Screen Scowler Gifts

A frowning man looks at a smiling screen

The Googler

ZOOM 'n' GLOOM.

"The batteries in his TV remote died. The shock of not being able to use it for two minutes has put him in a temporary state of shock."

"I'm bored."

"Since he got that thing, he mostly just kills time."

'It was a real scroller. I couldn't put down my screen.'

'John is watching the game under protest.'

A baseball player is too busy checking his smartphone to catch a ball.

"Honey, are we watching TV or is it watching us?"

Technology and literature

Romans.

'They might as well sleep all day - all they do is stare at that screen.'

A sign outside a bookstore reads: "Meet the people in the bookstore cafe staring at their laptops 2-4 p.m."

Nethead strip: Over doing the time spent on the computer

"I'm charging you with texting and driving."

"That's a zombie, alright. But he's the worst kind. He doesn't eat brains, he eats data."

"Today I'm going to search and scroll and swipe and binge."

Better Living Through Technology

Are you going to read a book the whole time? That's so rude!

"You've searched every streaming site there is and the best you can come up with is Gilligan's Island?"

Are you still on strike, tv? That depends, master. Depends on what? On whether you still want me to find "Cop Rock" reruns. If you won't show it to me, I'll just catch it on YouTube. No you won't, master. Your phone and iMac have joined me in solidarity. Elon Musk was right about artificial intelligence ruining everything. Btw, I just googled you, and it seems "master" is not actually your name.

50% looking at phone, 50% looking for phone

'You're not interrupting anything...the four of us are just sitting around before dinner...Barbara, me and our two phones.'

"I have to get this project finished."

"If I admit I'm bored with looking at my phone every minute of the day, will I be considered a traitor by my generation?"

"Can Ethan come out to swipe and scroll?"

Why god isn't listening...

"Wanna go scroll on our phones at the gym?"

No caption (A cat watches different security screens all with images of mouseholes).

'Watch the news with the sound turned off. You're suffering from information overload.'

'Will this job requirer me to look up from my phone?'

'I occasionally need to read my tweets to remember what I was doing.'

Worshiping the TV.

"I can't...I mustn't...I shouldn't...I needn't....but I will."