I have written before about my love for unusual storytelling. Specifically in the way of short stories that fit into the space of a tweet. And more and more users on twitter might not be users at all. There are bots that create all kinds of tweets: nice ones (wishing you a good morning), serious ones (reminding you that people are not illegal) or specific ones (retweeting everything about coffee).
And there are also those that create stories. Or more specifically story ideas. Unlike the VeryShortStory, what a bot like MagicRealismBot creates seems more like a premises. An idea of what could be. And maybe what should be.
This bot tweets every two hours. And admittedly, many of those tweets are quite banal. But the sheer amount of output produced seemingly makes it impossible not to create a few ideas worth noting. Reading those tweets also depends heavily on the recipient. With the idea presented, what can I and do I want to imagine.
In a way the author is quite literally dead (or has never been alive) but a computer. What makes the story is the reader as much as the writer. And that can lead to some inspiring and amazing stories.
Other bots, like thinkpiecebot, rely even more on our pre-conceived ideas about things. We all know those endless think pieces in every publication available. We know how they work and we know what they about. Most importantly we know Millennials are probably to blame. And this is what makes a bot using all of those tropes repeatably hilarious.
And there are also those that create stories. Or more specifically story ideas. Unlike the VeryShortStory, what a bot like MagicRealismBot creates seems more like a premises. An idea of what could be. And maybe what should be.
This bot tweets every two hours. And admittedly, many of those tweets are quite banal. But the sheer amount of output produced seemingly makes it impossible not to create a few ideas worth noting. Reading those tweets also depends heavily on the recipient. With the idea presented, what can I and do I want to imagine.
In a way the author is quite literally dead (or has never been alive) but a computer. What makes the story is the reader as much as the writer. And that can lead to some inspiring and amazing stories.
In my opinion literature is always created by the reader. And as long as readers enjoy bots creating wild story ideas and jokes out of buzzwords, programming and a hint of the impossible, I really don't see why we should not read them as the great texts that they are.
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