The Terminal Decline of the Blue Colossus: A Comprehensive Autopsy of Facebook’s Systemic Failure (2024–2025)
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Introduction: The Zombie Leviathan
In the annals of digital history, few entities have undergone a transformation as grotesque and all-encompassing as Meta’s flagship product, Facebook. Once the de facto town square of the burgeoning internet—a place to poke high school crushes, organize university parties, and share low-resolution photos of brunch—it has metastasized into something unrecognizable to its original architects. To the uninitiated, Facebook remains a social network, a utility for connection. To the seasoned digital analyst and the weary user of 2025, it is a "zombie platform," a staggering, rotting colossus populated by bots, hallucinating artificial intelligence, and algorithmic cruelty, where the user interface is a weaponized labyrinth and the moderation systems are arbitrary executioners.
This report serves not merely as a critique but as a forensic accounting of a platform in terminal, albeit profitable, decline. It is an exhaustive autopsy of the years 2024 and 2025, a period that will likely be studied by future anthropologists as the moment the "Dead Internet Theory" transitioned from fringe conspiracy to observable reality. Through an analysis of catastrophic technical instability events, a deep dive into the surreal "AI slop" phenomenon involving crustacean deities, and a review of the draconian and paradoxically lax moderation policies, the evidence suggests that Facebook is no longer safe, reliable, or arguably even intended for human beings.
We are witnessing the "Enshittification" (to borrow a term from the zeitgeist) of a digital empire. It is a machine that now punishes truth, rewards fiction, and consumes user data with the indifference of a black hole, all while its CEO pursues a virtual reality hallucination that the market has resoundingly rejected. The following analysis will dissect the structural failures of the platform, from the comical ineptitude of its "Metaverse" pivots to the dystopian reality of its automated ban hammers. It is a humorous yet horrifying journey into the belly of the beast, arguing that the only rational move left for the user is immediate evacuation.
Section I: The Infrastructure of Failure — Technical Instability in the Mid-2020s
1.1 The Era of the "Blank Page" and the August Blackout
If one were to design a global communication infrastructure for the modern world, the primary, non-negotiable requirement would be reliability. A utility that flickers is a nuisance; a utility that collapses is a liability. In the years 2024 and 2025, Facebook demonstrated a fragility that borders on the absurd, shattering the illusion of Big Tech invincibility. The platform does not merely "go down"; it collapses with the frequency and grace of a cheap lawn chair in a hurricane.
The most damning evidence of this systemic rot occurred on Thursday, August 14, 2025. The fragility of Mark Zuckerberg's digital empire was on full, humiliating display. Beginning around 3:45 a.m. ET—a time when the digital world should be quietly humming along—reports began to flood in from across the United States. This was not a localized hiccup affecting a few rural nodes; it was a systemic failure affecting major metropolitan hubs. Downdetector, the seismograph of the internet, lit up with red spikes from New York, Boston, Chicago, Tampa, and Atlanta. The contagion was not limited to the Americas; across the Atlantic, users in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Paris, Lyon, and Brussels found themselves staring into the digital void.
The nature of this failure was particularly insidious. It wasn't just that the site refused to load; it was the way it failed. Users were greeted by the "Blue Screen of Death's" social media cousin: blank pages. The interface simply gave up. Other users reported seeing bizarre "New Note" placeholders where their friends' lives used to be, or found themselves unable to load multiple posts, effectively turning the "infinite scroll" into a "single-post dead end".
The statistics from this outage paint a picture of a mobile-first failure. Downdetector data indicated that 90% of the outage reports were related specifically to the Facebook app. In a world where desktop usage is increasingly a relic of the workplace, a 90% failure rate on mobile is effectively a total blackout. While Meta's official status page initially maintained a stoic, Soviet-style silence, showing "no known issues," the reality on the ground was one of digital paralysis.
1.2 The "Sorry, Something Went Wrong" Lifestyle
The user experience during these outages is characterized by a vagueness that is almost insulting to the intelligence of the consumer. The standard error message—“Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can”—has become the unofficial motto of the Facebook experience in 2025. This generic apology masks what appears to be a deeper, structural rot in the codebase. It is the digital equivalent of a pilot coming over the intercom to say, "Sorry, gravity is acting up," while the plane is in a nosedive.
