Written in 2022, rediscovered and touched up in 2026.
What is Wibi?
That's classified.
What ISN'T Wibi?
Wibi is not...
- defined by what it isn't
- a comedy troupe
- an idea for a wacky slice-of-life anime
- apolitical
- the downfall of humanity
- surreal performance art
- a vivid recollection of a long-past drug trip
- a wisened cynic (with a soft spot you might discover) who ridicules every and all aspects of life equally (and has a soft spot you might discover)
- an abandoned ARG
- a good source of EXP
- an obscure content farm
- a shared hallucination
- evil and must be stopped
- going to change your mind
- a good idea
- above the notion of right and wrong
- defeatist (mostly)
- under command of an army of spiders taking over the world
- a swirling mass of water that lives in a quiet pond
- a production posse for corporate jazz
- a side project by an eccentric millionaire
- that communicative
- aware of the square-cube law
- the all-consuming void
- sad and beautiful
- a precautionary tale
- a tragic failure
- dead
- a really kind guy when you get to know him
- the end of the known universe
- an overdone gag for white left-of-centre hipsters
- an adult puppet show
- a joke with a receding punchline
- an underground art movement
- a inside joke from a dying friend group
- a role model
- an inspirational fable
- going anywhere
- an asocial card counter
- a good idea
- a bad idea
- an idea
- a family-friendly haunted house
- a masculine ideal
- an emotionless machine
- a treasure hunt
- a big data company that closed in 2015
- a tech news site
- plausibly deniable
- an opaque art school project
- a reversible experiment by a bored man
- an aesthetic ending in "-punk" or "-wave"
- making real art
- programmed to fight back
- smart enough to stay fully anonymous
- fast enough to outrun the explosion
- normal
- normal for not-normal people
- able to justify its continued existence
- a promotional limited-time flavor
- okay with the things it tolerates
- occupied at the moment
- an elaborate roleplay
- qualified for personhood
- from the bad future
- a known word
- easy and straightforward
- where it wants to be
- on fire yet
- making sense
- a young adult novel about not fitting in
- an up-and-coming global media empire
- a sitcom with a slap bass riff
- that mysterious
- playing live
- created for improv theatre
- a set of CC0 characters for use in indie fighting games
- your evil döppelganger
- a nutty recurring character
- a token minority
- a big important man
- a breakout character from a zany webseries
- the divine manifestation of art
- a metaphor for coming-of-age boyhood in rural America
- a gnostic myth
- a reliable defense attorney
- suspended in formaldehyde
- a framing device for snake oil cures
- the X that marks the spot
- an existential crisis (it's several, actually)
- a continuous immaterial experience
- emotionally coherent
- particularly coherent
- an after-school club for paranoid young adults
- a huge bird
- anything underwater
- an incredible waste of time
- signed for a book deal
- keen on the apocalypse
- keen on there being an apocalypse
- lip-syncing to a tape recording (but how can you prove it?)
- a complex multilayered puzzle game
- out of ideas
- in stock with good ideas
- a 2D block-pushing game
- a social experiment conducted at Harvard
- an asocial experiment
- a prank to annoy people
- a condescending observer
- a promotional stunt by Wendy's
- a horde of invisible monsters
- an elaborate mirror-based illusion
- any more reliable than chance
- reproducible in controlled studies
- confirmed to exist
- a proven hypothesis
- a set of cartoon mascots for a record store
- a set containing all uncontained sets
- a logical paradox
- an unfinished pilot for a high fantasy adult comedy
- reddish green
- a Linux distro
- a creature in a Pokémon knock-off
- unaware (not completely)
- stumbling around drunkenly and arriving at its destination by pure luck
- going to space
- resisting progress
- America's darling
- cryptic enough
- a post-punk kid exploring a barren gray wasteland and making himself smoke cigarettes
- a motivational speaker
- a producer of time organization cassettes
- a dystopian poet ahead of their time
- insisting you listen to it every day for a week
- a former filmmaker happily directing soulless propaganda
- an impenetrable fortress
- a parody of Blue's Clues
- a big band where everyone is in costume
- a list of costumes at a queer Halloween event
- a JRPG enemy cast list
- a lowbrow parody of late-2000s internet culture that is so strangely genuine, insightful, and world-weary that it defies the narrow cultural box it seems to enclose itself in, just watch the Jeff the Killer episode seriously you'll be hooked
- a weekly Beatles podcast that misattributes every song to The Beatles
- a giant conference hall where everyone has the same name
- a DIY slime kit
- a made-up word used in linguistic experiments
- convinced of the power of positive thinking
- defying causality
- a permanent file-hosting service
What else is Wibi?