Culture: January 2026 Archives

Amelia Sans Merci - by John Carter - Postcards From Barsoom

A non-profit with UK government funding developed a game to train young people to avoid "extremist" (i.e. anti-immigration) groups. A purple-bobbed siren named Amelia, luring the game-player into pro-border demonstrations and a lower social credit core, escaped from the game and with the help of AI has become a virtual heroine of English and European nationalism. The link above is an explainer with dozens of examples of Amelia memes. Here's a Grok-generated video based on the memes. And here's a Swedish version, with an explanation of how it was made.