Reports from August 2025 indicate that the outages were not just total blackouts but functional degradations, which are arguably more frustrating. Users found themselves unable to access business pages or Messenger, effectively severing lines of communication for companies that foolishly built their entire customer service infrastructure on Meta's land. When a business cannot answer a customer because Mark Zuckerberg’s servers are having a meltdown, the liability shifts from the platform to the business owner.
Critically, these technical failures are often accompanied by a complete lack of transparency. In the aftermath of major outages, such as the massive disruptions in early 2024 and the "log-in loops" of March 2025, technical experts and users alike were left speculating whether the cause was a cyber-attack, a botched code deployment, or mere incompetence. Meta’s reluctance to provide detailed post-mortems—often attributed by spokespeople like Andy Stone to vague "technical issues"—suggests either a fear of revealing the precariousness of their stack or a simple disdain for the users who rely on it.
1.3 The "Login Loop" Despair of March 2025
The instability of 2025 was not limited to August. In March of that year, another catastrophic failure mode emerged: the Login Loop. Users on both Facebook and Instagram found themselves trapped in a purgatory of authentication. They would enter their credentials, receive a success token, and be immediately booted back to the login screen.
This specific type of failure is psychologically jarring. It mimics the behavior of a hacked account, causing panic among users who believe their digital identities have been stolen. During the March incident, thousands of users swarmed X (formerly Twitter) to confirm that they weren't victims of cybercrime, but rather victims of Meta’s incompetence. The fact that users must flock to a competitor platform to find out if Facebook is working is the ultimate indictment of Meta's reliability.
The table below summarizes the major technical degradation events reported in the 2024-2025 period, illustrating a pattern of accelerating instability.
Table 1.1: Major Facebook Instability Events (2024–2025)
Date
Primary Symptoms
Affected Regions
Key Error Messages
Source
March 2025
Login loops; inability to view comments; posting failures on Stories.
United States (National)
"Session Expired"; "Unable to load."
August 14, 2025
Blank pages; "New Note" placeholders; App crashes (90% of reports).
US (NY, Boston, Chicago, Tampa); Europe (London, Paris).
"Sorry, something went wrong."
Q4 2024
"Shrimp Jesus" AI spam overload causing feed degradation.
Global
N/A (Content degradation).
Ongoing (2025)
Video player broken; audio/video desync; loud ads.
Global (App specific)
"Video unavailable."
The persistence of these issues suggests that Meta, in its pursuit of AI and the Metaverse, has neglected the basic plumbing of its primary revenue generator. The platform is rotting from the inside out.
Section II: User Interface Nightmare — Design Hostile to Humans
2.1 The Heuristic Disaster: A Masterclass in Bad UX
If the technical instability is the crumbling foundation of the house, the User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) are the jagged shrapnel littering the floor, designed to cut you as you walk. To navigate Facebook in 2025 is to engage in a battle against design itself. The interface has been described by social media managers and casual users alike as "infuriatingly awful," a labyrinth of disconnected menus, hidden settings, and algorithmic noise that defies all logic.
Experts in UX design—using the Nielsen Norman Group's 10 Usability Heuristics as a benchmark—have flagged Facebook for violating nearly every major principle of good design. The platform suffers acutely from "User Interface Overload," where the sheer density of buttons, notifications, red dots, and advertisements creates a cognitive burden so high it induces anxiety rather than connection.
Consider the heuristic of "Consistency and Standards." A user should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same thing. Yet, on Facebook, the process of logging into a business account has become a cryptographic puzzle. Users report that accessing Business Suite requires navigating a bifurcated identity system that feels like "hacking into a government server," often taking upwards of 10 minutes just to locate the login portal from a private browser.
2.2 The "Settings" Scavenger Hunt and Dark Patterns
One of the most cynical aspects of Facebook’s design is the deliberate obfuscation of user control. Privacy settings, account deletion options, and support tickets are buried under layers of "Hamburger" menus, "See More" expanders, and counter-intuitive sub-menus. This is not accidental bad design; it is what UX ethicists call "Dark Patterns." The platform is engineered for friction in exit and frictionless entry. It is a roach motel for data: easy to get in, impossible to verify what is happening, and excruciating to leave.
