Black Mirror and the technology-driven anxieties it portrays seemed to be everywhere last year, but sometimes the minutiae of daily plugged-in life can be just as unsettling as a porn ring fueled by stationary cyclists. BuzzFeed recently created Black Mirror IRL, a Vine series of tech mishaps that happen to everyone. The results... are harrowing.
Black Mirror scenarios on Vine reveal the horrors of real-life tech mishaps
Your worst nightmare in 6.5 seconds
Your worst nightmare in 6.5 seconds
There’s the sharp grip of despair that comes after you swipe left on your Tinder soulmate:
And the queasy suspense of hanging in text-response limbo forever:
And the red-hot confusion that stems from desktop chaos:
The only thing that’s missing here is the real-life terror that is Rand Paul on Snapchat.
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