>>20204371reminder that XSG like other ARGs run on 4chan (ciccada 3301, Qanon, possibly others) is at the very least inspired by military counterinsurgency information warfare research and very possibly run by military-affiliated contractors operating at the intersection of tech, entertainment and politics.
if "schizo lore" turns out to be correct and we get rich and/or are able to exercise outsize influence, a filtering mechanism/recruitment-identification-monitoring social media funnel like an ARG would be ideal for their purposes.
relevant links:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277297074_Storytelling_and_Terrorism_Towards_a_Comprehensive_'Counter-Narrative_Strategyhttps://www.darpa.mil/program/narrative-networkshttps://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2011/06/16/darpa-wants-the-full-story,90729607-arthttps://www.wired.com/2011/02/design-fiction-special-notice-darpa-sn-11-20-stories-neuroscience-and-experimental-technologies-storynet-analysis-and-decomposition-of-narratives-in-security-contexts/https://www.argn.com/tag/darpa/>Lessons on ARGs and Teamwork Through the Lens of Daedalus>The project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is no stranger to using competitions to test out models for group dynamics. In 2009, they ran the DARPA Network Challenge as a competition to locate ten red balloons located across the country. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927991-800-mind-reading-the-science-of-storytelling/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2Q3DVxvM0i didn't consent to being a guinea pig, did you?
and remember when paid posters keeping the ARG alive spammed shitcoins they made during the "XRPL Shitcoin Casino" in /xsg/ then rugged participants? and /biz/jannies handed out bans for talking about it?
this whole shit glows