The Brainstorming of Young Business People
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
The Brainstorming of Young Business People presents an interface that allows a user to experience two platforms simultaneously: LifeBox, a "what should I watch?" simulator that hearkens to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, and JustUs, an OnlyFans-esque engagement service. As the user scrolls endlessly through "viewing" options of CLIP-rendered images aligned with b-roll descriptors (e.g. "Two pretty girls playing with the tablet and smiling together") they're tempted by an influx of DMs from CGI figures imploring them with flirtatious come-ons. The noise of algorithmic discovery complements the emptiness of corporate metadata and false intimacies, all of which speak to our milieu of hyper-monetization, abstraction, and extraction.
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Windows or Mac OS may warn you about this software, as it is not code-signed with the app stores. Just run it anyways :) On Mac it will say "TBoYBP" would like to access files in your {folder where you downloaded the app} — if you don't select yes the app wont run correctly — since the app stores all its images in a folder. If you dont get the popup about needing to access files in the folder, the app wont run correctly.
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