DrDockter's Sandbox

Let us begin our tale with a man, this man sat in his apartment, on his computer, talking to his buddies online. Alex Albert Young was the man's name. The man's wife sat in the man's apartment, watching TV. Gina Alexandria Young was her name. Life was so simple, and they were so happy. Alex would talk to his fellow gamers, who happened to be against weed, and his wife would talk to her fellow gamers, also against weed, though Alex and Gina resided in different circles.

Some said Alex and Gina had a perfect life, of course, they were Alex and Gina themselves, but still. Yes Alex and Gina loved each other very much, that was, until Gina died from viewing a photograph that had been sent on her favorite chatroom, killing everyone who saw it. Not to say, of course, Alex stopped loving her, no, quite the contrary, in fact, he would do anything to avenge her, and he had an idea. Alex knew who sent it, or at least the organization who sent it, another group dedicated to anomalous art, "Are We Cool Yet?", it was called, though the key difference between Are We Cool Yet? and Gamers Against Weed is that Are We Cool Yet? art was almost universally fatal, or at least dangerous.

Alex's idea was to make a meme, a simple one, simply making Are We Cool Yet? members slowly want to make less dangerous art and slowly "convert" to Gamers Against Weed. Fewer members of Are We Cool Yet? means fewer people who could replicate this incident, and more people who only make funny, non dangerous anomalous art. Alex went to work. He wanted it perfect. Something spreadable, and funny, but with a pinch of resentment in there. He worked on it for hours on end, like it was a precious diamond, slowly being cut away so it could be perfect, until he finished it. His masterpiece. His Magnum Opus. His reason for remaining on this earth.

John Allison Phrons was a simple man, he lived alone in a New York City apartment, he followed the same schedule every day, and he very rarely left his house, he even worked from home. Currently, Mr. Phrons, as he went by online, was painting a painting. It was a lovely picture of a mythical creature (A unicorn, to be exact), and the only thing that set it apart from any other painting like it was that it was painted with a little bit of the anomalous. Yes, John Allison Phrons was a member of *Are We Cool Yet?*, and he was painting a commission for a very rich man.

Mr. Phrons had just finished the painting when a small chime went off on his computer, signalling a new commission. It was for a photograph that would kill whoever looked at it. Simple enough, Mr. Phrons thought, getting his camera to take a picture of the cityscape, considering the person didn't ask for anything specific. Mr. Phrons scanned the photo and gave it to the man who commissioned it, taking a break from work to watch some TV.

Fatima Alison Kassis was peeved off. She was just insulted by sever members of this so-called "Gamers Against Weed", they said that she lacked self-confidence and that's the only reason she has to kill people to feel her art is good. That was false and she knew it, the only real reason she kills people with art is that it's the only *true* form of art!

Fatima wanted revenge, and so she commissioned a "Mr. Phrons" to make a simple, downloadable photo that killed people. She paid $400 for it, and when it arrived she posted it to the Gamers Against Weed Chatroom, or at least the one she had access to. She watched as the chatroom fell silent, smiling.

Alex Albert Young somehow got his way into an Are We Cool Yet? chat forum, posting his meme. He watched as the chatroom fell silent, smiling. Three days later Gamers against weed got 28 new members, and those numbers kept climbing over the following days as the meme kept spreading. Are We Cool Yet? got angry, and they fought back. They released an image which did the opposite effects, taking the old Are We Cool Yet? members back and then some. And then Gamers Against Weed fired back, taking even more than the first meme, and officially starting war.

And thus ends our story, with this tug of war continuing on for years, trading members like Pokemon cards, and each group firing back with bigger and better memes and artwork, but C'est la Vie.