In keeping with previous US Presidential elections, selected neighborhoods in Second Life now resemble our collective unconscious, our anxieties and outrage taking on crude 3D form. 2020 being 2020, it isn't simply a matter of Trump supporters putting up small campaign signs outside their virtual homes — but instead, say, a fifty foot billboard cube blaring out "KEEP AMERICA GREAT" in every direction.
And Second Life being Second Life, the response to that sign isn't simply someone putting up an equally large Biden/Harris 2020 billboard (though that's there, too). But also, people putting up a Communist Party headquarters right across the street, a Statue of Liberty in the yard next door, and floating above it in the sky, a giant, dancing, hot pink, Trump-shaped dildo.
Such is the scene in the region of Arket today, the last day before the last day of voting officially ends. And so as a last look at the waning election season — and hopefully, of the Trump era too — read on. (NSFW, obviously, unless I suppose you work at a dildo factory.)
This isn't the only outburst of election fever — in fact, Linden Lab recently banned political billboards from mainland ad networks. Some SLers report other eruptions: "I've seen a lot of the Trump stuff at a random place where there was snow. I think it was a museum or something. Very creepy with the giant head following you around…"
But this nightmare all ends tomorrow. Right?
Hat tip: u/RaDiCaL_ReVoLuTiOn on Reddit.
Wagner James Au / New World Notes 
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