Ryan's POV
I made it.
In my world, the 2020's were literally the end of the world. The Coronavirus ruined everything, and with Toxic People on Twitter running things, Woke culture destroyed the world. In 2020, there were 7.9 billion people living on earth, now there's only 194 people who aren't dead from suicide or murder.
It all started back in 2020 democracy fell, as no one wanted Trump or Biden to be president, so there wasn't anyone to be president at all, then the rest was history.
Older TV shows and movies became no longer available and were made illegal to watch. In fact, in August, someone was arrested and sent to a life sentence in prison just for watching Star Wars. Movies like that were "problematic" and Twitter didn't want Americans to know what their country was like back in the day in case their feelings get hurt.
People lost a voice on the internet, their free speech was gone, more statues were removed, so those who don't learn from history will be doomed to be repeating it.
Sports leagues folded and went defunct when ratings dropped after the fans, sick of having social justice shoved down their throats, stopped watching, paying for and going to the games. This caused the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS to lose a lot of money as attendance numbers kept dwindling until seasons were indefinitely cancelled for all the leagues. But the lack of money caused these leagues to go under and become defunct.
Consequently, because of this sports boycott, Colleges, High Schools, Middle Schools and Elementary Schools would go on to shut down/cease Sports programs altogether, deciding to stop teaching sports and physical education because no one wanted to watch professional athletes anymore. Sports were dead to the world, and something they didn't want to admit they know.
Next in the entertainment purge was the death of art.
The increased focus on race/gender/orientation of creatives led to less opportunities for everyone in comics, animation and voice acting. Soon, people ended up being typecast to ONLY writing and playing characters that are exactly like them or painting things that are exactly like them, and entertainment suffered as we were stuck with one dimensional storytelling and actors playing fictional versions of themselves.
Which meant no more Aliens, Robots, Androids, Elves, Dwarves, dark elves, Fairies, witches, wizards, war locks, vampires, zombies, goblins, orcs, demons, Oni, anthropomorphic animals, Atlanteans, Superheroes, Naga, centaurs, minotaurs, medusa's, gods, goddesses, imps, gargoyles, ghosts, demon hunters, mutants, ghost hunters, all fictional beings... In any capacity. EVER.
As none of these exist and there's not a single person who is any of these who can write about this.
After all fiction was completely censored/cancelled, we were stuck in the rehashed sit-com era of Friends/TBBT/and anything else that is grounded with no crazy shenanigans of imagination anymore. When that didn't work, Trashy Reality Shows would become the majority of entertainment. These shows, movies or games would either be dead on arrival or immediately flop, and the creators wondered why no one loves their stuff as they blamed us for not watching "entertainment" get changed to reflect some twisted utopia that existed in only in their heads.
Because of the lack of entertainment:
Movie theaters shut down and were destroyed. Since streaming took the world by storm, nobody wanted to go to theaters anymore, and several theater chains went into permanent bankruptcy.
Streaming Services were soon to go the way of the dodo as they were accused of censorship when it came to removing content like Back to the Future 2 and Gone with the Wind and Peter Pan from where they were due to "Problematic Content". They were also losing viewers because of their disclaimers, being fed up with being reminded of the present-day situation, and it never helped that they increased their prices, so the number of members for Netflix, Hulu and several others started to decline, leading to several streaming shows being shut down, deactivated and forgotten.
Videogames were failing, with their companies going bankrupt from the lack of sales of certain woke products that people didn't want to buy. That, and the games were becoming boring as all hell.
TV was losing ratings, as there was nothing on but one-dimensional rehashes of episodes from past seasons, shows, etc., which became boring to watch.
Holidays were banned and segregated (i.e., Only Irish people should celebrate St. Patrick's day, WTF?), which lead to more school days and no breaks other than the Summer.
And they kept going and going until every ounce of fun and creativity was removed from everything we've enjoyed.
Once that happened, we finally reached the apocalypse everyone was trying to warn us about. By December 2025, we had nothing entertaining left.
