Well you see, we had these things called computers.

Oh boy, here he goes again

No, listen! We'd look at the computers, and make... well, kind of jokes on them...

What? That doesn't make sense

You don't understand.. the computer was...it had a glass front, and you looked at it, and you could put letters in it, and send them to other people, or to everybody on the planet at the same time....

I told you. It's always the same story.

Well I think his story is interesting. Go ahead

Ok so there was a great leader, he led, well, most of the world!

Woooow

And we would get on the computers and argue about the leader

Didn't the leader kill you for that?

No, we had special rules that let us say anything we wanted

What? Even about the leader? And he would just sit there and let you?

Yes! We were very proud of our rules, we called them" The Constitution." Anyway, we'd make all kinds of funny pictures on the computer, to make fun of the people who didn't like the leader. And we'd put the pictures where everyone could see them...

It's always the same. It's always about the thing with the glass face and the leader and the funny pictures. None of it makes any sense!

Shush, I like stories about the Before Times. Let him talk.

Anyway, the best pictures of this kind we would call "spicy." And then we would put more letters in the computer making more fun of the people who hated the leader.then they would get angry, and we would say that they were"triggered."

Mommy, I can never understand what Tardigrade is talking about.

Hush, honey, he's one of the only ones left who remember the Before Times, listen so you can tell your children what he says.

But it's boring and confusing, and it's always about the spicy pictures on the glass thing.