>>12702791You might not have been entirely serious when you posted this, but I truly believe this is the direction humanity will go. there is actually zero hope we can solve climate change at this point, and the last "no turning back" moment was decades ago. the world will continue to get worse and resources will dry up, but the internet, shining in its infinite glory studded with neon lights, will be there to tell us it's all okay. it takes resources to feed someone and provide them a house, but once the technology is perfected, it is a pittance to keep them on a nutrient drip while they live 24/7 in a VR simulation, with the freedom of choice to eat anything, be anyone, or do anything with no real consequences. this is the great filter, it has to be. every civilization goes this direction, because fiction is always more exciting than the depressing reality. the end point of every civilization is a cluster of uploaded consciousnesses experiencing the most extreme depravities and luxuries beyond what is remotely possible in the real world.
we might even be in one now. This is what the final yab truly is. Not the destruction of vtubing, but the destruction of everything aside from it, to where it no longer is special because it is reality, rather than an escape from it.
