Warmongering frog

[13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

[14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

The unclean spirits looking like frogs must be none other than Keropoyo, the only frog we see in Ciconia.

These evil spirits will go out into the world and manipulate people into engaging in war by performing signs.

All throughout phase 1, Miyao slowly loses his faith in humanity after seeing news stories of people being awful and turning towards war, however, it's Keropoyo who decides which news stories to show him.

Keropoyo is a social media algorithm, curating news stories to put on Miyao's feed, he is also personalized for each user, showing them things that are of interest to them specifically. The problem is that these social media algorithms prioritize engagement metrics.

 

Take for example the social media platform Twitter, it strongly pushes content that is divisive, rage-inducing, and negative, that's because this is the content that gets the most engagement out of the user.

It pushes things that are likely to make you feel rage because that's what people interact with the most.

Miyao is very anti war and cares about world peace, therefore the algorithm pushes things that attack these values.

Because of Keropoyo, each user lives in a personalized information bubble, that reaffirms any given narrative. For example the narrative that a fourth world war is about to start, the algorithm will push any social media posts that fit into this story, be it, rage bait, misinformation, things taken out of context or comments from any of the other billions of people.

Because there is an infinite amount of information, you can find infinite amount of 'proof' to elevate a narrative. A huge majority of the news Miyao sees is war, death, terrorism, hate crimes, people and politicians being awful and wanting war -> therefore he assumes that the percentage of those people represented online is the same as in the real world, making the mistake of not realizing that this data sample is biased.

This slowly causes Miyao to become nihilistic towards humanity, which peaks in the chapter 'Disaster Utopia'. Miyao has a dream of creating a large scale disaster just to make people work together and stop hating each other, then as he wakes up covered in sweat, Keropoyo already has curated news articles waiting for him.

Then he plays super annoying happy beach music while showing him horrible news.

In this <post> I discuss how Keropoyo uses music to manipulate Miyao's emotion.

Instead of playing sad miserable music meant to induce hopelessness and anxiety, this time it's cheery, energetic music contrasting with the bad news, this time the intended emotion out of Miyao is Ridicule and Dissonance.

Miyao accepts that there is no secret mastermind stirring things behind the scenes, rather that humanity is inherently weak and evil.

Aside from manipulating the news to make Miyao nihilistic towards humanity, he also Hides news from him that might not fit the narrative.

Keropoyo interrupts a news segment with a strategically placed ad.

--Hyperreality--

[14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

How does Keropoyo gather people for war? To understand that you have to understand the concept of Hyperreality.

It means that a false or altered image, will eventually become more real that the real thing it is based on, becoming the standard for truth because people proceed on the notion that the false image is real.

This means that a pretend warfare online, made up of fake news and misinformation, will eventually become real warfare, if enough people proceed on the assumption that it is real, especially people with power, like politicians and gauntlet knights.

--Control--

[13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

Mouth of the Dragon -> Jestress

Mouth of the Beast -> Seshat

Mouth of the False prophet -> Toujirou

Those are the three people who control keropoyo to hijack Miyao's perception and manipulate him, to use him as a piece.

Seshat

Seshat has a special connection with Keropoyo that is different from a normal user - poyo relationship.

He is able to perform much more complex operations thatn a regular keropoyo and refers to Seshat as his master

She might have just jailbroke her keropoyo to talk to her like this but also consider that the actual Egyptian Goddess Seshat is depicted with a frog sitting on her measuring rod.

Keropoyo also reports to someone called 'the mistress' and Seshat is famously known as The mistress of the house of books.

Keropoyo serves Seshat in a way that's different from anyone else. She could even possibly be his creator.

Jestress

Jestress' mask terminal is connected to Miyao's selcom <post> as she always knows what Miyao was doing and what's happening in the public bath. She could possibly have some control over Keropoyo.

Toujirou

Toujirou as Miyao's father could have access to Miyao's Selcom and able to adjust his Keropoyo. As we already saw he has access to Miyao's gauntlet so it's not far fetched.

Toujirou throughout phase 1 wants Miyao to lose faith in humanity by telling him there is no conspiracy and everything is just because people are a faulty product. This is what Keropoyo accomplishes so it was probably also him who adjusted Miyao's algorithm to show him bad news.