Today I saw a tamagochi for sale in a vintage store. As a child, a tamagochi was a virtual pet, but it was evidently just a toy. The current trend is the personification of the fictional, an emotional crutch for the lockdown junkie, an excuse for incels to avoid improving themselves to be more socially viable. They no longer see these things as a toy. We have a generation who have never known a world without smart phones and Facebook.