Campfire: Bot farm Hello, and welcome to the Civic Flame Campfire edition. For those of you who are just dropping in for your first of our quick bite episodes: these campfires are short conversations that give you context and discuss legal issues related to any breaking or contemporary political issues. The Civic Flame in general goes over the US Constitution section by section! So, if you want to deep dive into legal education, head over there. If you just want a quick understanding of our main topic today: bot farms, then stick around! (insert transition music) So, what fresh hell am I bringing you this time? WeÕre going to talk about the internet! To keep this short, IÕm going to split this campfire in three! One is about bot farming, which is a collection of phones, from a few up to millions that are used to deliberately shape the content you see online. The second one will include a discussion of rage farming/harvesting and how these bot farms use rage-based computer programs called algorithms to shape your reaction to what you see online, and the final one is about what happens with all of that information and sweet data, and a few book recommendations. IÕm trying to keep these short, so if youÕve got the time you can listen to it all together, but you might need to step away and rage kick a pillow or stress eat a bakery or something in between episodes. Have you ever found yourself swarmed online with a bunch of comments that sounded exactly the same and seemed like they were way overreacting just to get a rise out of you? Or have you seen any replies to things online that look like theyÕre designed to provoke outrage? Do you get those adds on the side promising you more likes and followers if you just click a link and pay a few dollars? Are you on the internet at all? Then youÕve likely interacted with these bot farms. LetÕs start with start with some terms. Bot farms. WhatÕs a bot farm? It can be a few different things. Now, this is going to be the non- technical explanation. If youÕre looking to really get into the tech side like software, IP addresses, algorithm development, machine learning, etc., IÕm not that kind of doctor. For that, head over to Wired.com and search there. They have a ton of stuff that ranges from lay person (like me who doesnÕt have the technical language all sorted out) to the real nitty gritty tech nerd speak. For our purposes weÕre looking at two things: bot farms that are large software applications or programs that are meant to basically do the same things over and over online and click farms which are people who kind of do the same thing. Why is this a political issue for this podcast? Because these have changed the game of politics. For example, in the lead up to the 2016 election, it came out that Russia and other groups had been paying small groups of people around the world to drive up angry content online (click farmers). WeÕll talk more about this with rage farming, but what happened was that a handful of people in places like Macedonia were using multiple accounts to give the illusion of being real news organizations, people, or social movements. And they were all working together to like, share, follow, comment, and otherwise do whatÕs called Òboosting their signal.Ó This made it look like one personÕs opinion was maybe a hundred or more peopleÕs opinion. But it turns out this was also linked with some bot farming issues. There were several cases that came out that in 2024 Ukrainian forces broke up a massive bot farm that was sending out malware to spy on Ukrainians. Remember, malware is bad stuff. Mal actually means bad. Malware is harmful programming that is meant to infiltrate normal programs and gain access to stuff itÕs not supposed to have. Like your social security number or your credit card information, and of course, money. This is why it is important to never download anything online unless you know what it is, to reboot/restart your devices regularly, and to be really careful about anything you buy online. TikTok is known for this in terms of getting peopleÕs credit card data through either stores or from small businesses paying for likes and follows, and then there being issues with data. Facebook also had a problem with this a few years ago. Every few months the neighbor at my old house would show up at my doorstep needing my husband to fix her computer. She swore she had a personal hacker, but it was really that she just kept downloading weird games from Facebook and giving those programs access to her data. There are computer science and cyber security folks who can tell you more about this but take it from an X-ennial who grew up with the internet: donÕt trust anyone on the internet. DonÕt download anything. And be really careful about using your credit card data. Also, why youÕre at it check your state laws because more states need to mandate laws protecting social security numbers. Aside from all of this personal stuff, there is the social, political, and mental catastrophe of bot farms. Because, it turns out, that with the rise of AI, you can factory scale click farming and bot farming and you barely need people to do the bot farming anymore. You just need a sophisticated computer program or software to do the work (some infrastructure stuff for Sarah Connor to attack eventually, and thatÕs a Terminator 2 references to all you non-sci fi geeks out there not a threat, so