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42 minutes ago"holy shit 'Revolution on Food Stamps' is literally my life. choosing between therapy and groceries while organizing mutual aid. finally someone said it."
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Research-driven rage music
Post-hardcore band turning generational struggle into survival anthems.
Everything is your problem now / They broke it, you fix it.
Post-hardcoreEmo-coreMelodic metalcore
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73%
of Gen Z report feeling alone despite constant digital connection.
Member since
2024
Terminal Connection era
Last login
4:46 AM
Budget meeting ran late – Nov 18
Listen to our most powerful tracks, or stream the full albums on Spotify and YouTube.
Track #05
Revolution on Food Stamps
For the organizers maxing out credit cards to keep community fridges stocked.
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Discography
Three-act hero's journey
Each album is a chapter in our story—from digital withdrawal to imperfect power. Explore the concepts, hear the highlights, and stream the full experience.
2024 • personal healing
Terminal Connection
A hero's journey from 3 AM doom-scroll spirals to becoming the signal in the noise.
Our origin story for the chronically online. Twelve tracks map the path from digital isolation to human connection, trading glitchy suffocation for organic community.
Highlight tracks
- • Comfortable Static
- • Withdrawal
- • Signal in the Noise
2024 • systemic responsibility
Heavy Crown
Every inherited crisis lands in your lap and you're told to fix it with zero power.
The second act confronts systemic responsibility. It's for the eldest-daughter activists budgeting revolutions between rent payments, the organizers accused of selling out for daring to rest.
Highlight tracks
- • Family Dinner
- • Revolution on Food Stamps
- • Heavy Crown
- • Breaking the Chain
2024 • wielding power
Compromised
You won power, now you have to use it without becoming what you fought.
The trilogy closes by interrogating ethical leadership. It's the soundtrack of budget meetings where every line item hurts, of realizing compromise can be grace instead of surrender.
Highlight tracks
- • We Won (Now What?)
- • The Budget Meeting
- • Sellout
- • Compromised But Not Broken
This is for...
The ones still standing
Borrowed from the band mantra: “The kids aren’t alright, but we’re fighting.”
Burnt-out activists
Still coordinating mutual aid spreadsheets after midnight, wondering if sustainable change is even possible.
Digital isolates
Phone glued to hand, yet somehow lonelier with 1,000 mutuals than in an empty room.
Young leaders
Balancing budget cuts, purity politics, and insomnia—all before sunrise meetings.
Therapy-can-wait caretakers
Team parents, eldest daughters, and nonprofit directors who forget they’re allowed to rest.
About
ContactWe build sonic social services
SmileBackSocialServices delivers emotionally devastating post-hardcore that validates the burnout generation while offering a path forward. Each album follows a hero's journey that moves listeners from personal crisis to systemic responsibility to the moral complexity of wielding power. This is music for the kids rebuilding a future while they're still standing on the bridge.
Origin story
The name is an earnest promise: we became the social service we wish existed—one that listens, validates, and hands you tools for survival when broken systems look the other way.
Mission
Build sonic safe rooms where burnt-out activists, digital isolates, and young leaders feel seen, scream it out, and gather strength to keep building instead of burning.
73%
of Gen Z report feeling alone despite constant digital connection.
Harvard Youth Poll, 2024
95%
of nonprofit leaders cite burnout as a threat to their mission.
Center for Effective Philanthropy, 2024
Research receipts
We cite our rage
Every album is built from real-world data so no one can gaslight our generation about what we're facing.
73%
of Gen Z report feeling alone despite constant digital connection.
Harvard Youth Poll, 2024
95%
of nonprofit leaders cite burnout as a threat to their mission.
Center for Effective Philanthropy, 2024
60%
of student activists report adverse psychological impacts from their work.
Journal of Community Practice, 2023
Resources
Validation + tools
Music isn’t therapy, so we surface real crisis lines, mutual aid directories, and organizing guides right alongside the art.
mental health
- Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741 (US/Canada) for 24/7 crisis counseling.
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988 to reach trained crisis responders in the United States.
- SAMHSA National Helpline
1-800-662-HELP (4357) — confidential, free treatment referral and information service.
mutual aid
- Mutual Aid Hub
Find or start a local mutual aid network built on solidarity, not charity.
organizing
- TupeloCore
Mutual aid food security network. Cook, share meals, deliver groceries—no forms, no hoops, no cost.
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Comment wall energy
Messages from the community. Leave your mark and connect with fellow survivors.
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@digital_ghost_@digital_ghost_
2 hours ago"been listening to Terminal Connection on repeat for 3 days. deleted instagram yesterday. thank you for the permission to disconnect."
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nonprofit_directornonprofit_director
Yesterday"'The Budget Meeting' made me cry at my desk. this is EXACTLY what no one talks about. every line item is someone's life."
Stream the trilogy and feel seen.
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This is for the ones doom-scrolling at 3 AM · The kids aren't alright, but we're fighting · Building instead of burning · Validation with a breakdown · Heavy doesn't mean brokenThis is for the ones doom-scrolling at 3 AM · The kids aren't alright, but we're fighting · Building instead of burning · Validation with a breakdown · Heavy doesn't mean broken