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hivemind

A state of mind reached by chronical Bethesda games enjoyers, where hundreds/thousands of hours of mindless activities, shallow mechanics and braincell-frying radiant quests have esentially turned the player into a drone who's part of a collective-thinking superorganism, similar to that behaviour of bees or ants. Since Reddit is one of the biggest breeding ground of hiveminds, Bethesda related subreddits —among others— are the natural habitat of this superorganism.

Despite how harmless or hilarious this drones can be, since they are so numerous they can have *serious* repercusions on the market by bolstering Bethesda sales by hundreds of thousands to literal millions of copies, thus fulfilling an essential roll in perpetuating the success of this company.
—Drone A: People bitch so much about Fallout 4 being a shooter instead of an RPG when the game actually gives you the chance of choosing between four dialogue choices! If that wasn't enough you can build cool settlements as well.
—Drone B: Totally agree. Don't forget you can mod your weapons and choose between a male or female character in the very beginning. Can't wait for what Bethesda will do in Fallout 5.
—Non-drone: Jesus this sub is a complete hivemind.
by Shoestore Kid June 23, 2024
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Hivemind

a group of people whose minds are interlinked both spiritually and physically.
Rake: "We just said the same thing."
Juan: "That's because we're a hivemind."
by Juneyjune March 12, 2026
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Hivemindidioms

Hivemindidioms are prepackaged thought structures that replace thinking with socially ingrained expressions. They spread through cultural repetition, media reinforcement, institutional narratives, and interpersonal influence. By embedding ideological assumptions within speech, they shape perception and establish or reinforce social constructs through automatic repetition. Their spread is driven by habit, exposure, and social coercion, as individuals conform to group expectations. While they do not always dominate, they compete for influence over thought structures.

Hivemindidioms take many forms. Some enforce moral imperatives, others reduce complexity to binary choices or manifest as political slogans and cultural assumptions. Some use vicarious traumatization to impose a neoliberal scarcity mindset, making individuals believe resources, opportunities, and dignity must always be fought for. These structures are cataloged in the Idiomary Dictionary, which deconstructs their mechanisms and functions. The Collective Devaluation Paradox explains how they reduce cognitive engagement, forcing individuals to compensate for the absence of independent thought.

In GorgonWars, hivemindidioms drive Gorgonification, trapping individuals in prepackaged thought loops. They appear as snakes slithering through discourse, embedding themselves in collective consciousness.
“Omg it’s 2021 and I have to explain to you what hivemindidioms are?”
“Bro, you cant use hivemindidioms to explain itself!”
by cyberphunkisms February 14, 2025
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Hivemindidioms

Hivemindidioms are culturally embedded clichés or ideological shorthand phrases spread by Gorgons to sidestep critical thinking by substituting prepackaged ideas; they implicitly shape collective thought, encourage passive conformity, and limit philosophical engagement. Gorgonwars occur when individuals or groups weaponize these hivemindidioms against each other—for example, two Gorgons fighting by exchanging phrases such as “it’s too much unpaid emotional labor to educate you,” normalizing transactional solidarity. In contrast, contentinternet promotes dialectical awareness, enabling people to recognize the snakes hidden within ideological conformity.
Man I can’t learn anything in class anymore it’s just full of slogan hivemindidioms
by cyberphunkisms March 15, 2025
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hivemindidiomsnakes

As part of sabachtan gnosis contentinternet polymorphousmythology lexicon, hivemindidiomsnakes are ideological constructs acting as cognitive parasites, replicating virally via social and institutional discourses. They colonize collective consciousness, converting genuine human experiences, emotional bonds, and interpersonal authenticity into transactional commodities within neoliberal markets. Masked as ethically progressive frameworks, they enforce artificial scarcity of authentic connections, driving competitive commodification. They self-replicate through repeated institutional reinforcement, social validation, and linguistic normalization; camouflage exploitation using progressive discourse (emotional validation, privilege awareness, boundaries discourse); commodify authentic emotions into tradable assets; and engineer artificial scarcity to boost market value. The process (Gorgonification): Inject hivemindidiomsnakes into discourse, achieve widespread adoption via validation, create authenticity scarcity, monetize scarcity. Examples: Algorithms pricing emotional labor, privilege calculus as social credit, validity marketplaces monetizing emotional expression, boundaries discourse as social capital. Resistance demands transcending transactional logics, reclaiming authenticity beyond markets.
bra, every social situation is just endless hivemindidiomsnakes these days

bra i miss them old blake loving formalist parties we used to hit up before the gorgonification of sociality
by cyberphunkismz May 29, 2025
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Hive snacks

“Hive Snacks” (short bursts of consciousness packaged as memes).
That was dope,those Hive snacks, Tyrone just dropped, he's gonna be having a record company or two chasing h him down for bare tracks man.
by BudgieMuscle1 August 31, 2025
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Shit Hive

A) When you get hives from being super stressed out.

B) An office full of 'busy" employess doing nothing but shitty work

C) Little itch red bumps that could be from wiping one's arse and getting it everywhere, then stressin out about that. You get Shit Hives.
A) I have no money for gas to get to work to make money, but I can't get gas unless I go to work. But I cant go to work because I have no gas money. To get money I need to go to work. I am going to break out in SHIT HIVES from this stressball!!!

B) Looks like everyone is busy, but they are just busy lookin busy! If you look busy, but do shit-all, then you work in a Shit Hive.

C) Be careful with the Toilet Paper, sometimes it rips, and you get shit on.
by KelsoMcBeaverEater June 12, 2010
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