please donÕt send the FBI here). Because the computer can work faster and be programmed to handle more tasks than a person can, a click farm of a few dozen people with a few hundred accounts, can become a bot farm of a few people managing the technology with a few million accounts. Why? Well, some online bots are actually useful. They can help catalogue or index things online. They can scan for news (for instance, I have a google alert that comes to me when new papers come out in my field), and help people keep track of things online that matter to them like research, scientific development, historical cataloguing, and so on. A problem is that they can be malicious (hence the malware) and take peopleÕs data. They can help hide illegal activity on the Dark Web, especially when we deal with things like crypto currency (and no, I absolutely cannot explain that). And for the issues that come up in our podcast: they can shape what online content looks like and what people think people thing. YouÕve heard the term grassroots movements. This is an idea that a movement starts from the people up, like the Occupy Wall Street movement or the civil rights movement. Well, bot farms get into something called astroturfing. Astroturf is fake grass. As such, astroturfing is pretending something is grassroots when itÕs not. This used to take a lot of money, like when the billionaire Koch brothers and a few of their billionaire friends created the Tea party to convince broke Americans that their biggest problem was taxes on billionaires and not the billionaires themselves. Yeah, astroturfing. And again, IÕm not wearing my tinfoil hat today. Tech billionaire Peter Theil who owns the global security network that harvests your data an image all over the place and funded Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, was just caught on video saying that he was afraid of how hard it was getting to hide his money from tax laws, so of course he pushed social movements that linked leftists, liberals, and any skeptics of capitalism to the Òanti-Christ.Ó He himself noted what people like me have said all along: billionaires are using the rhetoric of religion to control the masses not because they are religious but because theyÕre afraid weÕll figure out they stole the keys to the kingdom and we want them back. This comes out in bot farms by suppressing content that is not popular to whomever controls the bots. One of the original reasons people wanted to ban TikTok was that there was so much pro-Gaza content on there that the bots couldnÕt handle it. So, to fix this, they sold it to an American billionaire, hired a Zionist (I believe former member of the Israeli military) to control content, and are considering putting 19-year old Baron Trump in some kind of leadership position. This means that all the stuff you think youÕre seeing online that is real people, comes from real people, and is popular with real people, is probably not. Bot farms can add thousands of likes, shares, saves, or comments to a post. What we know now is that around 47% of all internet traffic in 2022 came from bots. Estimates of what has gone on more recently range from 40-60%. This means that you have almost certainly interacted with a bot. WeÕre getting really close to the so-called dead internet theory that supposes some day humans wonÕt be on the internet at all, itÕll basically just be bots interacting with each other. And if that sounds bonkers, think about what you would have said 50 years ago if someone told you that people would never use cable or telephones or cassette tapes and CDs again. The technology that we thought we could never live without always becomes obsolete eventually. The only difference here is that itÕs the humans who will become obsolete and the technology will just roll on without us (continuing to suck up drinking water and electricity, causing electricity crises and water crisis, which is probably why billionaires are building 20+story underground survival bunkers, but thatÕs a tinfoil hat for another time). If these things are so awful, why do bot farms work? For a few reasons: 1 is that most people donÕt know about them. TheyÕre not looking at the internet skeptically, so they just react (sometimes by clicking react buttons) that inadvertently engage with these click farmers and bot farmers. Which means theyÕre working, so they continue to be used. Take a look at the dumbest people you know online and see how many of them are following accounts that they think are young women but are really just porn bots. Yeah. Another reason is that social media platforms reward engagement. So if a post has more engagement, it gets pushed out to more people. Meaning that click farmers and bot farms are doing what they were supposed to and giving the illusion of popularity. Because computer algorithms promote posts that are popular, these bot farms work (making their money!) by selling likes and shares. This is one of the reasons I only have 12 followers on TikTokÉI keep rejecting their Òpay to boost your posts!Ó offers because I donÕt want to fund the bot farms, and the algorithm punishes me by letting me languish in obscurity. (music) So, what can you do against all of this overwhelming techno-pocalypse? Be careful who you engage with online. Go through your settings and turn off the ads that show you Òcurated content.