Fourth Floor Common Room [Sunday night]

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Olive had gotten herself some popcorn and settled down in front of the television to see what was on to occupy her overactive little brain. What she found, instead, was some show she'd never seen where they seemed to just be playing YouTube video after YouTube video.

She'd never be able to go on the internet again. "Oh my god, why would you think you could eat that many cupcakes at once? Why?"

Still better than the Cactibear, though.

[open CR is open. Feel free to mod that whatever's on the TV is horrifying/really weird/gross/whatever. IT'S THE DREDGES OF YOUTUBE, GENERALLY.]

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"...What even is this?" Toby was demanding after like two seconds of... whatever the hell that even was.

Cactibear was way better, Olive. Way. Better.

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"It's Darwinism in action," Olive decided, cringing after a particularly brutal skateboarding...stunt. Was it still a stunt when it failed spectacularly?

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"This seems like the sort of thing you should be watching on that website with all the videos," Toby commented. "Not, like. Actual TV."

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"See, that annoying guy is gonna talk about it in a second," Olive said, pointing to the screen. "I don't know. I feel like you're right but I also feel like we're watching the end of real broadcast media happen right here before our eyes."

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"So it's like the trainwreck syndrome on multiple levels?" Toby wondered. "The videos, and then the existence of the show itself?"

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"Exactly," Olive decided. "I wanna change it, but I can't."

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"Which, by the way? Another thing that happens here sometimes," Toby felt the need to inform her. "Sometimes the TV'll just... stick to one channel. No matter what you do."

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Olive glanced at him, and replied, "Okay, that's not what's happening here. But um. That's crazy-annoying."

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"Yeah, I figured it was a case of the traditional can't-look-away rather than the literal," Toby grinned. "But still. Semi-related, so I thought I'd mention it."

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"I feel like everything I think of that could be annoying? That's a thing the island does," Olive complained.

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Kind of like there's a legion of people behind the scenes deliberately inflicting all this wtfery upon Fandom's residents? Kinda?

"That is actually a fairly accurate summary," Toby said thoughtfully. "I'm keeping that to mention if I end up with a sibling next semester."

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"Do we have to have those, by the way?" she wondered. "Because I'm an okay big sister to my actual little brother but I'm not sure I can handle a fakey."

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"Yes and no?" Toby said, thinking about that. "I mean, I've only had one when I signed up for it. But I guess some people got roped into it unintentionally?" he shrugged.