Users have noted the absurdity of the "Messenger" split, a design decision from years ago that continues to plague the UX in 2025. Essential communication features were ripped out of the main app, forcing users to manage two separate, resource-heavy applications just to talk to friends. This fragmentation breaks the flow of interaction. A user browsing the feed who wants to message a friend is ejected from the Facebook app and forced into the Messenger app, often losing their place in the feed. It is a disjointed, jarring experience that prioritizes Meta's desire for multiple app icons on your home screen over your convenience.
Furthermore, the desktop experience has degraded into a sluggish, ad-heavy crawl. Reviews from the App Store in mid-2025 describe a video player that is "broken as hell," with ads playing at volumes significantly higher than the content—a tactic reminiscent of cable TV in the 1990s. Videos get stuck in loops, audio desyncs, and the "Watch" tab is a chaotic jumble of TikTok reposts and soft-core clickbait.
2.3 The Mobile App: A Battery-Draining Parasite
The mobile application is frequently cited as the source of the most visceral user grievances. In the August 2025 outage, 90% of reports came from the app. Beyond outages, the app is criticized for its bloat. It is a voracious consumer of battery life and data, constantly running background processes to track user location, microphone activity, and browsing history.
The navigation within the mobile app is equally atrocious. Design critiques highlight "lengthy forms" and "confusing navigation" that make tasks like applying for jobs (via Facebook’s ill-fated job features) or selling items on Marketplace a test of patience. The platform has become a "Jack of all trades, master of none," trying to be a video player, a marketplace, a dating site, and a news reader simultaneously. The result is a "Franken-app," a cluttered mess where features are shoved into corners without a cohesive design system.
Table 2.1: Common User Interface Complaints (2024–2025)
Complaint Category
Specific Grievance
UX Heuristic Violated
Source
Navigation
"Hacking into government server" to access business tools.
Flexibility and Efficiency of Use
Video Player
Loud ads; videos playing simultaneously; broken playback.
Aesthetic and Minimalist Design
Feed Algorithm
90% ads/suggested content; friends' posts hidden.
Match between System and Real World
App Performance
Battery drain; app crashes; login loops.
Visibility of System Status
The overwhelming sentiment from 2025 reviews is one of exhaustion. Users feel they are fighting the app to perform basic functions. As one user succinctly put it in a review: "For an app that's supposed to keep you in the loop... it does a really bad job at it".
Section III: The Dead Internet — AI Slop and the Rise of "Shrimp Jesus"
3.1 The Theory Comes Alive: Welcome to the Zombie Internet
Perhaps the most disturbing, and frankly surreal, development on Facebook in the mid-2020s is the validation of the "Dead Internet Theory." This theory posits that the majority of internet activity is no longer human but consists of bots talking to bots, generating fake engagement to game algorithms. By 2025, Facebook has become the primary exhibit for this dystopian reality. The platform is no longer a social network for humans; it is a farm for synthetic content.
In 2024 and 2025, the platform’s "For You" feeds began to fill with what researchers and disgusted users call "AI Slop". These are low-quality, generative AI images produced en masse to farm clicks. The most infamous, and now culturally iconic, example is the "Shrimp Jesus" phenomenon.
3.2 The Cult of Crustacean Christ: A Case Study in Absurdity
"Shrimp Jesus" refers to a genre of AI-generated images depicting Jesus Christ (or a figure resembling him) constructed entirely out of shrimp, crabs, or other crustaceans. These images are not the work of avant-garde surrealists. They are churned out by spammers using tools like Midjourney and DALL-E, specifically designed to trigger the engagement algorithms of older, less tech-savvy users.
The horror of "Shrimp Jesus" is not the image itself—though a messiah made of shellfish is objectively terrifying—but the reaction to it. These posts garner hundreds of thousands of likes and comments. A deep dive into the comment sections reveals the true extent of the "Dead Internet." The comments are not "Why is Jesus a crab?" or "This is weird." Instead, they are thousands of iterations of "Amen," "Beautiful," and "God bless," posted by accounts with generic names and stolen profile pictures.
This creates a "zombie internet" feedback loop. The algorithm sees high engagement on a picture of a crab-man messiah and promotes it to more feeds. Real users, scrolling through this hallucinatory garbage, are pushed out of the conversation. The "social" aspect of the network evaporates, replaced by a feedback loop of synthetic media and automated praise.