Ó Always reject cookies when you go to a new website. Understand that there are people and bots online that intend to do you harm, and approach all situations with a certain amount of skepticism. Also, keep and eye on laws and policies that are trying to stop this, and aggressively support them. Write to your member of Congress (you know, once the government isnÕt shut down anymore), show up at town meetings an elections, and demand that they take AI seriously. Denmark put a huge dent in AI by giving everyone the copyright to their own image. This means that AI canÕt use your face without your permission. We donÕt have those laws. Demand that AI canÕt use peopleÕs writing or art or music without their permission. Too much AI has been trained by stealing. It is an industry built on theft. Take a look at where the water to make this work comes from the amount of electricity it uses. Yell at everyone you know who uses Chat GPT and feeds into this problem. WeÕve still got one hand on the wheel here, but every day, itÕs slipping off. If we donÕt get a hold of this non-reality soon itÕs going to suck us all up. So keep fighting the good fight, and tune into our next campfire on rage farming. (outro) This Campfire Edition of the Civic Flame is brought to you by Dr. Fun Sponge Media in association with Creator Amber Vayo and Sound Producer Matthew Munyon ? Campfire What is rage farming? Hello and welcome back to the campfire, our hopefully short (well, not if you consider the last one) deep dive into a pressing modern political issue. The Civic Flame is our main podcast which takes a much more detailed look at the US Constitution. So, if you want to check that out, head over to the main podcast. This week, weÕre returning to our cyber security threats deep dive and looking at rage farming. This is a follow up to our bot farm episode, which you can check out if you missed it. But this week, weÕre looking at why so many people around the world appear to be addicted to anger. (transition music) Well, as you learned from talking about bot farms last time, thereÕs a lot of the internet thatÕs fake people, software programs/AI, and machines pretending to be real people. Why? In order to drive up content and get it into your news feed. Bot farms add likes, shares, follows, and sometimes comments to your online content. Yet, despite the amounts of money and infrastructure, including AI and other bots that go into creating these bot farms, for the moment, they still need your eyeballs on their content. And it turns out that to make something really popular online and get all those glassy little eyeballs on your content, you want to add a high emotional tones. And rageÑdespite all of its actual harmful effects on our brains, bodies, and cultureÑis a great way to get people engaging with content. Bot farms that do this on purpose call it Òrage farming.Ó I call it rage harvesting, since thatÕs what they sow and we all reap. But social media is just a mirror of society, you may be thinking. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, they donÕt create emotions, they just mirrors them. They have a product that people want to use, itÕs not their fault what people do with it. And where did you hear that? From social media executives who want to promise that theyÕre not doing this on purpose. They arenÕt driving up negative content and misinformation online for profit, they pinky swear. TheyÕre just holding up a mirror to todayÕs society, if we donÕt like what we see itÕs because other people are terrible not the fault of corporate greed run amok. How could they have known this would happen? They totally donÕt have data on all of this, for reals. ThatÕs what they say. And itÕs a nice way to make us hate each other for being so terrible instead of admitting that what they are doing is driving up anger and conspiracy theories online that divide us and keep them in power because the longer we search down internet rabbit holes or argue with trolls and bots the more money they get. To paraphrase the late, great George Carlin, Òthe rich people keep us fighting with each other so they can sneak out the back and run off with all the fucking money!Ó Then these billionaires (and as a reminder, private individuals who are billionaires own TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X and Google owns YouTube) turn around and sell access to their platforms and white gloved services to help using their algorithms to drive traffic, content, money, and eyeballs, to corporations, politicians, and even whole countries. They sell their product (us and our data) and their algorithms as something which can modify, predict, and even encourage behaviors from shopping to voting to participating in riots. They know theyÕre doing it for profit, and they know what theyÕre doing. How do they get away with it? Because itÕs super complicated and done almost completely in darkness. This stuff can be really hard to understand in isolation, which is why most of us have no idea what is going on (and I include myself in this because I only know fractions of the whole picture. As much as you think IÕve got my tinfoil hat onÑand I donÕt because itÕs downstairsÑthe truth is probably so much worse!). ThereÕs a documentary IÕll recommend next week, which is the episode ÒSocial Media BoomÓ from the HBO Max 2010s docuseries, and the several episodes from the podcast Behind the Bastards. These will help you lay some