
Well...
December 29th, 2017.
That's the last time I wrote one of these. Eight and a half fucking years.
EIGHT.
AND.
A.
HALF.
YEARS.

I disappear for nearly a decade. Long enough for entire generations of VR personalities to come and go. Long enough for people to create new profiles, new covens, new enemies, new identities and whatever other weird shit some of you have been doing in the dark.
So naturally I thought maybe enough time had passed.
Maybe people had matured.
Maybe people had grown.
Maybe the average IQ had finally climbed high enough to stop licking the windows.

Holy fuck was I wrong.
I come back and within minutes find VR in the middle of the same shit different day drama all over robot pictures, robot songs, anonymous honor hits and conspiracy theories.
Jesus Christ.

I was gone so long I expected flying cars but you idiots somehow managed to become dumber.
Let's see if I've got this right -
One side is posting AI songs and images.
Another is screaming AI is garbage.
Then somebody catches negative honor on their imaginary internet profile and suddenly we've got CSI: Vampire Rave - Special Olympics Division working the case.

Outstanding... Absolutely fucking outstanding.
Now my favorite part.
Somebody writes a journal about how AI art and AI music are garbage.
Cool.
Fine.
Whatever
Then somebody immediately takes the bait harder than a starving bass at a Walmart fishing tournament and rushes out a giant pro-AI journal that reads like it was written by the exact fucking thing they're defending.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No. Please. Keep going.
I haven't laughed this hard in years.
Then the ANON accounts show up... of course they do.
Because no VR drama is complete without some anonymous dipshit deciding they're Sherlock Holmes after three shots of bargain-bin vodka and half a thought.
"IT WAS IMMORTALKISS!"
Oh?
How do we know?
"We just know."
Interesting. Fascinating even.
Tell me more about the voices.
Got proof?
No.
Screenshots?
No.
Evidence?
No.
Just assumptions, hurt feelings and a desperate need to blame somebody?

Well shit, why didn't you say so. Case closed boys. Roll credits.
The AI crowd is pretending prompts make them artists.
The anti-AI crowd is pretending outrage makes them intellectuals.
The ANON crowd is pretending assumptions are evidence.
And the rest of VR is standing around watching the dumpster fire while acting surprised that it's hot.

You know what the funniest part is?
Not the AI.
Not the honor hits.
Not the anonymous accounts.
It's that after eight and a half years the one thing that hasn't changed is how desperately some of you need attention.
The tools changed. The stupidity stayed exactly the same.
I leave for nearly a decade and come back to find people arguing over whether a computer wrote something while anonymous accounts are busy writing fan fiction about who clicked a button.
Never change VR.
Actually...
No.
Change.
Please.
You're making the fucking robots look intelligent.
lulz
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