What is your greatest global grid apocalypse fear?

I'm just sort of wondering what really concerns people the most. I don't want to do a poll on this, it's more of a philosophical question. If I missed *your* particular fear, please add it!

Griefageddon:
...griefers overrun the grid, crashing regions, lagging those that remain, burying us all in visual and audio spam until the world ends. Pool's closed!

Bottogeddon:
...the grid is so overrun with bots, one simply can't find any humans and everyone quits. Grid might be shut down, but nobody left to see it at that point, except the bots.

Copygeddon:
...absolutely everything is copied to the point that the economy collapses, and the grid is taken over by freetard pirates. At which point, tier isn't paid and the grid's computers end up being freecycled, because nobody will bother to pay much for used hardware.

Paedogeddon:
...something vaguely to do with ageplayers, a horrified mainstream userbase, and quite possibly the FBI and the tabloid media. Grid is shut down and sterilised.

Landglutogeddon:
...one beeellion regions are released, and the price of land goes to zero. Private estates collapse, and the mainland is so vast that nobody's willing to pay for it... and everyone goes off and plays Bejeweled, because it's just as blingy~shiny but real cheap.

IPOgeddon:
...Linden Research does an IPO, and all the shortsighted stockholders want is more hype and a few more pennies of dividend in the next two fiscal years. Attempting to satiate their desires, the main grid is split into a dating service and a combat game, with "Corporate Education World" spun off as another company (which lasts four months before imploding). The main grid is last seen as a giant google banner ad display mechanism before everything goes dark.

Mainstreamogeddon:
...the grid is finally sanitised to the point that your grandma, your nephew and your cousin all sign up, and then subsequently show up at your skybox and ask you why you are wearing a fox avatar with two penises. All parties log out, never to return. Well, okay, maybe grandma gets curious and pops in from time to time to nose around your stuff.

Lagogeddon:
...lag gets so bad that no one can move, and the grid clock locks up and stops at 12:00pm Sunday... forever. Oddly enough, nobody even notices this particular end of the world, figuring it's just the weekend.


How do you think it will end?

Teengeddon - The youth grid merges with the adult grid. Millions of free accounts running around with freebie penis attached to the foreheads, shooting all the scion chickens and asking for sex over voice. Linden Lab sells SL to Facebook and anyone over 25 years of age is ostracized.

This: IPOgeddon:
...Linden Research does an IPO, and all the shortsighted stockholders want is more hype and a few more pennies of dividend in the next two fiscal years. Attempting to satiate their desires, the main grid is split into a dating service and a combat game, with "Corporate Education World" spun off as another company (which lasts four months before imploding). The main grid is last seen as a giant google banner ad display mechanism before everything goes dark.

with a smattering of half a dozen others mixed in for added value.

Something like this, triggered when Linden Lab fires the last programmer who actually knows what makes the servers go.

Heteromissionarysexageddon
All sex must be for the purpose of making prim babies.

Alternately:

Barbieandkenageddon
We all look like Ken or Barbie. And no genitals

We fear nothing. We are ready, we have been ready.

Honestly, probably one of the following:
Landglutogeddon
IPOgeddon

Anonymousogeddon:
People grow tired of befriending anonymous people on the internet.

He must've been fired in 2004!

Well, Mr. Doom-And-Gloom,

All of those possibilities seem all too frighteningly real, except perhaps Griefogeddon.

The question may not be which one will get us, but which one will get us FIRST?

Okay a few more possibilities...

Twittergeddon:
...a fate so horrible I am now mentally scarred just by speaking its name...

Disneygeddon:
...the good news: you can now use all that cool Disney IP you've always wanted on the grid! The bad news: remember to smile as you radiate that Disney Magic!

OMGWTFBBQgeddon:
...somewhere deep in the heart of Texas, someone comes up with an Even Better barbeque sauce. It takes the world by storm. Computers everywhere are shut off, and people tentatively crawl outside, blinking, into a new dawn of backyard cookouts and neighbourly friendship. Nobody bothers to mess with "that box in the den" any more, and it's beer and ribs into the sunset, forever.

