The Localhost Link That Backfired Spectacularly

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The Localhost Link That Backfired Spectacularly

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THE AUDACITY! You thought you were being SO clever sharing your localhost link with some random internet person—because OBVIOUSLY they can totally access your computer through the magical internet fairies, right?! But then... PLOT TWIST! This networking genius somehow manages to find bugs in your backend code that YOU couldn't even see! The sheer BETRAYAL of sweating bullets because you just wanted to flex your half-baked website, and instead got exposed as the code disaster you truly are. Nothing says "I've made a terrible mistake" quite like realizing someone actually understood your localhost joke AND had the skills to humiliate you with it. Your face is now officially melting from the shame!

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