Skeleton Loaders: Psychological Warfare Masquerading as UI

So you've seen it - that shimmering, ghostly flicker of grey boxes pretending to be real content. Welcome to the world of skeleton loaders, the internet's equivalent of "I swear I'm doing something back here". If you live in Australia on one of those legendary NBN connections (shoutout to Fibre to the Node users), you're very familiar with this visual p…