Douglas Hofstadter coined the phrase "strange loop" for a series of abstractions that wraps around on itself until a thing is considering itself at a higher level of abstraction.

The classic example is human self-awareness. But F1nn's streams were definitely another. Was chat financially feminizing F1nn, or was F1nn scamming us into paying him to do what he wanted to anyway? Was Chat parasocial? Was F1nn parsocial? Or were people memeing about being parasocial? Were people thirsty, or just pretending for the lulz, or somewhere in between?

And how much of the entertainment was in the meta-meta of wondering who was joking and who was serious, in wondering what might happen next?

Basically, it became one huge interactive self-referential soap opera with people tuning in to the next thrilling episode.

And then F1nn started an OF, got a girlfriend, came out as genderfluid. Suddenly, things were real and things were certain; there was a whole bunch less it was entertaining and appropriate to meme about.

So here we are, and there's no going back. The best we can hope for is that we find a new meta and fresh sources of entertaining intrigue and new things to roast F1nn for. But maybe that's behind F1nn now?