STFU

An airport annoyance turned petty tech revenge: a tiny app that listens and spits your audio back with a 2‑second delay. The creator says it makes loud talkers instantly stumble—like a real-life “digital shush.” Cue chaos in the comments. Nostalgia brigade chimed in with “What’s old is new,” linking a Japanese speech‑jamming gun and tales of IR remote phones sneak‑muting break room TVs. Meanwhile, a VR dev swore the effect is legit—delayed self‑audio made “part of your brain shut off,” a spooky‑fun endorsement of the science-ish “auditory feedback loop.”

But the vibe got spicy fast. One camp cheered this as airport heroics; the other called it malicious and two wrongs make a louder wrong. “So now there are two obnoxious people?” demanded skeptics, while a civil‑liberties mood emerged: “People have a right to make sound in public; society’s getting too conformist.” The naming drama even had a wink—the creator “stole” the snappier title STFU (sorry not sorry), adding more meme fuel. Over on X, the debate thread reads like courtroom meets comedy club: tech-enabled manners or petty vigilante noise wars? The crowd is split, but everyone’s definitely talking—just maybe a little more quietly.