Cry Tears of fucking joy that the news was fake and to cause drama.
...And then try to find and strangle whoever decided to make stressful, boring hell.
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I would never be sure that this isn't just another season of my TV show, so, revenge or suicide. I can't let them get another season.
Die of embarrassment at how many times the world watched me rub my balls then smell my fingers.
'laugh track'
Therapy
Wait why was this recommended to me? Am I actually in the Truman show and this is some sort of hint that is telling me to break out?
We are not allowed to tell you
Aw man
Yes
All of the above.
No
Man, hard to say. All I know is, I'd be a nervous wreck. Finding out that your whole life was a lie and all the moments that I thought were my own, especially private ones, were broadcast to the world. I would feel badly hurt and violated. So I suppose it would be one of two options, depending on my mental state:
- I made peace with it: I would find myself in a strange and unfamiliar world. I would consider everything I've been taught up to this point suspect at best, so my next move would be information gathering.
- I didn't make peace with it: I would become a whirlwind of emotions that I can't manage. I would be a person that had a life that never existed with friends and family who were just paid actors and to top it all off, there's the mastermind who had no qualms putting me in such a horrific position. For ratings and money, no less. I think I would be overcome with grief, confusion and fury. As for my next move? I honestly haven't a clue, but it wouldn't be pretty for anyone involved.
Who knows? Like, the world is very different from how it's been presented to me if that's the case. Corporations can own people and feed them highly produced gas lighting false realities? I'd be terrified. In the reality presented to me we're on the brink of another world war. If that's not real but there other is, then it sounds like the bad guys won a long time ago.
I honestly think I would have an incredibly difficult time going from being a virtual nobody, in my own opinion, to being the greatest celebrity in the world.
Billions of people had watched almost every moment of my life, all of the highs, all of the lows.
There's probably over a million people on the planet that know me better than I know myself.
There's probably several million people on the planet that know me better than they know themselves.
The instant celebrity, the instant stardom, the constant hammering for appearance fees, and the urge to put me into movies, the offers to put me into porn, people who want to get drunk with me, do drugs with me, who worship the ground I walk on everywhere I go, no matter where I go, would likely drive me mad.
Not to mention the lawyers beating down my door with offers to sue the corporation that bought me as a child, as an infant, as a sperm and egg, and then televised every moment of my existence throughout my entire life against my will.
The politicians who want me to endorse them so that they can ride my coat tails into a certainty of election.
It would honestly drive me bonkers.
But I wouldn't mind watching an anime based off of that or a TV show.
"Life after Truman".
Come on, like it would be so entertaining to see all the different ways creative people could deal with that concept.
Probably go straight to jail.
If the whole world has been watching my every move my entire life, then the cops have everything they need to put me away for a long time.
That's assuming the real world operates on even remotely the same rules as this one.
Try to gain some context. If I've been in an illusion for my whole life, I have no idea what the outside world might be like. Are there sentient dinosaurs? Werewolves? A non-binary, insectoid world-king named Wubiak the Stroob, and the word stroob exists in common parlance outside but was never used on set? Who knows?
Bang every crazy groupie that wants a piece.
go back in
Cypher was right all along.
but like put me back in successful like, like make me a detroit restraunt ownah!!! not some shlubby dinah, like a steak house that tech guys go tah!!
Jork it crazy style
Monitize myself and get a small fortune, travel the world.
lawfirm.
Go on TV for paid interviews.
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stabilize my living situation; my life has just been upended, but there will for sure be many, many people who would help me integrate into society, whether it be housing, jobs, education, etc.
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use my fame to gain wealth; either sue the show producers, or reach an agreement for a big paycheck. then, partner with hella companies for interviews, photoshoots, product endorsements, whatever. write my own biography.
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make season 2, starring me on a new island, new characters, new story. the producers would pay me big bucks for that shit. milk the franchise for all its worth.
Jack off in private
Just move somewhere in the global South where the show isn't broadcast/as popular and I'd be just another white man, and try to start over?
I would hunt down the people who put me in that situation and everyone who was in on it and burn them alive.
Suicide.
Being that age I doubt I'dย be able to integrate into society.
Integrate into society is not necessary to live a happy life. Writers, composers, painters, mathematicians often did not live integrated into a society.