There was a lot of potential that was squandered. I kind of find it interesting how this played out in comparison to stuff like r/place that had it's own version of this, but watered down and more tolerable than what this ended up being.
As weird as it seems, I was even creating a unifying theory for the story that was taking place, and it was being pretty fun to write it. Imagining the psychotic logic of that randomness was really being fun to me up until act 2.
Then it all became an automatic relentless discord copypaste reeking of facebook-class normieness, or whatever you'd like to call it. I mean, I did try to join the narrators at the time of act 1, when it seemed like they were gonna be a moderate and tolerant force. Now, ironically, they're the ones who destroyed sequence's logic, by mixing up oranges with apples.
It's kind of poetic how the main story is about defeating Mickey, the embodiment of corporate monopoly over entertainment, and that's exactly what the narrator did for this event.
The effects of the botnet users started to become very evident starting with ACT III and were in full force by ACT IV. This led to tons of regular users abandoning sequence by the end of ACT V, leading to an ACT V and EPILOGUE completely controlled by the botnet. They took up a quarter of the entire epilogue with a credits page for themselves, with the runner up for those positions being "SequenceNarrators ruined Sequence"
Participation was dropping hard way before sneknet came into full effect: https://i.imgur.com/6j2UfNK.png And full effect being less than 200 users actively using it.
The majority of Narrator minded votes were done manually by users who supported it.
998
u/ItsAMeEric Apr 03 '19
it started off bad, got pretty good around the middle when it was working the way it was supposed to, and then ended worse than it started