opening funeral bit

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+map_Ks export3dcoat__gloss.tga
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src/script.org

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 * vassago
 
-[some kind of dramatic-ass sequence where we lower a casket into the ground]
+[start zoomed in on shtikbot, zoom out to see the funeral set]
 much like funerals are for the living, this is a post-mortem to convince myself to move on from this project. Griddle Critters, let us understand shtikbot, so the mourning process can begin.
 
 ** inkling - snarky dick bot
+[slide up a garbage can]
 before this project, my fixation was the dumbest social network. the stupidest. the least intelligent.
+[spin it around to show the imgur logo]
 imgur.
-if you think reddit's layout is confusing, or "dated", then maybe you (or the preschool teacher you've had for 10 years running) would like to sign up for imgur.com.
+if you think reddit's layout is confusing, or "dated", then maybe you
-for a while, imgur was the least bad way to get an image too big for any cell carrier's MMS limits to your friends. So that was where memes lived. and, it allowed people to dislike things. So during that time, it was good. people would upload a thing, and as a consumer, the thing that you consumed left you better than when you started.
+[clip from tucker and dale where he buys her a padded helmet]
-but then one christmas, out of some bizarre notion of charitability, they decided to just upvote everything. which means all the people who wanted to inflict their hideous face on the community and be praised for it instantly conquered the front page. Instead of a post being a thing of value in and of itself, the viewer was expected to praise the poster.
+(or whoever you have to help you out) would like to sign up for imgur.com. let's go back in time and visit.
-That moment was the failure of gatekeeping. From that point on, every so-called community "value" collapsed. Notably, "reposting" gradually shifted from a faux pas to accepted practice.
+[dive into the trash can]
-meanwhile, someone had made an imgur bot that detects reposts, and then posts stats about how many times it's seen the image, and when it was posted with better quality. you can measure how dumb an imgurian is by how virulent his hatred for repost bot is.
+[show some old meme, but show filesize 2.1MB]
-during the decline of imgur, many more absolutely stupid ideas proliferated. The Left Cult enjoys calling out The Right Cult for hypocrisy... but it was fashionable to use the term "cognitive dissonance" instead. after all, that sounds more medical, more legitimate, and lets you tell yourself you're smarter than your mirror image.
+for a while, imgur was the least bad way to get an image too big for any cell carrier's MMS limits to your friends.
+[show that comic that had that girl looking at some dumb thing wide-eyed]
+So that was where memes lived.
+[show something about youtube removing the dislike button]
+and, it allowed people to dislike things. So during that time, it was good.
+
+people would upload a thing, and as a consumer, the thing that you consumed left you better than when you started.
+
+but then one christmas, out of some bizarre notion of charitability, they decided to just upvote everything.
+[how guys and girls show an object]
+which means all the people who wanted to inflict their hideous face on the community and be praised for it instantly conquered the front page.
+
+Instead of a post being a thing of value in and of itself, the viewer was expected to praise the poster.
+
+[those iron gates collapsing, swarm of locust arriving]
+That moment was the failure of gatekeeping.
+[pillars being eaten by locusts]
+From that point on, every so-called community "value" collapsed. Notably, "reposting" gradually shifted from a faux pas to accepted practice.
+[https://imgur.com/user/RepostStatistics, https://imgur.com/user/RepostStatistics/index/best, https://imgur.com/gallery/KRb944U, https://imgur.com/gallery/g4CSaUx]
+meanwhile, someone had made an imgur bot that detects reposts, and then posts stats about how many times it's seen the image, and when it was posted with better quality.
+
+you can measure how dumb an imgurian is by how virulent his hatred for repost bot is.
+
+during the decline of imgur, many more absolutely stupid ideas proliferated. Usually from outside.
+
+The Left Cult enjoys calling out The Right Cult for hypocrisy... but it became fashionable to use the term "cognitive dissonance" instead.
+
+after all, that sounds more medical, more legitimate, and lets you tell yourself you're smarter than your mirror image.
+
 but it's stupid. the way one outgrows their hypocrisy is by experiencing cognitive dissonance and resolving it. most people accused of cognitive dissonance are people who are blissfully unaware of their hypocrisy. they feel fine, no dissonance. so they will never stop being hypocritical.
-likewise, "gaslighting" was the shiny new toy in their vocabulary that was played with no matter how inappropriate. For the record, gaslighting is when you convince someone they're crazy. It is not any and all forms of deception. and it certainly is not any time a member of a demographic you consider to be inherently inferior contradicts you at all.
+likewise, "gaslighting" was the shiny new toy in their vocabulary that was played with no matter how inappropriate.
+[set diagram of what gaslighting is, what deception is, and what contradiction is]
+For the record, gaslighting is when you convince someone they're mentally ill. It is not any and all forms of deception. and it certainly is not any time a member of a demographic you consider to be inherently inferior tells you you are wrong.
+[show a massive wall of text, magnifying glass sees "cognitive dissonance"]
 so at the time, i dreamt of a bot that would see the text "cognitive dissonance", and respond with "that's not what cognitive dissonance means." No need to do any sort of lexical analysis, just assume they're wrong. Ditto for gaslight.
 nowadays i'd have to add "generational" to that trigger list. 
 So while the community was growing to hate meaning and love reposts, the platform got worse. rather than being the technology that enables the sharing of memes, it degraded into a place for people to socialize through posting.