A fake phone alert over a product photo: Dehydrated? Get Salty or Close

"Dehydrated? Your body may be running low on sodium, potassium, and magnesium."

The picture copies a phone system alert. Behind it is a blurred gym photo: a hand tears open a yellow stick pack and a stream of white powder falls toward a black bottle on a box. Over the middle sits a frosted, rounded dialog in the iOS style. It has a bold title, "Dehydrated?", one grey line, "Your body may be running low on sodium, potassium, and magnesium.", and two blue buttons separated by thin lines: "Get Salty" and "Close".

There is no price or offer in the picture or the caption. The call to action is the first button, "Get Salty". The second button, "Close", is the way out, as in a real alert. The caption reads "You need water AND electrolytes. LMNT delivers both. Staying hydrated has never been so easy" with a lightning emoji. On the library card the headline is "Healthy Habits Start Here" with a pointing-down emoji, and the button is Shop Now.

This is a reading of the creative, not proof of results: the Ad Library shows when ads ran, not how they performed, and it says nothing about whether the claim in the alert is true. A system alert is something people dismiss on reflex, so seeing one inside a feed can make a reader look twice. It asks a short question the reader can answer on the spot, and it names the three minerals the product is about in its own plain voice. The two buttons turn the call to action into a choice: "Get Salty" is the yes, "Close" is the no. The product photo sits underneath, so the alert does not have to explain what it sells. It is a drawn dialog, frosted and blurred like the real one, not a screenshot. The ad is a dynamic-creative ad with four pictures: three show the dialog at one size and one shows a smaller dialog. It started on 28 Sep 2026 and was active when the library card was opened on 7 Nov 2026. The library does not flag it as low impression. Reading the text in all 555 pictures of the scraper's list found no other picture with this text, so it is the only ad counted. The scraper's list does not hold every ad the library shows, so the number is a floor. Other native-style pictures on the Page, such as tweet screenshots, are different creatives and were not counted. Only active ads were pulled, so earlier runs, if there were any, are not in the numbers.