To elaborate on the clownworld timeline, here are some notes I've cobbled together. Still figuring out some of the details.
2001: 9/11 happens, breaking the final seal. A crack appears between worlds. Reality begins distorting in small and almost imperceptible ways, like making Lowtax sort of funny at times, helping create early internet meme culture.
2008: Obama gets elected, to much laughter from the international community. Memes practically write themselves. The cracks in reality widen. The mildly intoxicating effects of clownworld begin seeping in, people are getting high by huffing their farts all the time, leading to shit like the Tea Party movement and people finding Stephen Colbert funny.
2012: The Merge begins. Yes bros, the Mexicans had it right. Between Obama getting re-elected and people memeing the whole Mayan apocalypse thing into reality, the cracks get wide enough to start pulling what we knew as our reality into clownworld.
2016: Trump is president. We crossed the event horizon, there's no going back now.
2020: The Merge is done, the ride begins. Don't need to describe the rest, you've seen it.
2023: You are here. Good job surviving so far.
