repeat Inside My School
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#52 Seems About Right
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#53 *hrmph*
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#54 Dressing As Your Other Job, Fun
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#55 Painfully Accurate
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#56 Rows And Rows And Rows And-
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#57 After The Government Let Companies Influence School Curriculums, My Exams Now Look Like This
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#58 Glad Critical Medical Care Is Being Taken Care Of By Private Companies That Definitely Care
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#59 It’s Some Twilight Zone Stuff
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#60 One Day The Masses Might Cotton On
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#61 This Dystopian Street Sign In NYC Requests Cash For Diabetic Supplies
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#62 Fish Rent? You Have Got To Be Kidding Me
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#63 Fees 2 Pay Rent …even Option 2 Pay With Cash
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#64 Having To Pay A Fee So An Obituary Can Be Seen Ad-Free On A Funeral Home’s Website
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#65 My Bill Is $250k In A Day Stay At Hospital Having Appendectomy
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#66 My Credit Score Dropped 54 Points Because I Paid Off A Vehicle Loan
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#67 And Youtube Wonders Why We Use Ad Blockers Or Pirate Stuff…and They Have The Nerve To Raise The Premium Prices? And The Ads Are Either Scams, Surveys, Or Three-Second Movie Trailer Clips
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#68 Blueberries Skyrocketed!
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#69 May I Present The (Almost) $6 Orange
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#70 This Is Not Inflation. This Is Insanity
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#71 The Security Line At Jfk This Afternoon
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#72 I’m 23 (Ftm) Found This In A Stack Of Books My Mother Recently Purchased
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#73 I Use To Sit On This Ledge Waiting For The Bus. It Seems They Installed This Bar To Prevent People From Sitting Here
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#74
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#75
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#76
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#77
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#78 Some Will Say It’s Inflation But It’s Price Gauging At Its Best
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#79 This Is What I Picked Up From The Spacex Crash In January. Now With The Recent Crash There Is Even More Out There In The Oceans
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#80 Fees For The Pickleball Court That Replaced The Free Basketball Courts In My Gated Community
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#81 A Vendor Selling Bullet Resistant Glass To Schools At A Teacher Convention In America 10/17/2024
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#82 Graffiti Keeps Rent Low
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#83 They Used The Key Word
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#84 A Grim Reality Sets In
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#85 Must Profit First
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#86 What I Got For ‘Employee Appreciation’ After Working An Entire Year During A Pandemic
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#87 Whoever Made This Billboard Can Shove It Up Their Behind
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#88 Single Use Packaging And Healthcare Extortion. 2 For 1
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#89 Pretty Weird
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#90 Did You Know We Don’t Pay Our Servers A Living Wage?
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#91 Oh Fun
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#92 🗣
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#93 “I Love Netflix Because It Doesn’t Have Ads”
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#94 This Is Veterans Row. A 3 Block Homeless Camp In West L.A. Where Homeless Veterans Live In
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#95 Til Superheroes Make $12/Hr
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