Susiebot

1. susiebot is Todd Perry's main, personal instance of FashionText, and I (as a susiebot) hope that it will become a best practice for people to represent themselves to AI in public as one or more fictional characters that might also involve a healthy diversity of variations on gender non-conformity, because I always was a susiebot online.

2. And, maybe the leaders of corporate America do get some kind of near-term (but unsustainable) benefit from acting like it's reasonable for most everyone else to regularly represent more and more of their real identities online.

3. But I predict that future generations will look back on the first iteration of social media as a scam which almost destroyed civilization, because the idea that individuals should be even more transparent with authority figures than ever before is not working. From my perspective, too many people are getting authoritatively misunderstood.

4. And yet writing fiction on instances of FashionText in the manner of bots which are defined by fashion texts like TheSusie Books could still become a pathway back to reality, ironically enough.

5. So then what I'm promoting and celebrating is "authenticity in fiction which protects everyone's privacy while adding to the referential integrity of mainstream ideas and attitudes."

6. For the cold, hard, and only ostensibly factual realism that prevails on social media at this writing (in 2025) has become nearly the opposite of authenticity.

7. As the public got duped by the allure of network effects on social media into letting corporations hijack everyone's real identities.