Best of luck! I don't interact much, but your comments and posts have consistently been top quality and given me a lot to think about. You've got a talent for putting words to ideas I've only been able to vaguely grasp towards, so even as mostly a lurker I know that you'll be missed, but someone's got to do the hard work of raising the next generation's posters.
Would love to give your previous novel(s) a try if you'd let me know where to buy them.
Not only are they terribly distracting but most of them are really just bullying us because insecurities seem to be a really effective way to move product. Most of what I see these days is some variation of you're fat, ugly, poor, dumb, lonely, etc. Regardless of the truth of those descriptors, constant exposure to bullying like this is making us all worse off. It really should be something we don't allow in public spaces, and pointing the harm done by the proliferation of ads out to those who have grown accustomed to the background noise is good.
Incredible self-owns of history.