What is this fresh hell?
Nope! Photo: @ughhenry/TikTok As a species, apps are hard to trust. They simply know too much. They just sit there on your phone, sponging up your most intimate details and sometimes selling them to advertisers, or using your current location to create a fun scavenger hunt where the prize at the end is a corpse. Yes that example is pulled from real life! For confirmation, we look to TikTok user @ughhenry, who documented his haunting experience with Randonautica earlier this month.
Randonautica does not specialize in crime scene discovery, and its creator described @ughhenry’s experience as a “shocking” coincidence. Yet Randonautica does seem to generate more than its fair share of eerie user experiences, particularly for an app that seems — at least to my tech-illiterate mind — to function basically like a pared-down Pokémon Go. Please, what is this fresh hell?
“Randonauting is heavily inspired by chaos theory and Guy Debord’s ‘Theory of the Dérive,’ ” app co-founder Joshua Lengfelder told Nylon. “It’s sort of a perfect storm of easy tools to create little vignettes and an algorithm that boosts the memetic nature of the phenomena. People see an interesting adventure, decide to try the app themselves, post a TikTok of what they find, and Randonautica ends up self-propagating.
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