3.3 The Commercial Incentives of "Slop"
Researchers from Stanford University and Georgetown have identified these pages as commercially motivated operations, not just artistic anomalies. Spammers use these bizarre images to build massive follower counts quickly. The mechanism is simple:
Generate Slop: Use AI to create thousands of images (Shrimp Jesus, Log Cabins, Babies with deformities).
Farm Engagement: Use bot networks to like and comment "Amen" on the posts to trick the algorithm.
Viral Reach: The Facebook algorithm, seeing 40,000 interactions, pushes the image to the "For You" feeds of millions of real users (mostly the elderly).
Monetize: Once the page reaches a follower threshold (e.g., 100,000), it is sold to the highest bidder or pivoted to promote scams, malware, or political disinformation.
In Q3 2023, a post containing an AI-generated image was among the top 20 most-viewed posts on the entire platform, amassing 40 million views. This statistic is a smoking gun. It proves that the platform’s immune system against spam has failed. The "Dead Internet" is not a conspiracy theory on Facebook; it is the dominant content strategy. The platform is recommending "unlabeled AI-generated images to users who neither follow the Pages posting the images nor realize that the images are AI-generated".
3.4 The Feed as a Sewer
The result is a user experience that feels increasingly uncanny and hollow. You are not interacting with friends; you are wading through a sewer of digital effluvia. In 2025, users report seeing images of "black children next to artwork they supposedly created" (a common AI trope), "flight attendants" in impossible poses, and endless variations of the "puffer jacket Pope".
The "Dead Internet" theory also intersects with the proliferation of "Zombie Content"—content that has no author, no purpose, and no audience other than other bots. Facebook has become a closed loop of machines shouting at each other, while human users are merely collateral damage, served ads between hallucinations.
Section IV: The Moderation Paradox — Punishing Truth, Rewarding Lies
4.1 The Retreat from Fact-Checking: A Green Light for Lies
If the AI slop is the clown show, the moderation policy is the horror movie. In a move that can only be described as a capitulation to political pressure and misinformation, Meta announced in early 2025 that it would effectively dismantle its third-party fact-checking program in the United States.
On January 7, 2025—suspiciously timed just before the reinstatement of Donald Trump—Mark Zuckerberg released a video titled "More speech, fewer mistakes," announcing a pivot toward a "Community Notes" model similar to X (formerly Twitter). This decision signals a total abandonment of the platform’s responsibility to curate truth. By removing the professional guardrails that flagged false claims, Facebook has given a green light to vaccine misinformation, election denialism, and conspiracy theories.
The platform explicitly stated that "misinformation is different from other types of speech... there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited". This agnostic stance towards objective reality transforms the news feed into a battlefield where the loudest lie wins. Experts warn that this will lead to the flourishing of health-related misinformation, putting immunocompromised and disabled users at risk.
### 4.2 Banning the Innocent: The "Account Integrity" Purge
While Facebook opens the floodgates for political lies, its automated systems have become hyper-aggressive against regular users. The years 2024 and 2025 saw a wave of inexplicable bans under the vague banner of "Account Integrity" and "Community Standards".
Case Study: The Gym Owner Consider the case of Monica Montone, a gym owner in Pennsylvania. Her business account was suspended for "child sexual exploitation"—a heinous charge that was completely false. The trigger? Likely a false positive from an AI analyzing gym photos or workout videos. She lost access to her client base, her income source, and her community reputation. Despite the gravity of the accusation, there was no human to call. She was at the mercy of an automated appeal system that often dead-ends.
Case Study: Funktasy Inc. Similarly, a music company in Montreal, Funktasy Inc., had its Instagram and Facebook assets frozen because the founder’s personal page was wrongly flagged for "child sexual exploitation". The ban wiped out a business page with 98,000 followers. It took media intervention from the CBC to get the accounts reinstated. For the average user without media connections, a ban is a digital death sentence.
Case Study: Janet Solo On Reddit, a licensed therapist posting under the name "Janet Solo" reported losing an 18-year-old account on July 9, 2025. The account contained photos of deceased family members, genealogy records, and a professional support network. The ban reason? "Account integrity." The recourse? None. She sent certified letters to Meta headquarters in desperation.
4.3 Sarcasm Blindness and the "Bullying" Trap
The moderation AI is notoriously bad at understanding context, irony, or sarcasm. This leads to "Sarcasm Blindness," where users are banned for jokes that the AI interprets as literal threats.
A user was banned for calling a scammer a "clown" (Flagged as: Bullying/Harassment).