Tierogeddon:
...the price of regions goes up soooo high, that it drives off most of the userbase, leaving only the fanatics, the freakish, and those with no other options. Oh wait, maybe this already happened back in 2006... never mind.

Reallifeogeddon:
...We all suddenly realise that the rude, dimwitted and stoner friends we rejected in our first lives are the exact same people we have reconnected with, here... it just took us a little while to connect the dots.

Geekogeddon:
...some ridiculously bizarre, blinky~flashy, new technology promises more Bling Per Second than the main grid, and oooooooooh is it Shiiiiny... we all sit entranced looking at it, just the same way we did when Tetris and Solitaire first came out, forgetting the Main Grid forever. Ooh, there's a big combination play ~ excuse me, I have to go click it before it disappears!

Definitely IPOgeddon. That's the one that Linden Lab is actually intentionally pursuing, they may end up succeeding.

That The MyFaceSpaceBookers take over SL and it becomes RL 2.0 or AOL3D. And the SL lanscape is littered with the same inane corporate marketing garbage RL is.

Stupidogeddon - May already be underway. I would describe it but I can't grasp the concept.

Dramageddon - xstreet forums now commerce forums could infect the entire grid resulting in constant armies of people whining about other armies of people looking better than they could ever look so they demand LL make the good looking armies of people ugly by removing appearance features. This cycle repeats endlessly until SL is crawling with what appears to be talking turds.

ThirdLifeogeddon. A competitor fields a product that addresses all SL's shortcomings, offers lower cost-to-play, and with far better avatars and graphics. Mass migration.

Zindrageddon. No one is interested in any of the "mainstream" applications for Second Life. Everyone clamors for Adult land. More and more Adult sims are created, until the grid, imbalanced, flips over and flings everyone into cyberspace.

IMVUgeddon. Lag continues to increase. In an attempt to limit it, LL imposes more and more stringent script limits, then prim and texture limits. Finally, everyone is confined to their own windowless, featureless chat room. From there, they can communicate by IM or voice to anyone on the grid! Wow. Everyone goes back to email and text chat.

Caledongeddon. Desmond's fleet sails from Caledon with an eye to conquer the grid. No one else is organized enough to stop the Steampunkers. All regions become PG and a dress code is enforced. The last avatar departs during a group reading of "The Wind in the Willows".

Hey now! Watch it there Desmond. That is happening as we speak....and these people:




.....are coming over.

And it ain't a bad thing. That's what a Texas BBQ is all about!

Oh, I forgot one.

Troutogeddon. Trout Recreant returns to SL. He tells The Funniest Story of All Time and everyone laughs so hard they have myocardial infarctions.

Inventoryzapoppin - all of a sudden we all own everything, and everything is called "object" - renaming only works until your next login

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I think it's gona be more a death of a thousand cuts and people just getting tired of the Lab killing their companies... it'll be a slow death much like active worlds.. btw the same people that killed active worlds advises the Lab on how to run SL and so far the Lab is listening...

Investorgeddon... The LL financial backers suddenly realize that the way LL is running the biz is WAY too much like the movie "The Producers", where the only way to make a profit is to flop and cheat the investors. The investors pull out, sue LL, and pull the plug, selling all the assets to get their investment money back.

MySpambookOgeddon: Somewhere between Des' Twittergeddon and Brenda's AOL3D.

Scionchickenageddon - we will be overtaken by them. Placed in cages, bred to produce mutant avies and then left to be slaughtered by the now aviekillers.

Immygeddon... You be the judge of what would occur. =^-^=

People going around constantly typing random ASCII characters thinking it makes them cute. =^-^=

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Zombiegeddon: Second Life 2.0 dumps all the humans into the depth of the Uncanny Valley, and they pour out in their thousands searching the grid for prim attachments to make them look toony again. The last thing heard is a would-be horse zombie calling for "Manes... Maaaaaaanes...."

death by cuteness

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