Bad Shibe
2017 · Short Story
Book Chapter Version
Story by Rhea Myers Illustrations by Lina Theodorou
Same text and images as the zine, but reformatted and ncluded in the collection “Artists re:Thinking the Blockchain”.
Zine Version
Story by Rhea Myers Illustrations by Lina Theodorou Afterword by Ruth Catlow
Such future. Very crypto. Much catastrophe. Wow.
“Bad Shibe is a sci-fi novella set in a future society that may or may not be based on a descendant of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, where it’s as hot and as dusty as a virtual money mining rig. A trusting young shibe called YS questions the basis of their utopia and their place within it and feels … bad. The story invites us to imagine what kind of society emerges when a system designed to verify the transfer of digital assets is combined with a world where reputation is based on “followers” and “likes”. The story deals with the implications of a new wave of fully financialised planetary-scale automation and the struggle to discern right from wrong when human and machine agency merges.”
Get ready:
A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Doge. Wow.
Much soul, very emotion: Why I buy into the cult of Dogecoin