No More Sports
No More Art
No More Music
No More Religion
No More Books
No More Movies
No More Video Games
No More Comics
No More Streaming Services
No More Television
No More Internet
No More Fiction
No More Holidays
No More Weekends
No More Amusement Parks, Waterparks, Or Restaurants
No More Anything.
Soon, the entire world was boring as all hell as entertainment, holidays, basically fun in any form was gone.
Gone, and will never come back.
In this no-entertainment world, you'd wake up every morning, thinking, "What can I do today? I want to go for a nice walk, but the weather's too shitty for that today. I think I'll just go back to sleep and hope I wake up in an alternate universe where this stupidity doesn't exist…."
And since there was nothing to do anymore, there were school days every day because none of the kids of the planet had better things to do. No fun weekend plans, no summer vacations, no Holiday Breaks, nothing. It was just a world where everyone was all work and no play.
Then, people became so bored and annoyed, we saw an increase of depression, to the point where no one was happy, and everybody was depressed. There was a slogan on a banner that was in cities and rural areas, everywhere you went, it said,
"Everything is fine. Nobody is happy."
As the old saying goes, Misery Loves Company. A world without entertainment would cause an increase of School Dropouts, as everyone felt that there was no point in going to school if they were either unable to achieve careers that would make them happy, or that they were too sad to soldier on. There was an increasement in unemployment from people becoming bored with their jobs and starting to hate them or being fired for not taking their job seriously, sexual harassment, rape, murder, crime out of boredom, and insanity from losing everything. The world became a depressing place to live in, too much reality with no art of escapism whatsoever. Even children were VERY depressed. Nobody has smiled since March 2026. Hell, people became too depressed to do anything, and electricity was gone from being unable to pay for the bills around their houses. Some even got bitter and cynical.
When late-2026 arrived, people became so depressed, bored, and stressed out from the increased depression of having FUCK ALL to do and past due bills piling up, the world saw a colossal increase in suicide rates. They were so high, it made the suicide rates of the Great Depression look tame by comparison.
It started with young actors and actresses falling into a depression after losing jobs since Entertainment was dead to the world, on August 30th, 2026, I checked my News Update, and saw that Presley Ryan was dead by suicide on the night before, gunshot to the head. I prayed that this was the only suicide.
But it was just the beginning.
With no entertainment, all it took was ONE. BAD. DAY for the world to go completely nuts and insane. Soon, with careers going down the drain, and futures being destroyed, soon, people turned to either a life of crime and drugs or took the selfish way out of life. By mid-November, 87% athletes, old and "new" were dead by suicide or murder. Actors and Actresses died out around December 1st, 2026. Some children were lucky, only 4.2% of the world's children were brave enough not to commit suicide. I wish them the best of luck, they'll need it.
But more people kept killing themselves with no reason to live without happiness, escapism, loving families or careers. They killed themselves via overdose, hanging themselves, cutting themselves, or shooting themselves. It was brutal.
By the time it was New Year's Day 2027, all that's left of the earth from my dimension is nothing but ghost towns and cities, destroyed buildings and abandoned homes filled with decaying corpses and/or skeletons, and less than .01% of the dying human population.
Then it was, "Good job, SJWs, you wiped out the human race".
And now, I can start my life anew.
NORMAL POV
At the UN, Jimmy walked through the halls with Dani, curiously looking around as they chat with each other.
"No one would blame you for what you did in the middle east." Dani said.
"I know. What were you doing anyway?" Jimmy asks.
"I was only trying to help those in need during this Pandemic. I found myself to try to help innocent people caught in the conflicts in the Middle East." Danielle said. "After I was stabilized by my cousin, I went around the world. But the pandemic hit, and I decided to help those in need."
"Stabilized?" Jimmy asks.
"Well...It's a long story. What made you be like this?"
"I was close to curing COVID-19, before Cartman ruined it by taking a sample of the virus and infecting Retroville with a worse variant of the virus. Worst of all, he took my family and some of my friends, he even got my town destroyed." Jimmy cringed. "I lost everything, my friends, my family, my home..."
