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''We Become What We Behold'' is a video game created by [[Creator/NickyCase Nutcase Nightmare]], released on Website/{{Kongregate}} in 2016. It's a DeconstructionGame where you work as a photographer for an unnamed social media network and must take picture of interesting things to make them go viral. It starts off innocently, but it really functions as a satire of the internet/modern media cycle.
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''We Become What We Behold'' is a video game created by [[Creator/NickyCase Nutcase Nightmare]], released on Website/{{Kongregate}} in 2016. It's a DeconstructionGame where you work as a photographer for an unnamed social media network and must take picture pictures of interesting things to make them go viral. It starts off innocently, but it really functions as a satire of the internet/modern media cycle.
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* AnAesop: Our tendency to only cover things based on what generates attention and to hold ignorant beliefs based off little evidence is incredibly dangerous, and the media actively encourages this mentality. Here, you play as a photographer who starts out photographing innocent things, but soon are instructed by an ambiguous source to stir up controversy between the circles and squares with selective photographing, and it eventually leads to all but two of them killing each other.
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* KarmaHoudini: The smartly dressed, hat and mustache wearing "gentlecircle" is indirectly the first trigger of all following events and also puts the final nail in the coffin, when out of nowhere he whips out a gun and blasts the reformed goofy spiky-haired square to bloody chunks. He's nowhere to be seen in the epilogue but judging by that he's not among the deceased photos it's strongly implied he got away scot-free.
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* BlamedForBeingRailroaded: No matter what you try to report on, whether it's something innocent or whether it generates outrage unintentionally, you don't have any say in how others react to your broadcasts and will eventually have to progress the game by [[IfItBleedsItLeads giving the people what they want]].
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* AnAesop: Our tendency to only cover things based on what generates attention and to hold ignorant beliefs based off little evidence is incredibly dangerous.
* AxCrazy: Whenever they go on a killing spree, their faces become downright unhinged.
* AxCrazy: Whenever they go on a killing spree, their faces become downright unhinged.
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* AnAesop: Our tendency to only cover things based on what generates attention and to hold ignorant beliefs based off little evidence is incredibly dangerous.
dangerous, and the media actively encourages this mentality. Here, you play as a photographer who starts out photographing innocent things, but soon are instructed by an ambiguous source to stir up controversy between the circles and squares with selective photographing, and it eventually leads to all but two of them killing each other.
* AxCrazy: Wheneverthey characters go on a killing spree, their faces become downright unhinged.
* AxCrazy: Whenever
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* VillainProtagonist: You’re revealed to be this, taking photographs and manipulating them, inciting a mass murder slaughter.
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* DrosteImage: The final picture of the game, with the couple as its subjects.
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* DeconstructionGame: For MemeticMutation and FlameWar and also the trope GoodIsBoring. Too much attention to negative things, even if it gets good views and viral chances, can spiral out into something ''horrible''.
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* DeconstructionGame: For MemeticMutation MemeticMutation[[invoked]] and FlameWar and also the trope GoodIsBoring. Too much attention to negative things, even if it gets good views and viral chances, can spiral out into something ''horrible''.
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* {{Jerkass}}: The spiky-haired guy starts as one, but mellows out. However, by the end of the game, just about everyone else is angry and hateful towards each other.
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* {{Jerkass}}: The spiky-haired guy starts as one, but mellows out. However, Unfortunately, by taking pictures of circles being fearful of squares they began to despise the end of the game, just about everyone else is angry former and hateful towards each other.vice versa.
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* ButThouMust: Figured out the trick? Think you can dial down the tensions by reporting on the peace rally? Don't bother -- the headline will just tell you "Give the people what they want" with a broken hashtag, and it will do nothing to calm things down.
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* ButThouMust: Figured out the trick? Think you can dial down the tensions by reporting on the peace rally? Don't bother -- the headline will just tell you "Give the people what they want" with a broken hashtag, hashtag if you do so repeatedly, and it will do nothing to calm things down.
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* ATruceWhileWeGawk: Everyone stops dead the moment [[spoiler: the man in the bowler hat pulls a gun on the spiky-haired square man. The player [[SoundOnlyDeath hears the gunshot]] behind the [[FramingDevice pop-up photo they take]], then all hell breaks loose.]]
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* ATruceWhileWeGawk: Everyone stops dead the moment the man in the bowler hat pulls a gun on the spiky-haired square man. The player [[SoundOnlyDeath hears the gunshot]] behind the [[FramingDevice pop-up photo they take]], then all hell breaks loose.
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* ATruceWhileWeGawk: Everyone stops dead the moment [[spoiler: the man in the bowler hat pulls a gun on the spiky-haired square man. The player [[SoundOnlyDeath hears the gunshot]] behind the [[FramingDevice pop-up photo they take]], then all hell breaks loose.]]
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* NiceHat: When you take a photo of a guy with a hat, the hashtag says "OOH NICE HAT" and other people start wearing them. Trying this again afterwards leads to "nvm hats aren't cool now" as the trend dies.
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* ManipulativeEditing: The entire point of the game relies on this. The very first picture you take that has drastic consequences is of the odd square who yells and instills fear in the populace. When the circle runs from a square as a result, the caption phrases it as rudeness and intolerance, and this in turn causes a square to turn his nose up to a circle, and it just snowballs from there.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Quite literally. The man in the hat at the beginning seems innocuous enough at first. [[CerebusKnight He triggers the war later on by shooting the happy (formerly shouty) square man.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: Quite literally. The man in the hat at the beginning seems innocuous enough at first. [[CerebusKnight [[KnightOfCerebus He triggers the war later on by shooting the happy (formerly shouty) square man.]]
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''We Become What We Behold'' is a video game created by [[Creator/NickyCase Nutcase Nightmare]], released on Website/{{Kongregate}} in 2016. It's a DeconstructionGame where you work as a photographer for an unnamed social media network and must take picture of interesting things to make them go viral. It starts off innocently, with you taking pictures of innocuous things like a man in a nice hat... but quickly turns into a bloody mess, with clickbait hashtags and {{Flame War}}s. Basically a satire of the internet/modern media cycle.
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''We Become What We Behold'' is a video game created by [[Creator/NickyCase Nutcase Nightmare]], released on Website/{{Kongregate}} in 2016. It's a DeconstructionGame where you work as a photographer for an unnamed social media network and must take picture of interesting things to make them go viral. It starts off innocently, with you taking pictures of innocuous things like a man in a nice hat... but quickly turns into a bloody mess, with clickbait hashtags and {{Flame War}}s. Basically it really functions as a satire of the internet/modern media cycle.
