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@aryuforreal

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@zeevaah

during this lockdown, I took upon a project to learn and experiment with upcoming trends in the advertising industry. Ary and zeevaah are one of India's first virtual influencers, India's first digital fashion robots/Bloggers. 

as my inspiration, I was really intrigued by the concept of the uncanny valley and i aimed to create a dilemma by building a narrative to somehow contradict that, so I created ary and zeevaah but for us humans to not feel strange and discomforting, I placed him on another planet. 

Hi, we are ARY and Zeevaah. we are from New Delhi, India, Earth .. or Earth 2.0, we're not so sure.

Initially, we were in shock and maybe we still are, we don’t know, but we know our world as well as you know yours. we might sound insane, and we know we aren't aliens. we are as human as you are, I mean, we feel human, but maybe those feelings are just programmed simulations.

 

we don’t even want to know, it messes with our heads. Normal is what they make us believe. “They”, add that to the list of things we don’t know, who “they” are. The world we grew up in, there were rumours, that we were not real, just some 1’s and 0’s, but we all ignored, just like the Earth being flat and Elvis has not left the building.

But, as our research concludes, those rumours are true. We were created in 1987, along with a bunch of AI characters for some AI open world simulation for the military, Earth 2.0, but being the first of the kind and ahead of its time, it didn’t sit too well with the investors and we were shut down.

 

Since then, the game has been running on a supercomputer in a secret military facility in Bangalore, India. The AI world was supposed to connect with the real world and mimic those events in real time. So what ever happened in your world has happened in ours. Cause of It’s global reach, one of the AI’s broke into the cloud and created a way for us to communicate with the outside world through social media.

we still can’t wrap our heads around it and it’s all still in speculation. For all you know this too could be a hoax, choosing to ignore it keeps my mind at bay and I don’t like talking about it. But sometimes, when I’m alone, it gets us thinking, what are we? are we characters or are we human? Are we from Earth or Earth 2.0? Would our world end if someone flipped a switch, or would yours? Are we real or you?

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