you’re browsing YouTube one day when you click the wrong video. their React app gets into a corrupted state and your whole screen is taken up by a frozen loading animation

you try to refresh the page, then try a cache-clearing refresh, but you’re still on the same corrupted React app. it intercepted your requests to refresh and replaced them with itself. you type https://youtube.com/ in the address bar and press enter but it intercepted that too

you press back on your browser, then forward, but you can’t escape that easily. you close the tab and navigate to https://google.com/ but it intercepts that too. you try other websites but the YouTube React app is omnipresent. you close your browser but the YouTube React app has intercepted your desktop environment. you look down at your hands in silent horror but all you can see is YouTube trying to load behind your eyes