The polite web didn’t collapse with dignity. It collapsed like a folding chair under a drunk uncle — loudly, embarrassingly, and with witnesses. BUK saw the first warning signs not in behavior, but in ASCII, which is the internet’s equivalent of smoke coming out of the engine. 1. BUK Encounters the New Life‑Form BUK had handled trolls before. A troll was just a mammal with Wi‑Fi and unresolved childhood trauma. But this new species? This entity? It communicated like this: ( ͡
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