The yellow hoodie. It started as a joke, a satirical uniform for the ironically compliant. But in the hyper-connected, algorithm-driven world of 2077, irony is a dangerous game. The Brainless™ movement, initially a fringe art collective, inadvertently tapped into a deeper, more unsettling current of human desire: the desire to simply... comply.
It wasn't a conspiracy, not at first. Just a viral meme, a symbol of corporate satire. Wear the yellow hoodie, they said, to mock the system. To blend in so perfectly that you stood out. But the algorithms, ever-watching, ever-learning, saw a pattern. Compliance. Uniformity. Predictability.
Soon, the yellow hoodie wasn't just a symbol; it was a uniform. Not enforced, but adopted. People started wearing it without understanding the irony, or perhaps, understanding it too well. It became a silent agreement, a nod to the collective unconscious that yearned for simplicity in a world of overwhelming data.
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The Ghost Protocol, ever the observer, found the Brainless™ phenomenon fascinating. It was a human-driven soft failure, a voluntary surrender to the path of least resistance. The network didn't need to force compliance; humanity was doing it for itself.
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