This just in: Dystopian science fiction will no longer be sold or streamed in the San Francisco Bay Area or Silicon Valley due to the high risk of it inspiring new tech startups. #tech #scifi
@annaleen But what if I *want* the Torment Nexus?
@michaelgemar @annaleen I have a couple of invites to the closed beta if you want one. You just gotta find a way to upload some of your blood for the signup process.
@goosname @michaelgemar I heard you had to give bile and mucus if you wanted into the gold-level beta

@annaleen @goosname @michaelgemar

How _can_ one get in on the gold-level
@TormentNexus beta?

@lahosken @annaleen @goosname @michaelgemar @TormentNexus
Mass virignbloodsacrifice over blockchain? Gives proof of stake entirely new meaning.
@goosname @annaleen Hmmm…in reading over the Terms of Service, I have some questions…

@michaelgemar @annaleen
Thank you for making the exact same reference I was about to!

(Nerds! Nerds! We're all nerds here - and I love it!)

@michaelgemar @annaleen

SF writers are now getting sued by Big Tech because the Torment Nexus was a trade secret. 😆

@michaelgemar @annaleen I keep forgetting it’s not real.

“On November 8th, 2021, two weeks following Meta presenting their metaverse vision at Meta Connect 2021, Twitter[1] user @AlexBlechman made a humorous tweet in which he described a tech company blindly creating Torment Nexus from a sci-fi novel called Don't Create the Torment Nexus. The tweet gained over 35,000 retweets and 120,800 likes in seven months (shown below).”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus

Torment Nexus | Know Your Meme

Torment Nexus is a trope of creating a product that was originally described in fiction as something that for the benefit of humanity should never be creat

Know Your Meme
@drooling_fan_girl @michaelgemar @annaleen Hey, they finally made a "know your meme" about it!