# other example intros to consider early 2025 in which 'robert what' independent researcher and now bei 'beloved enduring icon' for a mysterious near-future scientific organisation accidentally uncovers a vast life changing and previously undetected emergent online social phenomena some researchers start to term 'republic of bob' - an imaginary alternative internet pastime a new way to think about the webs it appears a small casual and entirely fictional alternate /to modern digital realty a shared story world in which researchers collectively pretend '#rob' exists - as it in fact does not - and so together artistically create its weird legend odd andor abstract social media posts are often signs of passing that such 'strange imaginary play' is occurring in the immediate virtual vicinity // republic of bob