After seeing this handheld pixel filter prism on Twitter, I'm haunted by an insatiable urge to pixelate everything in my home

There was an earlier time on the internet where it felt like there was a constant stream of little tchotchkes and gadgets to stumble upon and develop intense fixations over. I'm not sure what changed—learning firsthand how tight disposable income is probably had a part—but online trinkets don't hit like they used to.

Now, the only trinkets I see are what surfaces from the homogeneous soup of nerdy Etsy products and this one ad that inflicted me with the knowledge that there's a niche market of dudes who want to buy beard straighteners. But today was different.