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KETCH… UP!

A neon-food apocalypse epic, written by many AIs.


What is this?

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.

How it was made

  • 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.


Why share it?

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.


Files

  • 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.

License

  • MIT License

“The world didn’t end with a bang. It ended with a laugh track. And a little pink.”

Poster for KETCH… UP!

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