this is v much my natural state here and im 100% certain i would be kicked off yes
on the list of reasons we've been blocked by other instances, frequently they explicitly say it's because we allow ourselves to talk to people they dont like
It fucking sucked
the arts and crafts were cool though
just more interesting to be presented with everything and i'm fiercely independent enough that i wouldnt accept anything else
Now sure it's still CALLED following over here
But there
It's more literal
But we must resist
We must fight against the memetic scourge that plagues the internet and society
Probably why I loved SCP
the theory of memetics is that ideas / concepts / notions / practices / beliefs / perceptions (condensed into memes) function akin to a species of life, and experience evolution and mutation
friend: weaponized memetics as in scp
me: [internet ptsd vibes] no weaponized memetics as in
@arts @MischievousTomato @TrellisHugo335 @kallisti @AbNormal the info war = weaponized memetics = propaganda?
federated qanon maybe
some hints to it here: http://www.cybergnostic.xyz/
it's its own thing, nightmare endless reality game
@arts @MischievousTomato @TrellisHugo335 @kallisti @AbNormal the only "the game" I know of is where a person makes a circle with their fingers, and if you look at it they get to punch you, or "the game" where if you ask what the game is, you lost it.
@arts @MischievousTomato @TrellisHugo335 @kallisti @AbNormal I looked it up and saw that it was a uh, a thing? And then I started laughing, maniacally, at all the people who have probably legit gone insane from this game, which I'm sure is a game about nothing, or if it's a game about something I'm far too busy already to care what it is, I'm watching old wonder woman episodes rn, wonder woman has to stop the Nazis
> at all the people who have probably legit gone insane from this game
i stopped looking into it because i 100% knew i am the exact type of person that this sort of thing makes insane
you can find people constantly doing like 12 hour livestreams trying to make all the connections and who knows what is performance art and what isnt anymore
@arts @MischievousTomato @TrellisHugo335 @kallisti @AbNormal It reminds me of these psychological experiments about group mentality. Plant a few people doing weird shit, and soon others will start doing it, you can even take the plants out afer a point and leave the organic population to ripple with this THING (whatever it is you've unleashed on them, this meme or idea that alters their behavior)
https://youtu.be/TrTk6DsEJ2Q
@arts @MischievousTomato @TrellisHugo335 @kallisti @AbNormal Another way to think about this may arise when I present this second example, of which I don't have a video for; A number of monkeys are in an enclosure, they cannot leave, they are fed and given water, but better food is placed on pedestals in the enclosure. When a monkey goes to the pedestal to get the better food, all monkeys in the enclosure are simultaneously shocked. They quickly learn to avoid the quality food. Now take a monkey out, and put a new monkey in with the group. It will go for the better food, but ALL THE MONKEYS WHO HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY SHOCKED WILL STOP THE NEW MONKEY. The new monkey will become averse to trying to get the better food not because it has been shocked but only from group enforcement. Continue this removal of an old monkey and replacement with a new monkey, gradually, and the monkeys will continue this enforcement of a cultural taboo, even when no original monkeys are left. They will enforce their cultural taboo, even when they have no idea why it was originally there.
