After a busy day making trees appear and making boxes disappear, I have fifteen minutes until my new favourite programme of the moment, Taskmaster, is on TV. I know that it’s awfully old-fashioned to be tied to a TV schedule when there are so many new-fangled ways of accessing visual content, but sometimes we need to go back to our roots and those halcyon pre-streaming times; to remind ourselves to stay grounded in this age of on-demand satisfaction.
Talking of on-demand satisfaction in the digital age, here are a couple of absolutely corking observations on that very theme:
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This one, via The Guru, brilliantly documenting our need for instant digital gratification via social media, what happens when we fall short of the mark (as we nearly always seem to do), and how there is still (real) life after no likes.
By the light of a phone screen, a little egg created a social media account.
One Sunday, the warm sun came up and — snap! — out of the egg emerged a very thirsty caterpillar, who posted an artfully disheveled selfie #wokeuplikethis.
And then this tweet, which simply explains what happens when things go right for any of your given posts, tweets or ‘grams:
Please press the button. I’m always in need of TGC.
And that’s why I’m off to watch Greg and Alex now.
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Thanks. Again.]