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The Internet is Being Broken on Purpose - illphated - 08-22-2025
The Internet is Being Broken on Purpose
Some days it feels like the internet is actively trying to drive you insane. Not in a small way — not in the “oh, the Wi-Fi is a little slow today” way — but in the “I think someone designed this to break me” way.
Look closer and you’ll see the patterns. The world’s biggest tech companies are quietly turning the web into a digital torture chamber.
- Copy and paste doesn’t work anymore. Ever try to copy text from a site only to discover it’s blocked, broken, or full of invisible junk code? Suddenly you paste it somewhere else and it looks like hieroglyphics.
- You’re mysteriously logged out. You just logged in five minutes ago, but the site demands you start over. Did you forget your password? Too bad — you’re not you anymore until you prove it.
- Two-Factor Authentication hell. Punch in the code. Wrong. Punch in again. Expired. Try again. Locked out. The same company that remembers everything you do for 20 years somehow can’t remember that you just verified yourself five seconds ago.
- The Spinning Circle. You know the one. It goes around and around like a hypnotist’s wheel. Not an error, not a crash — just a limbo designed to waste your time and test your sanity.
- “Oops, something went wrong.” No details. No explanation. Just the cold shrug of a trillion-dollar company saying: We control your access to the digital world, and we don’t even have to tell you why we’ve denied it.
Big Tech has figured out that frustration is control. Make the user mad enough, desperate enough, and they’ll accept any “solution” you throw their way — biometric scans, proprietary apps, pay-to-unlock “premium” support. Or maybe they’ll just give up their independence entirely and live inside your ecosystem, because at least it “works” there.
It’s the same trick casinos use: keep you agitated, keep you hooked, keep you spending. Only now it’s not chips on a felt table — it’s your time, your data, your sanity.
And here’s the conspiracy nobody wants to admit:
They want you broken. They want you clicking like a lab rat. They want you trapped in a maze of logins, broken copy-pastes, fake errors, and spinning circles until you’re too numb to resist.
The internet used to be a frontier. Now it’s a prison with invisible bars.
So the next time you see that cursed little pop-up — “Oops, something went wrong” — remember: it didn’t just “go wrong.” It was designed that way.