He was leaning into the screen, waiting for the anchor to blink, waiting for a breath. There was no script. No stakes. No manufactured tension. It was simply time passing , observed. The "pure entertainment" the Council had locked away wasn't chaos; it was the absence of artifice. It was life without the intent to sell.
In the age of social media, "swapping" has become a literal tool. Users curate alternate personas or engage in "fandom" swaps, where the secret of their true identity is the primary source of entertainment.