The Me In Media

SLANGS & TRENDS¹⚘✾

The lights flickered in the dim-lit room. They all sat outside a circle formed by salt with weird symbols inside of it.

"I recently made a discovery. Has anyone heard of Ethismós? Well, Ethismós is the demon of the internet. He controls every deed in here and he helps people gain followers, views, and reactions. Ethismós is real."

"You're delusional, Perry."

"Please, peace, Puppy!"

"Alright, alright. You can go on with your little child's play. I'll be in my room."

"Some people post stuffs online and it might not really be a quality content and they may be irrelevant people but instantly, you see that they have lots of views and followers and the stuff begins to go viral all of a sudden. Someone is behind all of that, his name is Ethismós and he's a demon. He increases your interactions and followers as soon as you summon him. Now watch as I summon Ethismós, the Lord Of The Internet, here in my room. I'm currently in 227.20 million followers. And I want to top up to 300 Just today."

Creepy ocean music played in the background. Perry withdrew himself from the face of the camera and went to sit beside the rest.

They sat on the floor and encircled the circle. Each one of them placed their phones on the floor, on certain symbols and poured the candle wax all over their phone screen, with the visibility of the section of their social media they intended on improving.

I watched with entranced attention as they slowly poured the candle wax on the phones' screen and chanted rhythmically, "Ethismós, The Lord Of The Internet. I evoke your presence into my social media."

The lights began to flicker even more and a gentle breeze soared into the apartment as I became really apprehensive.

Perry picked up his phone and took off a part of the wax on his screen and showed his phone to the camera. A hundred increase in followers! Unbelievable!

"Fifty new subscribers on YouTube! F**k!"

"Sh*t's real! Sh*t is real!" One of them turned to the camera shaking it back and forth with both hands as he was greatly marvelled.

"This can't be real." I said to myself. I closed the video and rapidly moved on to check Perry's IG account. To my uttermost shock, his followers had increase from 227.20 to 300!

"Oh my God! Oh my God!" I danced excitedly! I was so going to try that out.

Aisha's call immediately came in.

"Good morning."

"Good morning to you too. I hope you had a great night. So tell me, what happened between you and Remi?"

"He called me stupid."

"Well that's really disrespectful of him. You guys should try fixing things between yourselves cause we need to do a group study today and I don't want you two picking on each other in my presence."

"You need to tell him to watch his tongue and how he spills his opinions. After the little argument we had yesterday, he's just been acting so absurd. It wasn't even something serious. I posted something and he came to my DM saying I'm being distracted and I'm not being myself, indirectly calling me a phony."

"Well..." She said in a high-pitched tone. "I don't think he has anything against you. I did see the posts you made and honestly, you weren't being yourself. It seemed like you were trying so hard to gain attention or fit in in an inappropriate manner."

"Oh, really?" I said and hung up.

Saturdays used to be for studying and creating new paintings but not when you've got an incredible gadget with overly incredible apps!