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Maybe to hide their true identities. Perhaps it's the government that's making all these changes but they're posing as a social media company so we would never suspect our own government.

[ ... souji's not serious or is he (dun dun dun (no he's not)) ]

[SIGH. souji, mako is willing to believe a lot of things. this is not it.]

annnnnd what is the government's ultimate goal here

[ why aren't you on souji's side, mako :( ]

Perhaps they're experimenting with how much they can warp reality or even just the perceptions of reality for a large group of people. If they can properly succeed doing so, think of how much power they'd have and how many battles they could win.

[he's a grumpy old man at heart, that's why souji]

battles against who? why on their own citizens? why now?

i mean, i guess i see the appeal of reality bending. but the government did it is the ultimate conspiracy.

[the government is never gonna be able to outdo JFK ok]

[ oh, this grumpy old man will believe in the jfk conspiracy but not some simple experimentation conspiracy? glad to see mako's priorities :T ]

1)Against anyone who opposes them.
2) Because they can't experiment on other country's citizens without resistance.
3) Now because they've finally just perfected their reality bending machines.

And maybe an ultimate conspiracy is really what is at work here. What makes more sense than this going all the way up to the very top?

[HE HAS STANDARDS, AND "the government did 9/11" DOESN'T MEET THEM OK.]

the fact that the president hasn't tweeted about it invalidates this entire conspiracy

he... hasn't tweeted about it, has he?

actually, nevermind about that

i don't know what's going on here, but i don't buy the government being in on it. smooth operators is just not what they do.

[ THIS IS WHY BOLIN IS THE FUN BROTHER AND MAKO ISN'T ]

What makes you assume that the president is actually the ring leader?

He's just a stand-in figure. The real operators of the country are behind him in the shadows. They are the ones responsible for this experiment, of course.

well... if we're being serious, it's too obvious.

something like this, if we post it on facebook, doesn't even get picked up by some of those crazy conspiracy sites, when this is the type of stuff they'd eat up.

if the government had the ability to get rid of every negative conspiracy theory about them, right here and now, no consequences... why wouldn't they?

[he truly is the Not Fun brother. ok.]

Have you noticed that those not on the network seem to completely ignore whatever changes that occur? And act like everything is completely normal? It's possible that we've been cut off from the real world so nothing that we say or post is actually being picked up by those who would find it strange.

The government can't delete all these conspiracy theories without drawing attention to themselves. That's practically saying "look, it's us!" if we notice that only theories about the government are being erased. It's far too easy. It's best for them to just let us run our mouths because if we do, no one will really believe us.

[ smh mako ]

[he's giving the phone a look. just one, good, solid look.]

ok, sure, if it had stopped at the horses, i'd buy that.

but when you get rid of the concept of 'blue' as a color, it becomes a little harder to suspend my disbelief that they couldn't immediately change how the mountains of evidence appear to every conspiracy theorist.

after all, how many songs based on the color blue just suddenly stopped making sense? the concept of feeling blue? that's changing some deep cultural ingraining. i can't imagine it wouldn't work the same for conspiracy theorists. the reason it hasn't is because whoever is in charge of this doesn't care, which means it's not the government. half the reason they'd want something like this is to get unquestioning trust/ignorance when weird stuff goes down.

hell if i was the head of the cia, getting rid of the jfk and deep state conspiracies would be at the top of my list.

[ this is what you get for texting with souji, mako ]

But again, this all makes sense if we subscribe the theory that we are cut off from the rest of the world. Maybe in just Recolle, the colour blue, the horses, the shrinking, it's all isolated to this one area. By cutting off our connection to the outside world and by putting us through a strict social media app that goes through them, they're in control over who gets to see our comments. And if they're already in control, there's no need to go and restrict what we're trying to say. Nothing we post will make it to the outside world anyway.

It doesn't matter if the government wants to gain our trust. In a few years from now, they'd claim that we were all under the influence of a massive gas leak and we were just hallucinating everything that happened when it turned out that they were actually experimenting on us. This isn't the first time the government has directly lied to the public before. Project MKUltra happened once and it can happen again.

i srsly cant tell if u 2 r being srs about any of this
and thats srsly the worst part

This is a legitimate theory, Yosuke. The government really might be behind everything.

idk man if u guys rnt just talking shit im gonna b with mako on this 1
i mean sure they might have the funding but isnt taking away colors from ppl a little 2 sinister?
and pointless?

Not pointless at all.

The government here is attempting to see just how much or how little they can bend reality to their liking. Taking away something like colour is just an experiment to test how much power they have.