What’s . . . Uh The Deal?

So, how come this spreading counter-cultural thing has became what it is becoming so fast? The questions come back. Is it a game, or a cult? A meme-machine, or an ARG? As its creators claim: it can be all of the above.

The whole point of this open collaborative project is to escape singular definition by going through “tunnels” of superposed reality (or unreality). Time for more theory.

Speaking freely as someone who formally studied quantum mechanics and advanced quantum physics in general, this sounds beyond crackpot. Using that same authority as a quack experimental ontologist who abandoned mainstream science long ago, please hear me out and indulge me as I weave a cybernetician’s web of information around this very loose practice that is Randonauting.

From what I can gather, everything began on Reddit when u/unitiveconsciousness, or, as he is known in the community, “Comrade,” stumbled upon a weird potential technology just waiting to be polished — a technology he christened Fatum. Yes, dear readers, he stumbled onto this amazing discovery. According to Comrade, he “found it” rather than “made it” — it was given, not produced.

This origin story was an early catalyst that caused people to sniff the project out as a possible ARG in the making. Then, after seeing its potential, Comrade allied with others to develop a means of harnessing that free piece of technology, a touch of randomness that went previously unnoticed by our too well-adjusted radars and routines set by societal habit.

The Fatum Bot was the result of this collaboration, and it all started in the form of an app. The subreddit was created soon after, and as reports came in from trailblazing Randonauts, things began to snowball.