'Present Day, Present Time'
This show was aired in 1996, but what it depicts all the more relevant in modern world.
SEL is about the world in the era of the internet. In fact SEL predicted many on the current internet phenomena back when internet was still a novelty.
This shows showcases new ways of life that became possible with such new technology. Complex online life with different online identities, Alienation IRL, identity theft. In this show Knights of the Southern Calculus troll people just like Anon IRL, they organize raids too. You can see how world is transformed by this new tech in all its glory and all its horror.
One of the main plots is multiple identities of Lain. In show IRL Lain, who is very introverted and quiet, is occasionally confronted with a rather different online persona of herself, Lain of the Wired.
IRL Lain did not created Lain of the Wired, it was created behind her back by some trolls for unknown reason. Perhaps, as trolls they thought it was funny. As show progresses, IRL Lain is increasingly challenged by people who think that she and Lain of the Wired are the same person.
I do get a feeling sometimes that may be someone is impersonating me somewhere out there for their own selfish ends. That would be really bad if that was indeed the case.
For example my friends say that my younger brother and I look same. Not even our mother could tell one from another from voice from a phone call. I do wonder if this guy is stealing my identity... =/
Eventually IRL Lain decides to take on then whole Lain of the Wired thing and get to the bottom of it. With that she delves deeper and deeper in the Wired herself.
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