Engagement and surveillance engineering

You did not choose to stay. The interface was designed so that leaving costs more effort than scrolling.

The interface was designed by someone who wanted something from you. The design is the argument.

You pulled to refresh. The reward came sometimes. That was enough to keep you pulling.

The outrage was the crop. You were the field.

The post was not written to inform you. It was written to make you angry enough to share.

The platform did not pick the loudest voice because it was right. It picked it because you could not look away.

You did not choose the rabbit hole. The feed chose it for you, one small step at a time.

You searched once. The feed gave you more. The more got darker. The darker got normalized.

You were not censored. You were simply never shown the other side, and the silence felt like consensus.

Your post was not removed. It was simply buried, and no one told you.

It read your face before you finished speaking. The reading was not for your benefit.

You are not the customer. You are the raw material, and your behavior is the ore.

The message found you because it was built for you. It was never meant to be seen by anyone else.

You did not agree. You surrendered. The banner was designed to outlast your patience.

No one broke in. No one asked a judge. Someone just bought what was already for sale.

The model remembered what it was fed. What it was fed was you.

The exit button was there. It was small, gray, and easy to miss next to the other one.