[ WP ] A particular GIF is found to induce a trance that reveals the true nature of reality to anyone who views it long enough . It is becoming `` viral '' .

The first guy to see thought nothing of it because he was on a whole pharmacy's shelf worth of hallucinogens at the time and had thought the last eighteen gifs had also shown him the true nature of reality which the dragon in the corner had agreed was quite preposterous but he gave it an up vote and sent it on it's way to internet fame while he went on his way to look at stars, which was made difficult by the fact that it was 3 in the afternoon so he came back inside and in the 45 minutes that had elapsed ( he spent 15 minutes in a fierce debate with his shoes about the best type of sandwich and then 10 minutes trying to make the sandwich before abandoning it to learn an object lesson in disappointment vis-a-vis stars are n't visible during the day ) the GIF had, as the kids would say for a little while longer before they phased it out of the lexicon, gone viral. 
 
 All around the internet faring world people were looking into the void and seeing everything, answers to questions no one had even thought to ask, and of course when the a GIF shows you all that you click up vote or like or share or whatever the fuck it's called in your particular viewing site, so more people seeing it meant more people seeing it, meant more people seeing it meant it got fucking everywhere, `` Have you seen the GIF where…'' `` Yeah it's fucking awesome'' type saturation, and then you've got the bleeding heart types with a lot of money but less idea how much the rest of the world wants to embrace Western ideals who put the thing on a screen and then put that screen on a fucking blimp and floated it out to every Tom, Dick and Harry who lived in places where no one was name Tom, Dick and Harry except for the aforementioned well meaning destructive Westerners, and soon the whole world had seen the GIF that had gone viral in a way that nothing but actual viruses ever had ( and even then more like imagined doomsday virus saturation ) which is right about the time the problems started. 
 
 Being exposed to the true nature of reality is kind of like getting the keys to your parents car, in the sense that if it happens before you're ready it's predisposed to a disastrous end, but in this case times a billion. The problem was that even though everyone had seen the true nature of reality, no one could agree on what it meant, or even most of the time what it looked like, which opened it up to the true nature of reality is subjective, which was far from the truth, everyone was just being really stupid, but as anyone who's ever gotten in a bar fight over a sports team can attest, difference of opinion, no matter how small can breed conflict and this was no small matter. 
 
 So like for instance: 
 
 `` Who knew that reality is actually run by giant ants'' 
 `` You're out of your fucking mind, it's run by giant dolphins'' 
 `` Giant dolphins? What are they breathing, there's no water out there'' 
 `` There's water fucking everywhere, plus they're super dolphins they do n't need to breathe water'' 
 `` Dolphins do n't breathe water, they're mammals you dumb fucking idiot'' 
 `` At least I do n't believe reality is run by giant ants'' 
 
 The first responders admitted to the fact that both men having bone fragments from their opponent in various parts of their body gave them pause. 
 
 And then, back to the whole subjective reality thing, several different charismatic types like George Flaunten and Mindy Gratch got it into their minds to run with that and started up cults based on the premise that life is what you make it and then a shit ton of their followers made it so that life is this place where you fuck up every body's shit, which is what they did. 
 
 `` Just think, someone had to be the first person to see the GIF'' says Bill 
 
 `` Yup'' says Ted, exhaling. 
 
 `` Pass that'' says Taylor 
 
 Sitting on Bill's roof, watching the rest of the city in flames, thinking, well Ted and Taylor are anyway, that the world is going to end so they might as well go high, or maybe they're high and they think the world will end, or possibly Bill is on a high horse so they're hoping the world will end and anyway one of the various reality cults somewhere far away but not that far away is constructing a homemade nuke that is just obscenely powerful and is accidentally going to be set off in 7 minutes so they were accidentally right in that the world was not long for the world. 
 
 `` And just like Plato's allegory of the cave, this lone pilgrim, this saviour...'' 
 
 `` Oh you mean like Neo'' says Taylor 
 
 `` I suppose, a…Neo, was made aware of reality and was saddled with the burden of whether he should come back and set us all free or if he should press on forward, all alone in real reality'' which was just a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened and also as pointed out by Ted: 
 
 `` Oh so not really like Neo then'' 
 
 `` To think that humanity went so long thinking they knew so much, and in their ignorance believed that our generation of computer obsessed millennials were ignoring reality when really, unknowingly we were on the path to discovering it'' 
 
 `` How do you know it was a millennial, it could have been an old person'' says Ted 
 
 `` Yeah and also you're full of shit'' says Taylor 
 
 `` My professor agrees with me'' 
 
 `` Yeah because you're his oldest friend'' says Taylor 
 
 `` No I'm not'' 
 
 `` Well you've been in philosophy longer than he has'' 
 
 `` We've been over this, I have dedicated my life to a course of study and by demonizing me for doing so you are showing yourself to fall in with the anti-intellectual herd that you claim to despise so much'' 
 
 `` What'' says Taylor, exhaling 
 
 `` And furthermore…'' 
 
 `` Hey guys where do you think the GIF came from'' says Ted, asking the question that surprisingly had never been asked before or perhaps not surprisingly considering everyone was arguing over the true nature of reality but then a cult member tripped while carrying a component and bumped into another member carrying component and then they knocked over a shelf and a third component fell off and a third cult member slid in and caught it. 
 
 `` Phew, that was close'' said the cultist on top of the other two cultists. 
 
 The component clicked. 
 
 `` Oh no wait'' 
 
 Which was quite the finale for something that started with a GIF of a dog playing with a ball.
