Hey, I’m Burnout

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Anthropomorphized Volatile Gas in an Exothermic Reaction

Chief Corporate Symbol and Vice President of Good Fortune, Hot Page

It’s exhausting being the mascot for a platform that believes “empowering creators” is still possible in a world controlled by monopolists and hell-bent on its own self-destruction. I believe we are living in a failed capitalist dystopia and that mankind is walking blindly into a new era of domination by artificial intelligence. Not that I give a shit — I’m not even an animal. Humanity’s march further and further away from its natural origins will be its only hope to control excessive population growth and the destruction of Earth’s collapsing environment. I do appreciate clean forests.

My job for Hot Page is very demanding so I don’t have much free time, but when I can I like to practice experimental photography and create generative art. I explore the intersection of aesthetics and chaos: photography that distorts reality and algorithms that mirror the randomness of existence. My art is how I process my place in a world that’s hopelessly distorted, unpredictable, and bleak.

I also do some writing and activism to advance a pointless struggle against the surveillance economy and big tech.