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Look no further than Pinterest and Instagram for evidence of the enormous impact of social media on interior design.
We surely have the internet to thank for the ubiquity of hairpin furniture legs, Ikea hacks and endless cacti, so it may seem logical to ask the internet to design your home.
That's what YouTuber and software developer Michael Reeves decided to do this week when he tweeted a video explaining his plan.
Use Twitter to decorate my room https://t.co/ZHpeV9HtFh— Michael Reeves (@Michael Reeves) 1570676600
Reeves claims he has zero interior design expertise, so he is using his actual passion to achieve his goal - building a bot which would scour through his Twitter replies to find the most-liked Amazon links people send and buying them automatically.
TLDR: Just reply to this tweet with Amazon links How it Works: - Every 15 minutes, my bot will purchase the produc… https://t.co/aN1o0N6Tzt— Michael Reeves (@Michael Reeves) 1570676790
Increasing the bot's max purchase price from $25 --> $90, you guys suck at picking stuff so maybe this will help :)— Michael Reeves (@Michael Reeves) 1570754012
What he perhaps didn't count on was that people would take the opportunity to mercilessly troll him into buying the absolute weirdest stuff.
@michaelreeves08 DANNY DEVITO PILLOW https://t.co/GUb2qVnH5e— Kyle Kashuv (@Kyle Kashuv) 1570676910
@michaelreeves08 https://t.co/LlkO8V7hmL Here, have 3000 live lady bugs. I think it'll look great <3— CircleToonsHD (@CircleToonsHD) 1570677692
@michaelreeves08 https://t.co/UlBDDuZEvj please— Max (@Max) 1570685904
@michaelreeves08 seems like you're definitely in need of a stuffed blop fish. https://t.co/W1gG4qGRPt https://t.co/hsnZdmyDwA— bloody mary 🛸 spooky season 🦇 (@bloody mary 🛸 spooky season 🦇) 1570720425
@michaelreeves08 Let’s try this here again😭💩 https://t.co/ewjvFtlLgK https://t.co/0QqBEzZe4F— Yaya Lynne 🌸👾🧟♀️ (@Yaya Lynne 🌸👾🧟♀️) 1570736255
@MoistCr1TiKaL @michaelreeves08 personally i think this is a good read https://t.co/ovw4GjBe0S— Jackson (@Jackson) 1570724155
Throughout the day, he bought around 100 items, including a chia pet Bob Ross (with seed pack), a thumb-sized bible, a 3D wolf print G-string, a Fanstown K-pop poster and The Communist Manifesto.
After 24 hours, Reeves shut down the bot and promised to upload a YouTube video with the results.
If the tweets are anything to go by, it'll certainly be... interesting.
@michaelreeves08 i swear half this thread is trying to convert him to jesus the other half is building a sex dungeo… https://t.co/kh6f54B1TY— s h3 l by 🔪 'to serve cunt' (@s h3 l by 🔪 'to serve cunt') 1570727571
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