What is FUTILE.ch?
FUTILE.ch is a digital design experiment that explores the absurdity of our online behavior. At a time when social media algorithms compete in ingenuity to capture our attention, this project offers a radical alternative: infinite scroll, but without content. Inspired by the ideas of digital detox and social critique, this site turns a compulsive gesture into an artistic performance. Here, every millimeter traveled is a victory over productivity. Futile.ch invites you to waste your time with elegance and precision. Why scroll? For nothing. And that is exactly where the beauty of uselessness lies. This net-art project questions our relationship with the digital void and the fleeting satisfaction of perpetual motion.
Why do you keep scrolling?
Because the gesture is automatic. Because scroll calls for more scroll. Because waiting creates the hope that something will finally happen.
Behind the useless: a bittersweet critique
By hijacking an everyday gesture, FUTILE.ch questions our relationship with time, attention and the way platforms capture our gaze through infinite scroll.
What is a useless website?
A useless website is a site that tries neither to sell nor to inform... just to do nothing. FUTILE.ch takes that principle and applies it to one of the most repetitive gestures on the web: scrolling.
Here, you scroll… without content. An absurd way to waste time on the Internet, deliberately and guilt-free.
An absurd web experiment based on infinite scroll
Infinite scroll is everywhere: social media, videos, news. FUTILE.ch keeps only the gesture. No dopamine, no surprise, just movement.
This absurd web experiment turns an automatic reflex into a conscious action.
A weird, useless website… and proud of it
FUTILE.ch is a weird website because it refuses all usefulness. It is deliberately empty, slow and repetitive. A website for getting bored, elegantly.
Here, boredom is not a bug. It is the main feature.
A useless and absurd website shaped in Switzerland
Born in Switzerland, this minimalist project celebrates the beauty of a gesture with no purpose. No trap, no ads: just an openly useless void, with humor.
A lived — and measured — experience
To date, more than 1,500 people have already recorded their distance on FUTILE.ch. The experience is designed primarily for mobile, where the act of scrolling becomes almost physical and instinctive.
The current record exceeds 18.5 kilometers covered purely by scrolling. A perfectly useless performance — and therefore fully embraced.