Nobody left to notice or greet this poor, lonely, green alien

July 2nd, World UFO Day -It's hard to believe that anyone reports UFO sightings these days

The reason why no one sees UFOs anymore

Phones are like parasitic alien organisms

Phones abducting everyone

See? I told you they wouldn't notice us...

It's called a 'selfie-arm', something humans developed before extinction in the 22nd century

...And then, in 2020 our smart phones got so smart they kicked us off the planet!

What's the point of being afraid of the zombie apocalypse when you're already a zombie?

Cellphone zombies

The problem is not COVID-19... It's SMOMBIE-20

Zombie Apocalypse - What we think it looks like, What it really looks like

Zombies or moths?

Study - Cellphones change kids' brains, kids using phones are zombies

Alone in a crowd of cell phone zombies

Cell phones are not a sign of power, they're a sign of subservience - Doug Pappas

Alone in public transport with cellphone zombies

Cell, a novel by Stephen King (2006)

There's zombies everywhere! We're doomed! -Just don't make eye contact -This is much easier than I'd hoped

Wireless apocalypse

Blind people everywhere

Oh Look, They've Started To Make Zombie Mannequins

Beware of Smartphone Zombies - road sign

Just a movie kiddo, zombies aren't real... -They are real!!!

Maxlife, 'Generation Zombie' - Researchers predict smartphones and computer games will turn today's youngsters into a society of unhappy, lonely, depressed, and obese adults.

New York Post 2019 article - "How tech devices are turning New Yorkers into rude, obnoxious 'phone zombies'"

Monsters with screens

The Walking App -Put one foot in front of the other, while moving the body forward…

Phombie invasion - (Zombie Labor Union) -I demand the union do something about those job stealing thieves! -We're not aware of any new monsters stealing jobs from zombies. -Phombies!!! (Phone Zombies) they're everywhere!!!

People who need to die - Cell phonies, written by Victor Rook (2014)

Woman infected by the Smombie-virus

"Braainnnnnsss" - zombies without brains (their "brains" are in their hands)

Street protest against cell phones and smartphone zombies

Telephone zombies (oil paint)

"Careful, you don't want to fall in there…" Maybe we're the ones that should be in the zoo, not animals! This reminds me of "Planet of the Apes". Notice all the humans are on their phones.

Mobile phone removal surgery

It keeps me from looking at my phone every two seconds

The Lord of the Ringtones - Sméagol & Gollum (before and after)

Gollum - We wants it, We needs it, Must keep my precciousssss

Smartphones are the new cigarettes -They're super addicting (Okay, one more turn, then I really need to wipe), They cost a ton (I wish I could eat my data plan because I can't afford food now), It's annoying when people use them in public (haha yeah everyone here's looking at me funny for like no reason!), They'll probably give us all cancer (this sux).

It's as if each person was living on a desert island

Folks, this is not a 'Free Wi-fi' symbol!

Mobile Phone Mania - Arising Global Threat in Public Health (2016) "In 2007, a study by Francisca and Lopez, University of Granada, stated that mobile phone addiction can lead to consequences as dangerous as those caused by alcohols or narcotic drugs. Relationship with mobile phones are risky for anyone, and it can steer us into “mobile phone mania” or “nomophobia,” a psychological disorder which is equally dangerous as similar to narcotic drug addictions. These changes are superimposable to a person who is addicted to narcotic drugs such as cocaine, morphine and have compromised dopamine function in brain."

Aren't they supposed to be moving?

The "Nophone", exhibited at the Museum of Technology in Berlin, is just a simple piece of plastic, allowing its lucky owner to return to a normal life.

At the A&E, Male, 23, unable to access his iPhone for 18 hours

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone

Hypnotised boy

Cell phone... must... have... a... cell... phone (not water)

You're too needy. Why are you so obsessed with me? Have a good time with someone without me! And let me recharge in peace. (Phones are not the ones to blame, their owners are.)

Young child in tears over the phone

The smartphone cycle: looking something up, getting distracted, zoning out, trying to recall, remembering, looking something up, etc.

Just one more scroll

After buying his 698th mobile device, his wife had him committed

Let's all give her some air. She just realized she forgot her phone, so her body is adjusting to not staring at it

Life is what goes on while you're looking at your phone

"Willful Child, the Search for Spark" (book by Steven Erikson) - "… a grand dining table crowded with all sorts of food, wine, liquors, and beside each plate personal communication or entertainment handheld devices designed to obliterate the mindfulness of physical experiential reality in favor of vacuous distraction in an electronic ghost realm of extreme self-centered obsessive-compulsive existential despair disguised as "being connected"."

Check out this comic -Hah that's great -Did you just try to like the newspaper? -Yes...

Where is it? Oh No! I lost it… I found it! -Nomophobia (No Mobile Phone Phobia)

It's sad to see people addicted to machines

Night and day

Does the world need to know (about your altruism)?

What the public seems to want is the image of compassion, not compassion itself

Does the world need to know? - charity with a phone

Staring into a device while people are fighting and dying for their freedom

This is how people help nowadays!

A psychopath

A funny way to lend assistance!

Nothing to see here, folks! Just today's random, mass shooting.

If Jesus was crucified nowadays…

The spirit of our times

OMG I just hit a car! -Me too!

Today's society - Man drowning, calling for help, crowd taking pictures with phones

A 2022 art piece by Palenko, illustrating the new laisser-faire of people watching and doing nothing thanks to their device

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