individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto

Entrant 2025

CREATOR
Nathalie Lawhead
WEBSITE
https://alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware

Description

"Individualism in the dead-internet age" is a short-form Backrooms-style horror interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way.
Follow coins under the electric mist of a clouded starry sky. Discover hyper-links. Listen to the words both inside and outside your head. Seal your fate before the productivity machine. Together we can defeat the machine!

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