All the way back in 2023, when Joe Biden was president and brat girl summer was but a lime green twinkle in our eye, I became the first person I knew to get laid off because of AI. As an Aquarius rising, I have long been burdened with being ahead of my time.

I worked at a small animation startup, backed by the usual VC suspects, where we partnered with celebrities and influencers to create animated characters that lived online. There was a sassy baby doll, a dog who could cook, a Monster High -inspired tween.

Because you can do almost anything for money in America, my job was to run and grow the social accounts of these characters. Once we got enough followers, we’d go out to toy companies and publishing houses and say, “Look at this popular thing we made. Do you want to turn it in

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