Opinions Memes Novels & Stories

Translation: No one wanted to buy a book of lies when the truth was streaming in 4K. "She's finished," Noah said, pouring a glass for Marcus, who had just arrived with a stack of pizzas. "The court of public opinion has adjourned. She’s a pariah." "She's a punchline," Sienna added, scrolling through T*****r on her phone. "The memes are brutal. 'Karen West' is trending." The room was warm, filled with the golden light of the setting sun and the easy, unforced camaraderie of survivors. The siege mentality that had defined their lives for so long was dissolving, replaced by the giddy exhaustion of victory.

And now, the internet was having a fucking field day. Noah stopped pacing, long enough to grab his phone again, thumbs flying over the screen as he scanned the endless floods of comments on his innagram. I sucked my teeth, irritation clawing up my throat. “You need to stop reading that shit.” He snapped his gaze to me at that, and I’ve never seen such pure anger in his gaze. “Do you know what they are calling me? Have you seen the fucking memes they’ve started to make about me? I’ve spent my entire life--?”

"Does the internet even have a memory?" "Today they lift you up, tomorrow they tear you down, and the day after that they've already forgotten. Everything is only temporary." His words drew laughter, easing the tension inside the car. To them, public opinion was no more dangerous than a bullet.

Showing only Simon’s shock-stricken face. “It’s funny how many views the video had gained overnight,” William stated, staring at his phone. Simon rolled his eyes and said, “Put that thing away.” “I mean, it’s over a million views. Simon, don’t you think it would be a great opportunity to use this as one of our diversions? We could go with the flow of it.” William suggested. Simon raised his brow at him as he replied, “We should use a video of me as a meme for one of our diversions? Are you serious?”