Meme wars [Brainstorming world lore]
By the mid 21st century, advertisers and politicians have learned to spread ideas more effectively using memetic theory.
Influencers are paid top crypto to scour message boards and social feeds for topkeks to incorporate their brand or candidate into.
Billboards flash erratically, beaming the latest re-imagined shitposts directly into their hosts minds.
Androids and robots on the streets are continually re-branded to keep up with latest memes, changing their appearance as well as the slogans and routines the perform.
Groups of elite hackers use these tools against their oppressors as well, exercising their free speech by overriding signals with their own memes and messages.
It's a constant struggle for memetic dominance. Fighting back against the corporations comes with a steep price. This type of vandalism is treated as a felony crime. Anyone caught tampering with meme feeds is sentenced to disconnection. Their presence is scrubbed from the net and they are no longer allowed to connect.
This is part 2 in this series. See part one here.
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Well isn't that interesting. Thanks for sharing anticleric.
@anticleric so you mean that people are taking media created by others, and then republishing it with their own subliminal message embedded in it, and all in the name of profit?
That's just despicable...
Haha. I thought you were accusing me of something at first :P
Well played.
Wow!! that's both awesome and terrifying... how easy to control us and how happy we are to be controlled.
@anticleric so the androids still existing among the humans are like walking billboards. No wonder many of them are ending their existence. Are the androids living in the human-free sectors in the city safe from these kinds of memetic hacks?
Yes, the ones that stayed in the human areas are human intellect or lower, the ones that left are presumably safe from anything on the outside. They're much smarter than humans.
Interesting. I'd imagine the smarter androids would be the first machines to reach an existential crisis. Have you or your writing partner decided on the reason why the smarter androids are grouping together and closing themselves in? What are they planning?
Wow loved your post...loved reading it....it's amazing....thank you for sharing have a good day.