# names of this imaginary inversion of the regular undead internets they just aren't important rather consider the out of control social experiment catalyzed via visionary fellow researcher robert what changing the face of the future of the world wide webs forever more a state of being robert lives in tiny apartments and has had little to no money for most of their life nevertheless they spent days visiting friends socializing and drinking coffee in parisian themed cabarets and viennan cafes confusing people they dislike and generally doing as as they please in terms of rat with odd habits and interests they always dress impeccably are engaged in politics spirituality literature and music one day while surfing alone rob felt intensely bored and bitterly disappointed with nets and how they were developing or rather devolving retreating back into or rather never evolving from a load of old convenient techno romantic digital retrobait ultimately only benefiting people pink rich and powerful enough to slang fashy monkey icon hyperlinks to spanner dumb whale marks humid and humming with mendacity obfuscation evasion heavy on illusionary nostalgia sure yet also conveniently light on context rapidly turning out nothing more than a colossal undead human ai bot generated dungcoin scamulation from the fictional outset robert imagined how it might be neat if one could instead visit an alternative internets a creative world computer like teh original original but expressing and emphasizing current odd rnd interests and wilder artistic styles this new abstract nonmythic land of the electronic imagination and intense networked spirituality is often dryly amusingly termed republic of bob the same familiar liminal webs only now reconsidered as a nonmythic imaginary landscape by and of the collective biowired imagination a metadigital meeting place the name given to a luxury alternative fictional internet lifestyle of and generating '#rob' in realtime inventing what happens there to consider '#rob' a parasol term for a casual pastime collective artistic activities in which researchers view and treat daily online life as the very structure and content of the republic according to what since modem researchers do not merely see or surf nets as it is but rather as they are chances are they've all been playing and exploring the republic unconsciously for a while a conceptual scenario where the republic seems based around big science an imaginary playstate one pretends to play involving the research and development of advanced artistic projects such metaphorical scientists perform varied advanced rnd projects and express odd day log / project reports about them a way to escape terminal boredom and the poverty of everyday mundane existence future historically speaking to say rob was revolutionary was an understatement republic of bob is now fundamental aesthetic now underpinning the entire wired world manifesting locally in this dimension on the cusp of the / a return of the sokalled near future retro 80s a deeply influential idea radially mutating the entire internets worldview almost overnight it became a much loved future instant classic for billions of researchers and researchers a standard protocol a fresh new way of being online however while a living testament to the emergent power of mass bioelectrical phantasy and creative inventiveness republic of bob soon turned out to be little but another giant abandoned cardboard diorama and elf marketing scam or starlarp as a result robert what has now fully mask on transformed into a famous billionaire virtual hyperkult leader of quote the world's largest meme their research projects legendary throughout the digital galaxy or at least in researcher's mind spaces researcher gene manta rahy: recent heated discussions and minor ongoing pseudo rebellions over the mere notion of the quote soul of the internets appears darkly laughable these only ever seem to ideologically mirror ongoing hypercorporate dominance infighting and general worsening of all pink tech brotopian owned mega platforms that is the pathology of meta digital normalcy // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]