Based on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, which declares that the limits of our language dictate the limits of our world, this interactive design explores how the viral consumption of internet memes erodes our vocabulary and restricts our capacity to think critically. This whole interactive work is set in the daily environment, subway train, and this piece invites users to control a cursor—symbolizing the rapid spread of a meme—and experience a delirious crowd engrossed in their screens. As the cursor "infects" the passengers, they are visually stripped of their individuality, which their bodies fuse together, forming into vacant, dehumanized husks. This collective contagion visualizes the hidden cost of our homogenizing internet culture: the replacement of logical depth with fleeting emotional bursts, leaving us hollowed out by the very media we consume.

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