• SreudianFlip
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    2 months ago

    It’s the Hive Mind Stans phenomenon that fascinates me, meme-activated collective action that is a very modern social body.

    Some of the stuff BTS ARMY got up to was fantastic and a bit scary. Also large numbers. Very large.

    So the Swifties haven’t been weaponized yet. But they could be, soon. Having deepfake A.I. impersonation of fans made by fascist followers of a reality TV star be the thing that raises their state of collective power to Ready is just… well, I am living in a Gibson novel.