So, there's this band that supposedly has existed since 2010s. It has some videos on Youtube. Some live recordings as well. A lot of comments there. It also has a homepage and Bandcamp page.
All seems well, except one small detail. I don't remember such band from that time. Hmm, strange...
Anyway, yesterday, while watching one of their live videos, I noticed a glitch and it struck me that I'm probably watching AI generated slop. Checked out some of their other videos and found some other glitches. Everything is very believable, bad sound quality, live singing, shaky camera and all that... except those small glitches.
In short, it's possible that this band doesn't exist. What's more, it probably has never existed. Could it be some kind of an experiment? Maybe they are testing whether they can pull such thing off?
Sure, I know there are a lot of fake things out there. What makes this one stand out, however, is its retroactivity. As if it already existed. In short, retroactive molding of our reality.
There's a dead internet theory. Which states that the internet is actually much, much emptier than it seems. That most of the internet is actually generated by bots and AI. What if they are trying to do the same with reality itself? Like, how many facts and events you have actually witnessed yourself in real life? How many you've just discovered and read about on the internet? The only way to be sure that something did in fact happen or existed before is to cross reference it in real life. Meet some people who actually do remember it being a thing. Or have witnessed it. Or participated in it.
What I'm talking here is manufacturing of events and facts which not only are fake, but which have never existed before their introduction into our info sphere. It's like inventing new Shakespeare who's not only fake, but who has never existed before. Not in 1500s, not in 1990s, not in 2000s.
Well, I don't know I'm correct on this or not, but it seemed like a scary thought. That they are aiming and soon might be able to fake not only current events, but the actual reality itself. It's a thin line between a simple fake and a retroactive one, but it's a significant one.
Nelson Mandela enters the chat
I have no problem believing that certain corporations like Berkshire Hathaway (owners of Fruit of the Loom) were willingly conscripted by the US government to participate in early pilot programs to invent althist and make it retroactive reality. The corporation scrubs and locks all its official history to remove a minor item (e.g. a cornucopia in the logo), while the government massages the internet with its early image recognition models to remove or neutralize any residual graphic evidence. Suddenly the confused public, who knows the truth, cannot evidence it graphically (except for finding a couple old newspaper clippings with the word "cornucopia").
Welcome to Tlon, Uqbar.
The solution is truth of course. Althist is simply larping and massive narrative seizure, and has been happening since the 72,000-year reign of "Enmendurana". All modern geology, evolutionary biology, and astrophysics is althist larping. Yet even confused normies with an experience (memory) will eventually overcome even billions of lockstep zergs with an pretense. (At c/Christianity I'm getting ready to post about how this is done as to Egyptian history.) Simply trust that truth will guide you and it will.
Yeah, Mandela Effect is an interesting one. Most explanations involve some kind of simulation theory or even supernatural phenomena at play. Quantum Immortality, Parallel Universes and such. Your explanation is very down to earth in comparison. Could be. Who knows...
In any case, they can't fake everything. Not yet at least. Truth is the key. I agree.