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Review
Adapted from a Review-A-Thon 26 Review
Style: Choice-Select
Played: 7/16/26
Playtime: 10m, one mis-classified image
By all accounts, human moderation of social media is DIRE. In some ways it suggests to me an SVU-like policeman. Your entire job is to expose yourself, day after day, to the worst humanity has to offer. Then go home and pretend you HAVEN’T been marinating in depravity all day. How could it NOT impact one’s world view and mental health? Having to navigate the moving line between merely-reprehensible and actively-evil, a line whose very framing is some combination of corporate double-speak and Lynchian corruption? Adult/pron sites have a particular flavor of that where exploitation and human trafficking loom large over the submission pool. As anti-AI as I am (and BOY AM I), if I thought human depravity were a solvable algorithm this is one application I’d acknowledge as vital. Of course its not solvable though. So what is the point of you, AI, if you can’t even help with this?
This demo is very evocative of another game by this author, perhaps the entire series - in gameplay, tone and graphical presentation. As in the other, you are asked (via a cell phone/remote work paradigm) to screen and flag images that adhere to some guideline. Previously, it was identifying a marker that indicated ‘spy.’ Here it is enforcing increasingly permissive decency guidelines. In both cases, the image submissions are mostly of women enjoying some exhibitionism. What made the previous game work was its tone: it seemed beamed over from another universe, the ‘gleeful sexuality only’ universe where a pervasive joy and unapologetic horniness infuse every aspect of life. That tone is very much in evidence here, from the increasingly explicit selfie submissions demanding your evaluation, to a giggly ‘send N00dz!!’ flirtation with your boss.
This is about the best possible tone for these kinds of things, and remains a strength of the proceedings. The images are.. representational? Cartoony, but smacking of digital filtering of real photos. Or rotoscoping-esque. One of their more subtle aspects is to typically only present eyebrows and mouth to convey expressions. No eyes. This choice is interesting - it kind of mutes the humanity of its subjects and abstracts them to prurient objects of Gaze. That impulse is certainly… a choice, one that could be actively offputting if not for the winking humor (and uncomplicated lipstick grins) surrounding it. All in all, I felt this shared the strengths of its companion work, as well as its limitations. If you are looking for a titillating diversion, these works attempt to skirt the most problematic aspects of online erotic images and underline the humor and fun. They mostly succeed at that. Female body focused? Yes. Statistically, that’s where the money is. So all that remains is to decide if YOUR sexuality is compatible with this.
For me though, by centering image moderation as its driving conceit, this work remained a bit more haunted by its darker real-world counterpart than the spy-fantasy of the previous work. Just enough of a pall to compromise its specific charms.
