Thoughts and Prayers (AR trolling)

Brief description

Trolls find the AR video simulating Hayley and target her family for harrasment. Augmented reality is used as a defence to filter out content that might be distressing to the mother of the victim, eventually removing all trace of her daughter.

Pull Quotes

Decades into the digital age, the art of trolling has evolved to fill every niche, pushing the boundaries of technology and decency alike.

From afar, I watched the trolls swarm around my brother’s family with uncoordinated precision, with aimless malice, with malevolent glee.

Conspiracy theories blended with deep fakes, and then yielded to memes that turned compassion inside out, abstracted pain into lulz.

Work that the situation appears in

Title Publication Type Year Creator
Thoughts and Prayers Narrative, Short story Ken Liu

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