Just so everyone’s on the same page, @david-anon (Link x2) is an ARG account (I assume).
If you’re like me, or like my spouse or several of my friends, and you deal with psychosis or anything in that neighborhood, you really should block them.
This is not coming from a place of fragility. I love ARGs. I’ve played them, followed them, recommended them. They can be clever and fun and scary.
But this one decided to jump onto one of my personal posts out of nowhere (which I immediately panic deleted), and it triggered my paranoia and psychosis so hard I have had to up my medication.
And now they’re doing the same thing to other people with conditions such as psychosis or unreality symptoms in my circle.
There’s a difference between immersive storytelling and dragging unsuspecting strangers into content that can destabilize them. Sudden violent cryptic comments, violent imagery/gore, out of-context horror invasions on unrelated posts…
That’s not clever worldbuilding. That’s a mental health hazard for people who already struggle with reality becoming slippery.
As a heads up, if you look at their blog, there is a lot of gore. So consider this a heads up for anyone sensitive to that kind of thing, or anyone whose brain can spin sideways the moment something uncanny drops in their notifications.
ARGs can be amazing. They just need consent. This one isn’t giving people that choice.
Protect yourselves. Block freely. Don't let someone else's game play with your mind.
And, if you want, please report them for spam, as they seem to have set up a bot that automatically does this to anyone with the certain trigger words, such as Hands, in their posts.
I'm not telling anyone to reblog this, but since the issue is now spreading to more people and I've gotten to see the affects of it, I would like people to get a heads up before it happens to them and potentially hurts them.
