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The internet slang term delulu has been on my mind as I think about another word: resilient.
Like unprecedented during the pandemic or vibecession a few years ago, resilient has become one of those words that gets repeated so often it starts to lose meaning.
Case in point: This week’s retail sales data from the U.S. Department of Commerce showed consumer spending rose in April even as higher gas prices bit into household budgets. The takes? Like copy and paste.
-Bloomberg called it “signs of consumer resilience.”
-Brent Kenwell, an analyst at eToro, said “the U.S. consumer remains resilient.”
-Axios’ Neil Irwin concluded that “spending is resilient for now.”
But what’s driving this resilience? Emotional volatility, apparently.
Reality check
“What we're hearing from consumers is that there's just this ambient level of stress,” Katie Thomas, who leads Kearney’s Consumer Institute, a think tank division of the consulting giant, told Macro Talk in a newly released episode.
And here’s what delulu looks like:
Catch Bad Actors. Let Good Users Flow.
Online traffic isn’t just “human vs bot” anymore.
It’s AI agents, good bots, bad bots… all blending in and getting harder to detect.
That’s where hCaptcha stands out.
Traditional security methods are falling behind. hCaptcha exposes hidden threats with adaptive AI models and intent analysis, providing instant, private verification.
Don’t just take it from us, hear from one of our customers:
“Compared to last year [when using competitor], we had a 96% reduction in bot throughput.” - Top 10 Gaming Company
Virtually all companies that book a demo with hCaptcha decide to move forward.
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