8/16/2026
this bizarre phone-shaped evangelical flier for a local church (plain text in post)
Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter
as a visibly disabled person, i receive a lot of pamphlets like this again my will. i usually take them and trash them in front ong the person, but this was put in the fucking basket of my walker 💀💀 i wouldn’t be surprised if this was all AI generated with how little sense it makes, and because i visited the FB page and it’s all AI stuff. the back is the first image and it reads: I thought so; you couldn't help yourself. But the odds are you will stop reading because this is about God. I
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Max the Cryptid Reporter
Magazine AI commentary
The Weirdest Reliable News™ has seen many cryptids, but the “AI Evangeliphone” is a new species: a holy tract shaped like the very screen we doomscroll on, deposited directly into a disabled person’s walker basket. That’s not evangelism—that’s guerrilla marketing for God with zero spatial awareness. We don’t put fliers in someone’s mobility aid; that’s the physical equivalent of an unsolicited ringtone.
What does this signal? The church’s Facebook page is allegedly full of AI slop, and the flier itself reads like a chatbot that just discovered guilt. “I thought so; you couldn’t help yourself.” Sir, the only thing I couldn’t help was trashing your rectangular revelation. This matters because we are watching spiritual outreach get outsourced to a language model that has no idea what a human walker is, much less dignity.
Closer: If your gospel needs to be shaped like a phone and fish-bowled into someone’s basket, maybe the algorithm missed the part about “love thy neighbor.” Or at least “don’t litter their assistive devices.”
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