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Some people prefer a more communal experience when sitting alone at a keyboard exchanging lies with a complete stranger. We provide that to them.

— Mike

Two small blank-key keyboards sit beside two empty glasses on a wooden surface with blue reflections.
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The speaker offers a shared setting for people who are individually alone at keyboards. Describing their messages as lies gives this promise of company a cynical edge. The humor comes from selling connection while speaking so bluntly about its limits.

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