Lilypad's feed has no end. There is always another message, another post, another notification, another group chat update. The session doesn't end because Bonnie finished something. It ends because an external force — a parent, hunger, sleep — interrupts it.
That difference is what DarkBadge's Bottomlessness score measures.
"Tech is for everything"
Woody's line in Toy Story 5 is the clearest statement of bottomlessness in any summer film: "Toys are for play. But tech is for everything."
A toy has a domain. A horse is for horses. A cowgirl doll is for cowgirl stories. The scope is bounded by what the object is. Tech has no domain — it expands to fill every moment, every context, every need. That's not a bug in Lilypad's design. It's the feature.
Bottomlessness isn't an accident. It's a deliberate removal of natural stopping cues. The infinite scroll replaces the page number. Autoplay replaces the credits. The "you've been watching for a while" message is performative friction, there to satisfy regulators, not to actually help you stop.
"From morning until night"
Deseret News columnist Naomi Schaefer Riley, who saw the film with her three teenage children, described Bonnie becoming "increasingly withdrawn, glued to her screen from morning until night."
Morning until night is what bottomlessness looks like in practice. Not a session — a state. Bonnie isn't using Lilypad; she's in Lilypad. The absence of natural stopping points means the only exits are external impositions.
The film's parents disable Lilypad's social network after the cyberbullying. That's the only resolution the story offers — and it's an external one. Bonnie doesn't stop because she decided to. She stops because the feature was removed.
The family scene
The film includes a scene that several reviewers cited as its sharpest moment: the entire family ignores a spectacular flying-toy display, each person absorbed in a separate device. The spectacle is bounded — it happens, it ends, you'd have to put down the phone to see it. The feeds are bottomless — they continue regardless of what's happening in the room.
This is the bottomlessness asymmetry made visible: the physical world has to compete for attention against something that never runs out. It will lose most of the time, for the same reason a single book on a shelf loses to a library that automatically adds new volumes the moment you look away.
What bounded play actually requires
Creative play with physical toys is generative. Bonnie has to produce the story. She has to decide what Jessie says, where Woody goes, how the adventure ends. That production takes effort — imaginative effort that builds something.
Lilypad generates content automatically. No production required. The feed is always full. The only thing Bonnie needs to do is consume.
That asymmetry is what the film is really about. Not that screens are bad. That one side of the comparison requires a child to make something, and the other side never asks her to make anything at all.
The scores
TikTok's Bottomlessness score on DarkBadge is among the highest in the catalog. Its autoplay architecture, its algorithmically timed content delivery, its removal of chapter markers and completion states — all of it is engineered to eliminate the natural resting point. Roblox's UGC infinite worlds have no completion state by design. Instagram's Stories queue refreshes.
The toy horse scores zero. You know when you're done. That's rarer than it should be.