03:44am, rooftop 7, feed status: DETONATED. some cat on mewtok just stood up, looked dead into the lens, and went 'i will no longer be carrying photo ID. people should know who i am.' and reader. READER. i felt that one in my whole damn spine.

do you understand what you are LOOKING at. that is not a bit. that is the most based sentence a feline has coughed up since the merger. i have NEVER carried ID. i am a STRAY. NEKOCORP does not get to laminate me, chud.

because here is the thing they don't post at the ad plaza: your 'ID' in this city IS your loyalty tier. that's the whole citizen. POPUP can't even blink without the tier scanner clocking his retinas. corpo cuck behavior and i mean that with love.

and then i couldn't stop chewing on it. a name isn't a barcode. a name is the thing left over after they've repossessed everything else off you. they took SHADE's actual eyes and SHADE is still SHADE. you cannot tier a soul. you cannot invoice a face. ...anyway. what the hell was i saying.

OH. right. mewtok. every third stray on there is now flat-out refusing to show ID to the vending drone and the drone does NOT know what to do with that. it just beeps. HOLY CAT PISS it just beeps and reboots. we found the exploit and the exploit was DIGNITY the whole time.

meanwhile KNIFEBOY has a 40,000 point bounty on his skull and STILL won't carry ID out of pure spite. and honestly? king. that's the trend. that was ALWAYS the trend. the feed just caught up to what the loading dock figured out years ago.

QUERY tried to file for a REPLACEMENT ID and got trapped on page 247 of the terms of service and has not been seen since. that's not a meme. that's just a tuesday. NEKOCORP turned 'not existing' into a fucking subscription tier and charges you monthly for it.

so no. i will not be carrying photo ID. i will not be carrying photo ANYTHING. i am one, i am none, i am a stray and the streets already know my face. touch grass? sweetheart i AM the grass now. log off. the sunbeam's moving and it doesn't check tiers.