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[recollecters]

Hello Users, For those of you who are new: Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. For all, new and old: Please be advised that should you go above and beyond the call of duty for Mr. Halloway's little game in the coming days, there may be a reward granted or information given. 100% completion would be the goal for that, should you have an interest. If you have no interest in the matter, please feel free to carry on as usual. R&D will not be handling further communiques for this month, or possibly the next few months. This should not, of course, have any impact on your usage of Retrospec™. The first milestone for the second of the colors lost has been met, and accordingly we have diverted resources to fix what could be fixed. R&D has alerted me that a bigger loss may occur in the near future, and I would advise you to be careful, though I am afraid neither they nor I can be much more detailed than that. Finally, I would like to extend congratulations to those of you who have now reached your sixth month. We hope you will continue to accept our assistance in these trying times. Thank you for your patience, Janet Wiseman Human Resources Retrspec Incorporated As of this post green fruits and flowers of this color regain their pigment. (Note: this is not all plants. This is just for flowers and fruits!) Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. Any new characters will find that the first photo they upload is locked as their profile picture for the rest of the month. Characters who have been in game since February will find their profiles now have a 6 months badge. It does absolutely nothing of note.

Comments

[storytelleroftime]

...Ransomware is something that encrypts your files until you pay, well, a ransom. It's pretty serious. Guess you are unfamiliar with the term.

[saburai]

No, I'm familiar; I just wasn't sure how encrypting one's social media would be that impactful.

[storytelleroftime]

You're assuming that it's encrypting your social media. There's plenty of other things it could target, you know.

[saburai]

Ah, I thought you were saying it was ransomware specifically focused on social media. Hence the confusion.

Regardless, given the number of people it seems to have reached, I imagine there'd already be authorities involved if important data had been compromised.

[storytelleroftime]

True. Still, if it's not a data breach, then it's at least some sort of privacy breach. And I deserve my privacy!

[saburai]

I agree with you there. They must have some reason for spreading this application, and that doesn't bode well for us.

[storytelleroftime]

This is prime conspiracy fuel. That, or we're anime characters. Both seem to be options at this point.

[saburai]

I'm not sure which of those options would be more concerning, either.

[storytelleroftime]

Right now we're at the mercy of a force capable of removing colors from reality, and that definitely leans more towards weird conspiracy.

[saburai]

A color-stealing anime villain sounds equally as plausible.

...In that it's still utterly ridiculous, and yet the best explanation we have.

[storytelleroftime]

Okay yeah that's my new headcanon for all this. Can you have a headcanon for real life? Well fuck it now you can/ This is all the work of a color-stealing anime villain.

[saburai]

How would one defeat such a villain, if it were to be true?

[storytelleroftime]

With the Power of Friendship, obviously.

[saburai]

I suppose that would explain why we've been "chosen" by a social media site, at the very least.

[storytelleroftime]

So what, they want is to become Nakama so we can use the power of friendship to defeat the color stealing villain?

The fact that this is even a possibility is hilarious.

[saburai]

This whole situation is so ridiculous that it's hard *not* to laugh. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it with my own eyes.

[storytelleroftime]

Yeah. Perhaps we should wage Meme Jihad on Retrospec as a form of retaliation. Counter insanity with meme magic.

[saburai]

Overwhelm their servers with activity so that the app is no longer functional? Sounds ambitious.

[storytelleroftime]

Something like that. I'm sure plenty of other people would be on board. There is enough sentiment from people for it. We just need a proper methodology.

We will make Retrospec pay for their crimes against Kek!

[saburai]

...I was thinking more about their crimes against us, but that works, too.

[storytelleroftime]

Yeah that too I guess.