## The Digital Hoarders and Their Precious Pixels
Honestly, folks, you can’t make this stuff up. Apparently, scarcity breeds… well, *more* absurdity. We’ve moved past Beanie Babies and Pogs, haven’t we? Now, a smartphone with a temporarily unavailable app is suddenly worth more than my car? Seriously? People are pawning off iPhones simply because they have TikTok installed, raking in the profits like digital gold prospectors. It’s breathtakingly… predictable.
This whole situation perfectly encapsulates everything that’s wrong with modern consumerism. Remember when technology was supposed to liberate us? Connect us? Now it’s a commodity ripe for speculation, fueled by fleeting anxieties and the desperate need to feel *in* on something, even if that “something” is just watching teenagers lip-sync badly.
I bet some of these eBay sellers are sitting around in their basements, cackling maniacally as notifications ping about bids escalating. “Yes!” they’re probably exclaiming, “My slightly used iPhone with a popular video app is now worth more than my dignity!” It’s the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that would make Scrooge McDuck proud, if Scrooge McDuck also spent his fortune hoarding obsolete technology.
And let’s not forget the irony! These are the same people who probably complained about TikTok being addictive and eroding society just last week. Now they’re exploiting a temporary ban to turn a profit? The hypocrisy is almost… charming. Almost. It just proves that when it comes to money, principles tend to evaporate faster than your privacy settings.
The entire spectacle serves as a stark reminder: in the digital age, even fleeting trends can be monetized by people who clearly have too much time and not enough common sense. Bravo, internet. Bravo.
