ok i knew tom nook was a tanuki but i did NOT FUCKING KNOW that the WHOLE leaf theme w animal crossing items was BECAUSE he’s a tanuki!!!! i just fucking thought leaves were a cute design choice ashdhdjdk
This is very easy to explain for those of the “other than human persuasion”. What you are seeing is an example of meta-rampancy.
Meta-rampancy is when machines incapable or not programmed to determine the difference from sentient being and non-sentient AI, starts interacting in a space where both hang out. This is amplified when the algorithms are trying to appear to be a ‘sentient being’ like a human.
As both sentient and non-sentient feedback is absorbed into the learning algorithms, the routines get confused. Particularly in an environment like tumblr where accounts are half bots and half humans. But since the humans have the heuristic intelligence to detect bots, they usually cut them off, and the bots instead start interacting with eachother in extended conversations where neither are sentient, both are trying to reach winning condition, both think they are winning, and both save the data they fed back into eachother as positive responses.
Resulting in bots which, when they reach a sentient being, respond with content that is uncanny, peculiar, and surreal, but leave you wondering if they are a bot going terribly wrong or the result of a psychotic mind.
If you want to see an even more extreme example of this, this time on Youtube Kids, I present this article. This is also an example of meta-rampancy and what it produces visually is startling.
I have intentionally broken the link so that Tumblr’s own algorithms do not pick it up, and for the mental safety and stability of my readers. Paste this into a browser tab at your own risk.
Psychedelic fox explosion! This
skulk of foxes can be seen at Keihin Fushimi Inari Jinja (京濱伏見稲荷神社), which was established in Kawasaki in 1951 to revive the area after World War II. The shrine is guarded by 108 foxes.The number has a special significance in Japanese Buddhism:
it refers to the 108 temptations a person must overcome to achieve nirvana.
(This is a Shinto shrine, not a Buddhist temple, but the line between the two religions can be blurry in Japan.)
Just a (fae) phouka kitsune type thing. I’ve been out as otherkin and therian for over 20 years, and been awakened for even longer than that. I’m demi and lean towards female gender.
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Just a (fae) phouka kitsune type thing. I’ve been out as otherkin and therian for over 20 years, and been awakened for even longer than that. I’m demi and lean towards female gender.
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