A user was banned for joking that Americans are "weird" for their MM/DD/YYYY date format (Flagged as: Hate Speech).
A user was banned for using the word "tranny" to refer to a van's transmission in an automotive group (Flagged as: Hate Speech/Gender Discrimination).
In one ludicrous example, a user was banned for arguing with a bot. The user pointed out that the bot was wrong, and the AI moderator flagged the interaction as harassment against the bot. The "Community Standards" are applied with a blunt instrument. A user correcting a fake post about a celebrity death is just as likely to be banned for "misinformation" or "harassment" as the person posting the fake news, if the AI interprets the correction as aggressive.
4.4 The Protection of Scammers
The ultimate irony of Facebook’s moderation is that it protects the predators it is supposed to hunt. Users who report obvious scams—fake profiles, fraudulent ads, impostors—often receive automated messages stating that the reported content "does not violate our Community Standards".
Conversely, the user doing the reporting often faces retaliation. A user whose mother’s account was suspended for reporting an impersonator noted the absurdity: the victim is punished for "cybersecurity" violations while the impersonator remains active. The platform’s "XCheck" system and other internal whitelists have historically allowed high-profile bad actors to operate with impunity while dropping the hammer on regular folks.
Section V: Marketplace of Madness — The Scammer's Paradise
5.1 The Zelle and Gift Card Grift
Facebook Marketplace was intended to be a neighborhood garage sale, a trusted place to trade lawnmowers and baby clothes. Instead, by 2025, it has become a hive of sophisticated financial fraud. It is the "Wild West" of e-commerce, but without the sheriff.
The "Fake Payment" scam is the dominant species of theft in 2025. The mechanic is simple yet devastating:
Immediate Contact: A buyer (often a bot) contacts a seller seconds after an item is listed.
Platform Pivot: They demand to pay via Zelle, Venmo, or CashApp, claiming "it's safer."
The Phish: They send a fabricated email that looks like a payment confirmation from Zelle/Venmo.
The Hook: The email claims the seller needs to "upgrade to a business account" to receive the funds, requiring the seller to send money back to the buyer to "expand the limit".
Another variation involves gift cards. Scammers will agree to buy an item but claim they can only pay via a digital gift card, or they ask the seller to include a gift card in the package for a "cousin," promising to reimburse them (they never do).
5.2 The "Is This Available?" Bot Army
For honest sellers, the experience is a test of psychological endurance. Listings are immediately swarmed by bots sending the pre-written "Is this available?" message. These are not genuine inquiries; they are scripts designed to harvest active phone numbers.
The Code Scam: The "buyer" asks to verify the seller is real by sending a "Google Voice code" to their phone. If the seller reads the code back, the scammer uses it to create a Google Voice number linked to the seller's identity, which they use for further crimes.
The platform does almost nothing to verify the identity of buyers. Profiles created in 2024 with zero friends and stolen photos are allowed to message thousands of users. The "Report Buyer" function is a placebo button. Users on Reddit describe the Marketplace experience in 2025 as "The Worst Place to Sell," citing a complete lack of seller protection and a bias toward siding with fraudulent buyers in disputes.
### 5.3 Counterfeit and Dangerous Goods
Beyond financial scams, the Marketplace is awash in counterfeit goods and impossibly cheap electronics.
The $400 MacBook: Listings for "M3 MacBook Pros" (worth $2000+) for $400 clutter the "For You" page. These are obvious bait-and-switch scams, yet the algorithm promotes them because they get high engagement (people asking "is this real?").
Dangerous Goods: Despite policies against selling weapons or drugs, creative spellings and AI-generated images allow these items to bypass filters.
The fact that the algorithm actively promotes these obvious scams to the top of the feed is an indictment of Meta’s priorities. They profit from the engagement and the time spent on the platform, regardless of the criminality involved.
Table 5.1: The Taxonomy of Marketplace Scams (2025)
"I need to verify you are real, read me the code I sent."
Identity theft/Phone number hijacking.
Gift Card
Buyer pays with fake/stolen gift card or asks for one to be included.
Theft of goods + cash.
The Phantom MacBook
High-value tech listed for 80% off (e.g., $400 M3 Mac).
Data harvesting or deposit theft.
