I mean it doesn't make sense. Imagine a real life person just listening or reading to a bunch of word salad and then immediatly lose all free will and get stuck on whatever last thought or characteristics they have but cranked up to 11 while going back to the world salad all the time. It really breaks my suspension of disbelief.

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[–] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn't it the plot of the movie

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In the mouth of madness

(A very good movie btw)

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

the "driven mad by art/media" trope is at least 130 years old. been a staple of cosmic horror ever since and more recently sci-fi

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haven't seen that. I think a lot of similar ideas started floating around the zeitgeist, you see a lot of the cognitohazard tropes in SCP articles, too, which also were popular when CONTROL was produced.

[–] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well it's just the artist commentary on the original concept of meme, the way Richard Dawkins described them in the selfish gene.