So this was the plan all along… get a nationally-syndicated comic strip, corrupt the youth and bug parents all across America. We’re onto you, Water-son.
As someone who legitimately likes the idea of cooking but rarely does it ^and^ ^uh,^ ^has^ ^a^ ^sous^ ^vide^ ^gathering^ ^dust^ this sounds like it’s 100% for me. I subscribed!
I’ve started doing a modified version of this too. If there’s any kind of roadblock in front of the content, I’ll ask myself to be honest about how important it’s likely to be to me… and maybe like seven or eight times out of ten I’ll just close it and move on, no regrets.
I apply this thinking to captchas as well, though my skip rate is probably a bit lower.
Here’s one I started planning but never got around to actually pulling off. My team had recently moved from Windows to Mac, had a habit of leaving for lunch at the same time and for some reason never, ever locked their screens.
The prank would go like this: I’d grab a copy of a classic Mac emulator, a System 7 disk image and copies of all the Adobe apps circa 1980-whatever, so that they would come back from lunch one day to find all their beefy new Macbook Pros “downgraded” to looking like this, complete with working Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.