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Navigating the tiktok Zepotha trend as an autistic person has been such an experience.

For context, (spoilers ahead) people have banded together on tiktok to create lore for a fake 80s horror film. So people are making tiktok memes as if it were a real film and commenting on people’s videos like ‘you look like ____ from Zepotha’ and what not. Just a big harmless prank.

Only, the lore is actually connecting—and it’s good shit.

So, on the one hand, we had the confusion behind all the sarcasm and the joke, but then, the moment I had context, I was hooked. I went from lost and and confused to hyperfixated at record speed. As someone with a horror media special interest, I was roped so quickly into the lives (and deaths) of these fake fake teenagers. Like, I have a mental spreadsheet in my mind gathering all this information, and it’s making, like, a cohesive story.

I also think that, as a whole, this is so entirely fascinating. Not only the way the the internet has seemingly united, but the way that people can work together so we’ll to form a story.

I’m a little sad cause I know this is gonna fade into nothing after I’m hooked and in on the joke, but it’ll be fun while it lasts.