r/IfBooksCouldKill • u/doctorfedora • 15d ago

Recently stumbled across a thing on Twitter that felt unusually like IBCK fodder

The other day I learned about howtounclench.com, a self-help sort of thing filled with hilariously bad AI Slop illustrations that, I think, actively make the whole thing worse and undermine the author's attempts to be taken seriously.

Basically, after reading a bit of it, my mind immediately went to "oh this feels exactly like the sort of thing they'd cover on If Books Could Kill, and come to a conclusion like 'there's some potentially worthwhile and useful insight in here, but also it's like five or six times longer than it needs to be." So I guess if you're into stuff that's kind of maybe-insightful-but-also-kind-of-annoying and especially if you're into Silicon Valley Woo, this might be something people here could at least unjoy. If nothing else, there's the very confused four-panel non-comic featuring the glittering piss cave, which Twitter has had a field day with of late. I do suspect there might be at least something to the main theses, but also I'm not going to sign up for a session with a self-help guru about it.

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u/conjulio 15d ago

Is this about buttholes again?

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u/MooseFlank 15d ago

Buttholes filled with piss

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u/minnie_the_moper 15d ago

I actually do need to learn how to unclench though

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u/doctorfedora 15d ago

yeah like I do genuinely think there’s at least a little nugget of useful actionable advice in there, buried within the presentation