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  "description": "I sat down with Lou Faroux—French artist and filmmaker—to talk about growing up on The Sims, why she spent years making films before she ever touched a game engine, and what it means to treat internet collapse as an art subject rather than a catastrophe.\n\nLou's practice is hard to categorize, which is exactly why I find it so interesting. She uses game engines, deepfakes, found footage, and AI avatars to ask something most of us feel but struggle to name: what did the internet do to us? Not w...",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T00:10:02.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.killscreen.com",
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  "textContent": "I sat down with Lou Faroux—French artist and filmmaker—to talk about growing up on  _The Sims_ , why she spent years making films before she ever touched a game engine, and what it means to treat internet collapse as an art subject rather than a catastrophe.\n\nLou's practice is hard to categorize, which is exactly why I find it so interesting. She uses game engines, deepfakes, found footage, and AI avatars to ask something most of us feel but struggle to name: what did the internet do to us? Not what it gave us—what it  _did_ to us. To our habits, our bodies, our sense of time.\n\nIn this conversation, we get into her origin story as a gamer who hacked The Sims with her sister, why Mark Zuckerberg and Kim Kardashian keep showing up in her work as near-religious figures, how she builds with gaming assets the way a painter builds with color, and what she means when she talks about internet collapse as a subject for anthropology rather than science fiction.\n\nThis is the public version of a longer members-only conversation. Paid members get the full hour, including a deep dive into her current project — _Diamonds and Dust_ —a virtual world built around queer Hollywood history from the 1930s.\n\nIf this conversation makes you want more, the best next step is signing up for the Killscreen newsletter at www.killscreen.com. It's free to start, and it's where I do my most serious writing on games as cultural objects.\n\nMembers–here's your full conversation with Lou:\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "What Happens When the Internet Goes Out?",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-21T23:37:55.218Z"
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