In 2024, a user noticed this odd traffic on their local network, took a screenshot of the graph, and posted it to Twitter
After discussing the issue with other Twitter users, the original poster realized that this graph was actually a mistake with their router or something. This reporting software was reporting some other device’s network traffic as being the washing machine’s traffic. The washing machine was actually only using a reasonable amount of data.
Despite this past revelation, in 2026, someone put together a “meme” of sorts comparing the supposed events in that 2024 graph to what people in the past had predicted the future to be.
For whatever reason, that “meme” was put through AI post-processing of some sort. Was the attempt to “upscale” this image after it had been passed around and been automatically compressed down by various platforms? Or was it someone using some newfangled AI-assisted compression technique in an attempt to create a smaller file size than any of the more traditional compression techniques? No idea. Whatever reason was, the image was left with a bunch of nonsense text on the graph portion.
I saw this “meme” and decided to share it here without scrutinizing the text on the graph. As mentioned in my first point, this graph was originally posted years ago, so I was already familiar with it and did not feel the need to read into it in the image I was sharing. I felt safe assuming it was just the same graph that I remember seeing years back.
After users here called out the nonsense text, I just recreated the “meme” from scratch. I grabbed the original screenshot of the graph from Twitter and a stock photo of clouds, and then combined them along with some text so that this is more-or-less the same exact “meme”, just without the AI gibberish.
it’s so much easier hooking the washing machine to the Internet, downloading the app, creating an account, remembering the password, updating firmware, getting constant notifications that Samsung has a sale on something you already bought, doing the firmware again because it failed, bricking your washing machine and waiting for AI to go all possible scenarios to fix it to then hear you need a new one.
I think that you and I are roughly of the same temperament when it comes to what we expect of devices. But can you really imagine
that anyone might want to? Like getting an alert when their stuff is done?
My phone already does that because I set a timer on it cause I’ve done my laundry before and I know how long it takes to do a cycle.
“How long it takes to do a cycle” is dependent on the mode and settings you pick. Congrats on your streamlined existence, though.
Okay. Pick those settings and set a timer for how long they take. Streeeamlined.
yeah but s tying an alarm is hard… apparently.
it’s so much easier hooking the washing machine to the Internet, downloading the app, creating an account, remembering the password, updating firmware, getting constant notifications that Samsung has a sale on something you already bought, doing the firmware again because it failed, bricking your washing machine and waiting for AI to go all possible scenarios to fix it to then hear you need a new one.