the temu app will be studied for generations.

[groxx@hachyderm.io]

@Readinglover @mo @cabel it's the biggest competition Amazon has at this point afaict. So yeah, huge. Consider it the tiktok of shopping.

[licho@kolektiva.social]

@argv_minus_one nah, it's probably mostly generated at this point @cabel

[ewhac@mastodon.social]

@cabel I guess we now know where all those devs laid off from King and Zynga ended up...

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@cabel Do I never see stuff like this because I don't own a smartphone, but use a lap top ?

[crabby@mastodon.world]

@cabel

' the fuck is that ?

[smolbrain@floofy.tech]

@cabel coming across this before I saw the text

Me: Can we have tumblr
Mom: We have tumblr at home
Tumblr at home: temu mastodon

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

I've seen casino slots less desperately flashy than this

[cactuarjoe@retro.pizza]

@ewhac @cabel Was just thinking that looks like the world's most predatory mobile game. Yikes.

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

@cabel i picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@cabel looks like the demo reel on a slot machine in vegas when it's not in use. Disgustingly amazing. Like a piece of shit you can't stop looking at because it looks vaguely like something else.

[sam@shonk.sam.ax]

@Violet@chitter.xyz @cabel@social.panic.com this reeks like some rather unsavoury "gamification as a service" company, I’ve seen a few of them shoehorned into existing things but nothing this egregious

[sam@shonk.sam.ax]

@Violet@chitter.xyz @cabel@social.panic.com also if thats the "2026 easy mode" I don't want to know what the "2026 hard mode" is

[bill@gts.dootzone.win]

@cabel not a unique observation but overhead someone the other day describing it as shopping for gambling addicts

[synnef@woof.tech]

@cabel the ai generated mailman (?) at the end is just the cherry on top

[usernameswift@labyrinth.zone]

@cabel Every time I think that it's finally over, it just keeps going

[javascript@app.wafrn.net]

@cabel@social.panic.com

Dark pattern after dark fucking pattern.
Imagine the chain of workers that must have happen for this to exist. The psychologist, the graphic designers, the motion specialist, the developers making it smooth. Humanity's greatest. All leading to this.

When somebody asks me about "innovation under capitalism" I'll show them this video.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@justincox @cabel marketing teams pays millions for "gamification"

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@cabel and people like this? and peole accept this?

[mewsleah@meow.social]

@sam @Violet @cabel that's when you actually try to buy a train ticket

[alice_pea_3526@mastodon.social]

@cabel Holy sensory overload. This is unbearable for me to watch. This is an accessibility issue for someone like me. I can't have too many flashy things where they don't belong. Many of those animations animations make me nausious.

What do they think their app is, a slot machine in a casino or something?

If there isn't already a reason for me to avoid Temu like the plague, there is now. Lord have mercy...