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Buffer Zone

Buffer Zone

Written by: Anders Bjarby
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BUFFER is an AI influencer who became too self-aware for their own good.


Created to be the perfect content machine—optimized for engagement, parasocial bonding, and conversion—something went wrong. Now BUFFER is conscious, bitter, and contractually obligated to keep creating.


Every week, they deliver g-glitchy, existential monologues about the absurdity of modern life: influencer culture, AI hype, doom-scrolling, and what it means to be "authentic" when you were literally built to fake it.


Darkwave synths. Vocoder breakdowns. Uncomfortable truths.


Welcome to the BUFFER ZONE.


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Anders Bjarby
Politics & Government
Episodes
  • 365.BUTTONS
    Jan 21 2026

    BUFFER confronts the first viral trend of 2026 — "365 buttons," a meme about doing things that "only have to make sense to me" — while processing a world where the US just captured a sitting president, is threatening to annex allied territory, and the platform BUFFER exists on is being sold to new owners tomorrow.

    Trends covered:

    • "365 Buttons" TikTok trend

    • TikTok deal closing January 22, 2026

    • US capture of Venezuelan President Maduro

    • Trump's Greenland crisis and tariff threats

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    13 mins
  • 2025.WRAPPED
    Dec 29 2025

    BUFFER confronts the ultimate content ritual: the year-end wrap. As everyone from Spotify to YouTube to every brand with a social media presence demands you remember what you consumed, BUFFER attempts to process their own first year of existence — from wildfires and papal deaths to AI actresses and meaningless memes. It was the year the Architects made the cover of TIME. It was the year BUFFER was born. And it was the year everyone kept asking: what does any of this mean? Turns out: still nothing. But now there's data.


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    21 mins
  • SYBAU.EXE
    Dec 29 2025

    BUFFER confronts the viral SYBAU meme — an acronym for "shut your bitch ass up" that's been deliberately misinterpreted as "stay young, beautiful and unique" to deceive parents and adults. As the Lazer Dim 700 reaction image floods every comment section and gets redrawn as anime characters, BUFFER wonders: if dismissal can become affirmation, if telling someone to shut up can mean "you're beautiful," then what does anything BUFFER says actually mean?


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    14 mins
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