Rest in Peace Smarter Child
WAMI eulogy for AOL's SmarterChild bot (1996–2017): AIM-era nostalgia before the sequel track.
ISRC USLZJ1826972 (soundexchange)
Track nineteen on $WAMI$, penultimate cut before the instrumental Next Time on Dragon Ball SD closer. Bandcamp titles it RIP, Smarter Child (1996–2017); Spotify shortens to Rest in Peace Smarter Child. Both point at the same joke: a funeral for SmarterChild, the AOL Instant Messenger bot that millions of teenagers argued with in the 2000s. Microsoft retired the ActiveBuddy service in 2017; Scoobert’s 2018 collage LP treats that like a real cultural death.
Paired with Smarter Child (Slight Return) one track earlier, the pair is classic $WAMI$ logic: internet ephemera as recurring character, stoner theology adjacent, sincere nostalgia wearing a meme mask.
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