If mankind ever found ourselves facing a post-apocalyptic situation, what would you do? Would you phone your loved ones to make sure they’re safe? Would you leave your house and go investigate yourself? Or would you go on social media and post about it, while finding out more info via that way. I know personally that the latter is the most common answer for most people.

With a resurgence in YouTube ARGs/metafiction, it’s only natural for it to progress onto different social media outlets. One in particular that gained fame was ‘The Sun Vanished’, a twitter account that poses the interesting question: what would happen if the sun vanished? (shocker!). The answer? Probably aliens.

THE ARG

Twitter user @TheSunVanished makes their first posts on April 30th 2018.

Help.

— Nat (TheSunVanished) (@TheSunVanished) April 30, 2018

It's late in the morning and still dark outside.

— Nat (TheSunVanished) (@TheSunVanished) April 30, 2018

I can hear the tornado sirens in the next county over, but the weather radar is clear.

— Nat (TheSunVanished) (@TheSunVanished) April 30, 2018

Where is the sun.

— Nat (TheSunVanished) (@TheSunVanished) April 30, 2018

From then on, the creator combines tweets with photos and videos to create an immersive storyline of a post apocalyptic world in which one of the things we rely on almost everyday is taken from us. The eerie realism of the tweets lulls us into a state of belief, as even I found myself getting lost in the story. It truly makes us question, what would we do in this situation? Luckily, this ARG is an extremely easy read with all links mostly connected to the main twitter account (such as other accounts that are part of the ARG). I’d recommend reading it for yourself, especially as this is the first actually semi-active ARG I’ve covered on this blog.

Comment below if you’ve got any theories!