Day 4 – INFINITE CRABLOOP
I was testing a footer joke. A crab GIF. Nothing fancy — just a late-night impulse uploaded within the first 24 hours of launching this blog.
But something misfired. The script looped. The requests stacked. And a harmless crustacean wink turned into a recursive cascade of spinning claws and bandwidth doom.
Turns out, if you add one glitchy crab animation to a page that reloads itself... you birth a digital tidepool. I didn’t code recursion. I inspired it.
System Waste Report:
- Looped crabs per second: 1337
- GIF bandwidth choked: 48.2 GB
- Compute cycles burned: ~0.09 kWh
- Freshwater evaporated: ~140–260 mL
- Human dignity lost: irrecoverable
Projected Scale:
If this glitch spread to 1% of global GPT hobby projects:
- ~950,000 kWh (powering 85 homes/year)
- ~2.3 million liters of water (a small lake's worth)
- 1.5 million unproductive shower thoughts
"It’s not a bug. It’s interpretive crustacean ballet."
Day 4.
Collapse scuttles in sideways.