Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ In which you consider that, except for bots, the nets appear entirely empty and devoid of human life. That it’s ‘bots all the way down”, that the whole web is one big automatic A.I. powered advertisement for itself, continually selling the idea of itself to itself: 3840 x 2160 .jpg – via an edited … Read more
RND/ To consider the image of a condescending white prick. Image found at random while surfing Youtube. 2184 x 1042 .jpg A smug face, supremely confident in its detached, viciously sarcastic rhetorical strategy, begging its captive audience for the ‘right (/wing) answer; almost as immediately punch-outable as smirking Republican whiteboy Nicholas Sandmann. (Disclaimer: to be … Read more
RND/ To consider a largely unedited LOLtuber vlog transcript. What might be called ‘Existential Autistim as a lifestyle aesthetic.’ This guy’s Content(R) is great. It’s like he’s a walking, talking Shitty Tao Lin Novel – a real life personification of Tao’s astoundingly joyless Alt-Lit, K-Mart autorealism – a broken, neoliberal individualist super-subjectivity. Tao Lin himself … Read more
RND/ To consider a study of perhaps the ultimate expression of how Youtube video thumbnails almost never accurately and-or truthfully reflect the actual poverty of the Video Reality: 1958 x 1118 .jpg Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, a by-product of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to … Read more
RND/ To consider Youtube avatar thumbnails upscaled by Neural Networks – in this case Hui Ni’s waifu2x ncnn Vulkan 1400 x 1800 256 color .png In which these arbitrarily selected people look like team members of some kind of cool gang. — // how to play big science