The downside with Twitter, folks at all times say, is that it’s too good. Everything on Twitter is simply too fantastic. If solely somebody may one way or the other make Twitter horrifying sufficient that you simply instinctually threw your telephone throughout the room upon loading the app, we may get our lives again. Friends, think about this downside solved. Game designer Liz England has created @vg_erotica, a Twitter bot which mixes romance novel excerpts with online game references, and each time it tweets I hear myself cry “Oh no!” aloud. It is gorgeous in its dreadfulness. Workplace warning: this put up incorporates horrifying sexiness.
The bot combines snippets of Sarah MacLean novels with online game memes and references, turning horny into dank. My pores and skin crawls but I chortle. If you need to see how such a monster got here into being, try England’s Twitter thread of progress.
I feel the worst half is, I’ve a nagging half-memory that I’d as soon as have mentioned one thing considerably like this to an precise residing individual within the nip. Why.
I imply,
it’s
simply
not
proper.
Though even a stopped clock is true twice a day.
“Many bots combine two things in order to create something bigger and better through the juxtaposition,” noted George Buckenham, my pal who runs the bot-making platform that that is constructed upon. “This bot combines two things to make something much worse.”
I heartily agree with that advice. I’m experiencing that very same feeling our Brendy has with the horrible bag of meaty tendrils in Carrion, of being enamoured with how completely horrible one thing is.