Seriously, I doubt it would even take that long. We get used to shit so quickly, and the news cycles have to keep feeding us new things, the only way we’d keep talking about the aliens if they kept doing new and interesting things. I’d be willing to bet a year later there would be some people who straight up forgot about it. “Oh yeah, aliens! Are they gonna, like, visit at some point or just keep exchanging calls with the Whitehouse?”
This makes me feel bad. But to be fair humans are generally really adaptable. And don’t confuse what the news is talking about with what people are thinking.
Well written, OP.
General population: I do agree with you. They’d be looking at the next shiney new celebrity scandal or whatever. But there would also be some people who would act like a dog with a bone and not lose interest in the aliens. Scientists and UFOlogists and such.
Absolutely, but the general populace has so much information thrown at them all day, every day, I really do think most people would just move on from it, because our brains just can’t handle everything all at once. Unless there’s some specific reason to think about it, we’d move on to the things that impact us more directly.
It reminds me of that thing they do on Jimmy Kimmel, where they ask people about fake news stories, and the people invent answers. It’s funny and all, but they do that because it’s considered embarrassing not to know about the whatever the fuck insane thing the news just threw at us, while also there being so much of it that it’s impossible to remember everything. Plus, we’re super suggestable creatures
General population: I do agree with you. They’d be looking at the next shiney new celebrity scandal or whatever.
I’m not sure I even believe that. I mean look how much generative AI is dominating the conversation, despite being garbage. I think aliens would have a similar ability to dominate conversation, even for the general public.
Aliens would be so confused if they tried communicating with the white house.
December: “Ahoy-hoy!”
January: “New pres, who dis?”
Aliens: “Huh?”
Tomorrow? Oh, so you already forgot the announcement from last month? Well, I mean I guess we have a lot of our own stuff going on right now…
/s?
Ok I know you have the s but I’m legitimately so confused. Last month people were actually talking about how scientists said that it’s likely aliens have been living among us for a long time. And didn’t the white house make some big alien announcement a while back??
Am I losing it or is this whole thread just a big joke on how those announcements went nowhere
I would hope aliens, being intelligent, would communicate with other humans before they get to government representatives. We’d probably never hear from them again.
