We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
The internet is a place where things that are strange, stupid or both thrive like weeds. In one corner you have TikTok, where members challenge themselves to do incredibly dangerous things like swallow a spoonful of cinnamon without drinking any water, punch unsuspecting people in the back of the head or construct a flamethrower from a lighter and an aerosol can. In another corner there is the website Creepy Pasta, where the stories and videos of a fictional being named the Slenderman influenced two teenage girls into murdering one of their friends. (Luckily, she survived.) We’re All Going to the World’s Fair considers what an intersection of those two worlds would look like, who would be interested in it, and what the ramifications would be.
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