Dystopian Story: "Touch Grass" Means Watching AI-Generated Nature Docs
moultano · x · 2026-08-25
A user shared a dystopian story concept where the colloquialism "touch grass" evolves to mean watching a BBC nature episode—or an AI-generated one. The twist is that it remains genuinely therapeutic simply because paying attention to something calm for an hour is unprecedented in their daily media consumption.
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