this is gonna end with both of them dying

By coincidence the Euphoria series finale just aired, and there's a relevant bit of text in the Guardian's review:..

Beyond the distracting shootouts and drug cartel wars, season three of Euphoria was at its strongest when it reflected the increasingly nihilistic world young people are consuming online, where they’re being raised to believe that they either have to be the hunter or the prey. As the show ends with the American flag rippling in the wind, I was reminded of Trick Mirror – a 2019 book of essays by Jia Tolentino, where she argues that scamming is becoming central to American life. Tolentino writes that to be American is to learn that “one of the best bids a person can make for financial safety” is to get “really good at exploiting other people”.

In other words, this manga is more than just a toxic relationship, it's the entire streaming ecosystem, globally.

This critic’s read of Jia Tolentino is basically asking a personal question she could not have any possible insight into, like what influencer is making her kids tie other children to lampposts. How is scamming just “becoming” central to American life? Historically it’s been very profitable to just lie to people and say you have what they need, and strivers coming to a land they have no real connection to are going to be a particularly lucrative source of income for this kind of thing. Almost every regulatory body and protection the US has is a response to this, and with the sanction of corporations - the more monied and sophisticated of the swindlers. This is par for the course, not an aberration, these regulations are sclerotic by design and the American middle class does not have the power it did once for a very brief time 80 years ago or the power it thought it did for like 70 years after that. But that has nothing to do with this manga, which is about what is happening to the Rizzler right now, and it has nothing to do with Euphoria, which is a show about hating younger women for getting naked or not getting naked enough depending on how you’re feeling about your relationship with your father that day

This is fair, though my impression is that scams contribute more to economic growth in general than what we were used to. Right now the hottest thing in the hottest sector which is tech, is Gen-AI. A few years ago it was the metaverse and crypto. I'm calling these scams because even their claimed benefits to consumers are bogus. Fake products and fake services; for devastatingly high costs in the case of gen-AI. And I think all of this is related to the manga because even before I came to the comments, I got a pretty dystopian feeling from it.

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ank0 posted:

this is gonna end with both of them dying

most people do

A short but memorable story, with a deliberately unbalanced power dynamic that distinguishes it from many other yuri stories of the genre.

Isn’t Euphoria a eroge?

Bruuutal. It's rough that the office lady wants the vtuber real bad but doesn't seem to love her even a little.

the writer knows how to make a captivating story, wow

oh wow this was very fucked up, very well written and drawn tho

i missed pitch black kuw8ra

another dog girl x stoic girl

Thank you for uploading. I really enjoyed it. It’s a kind of classic entertainer story where a guy tells a naive young girl she’s gonna be in movies and brings her around to gravure shoots and his dealer’s house except it’s for the promise of like, a brand deal with an acne scrub that gives you psoriasis and the journey is contained to a random corporate lesbian’s apartment. This happened to me

...? What sort of a job you were doing that you have to go to...
random corporate lesbian's apartment??????Wow. I have so many ???? In my head now

What is random corporate lesbian's apartment anyway??????

Anyway..
The short really fits the anthology.
It hurts to see someone manipulate a girl like that.

But sometimes I do wonder what I'll do if I was Koyoki san..

Like I would ask her to take up some part time jobs instead.
So while doing a main job, she can also do her favourite stream
(Do it because you love to do, not because of fame.Fame is something that's..not within our control. It comes like a spark, like something..um..how do I say..like a lucky star that accidentally just dropped to you but should never get addicted to it)
If I have a main job as my main income source.. I'll lend those for her (but only when I could afford)

Yeah.. she should tell her to get a main job then stream as how she wants as her hobby so she can have both...

Because to me, she already pursue her dreams
You see.. didn't she work hard upgrade her model, or start doing vtube?
That's part of a dream..
Craft it slowly..
Like the way to talk, what to talk etc..

I'm sure..one day she'll be able to do it well.

Oh wait, I'm getting out of topic.
Sorry..

I'm sorry for Temu san.
I'm sorry...

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