Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Controversial NYC subway ads advertising an AI pendant aiming to simulate friendship have gone viral. Friend.com has spent over $1 million on 11,000 ads, and you've probably seen pictures of ads being vandalized on social media. Let's talk about it.

My video about not belonging: youtu.be/oTE-QBJAETs

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Credit to @shadokurosu for the gameplay footage: youtube.com/watch?v=EIdyGt6xHiQ (no, I am not the one pwning Oogie Boogie here!)

Art at 6:06 is by N. Esther Adebi and me. Her Instagram: instagram.com/magnificloud