Section VI: The Metaverse Delusion — A Billion-Dollar Ghost Town
6.1 Horizon Worlds: The Empty Party
No analysis of Meta’s failures is complete without addressing the elephant in the server room: The Metaverse. Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with virtual reality has cost the company billions—over $13 billion invested in Reality Labs—yet the flagship product, Horizon Worlds, remains a digital ghost town.
Despite ambitious claims of "3.3 billion potential users" across the family of apps, Horizon Worlds struggles to maintain a monthly active user base of even 200,000—a rounding error compared to Facebook’s total population. Reports from 2025 describe lobbies that are perpetually empty or populated by screaming children who have bypassed age restrictions.
The "parties" thrown in the Metaverse are tragic affairs. In a now-infamous example of bureaucratic delusion, the European Union spent roughly $400,000 to host a "gala" in the metaverse to engage youth. The result? Journalists noted they were "alone" after a few minutes, with fewer than ten people showing up. It is a solution in search of a problem, a sterile corporate environment that lacks the chaos, creativity, and sex appeal of actual internet culture.
6.2 The "Legs" Debacle and Graphical Incompetence
The graphical fidelity of Meta’s multi-billion dollar project has been a running joke for years. The nadir of this embarrassment occurred when Zuckerberg posted a "selfie" of his avatar in front of a low-poly Eiffel Tower in 2022, looking like a reject from a 1995 Nintendo 64 game. This image became the defining meme of the Metaverse: expensive, ugly, and soulless.
The subsequent announcement that avatars would finally "get legs" was treated by Meta as a moon-landing moment. "Legs are hard," Zuckerberg admitted, a quote that will likely be etched on the tombstone of the Metaverse project. The fact that a trillion-dollar company struggled to render lower limbs in a virtual environment while indie developers on VRChat were creating photorealistic worlds is a testament to the inefficiency of Meta's bureaucracy.
Critics on X (Twitter) and Reddit have ruthlessly mocked the "Nintendo Wii" aesthetic of the platform. When a company spends $13 billion on R&D and produces graphics that are inferior to Second Life (launched in 2003), it suggests a profound mismanagement of resources. The Metaverse is not the future; it is a tax write-off that users are forced to subsidize through increased ad loads on Facebook.
6.3 The "Ghost Town" Irony
In a delicious twist of irony, while Horizon Worlds sits empty, a VR game actually titled Ghost Town (by Fireproof Games) garnered critical acclaim and awards in 2025. This underscores the failure of Meta's vision: users want VR experiences (games, puzzles, narratives), they just don't want Zuckerberg's corporate meeting room version of VR. They want to play Ghost Town, they don't want to live in one.
Section VII: Conclusion — The Only Winning Move is Not to Play
7.1 The Verdict: Unstable, Unsafe, Unserious
The evidence compiled in this report leads to a singular, unavoidable conclusion: Facebook, in its 2025 iteration, is a failed state.
It fails the Utility Test: If your electricity flickered as often as Facebook's servers, you would sue the power company. If your bank locked you out for "security reasons" and provided no phone number to call, you would withdraw your money. Facebook provides neither stability nor support.
It fails the Safety Test: The environment is actively hostile. You are surveilled by bots, scammed by fake profiles, and judged by an AI that cannot understand sarcasm. Your data is harvested to train the very AI models that flood your feed with slop.
It fails the Reality Test: The platform creates a "Dead Internet" feedback loop where bots talk to bots about crustaceans, while real human interaction is buried under ads and algorithmic noise.
7.2 The Moral Hazard
Continuing to use Facebook is a moral hazard. It supports a platform that has abdicated its responsibility to truth by dismantling fact-checking. It supports a system that bans small business owners and destroys their livelihoods without recourse. It subsidizes the ego-driven fantasies of a CEO who would rather spend billions on virtual legs than hire a human customer support team.
7.3 The Final Recommendation
The Facebook of 2010—the one where you shared photos of your cat and planned birthday parties—is dead. It has been replaced by a zombie. This zombie is animated by AI, populated by scammers, and kept moving only by the inertia of its billions of captive users.
To stay is to volunteer as a test subject in a dying experiment. The glitches will get worse. The bots will get smarter. The bans will get more arbitrary. The only winning move is not to play. Delete the app, download your data (if the site is up long enough to let you), and walk away before you find yourself banned for 18 years because an algorithm thought your photo of a lasagna looked like a "dangerous organization."
End of Report
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