One day, as I usually did, I sat down in front of the TV in my living room to watch whatever was airing at that moment.
It was a day like any other, until I realized something, well, odd?
There was a tiny dot on the top part of my screen.
It really wasn't that big, so I don't even know how I was able to spot it, but I felt almost drawn to it, and when I looked at the direction calling for my attention, I saw the little spot.
At the beginning it was just a few pixels, probably something you wouldn't even be bothered about unless you were looking at a pure white image, so I didn't really give it any thought and just kept watching whatever was on at that time.
But still, that little spot bothered me, especially as the days went by, and the tiny dot kept on growing more and more, to a point where it looked almost like a little eye.
I couldn't watch TV on my living room anymore, that spot was becoming so big and so weird, I just wouldn't be able to do anything but a stare contest with that defective part of the TV.
One day I got fed up, that I decided that fuck that TV, I was going to get a new one.
Went to the store and bought a newer nicer TV, the guy that sold it to me even said that the image quality was so crispy clean, things would look like "they could pop off the screen at any time".
I thought that quite a weird way to make me buy a product since I'm not an old person, and I know how TVs work, but whatever, I just wanted to get back to my shows without that stupid thing shaped like an eye looking at me.
But when I got home, finished installing it and took my usual spot on the couch to finally watch whatever I wanted unbothered, I could finally understand that weird marketing tactic the salesman tried to use on me.
What was before just a growing pixelated thing that looked like an eye, now, on this new TV, it was an eye.
When he said things "would look like they could pop off the screen at any time" it was because they actually could, and you bet that watching that little eye thing on my TV, was way better than now being watched by the eye on the screen.