In the mid-2010s, the gig economy was exploding. Tow trucks, like Uber and TaskRabbit, were becoming unregulated lifelines. A "bad tow truck" was a metaphor for predatory capitalism—helpers who charge more for making things worse. Tomi Taylor’s "Check Up" extended that metaphor to self-care: What happens when the person you call to fix your life is also broken?
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The date, 02.07.15, sits between two cultural events: the death of digital privacy (Snowden’s revelations still fresh) and the rise of "doom-scrolling" (though the term didn’t exist yet). Taylor’s work predicted the exhaustion of the late 2010s—the feeling that every rescue operation comes with hidden fees. After 2015, Tomi Taylor’s output became sporadic. A 2017 EP titled "Flatbed" (referencing tow truck beds) was released on Bandcamp for 47 minutes before deletion. In 2019, a Reddit user claiming to be a former roommate said Taylor moved to rural Iceland to work as a mechanic—the ultimate irony: from victim of a bad tow truck to fixing broken vehicles for free. In the mid-2010s, the gig economy was exploding