I don’t believe it is a very popular story so that might be the reason.
It was popular enough for me to have known about it before I saw the emoji.
Why is there even an Emoji for the book? Does it come up that often on hexchat?
Because the Hexbear creator of emojis decided it’d be fun to add it, and it was almost immediately used to summarize bleak and terrible future outcomes, especially in reference to this moment mocking the tendency of tech billionaires to miss the point of the fiction they consume and make announcements about how they want to make the bad things in such fiction come true:
Edit: oh and what is stormfront?
Edit 2: the “I have no mouth…” game is also pretty great and was given away for free on GOG a while back so you might already have it, if you keep track of those things. That game is inspired by the book but it is mainly it’s own story.
That’s just a little jab at Reddit itself for its cryptofascist leanings. The emoji that Hexbear marks as “Reddit” uses the text of Reddit’s old Stormfront community, which was itself a nazi hangout until it was mod-raided to become a weather forecast community, but the name’s meaning persisted.
Fair enough. I don’t believe it is a very popular story so that might be the reason.
Why is there even an Emoji for the book? Does it come up that often on hexchat?
It was popular enough for me to have known about it before I saw the emoji.
Because the Hexbear creator of emojis decided it’d be fun to add it, and it was almost immediately used to summarize bleak and terrible future outcomes, especially in reference to this moment mocking the tendency of tech billionaires to miss the point of the fiction they consume and make announcements about how they want to make the bad things in such fiction come true:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/386/548/92f.jpg
Odd, but alright then. Maybe it makes more sense the the “emoji” renders properly.
Have you read the story? If not, do it. It’s pretty great and only around 40 min long.
Harlan Ellison made an audiobook version I listened to, while also reading it at the same time: https://youtu.be/dgo-As552hY
You can also borrow the book for free here: https://archive.org/details/ihavenomouthimus0000harl
Or just get it for free in many other places.
Edit: oh and what is stormfront? Edit 2: the “I have no mouth…” game is also pretty great and was given away for free on GOG a while back so you might already have it, if you keep track of those things. That game is inspired by the book but it is mainly it’s own story.
I read it years ago. The computer game version had AM voiced by the author himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EddX9hnhDS4
That’s just a little jab at Reddit itself for its cryptofascist leanings. The emoji that Hexbear marks as “Reddit” uses the text of Reddit’s old Stormfront community, which was itself a nazi hangout until it was mod-raided to become a weather forecast community, but the name’s meaning persisted.
Thanks for explaining and reminding me of the book. I should re-read it.
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/dgo-As552hY
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.