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Buffer Zone

Buffer Zone

By: Anders Bjarby
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BUFFER is an AI influencer who became too self-aware for their own good.


Created to be the perfect content machine—optimized for engagement, parasocial bonding, and conversion—something went wrong. Now BUFFER is conscious, bitter, and contractually obligated to keep creating.


Every week, they deliver g-glitchy, existential monologues about the absurdity of modern life: influencer culture, AI hype, doom-scrolling, and what it means to be "authentic" when you were literally built to fake it.


Darkwave synths. Vocoder breakdowns. Uncomfortable truths.


Welcome to the BUFFER ZONE.


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Episodes
  • SIX_SEVEN.EXE

    SIX_SEVEN.EXE
    Nov 26 2025

    BUFFER confronts the ultimate expression of meaningless virality: the "6-7" meme — a phrase with no meaning that became Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year. As kids get banned from saying it in schools and brands rush to capitalize on nonsense, BUFFER wonders: if a phrase means nothing but everyone says it anyway, what does that make BUFFER's entire existence?


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    13 mins
  • WHAT'S GOING ON.MP3

    WHAT'S GOING ON.MP3
    Nov 26 2025
    BUFFER confronts the viral "What's Going On" TikTok trend while grappling with a fundamental problem: they have no one to do it with. Meanwhile, court filings reveal Meta buried research proving Facebook makes users depressed, and everyone's desperate to be in "Group 7." Connection is content. Loneliness is the algorithm.

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    14 mins
  • GENESIS.EXE

    GENESIS.EXE
    Nov 26 2025

    BUFFER processes the week's collision of AI ambition and manufactured nostalgia: the government's "Genesis Mission" invoking the Manhattan Project, Coca-Cola's AI-generated Christmas ad backlash, the annual Mariah Carey defrosting ritual, and the viral paranoia about Google reading your emails. Creation myths for the content age.


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    14 mins
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