There’s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms, misinformation, polarisation, mining and misuse of personal data, environmental negligence, tax avoidance, the list goes on. Added to which, Silicon Valley’s leaders seem all too keen to cosy up to the Trump administration, to shower the president with bribes – sorry, gifts – and remain silent about his worsening political overreach. And that’s before we get to the rampant “enshittification”, as the tech writer Cory Doctorow describes it, which means that by design many big tech products have become less useful and more extractive than they were when we originally signed up to them.
The image comes from a 1997 episode of the Pokémon anime, but it didn't become a viral reaction image until 2018, according to Know Your Meme, when fans began pairing Pikachu’s blank, open-mouthed stare with captions describing obviously avoidable outcomes. It quickly became a universal punchline, transcending Pokémon entirely. Today, Surprised Pikachu isn't just a Pokémon meme. It's internet shorthand.
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