This interesting article by Allegra Rosenberg explains that the viral “67” meme is just the newest expression of a long, lively tradition of children inventing and circulating their own playful lore, just like the rhymes, jokes, and games that folklorists Iona and Peter Opie documented in mid-20th-century Britain.
Youtuber Mctoran claimed to have interviewed Black August, the author of the original Backrooms post on 4chan. I don’t know if it’s really him (nobody can prove it), but the interview is incredibly insightful and inspiring. So even if it’s just another piece of lore, it’s worth a listen.
For the final chapter of Shumon Basar’s Lorecore Trilogy (read the first part here, and the second here), the curator collaborated with Y7, a duo based in Salford, England, who specialize in theory and audiovisual work. Here is the result.
Here, according to a neologism from “The Lexicon of Lorecore,” the zeitgeist is taken over by “Deepfake Surrender”—“to accept that soon, everyone or everything one sees on a screen will most likely have been generated or augmented by AI to look and sound more real than reality ever did.” Y7 and I also agreed that, so far, most material outputted from generative AI apps (ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney) is decidedly mid. But, does it have to be?
