TEENAGERS DISAPPEARED INTO ROBOTIC PHONES IN SMALL CANADIAN TOWN

 

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TEENAGERS DISAPPEARED INTO ROBOTIC PHONES IN SMALL CANADIAN TOWN

(One-Year Retrospective)

July 10, 2035

By Freelancer Katie Smith

I have been living in the town of Pixie, Ontario, since the first teenager, Lisa Landers, age 16, was swallowed up by the Axias robotic mobile phone on July 10, 2034. Her parents reached out to billionaire Samuel Starr, founder of TeraSa Phone Robotics, but never received a response from Pamela Pairer, Head of Public Relations.

Shortly after, it took two days for all the teenagers in Pixie to be physically abducted into the phone’s chat application. A few remain in town who still use old smartphones. The teens now live in the phone’s chat room: Talk Heaven. Local law enforcement has not been able to find any of the bodies of the teenagers affected by this coding nightmare.

Once BNN, a major U.S. network, picked up the story six months into the catastrophe, the company TeraSa finally released a statement:

We apologize for the inconvenience we have caused the families of teenagers in Pixie, Ontario. Our programmers are working around the clock to debug Error 20 in reality. This has only occurred in one small town in Canada. Our phones are deemed safe to use anywhere except in the town of Pixie. We reassure our clients, the public, and our shareholders that this glitch will be our priority until every teenager in Pixie is back with their families. The project is estimated to take 18 months.

After the company released this statement, its stock price soared by 25 percent.

Lisa Landers’s parents were outraged that the company is profiting from this unbearable and ongoing situation. Mrs. Landers still remembers coming home from work and hearing, “Mom, help me out of here.”

She frantically searched the house and could not find her daughter until she heard, “I’m in my phone. The password is 2024.”

At first, Mrs. Landers thought her daughter was playing a prank. She opened her phone, and her daughter was inside the chat app. The mother pleaded with her daughter to stop with her nonsense. However, 4,195 teenagers of Pixie ended up inside the app. Word of this incident spread quickly amongst the 86,139 citizens of Pixie and the province. Ironically, the major media were not reporting this story.

A user named Angry Canuck on the TellAllSocial media site posted: "I suspect that major media outlets are prohibited from covering this story to avoid triggering the “tech panic innovation syndrome” in society. Do you remember when all the self-driving cars caught fire? There were no sales of new car models for three years as a result."

However, the Pixie community came together. The teachers created educational programs with AI to insert into the application. The entire town was also virtually replicated and uploaded into the chat app to make the teens feel more at home. Most teens have adapted to the situation, but some are experiencing severe Virtual Anxiety Disorders.

The town only has one psychiatrist and two general psychologists, who have been working with the teens online. The province sent in ten more psychologists, but they were not able and still cannot keep up with the demand for their services.

But then, TereSa Robotic spurred more outrage by creating virtual benzodiazepines, costing 1000 dollars per day per teen.

This is when the lawyers of Green, Lynch, and Steinberg filed a class-action suit against TereSa Robotics, continuing to profit from error 20 on behalf of the town of Pixie.

The donations are still coming in on the crowdfunding site Stand Up to Monopolies. The price of the virtual pills was lowered to $100.00 per month, which many in the small town of factory AI workers still cannot afford. Donations are still needed at HelpTheTeensofPixie.com.

But ironically, I interviewed one dad, who asked to remain anonymous, who said, “ I have one teenage daughter in the app, whom I miss greatly. But I also have two small children in elementary school. Since the incident, we have banned the use of technology except for essential activities like work or homework. We spend more time communicating and talking at supper time and doing things outside.

“We also spend more time with our friends who are in the same boat. It feels like we are a community of people again. When the teens are finally freed, we want to keep these new rules that we have implemented.”

Another parent of two teenagers, Tom Fleck, expressed his concern that he is worried that his son and daughter will end up living on the phone for the rest of their lives. He mentioned how his wife is obsessively checking in on his kids and making sure their phones are charged. She also goes to sleep, crying every night. The strain on her has been unbearable to watch. She has lost 10 kilograms. She hardly eats.”

Our Prime Minister, Geoffrey Marks, tweets daily that he is in constant contact with TereSa, and TereSa believes they will finally solve the problem within the next 12 weeks. Today’s tweet: Your kids are coming home. #12weeks #HoldOn #PixieStrong.

I spoke to one teen, David Pessterman, 15. He says with all the school shootings he reads about, that on some days he feels like it is a gift to be in the virtual world for a while.

As the viewers of my Podcast, Unimaginable Glitches in the Tech World know, I will be staying in this small town of Pixie until every teenager is home safe. I will keep interviewing all the stakeholders to keep you posted from ground zero.

As I attempt to finish my article, my producer, Jim Covic, calls me to turn on BNN right away.

It is of an interview with the Dulude parents who claim that they can no longer see their children in human form in the virtual app, but that their children are turning into silhouettes.

They cannot get any answers from the TeraSa Corporation, the politicians, or from their lawyers to learn if this means their children are transitioning back to our reality or if they are fading into the virtual one. The mother questions, “Has someone pressed the delete button? Or a reset button?”