A social platform of user-made worlds and avatars, playable in a headset or on a monitor, in which anyone can be anything. The record's entry for the virtual world that became a meme factory: in January 2018 it filled Twitch with Ugandan Knuckles, a small red echidna asking strangers if they knew the way, and in 2022 it saw a revolt over an anti-cheat update that broke players' mods.
Correction: the Knuckles meme was widely called racist at the time and the platform's community moved on from it within weeks. The record files the meme and the reaction together, which is where they belong.
The record notes that the platform has no game in it and that this is why it has lasted longer than the games, since a room with no rules keeps its people.
Someone remembers a virtual bar in 2020 where the regulars were in six time zones and the bartender was an anime girl who was, in daylight, a plumber in Ohio. The record files the bar as the year's most reliable pub.
A Twitch stream in January 2018 in which a dozen small red avatars surround a streamer clicking their tongues, and the streamer laughing until they have to remove the headset. The record has the clip and has stopped watching it.
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