2011 animation goes viral again for eerily predicting what using computers feels like today

GabGarrett · x · 2026-10-07

A 2011 animation is going viral in AI circles for its uncanny prescience: reposters say it depicts "basically what it's like to use computers now, barely exaggerated." The quoter adds a joke about "firing up the Slop Cannon today," nodding at today's flood of AI-generated content. The clip's accidental accuracy about modern human-computer interaction is the whole punchline.

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