"I'm sorry to hear that."
"Well, no one deserves the suffering of their hometown.. I will see to it one way or another that no soul witnesses his or her family and friends get murdered in cold blood."
Suddenly, he remembered a news report he saw on CNN earlier before coming to the United Nations, a report about a storm in Bridgeton giving kids superpowers. Knowing that he can't be alone in the fight for Justice and Peace, he knows what he has to do.
At the Glaser house, Dexter was preparing a Zoom Meeting with all of Bridgeton Middle School's Students, he needs to warn everyone about Jimmy's wrathful fury.
"I appreciate this," Dexter said, as he emailed the link to everyone in Jessi's contacts.
"If the shoe were on the other end, I'm sure that even Dad would be appreciative about it." Jessi sighed.
"Where's your father anyway?" Dexter asks. Jessi was hesitant to be honest, but she split into two.
"Divorced." Jessi #2 said, saddened.
"Sorry to hear that." Dexter said, sympathetic as the Meeting started, showing multiple students on the screen.
One of them is a 12-year-old Armenian-Greek tan-skinned boy with black spiky hair, brown eyes, big black eyebrows that almost form a unibrow, big ears, and a hooked nose. He wears a white shirt under a black vest, purple pants and black/white sneakers. He was Jay Bilzerian.
Another has an unusually big forehead, which is continuously doted on throughout certain times in the series. Apart from being the shortest of his friends, he also has bright blue eyes and a hook-ish nose over his upper lip. He has full lips with his front teeth being on constant display whenever he's not smiling or showing his teeth in general, which could possibly be the actual result of a dental deficiency (though not confirmed). He's Nick Birch.
Another is a nerdy Jewish young pre-teen, sporting reddish-brown hair, hazel eyes and a very thin mustache. He is tall, has a noticeable paunch, and wears large black glasses, a green shirt, and blue jeans. He is Andrew Glouberman.
Another is a short, scrawny girl who's appearance would lead you to believe that she is a couple of years younger than she is in reality. She has thick curly brown hair, large, light brown eyes, and a medium-brown complexion. Her clothing style is comfortable as opposed to fashionable, and she usually wears navy blue overalls on top of a bright yellow shirt and matching headband. Despite her conventionally "attractive" appearance, her late start in puberty and geeky demeanor prevent her from being considered popular among the male students in her class. She's Missy Foreman-Greenwald.
Another is an overweight and unattractive Caucasian preteen minotaur girl. She has long, lumpy blonde hair, which is curly in the back. She also has lopsided bangs in the front. She also has dark brown eyes, a massive forehead and a large mouth with pink lips that spans her broad pair of cheeks, she also seems to have Bull Horns on the top of her head. She wears an electric orchid shirt and skirt, an ugly orange bead necklace, and orange bead earrings. She talks with an extremely raunchy and relatively masculine voice. She is Lola Ugfuglio Skumpy.
The Next one had strawberry blonde hair that flicks out and cornflower blue eyes where his eyelids are normally half-closed. He tends to wear a navy-blue button-up under a brown sweater-vest, accompanied by white jeans with a brown belt. He's mostly caught frowning and only smiles when necessary. His name was Matthew MacDell.
They were confused to see Dexter.
"Who are you?" Nick asks.
"And why are you in Jessi's room?" Andrew asks.
"I'm Dexter, Boy Genius." Dexter said. "And I've come to give you all a warning. A tragedy took the lives of everyone in Retroville, and it deeply affected an honorary Kids Next Door Operative, now he's establishing a lethal war on crime. Killing Criminals isn't justice. At the moment, Jimmy can't see that. He's grieving. He needs time to heal. I fear if others follow in his path, it will lead to something devastating."
"How devastating can it be?" Matt said, concerned.
"Vitally devastating." Dexter said. "So to those who would be considering joining him, Don't. You'll only regret it."