Ha well I didn't put too much thought into the premise other than just to progress the game. In my head it was really your friend who found some "hack" for free money with the downside of causing popups. The first draft of the game had a lot more clicking even allowing you to click your money indicator as a way to generate more money. That was the original "hack" in the story. I was trying to go for balancing clicking for money vs clicking to close the popups. Though through my initial testing it was a bit annoying so I made it simpler and just focused on the popups.
Glad you had a bit of fun though.