Every day, technological interactions between people on Earth travel into space. They’re broadcast unintentionally via radio waves, and a sufficiently advanced alien species could piece together and observe what each of these means.

If aliens were to decipher these radio waves, they’d see a terribly animated clip of a bowling pin being railed by a bowling ball and launched dozens of feet by the sheer force of the act — and it’s my firm belief that these bowling animations are the reason aliens haven’t contacted us yet. We’ve failed as a species, and these videos are the biggest sign of our downfall.

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— grimm (@ExileGrimm) November 15, 2021

If you've ever seen one of the bowling animations in question, you know just how unsettling the experience can be. While they're meant to be funny, they also say something a bit disturbing about our sense of humor. The internet is also not a wholesome place for animations already, since the sheer number of Roblox inflation videos on YouTube is slightly disappointing. But the truth is that these bowling animations are some of the worst of them, simply because there is no motivator to them whatsoever aside from leaving everyone confused and afraid.

As time has gone on, they haven't lost their popularity somehow. There are more and more of them appearing every single every day.

These animations aren’t always sexual, but they’re still concerning enough to allude to our society as a whole falling apart. For example, a new animation has surfaced and trended online this week in which a bowling ball is being bullied in what appears to be a high school hallway. While his aggressors are all bowling pins, he seems to deem another bowling pin acceptable for not participating in the bullying and handing him his glasses that had fallen on the floor, and he gives him a note that says “Don't come to school tomorrow.”

The bowling pin indeed does not come to school tomorrow, and as a result, we see the word “spare,” or rather “spare’d” on screen. If you let a bot sort through /r/dankmemes for a few hours, then forced it to write a video script, this is about what you would expect to be generated by the end.

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— Human Trafficking Victim At Eastern Conf. Finals (@Dons_Lawn_Salon) May 7, 2022

Jokes about the bowling alley screens when you get a strike have been around for about a decade. Bowling alley screens are always terribly animated and super overdramatic, and oftentimes these animations have nothing to do with bowling, which is similar to this trend. But rather than joking about those, we'd rather create something new entirely, something upsetting enough to get all of us talking about it.

And it worked, getting millions of people to laugh and joke about it further. The thing is, when humor evolves, it usually doesn't evolve backward into pornography. Of course, there are some exceptions to this, and the same phenomenon could be responsible for the downfall of Tumblr. But seeing something as innocent as a bowling ball and bowling pins be horrifically desecrated on Twitter is enough to make some question what's left of society's sense of humor.

Perhaps the most disturbing part of these videos is that they distract us from the world falling apart. While war rages overseas, we're watching clips of Jesus on the cross appearing and Splitting in half, because apparently, that has something to do with bowling.

Basically, these animations might be a sign of the coming apocalypse, simply because we've given up on caring. The fact that this is the legacy we’re leaving behind is a terrifying and isolating one, because one day, we’re all going to die, and this will be what remains for future historians to look back on.

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