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[sivard]

[Wherever Zaveid is, his cats aren't around right now. Which is good, because he looks pretty serious.]

So here's a question for people, since I didn't get to talk to a lot of people when I suddenly got a prompt from an app I never downloaded telling me to be more interesting-- what, exactly, were you doing when you first noticed you had a new app? Had you just witnessed anything strange?

This still feels a little surreal to me. If I hadn't spent several days smaller than a remote, I'd be wondering if someone was pulling an extended practical joke on me.

How long has this been going on, exactly? Because it's strange to think there was so much going on I never noticed before.

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[beastenderblood]

Well I was looking up porn and then there was an app

You must've been too

[She wasn't actually but being serious is stressful]

[sivard]

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The text makes it hard to tell if you're joking or not.

[beastenderblood]

That's the magic of it

Nah but for real, been two to three months. afaik, that's about when all this really popped off

[sivard]

That recent, huh?

In all seriousness, what were you doing? I was talking to a lady on the street when the app showed up on my phone. It showed up on hers, too.

[beastenderblood]

Slacking off at work, to be honest. Searching twitter and shit, then it just showed up

[godcards]

I was at the store.

I also broke my phone but the app still installed itself on the new one.

[sivard]

Doesn't surprise me.

A guy told me he bought a completely new phone and it showed up on that one, too.

[godcards]

That's more or less what happened to me, too.

It seems to be tied to certain people and not the phones themselves. I don't know how or why, so don't ask.

[sivard]

Yeah, I'm beginning to think you're right on that; I haven't bothered to change my number, but these people knew my name without needing me to do anything at all to the profile.

It's creepy, to say the least.

[caelestialis]

I was talking selfies at the time and when I closed the app to speak with my parents, it was already there.

It was perfectly normal until its arrival. [ and that's when everything started to fall apart, in her opinion. ]

[sivard]

Something dramatic happened to you after the app showed up?

I've heard a little bit about weird things happening, but I haven't experienced anything like that so far.

[caelestialis]

I guess it depends on your definition of what 'dramatic' is.

I have a long list of that could qualify as that. Would you like to hear about my possible forgotten marriage or the fact I know sparkle every time I'm too happy.

[sivard]

Both sound pretty damn weird.

I had a guy I know tell me he started remembering things, too. I believe him, for the record. He's not the kind of guy to lie, and with it happening to a lot of people, there's too many people to be a coincidence.

[obscultator]

A parishioner showed the app to me on her phone shortly before Founder's Day, but I did not notice it on any device I used until the first full week of Lent. Which was, not so incidentally I believe, immediately after I remembered the existence of horses.

[sivard]

"Remembered the existence of horses...?"

[obscultator]

Yes, as opposed to Chocobos. You haven't noticed?

[sivard]

I can't say I have.

For the record, though, I believe you. There's a guy I know-- we're not particularly close or anything, but he's not the sort to joke around, and he was also telling me about suddenly remembering things.

[destiny_key]

i just woke up and looked at my phone and there it was

i tried to show my mom and she said my screen was blank
it was really weird and i thought there was something wrong until i started talking to other people
its still weird lol but at least im not alone

[sivard]

Weird that your mom wasn't able to see it.

It's like when I tried to show it to my neighbor, she had a similar reaction.

[destiny_key]

i guess anyone who doesnt have it cant see it???
which is weird but it makes sense i guess
like the app doesnt want you to see unless it picked you specifically

[sivard]

That sounds likely. I'm not sure how it's possible, but we also spent several days incredibly tiny.

[originallutece]

Grading papers. I noticed it at 1 AM, but there were others who noticed it before me.

As far as I know, this has been going on for some months.

[sivard]

That's what it sounds like.

For whatever reason, the app is a catalyst for something, there's just a matter of figuring out what it all means, and if it's even anything we should worry about beyond all the mass stalking.

[originallutece]

I'd say so. If this kind of app can implement such a radical change on a whim, who's to say the next time won't be something deadlier? For heaven's sake, it was a miracle no one was eaten by a rat the last time.

[sivard]

Apparently people were even driving buses full of children while they were only a few inches tall, and acting like it was completely normal.

It's bizarre.

Have you seen the video clips on the news where they keep cutting to shots of people when they were tiny and acting like nothing's wrong?