Why It Sucks to Be an Unedited Kid in 2042
Diary Of a Questionable Species
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You are fourteen. Your genome was written by two people who "just kinda wanted to see what happens." Everyone else's was written by a subscription service.
Tomorrow Sucks presents Case File No. 001: the year 2042 — where babies get credit scores, your DNA is your résumé, and the acne package is standard. Hand-drawn, second-person, and sourced: every PRESENT DAY stamp means it already exists.
CHAPTERS
0:00 — Cold open
0:37 — The rules of 2042
1:20 — PRESENT DAY: Nucleus
2:02 — First period
2:27 — Gym class
2:52 — PRESENT DAY: the receipt
3:31 — Homeroom
3:47 — Lunch with Solara
4:22 — 2019: the DNA dating app
4:40 — Grandma and the auction
5:40 — The law with a hole in it
6:03 — The first edited humans
7:09 — The three perks
8:05 — The closer
8:45 — Stay unoptimized
THE RECEIPTS (yes, all of it is real)
• Nucleus Genomics embryo ranking — $5,999, acne included: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/gen...
• Heliospect's $50,000 IQ ranking: https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/ar...
• The 2.5-IQ-points study: https://www.science.org/content/artic...
• George Church's DNA dating app (2019): https://www.technologyreview.com/2019...
• 23andMe's bankruptcy sale — 15,000,000 genomes: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-...
• GINA's life-insurance hole: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-tec...
• He Jiankui and the first edited humans: https://www.science.org/content/artic...
• Preventive's $30M raise (overseas, beyond regulators): https://www.business-standard.com/hea...
Written, drawn, and directed by a human. Narrated by a synthetic bureaucrat, appropriately.
Music: "Sneaky Snitch," "Heartbreaking" — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Stay unoptimized. See you tomorrow.
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Why It Sucks to Be an Unedited Kid in 2042
Diary Of a Questionable Species
35,702 views
You are fourteen. Your genome was written by two people who "just kinda wanted to see what happens." Everyone else's was written by a subscription service.
Tomorrow Sucks presents Case File No. 001: the year 2042 — where babies get credit scores, your DNA is your résumé, and the acne package is standard. Hand-drawn, second-person, and sourced: every PRESENT DAY stamp means it already exists.
CHAPTERS
0:00 — Cold open
0:37 — The rules of 2042
1:20 — PRESENT DAY: Nucleus
2:02 — First period
2:27 — Gym class
2:52 — PRESENT DAY: the receipt
3:31 — Homeroom
3:47 — Lunch with Solara
4:22 — 2019: the DNA dating app
4:40 — Grandma and the auction
5:40 — The law with a hole in it
6:03 — The first edited humans
7:09 — The three perks
8:05 — The closer
8:45 — Stay unoptimized
THE RECEIPTS (yes, all of it is real)
• Nucleus Genomics embryo ranking — $5,999, acne included: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/gen...
• Heliospect's $50,000 IQ ranking: https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/ar...
• The 2.5-IQ-points study: https://www.science.org/content/artic...
• George Church's DNA dating app (2019): https://www.technologyreview.com/2019...
• 23andMe's bankruptcy sale — 15,000,000 genomes: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-...
• GINA's life-insurance hole: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-tec...
• He Jiankui and the first edited humans: https://www.science.org/content/artic...
• Preventive's $30M raise (overseas, beyond regulators): https://www.business-standard.com/hea...
Written, drawn, and directed by a human. Narrated by a synthetic bureaucrat, appropriately.
Music: "Sneaky Snitch," "Heartbreaking" — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Stay unoptimized. See you tomorrow.
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