[ WP ] Humanity realizes the Universe is actually a simulation so out of spite it decides to concentrate its effort on messing with the civilization that does the simulation

`` They're flopping around on the ground, sir. Like fish who are no longer in water.'' 
 
 `` How many?'' 
 
 `` All of them. Every single member of humanity.'' 
 
 The Administrator quickly turned to one of the monitors and cycled through 1000 different cameras quickly. Sure enough, in every camera that had humans, they were writhing around on the ground. Some of them were flopping on beds or tables or other kinds of furniture -- but they were all going through the same repetitive motion. 
 
 `` And how long have they been doing this?'' 
 
 `` Four hours.'' 
 
 The Administrator checked some of the coding. The fish flopping variable had n't changed and none of the other fish related data had cross-polinated with the human files. In fact, the overall simulation was running better than it normally was. There was no explanation for this behavior in the programming. 
 
 `` The programming seems to be fine, so the problem must be something in the virtual environment. There was n't any kind of political or philosophical revolutions while I was out?'' 
 
 `` Not unless you count this.'' 
 
 `` What happened just before the fish-flopping behavior?'' 
 
 `` They all looked at their phones.'' 
 
 The simulation was far enough into the future than even the poorest nations on Earth had advanced smartphones. 
 
 `` Then we can deduce that whatever they saw on their phone is the cause of this behavior. Do we have footage of any of their phones?'' 
 
 One of the cameras was indeed in an ideal spot at the right time to capture the text of the message displayed on the phone. It went on to describe, in great detail, how their entire universe was part of a simulation. How the humans had discovered this without their knowing was unknown, but it had been done. The message ended by asking all of humanity to flop around like fish out of water to get the attention of whoever is running the simulation. 
 
 `` What should we do, Administrator?'' 
 
 `` Let's signal back,'' The Administrator said, at last. `` Change the sky color to a surreal and bright shade of green and leave it that way for a week.'' 
 
 The late night technician nodded and punched some buttons on the keyboard. All around the world the sky turned into a fantastic shade of emerald green. The humans that were outside stopped flopping like fish and got up to stare at the sky in awe. It took a little longer for the humans indoors or otherwise distant from society to get the message in the sky, but eventually they too stopped flopping like fish. 
 
 `` It's their move next,'' The administrator said.
