February 16, 2026
Musical Interlude
This happened in the last week before my surgery and all I was able to put forth in the pre hospitalization chaos was a perfunctory half-written post on the matter.
Now that I'm back, this meme has persisted in a way that memes are not wont to, so, I'll attempt to give a brief overview of what led to this based heresy.
It seems that the U.K. government, concerned that it's population might not be entirely enthusiastic about child-rape, job-displacement, general violence, and sundry related societal disruptions decided that it was a very good idea to make an educational video game to teach the youngsters to be tolerant of the previously mentioned societal boons which have been so graciously provided to the UK citizenry by their ruling class.
The video game (Pathways) was actually commissioned by the city of Hull and as far as I can tell cannot be found on the internet anymore. it is intended to help teenagers avoid being radicalized by the internet. As such it featured a purple haired Goth Chick as a villainess.
This is sensible as far as it goes, purple hair is a form of aposematic signaling that generally indicates a spectrum of bad outcomes ranging from the sort of hot girl who convinces one to write bad checks to straight-up stabby/burny political violence. In this case however, they had the villainess be a righty and apparently (...I cannot FIND the game as of this writing) spouting such heretical extremist takes as "Rape is bad m'kay".
I'd REALLY like to know how the girl was characterized in the game, because she has become a sensation. It seems that the game was a bit of a failure since Amelia made such a good case for her villainy that every single agentic player of the game chose the Amelia path and ended up failing to avoid apostasy in the eyes of the U.K. government.
Suburban Banshee categorizes her as an Aisling. This seems both accurate and delightfully ironic given the history there.
Amelia became so popular that she's got a Know Your Meme page.
She appears to be a big hit in the U.S. and U.K., but is also surprisingly popular in Eastern Europe.
Now at this point you're impatiently tapping your foot on the ground and are noting that the post is titled "Musical Interlude" thus, gentle reader, with the help of Skybrows, I must finally oblige...
That's a lot of memes from the past 10 years. The brief cameos by EN V-Tubers may seem discordant, but, IIRC, they are all ones who have been cancelled by and/or received death threats over the last few years ,from what is, this week, the Amelia Haters Club.
I'm pretty sure the fellow who appears between Isaac Newton and DJ Shakespeare is Alan Turing.
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Welcome back. I hope your recovery has been progressing brilliantly.
Posted by: Don at Mon Feb 16 07:27:15 2026 (4JpKz)
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Good to hear that you have made it with the surgery. Are you doing the other kidney soon?
Posted by: PatBuckman at Mon Feb 16 21:57:27 2026 (rcPLc)
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I'm pretty sure that the "game" is this:
https://www.shoutoutuk.org/pathways/
I don't have the patience to go through the thing, but note the woman on the left of that page's background.
https://www.shoutoutuk.org/pathways/
I don't have the patience to go through the thing, but note the woman on the left of that page's background.
Posted by: Matthew Dixon Cowles at Mon Feb 16 22:27:52 2026 (irynM)
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