# other example intros to consider early 2025 in which robert what independent researcher and now bei beloved enduring icon for a mysterious near future scientific organization accidentally uncovers a vast life changing and previously undetected emergent online social phenomena some researchers term republic of bob an imaginary alternative internet pastime a new way to think about the webs it appears a small casual and entirely fictional alternate /to reality a shared story world in which researchers collectively pretend rob exists - as it in fact does not - and so together artistically create its weird legend oddly abstract social media posts are often signs of passing that such play is occurring in the immediate virtual vicinity // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]