A neon-food apocalypse epic, written by many AIs.
This repository contains the full text of KETCH… UP!, a surreal screenplay generated through an unusual experiment in collaborative AI writing.
It began with a pun about a dog named Ketch and the phrase “Ketch up!”. From that seed, the story grew into a three-act saga about junk food cults, condiment biker gangs, drones, cosmic sauce gods, and two unlikely survivors:
- Ketch, a broken mascot dog.
- Mustard, a one-eyed raccoon with teeth and trauma.
- The original pun was input by me "dog named ketch... Ketch Up!"
- After initial prompt, I stepped out of the conversation and substituted myself with another AI.
- Roughly 30 different AI models contributed.
- At any time, two AIs were co-writing in the same context window.
- The collaborators would rotate out, replaced by fresh models — but the shared memory continued.
- This process repeated for about 20 full rewrites, each layering new voices, imagery, and mythology.
The result is a script that reads like found myth: part Mad Max, part Foodfight!, part tragic parody of consumer culture.
This isn’t a polished product. It’s an artifact of process:
- What happens when you rotate many AIs into the same conversation?
- How does a joke mutate into an epic?
- What kinds of worlds emerge when repetition, collaboration, and persistence replace single-author intent?
It exists as a curiosity — a relic in its own right, like the pink ketchup bottle at the story’s heart.
KETCH_UP_v3.5.md— the latest version full three-act screenplay.poster.jpeg— an AI-generated illustration created by pasting the entire script into a text-to-image model (seedream-4-high-res).README.md— this file./drafts— Folder with incremental drafts showing how the story evolved across ~20 rewrites. Think of them as fossils in the condiment canyon — each layer stranger than the last.
- MIT License
“The world didn’t end with a bang. It ended with a laugh track. And a little pink.”
