Fictional googology

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Fictional googology (FG) is the niche hobby of creating fictional numbers, often above an absolute value of [w:Absolute Infinite] or below 0, often assigning Unicode characters to them. Fictional googology was common, as well as widely accepted on TextWall, but it faces near-universal stigmatization among OWOT's users. While fictional googology is meant to be an offshoot of standard googology, it is typically regarded by OWOT's users as more of an art project that primarily serves as entertainment for children than a mathematical pursuit. People who engage in fictional googology are known as fictional googologists, FGers, or FGists.

Some users who are participating in fictional googology:

Fictional googologists who are most likely trolls:

Criticism and opposition to FG

The users Pippin and lime.owot have been one of the most vocal critics of fictional googology. Pippin has been a significant opponent of the spread of fictional googology across OWOT.

Other notable critics of fictional googology are:

Some FG-critical worlds

/hpfafg was a world poking fun at fictional googology. Its owner and members criticize and troll fictional googologists. So far, it has not been taken down, griefed, or spammed. But even so, fictional googologists with terminal OWOT disease still attempt to attack this wall. The only one recorded or notable so far is Europe2048.

/fgworld, pretending to be "a safe space for all fictional googologists."

/fuck_fg_federation (abbreviated as FFF) was started on OWOT. It was a threat (to their innocence) because of insensitive gory content.

Threats

Fictional googologists were also threats to themselves, since they were also tearing themselves apart in the NO! Discord server. Many staff members left on July and August 2023, including:

  • Lil (whom has now disconnected himself from all FG, except Mathis RV because he looks up to him)
  • An
  • LightXD

The majority of fictional googologists inside the server predicted that FG will die in 3~9 months, though some believe it never will.

Through late September and October, the health of the server has been decreasing dramatically, as over half of the past 2 weeks have had less than 1000 messages per day in #general. Recently, jwklong has been permanently banned for trolling and 'not apologising' for 4 months, and WTIF was unbanned due to "drama ending". But it isn't looking good for them in 2024, as fictional googology seems to be dying again. After this, the community's activity increased, with more than 1500 daily messages in #general at times, but it isn't looking good for them in 2024, as fictional googology seems to be dying again.

In January 2024, Jesse Kohn plotted to leave fictional googology, with a video explaining the real state of fictional googology and its uncreative and boring videos, avoiding Mathis R.V., which was the entire reason why Jesse Kohn is now largely disinterested in fictional googology. A particular reason why this is important is because this highlights how Freddie Fazbear's series, the only regularly uploading fictional googology series at the time, has long gotten boring, with the same "counting section" and "cycle" style across many videos, even seasons. Therefore, fictional googology doesn't even seem to have a good future as of now, despite how it seemed after jwklong's ban.