ground work and context to put all of this information in. I like to think of documentaries as intellectual infrastructure. Or you can basically watch Captain American and the Winter Soldier because weÕve got to give the Russo brothers credit: they looked at the Patriot Act and post 9/11 America and started talking about a future where we can tell the difference between freedom and fear, and that the digital book of the 20th century would be used to suppress dissidents and punish non- conformists, and showed the way people in power sew chaos so weÕll throw our freedom at them in exchange for a false sense of security. I mean, they pretty much nailed it, and next week. What they didnÕt anticipate was the use of AI and bot farms to deliberately use rage. And how easily our brains would get wired to need that rage, or as weÕd say if it were drugs or alcohol or food: our brains got addicted to the anger. And this is a world-wide phenomenon. Information showed how Facebook helped promote a genocide in Myanmar because Zuckerburg sold them his pet project Internet.org, which was basically internet-lite. People who never had desktops and had no familiarity with the internet were given phones preloaded with a certain selection of websites and apps, including Facebook. But, a series of issues happened. The first was the Burmese language did not translate as well for the bots so it was hard to understand what content was going on on Facebook, evidence suggests the person Facebook put in charge of that was on the side of the people committing the genocide, and because the internet only came with some website and NONE of them were news, when fake news traveled through Facebook no one could fact check it. This led to mass extermination camps by the military, including (and I should insert a trigger warning here because IÕm about to give you details of a genocide) the mass slaughter of civilians, the mass use of sexual violence, including in public. Girls and women were gang raped in public places in front of their families and communities, and so much more went on. And as it was happening, the US State Department was begging Facebook to do something about it and, as Sarah Wynn-Williams writes in her tell-all Careless People, she and a small handful of other workers at Facebook were begging their bosses to take it seriously. In less physical violence news (but more Islamophobia actually, as the genocide in Myanmar was targeted towards Muslims), Welsh journalist with the BBC Carole Cadwalladr has two excellent Ted Talks on how misinformation, including Islamophobia to the level she calls a digital hate crime, shaped the Brexit vote. Cadwalladr gives a 17-minute Ted Talk, which I put up on our YouTube Page (The Civic Flame), and she exposes the kind of deliberate false information that was spread during Brexit and how it shaped the results of the Brexit election. Check out her ted talks ÒFacebookÕs role in BrexitÓ and Òthis is what a digital coup looks likeÓ. Filipina Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa does an interview on Boston Public Radio called ÒAmerica needs to wake up.Ó I put this one up on the YouTube as well. And if you want to see how far the digital control/surveillance can go, check out John OliverÕs last week tonight episode on the Uighurs (Islamophobia wasnÕt supposed to be the secondary theme of this episode) or go look up AI and autonomous weapons in warfare. ThatÕll such the joy right out of you. ItÕs called Dr Fun Sponge media for a reason, after all. This deliberate misinformation and rage harvesting is all perfectly horrifying in the past and doom-saying for the future, but how does this affect your day-to-day? Look around at your community. Does everyone hate each other, and they canÕt figure out why? Did you ever consider that thereÕs some kind of reason behind this? So much of how I learned about the world around me as a young kid was from the old people in my neighborhood. There was a sense of community history and information that got passed on because we talked to each other. Even in the early internet era, there was the ability to make real social connections on social media. Now I call it anti-social media because of how deeply toxic it has become, and thatÕs for a lot of us. Whether youÕre one of those toxic positivity folks who freak out that BookTok got political or youÕre doomscrolling and having a panic attack under the weight of worldÕs problems. The thing is, just as these companies know itÕs happening, they know how to stop it. It does not have to be this way. Just before the 2020 election, Facebook turned off itÕs worst offending algorithms (aka, user maximizing features) to priorities legit news content. But when they realized people were spending less time on the platform, they turned them back on, just as the stop the steal nonsense was growing online. Facebook promoted angry conspiracies for profit and it resulted in an actual insurrection and, with the help of the president and his advisors, the biggest threat to US democracy weÕve ever had. Because it turns out keeping us angry and separated so they can take all the money isnÕt enough. As billionaire Peter Theil who owns the surveillance state Palantir was caught on video saying, heÕs worried that tax codes are making it hard for him to hide his billions (and not pay taxes on them) so heÕs been pushing fear and anxiety in terms of religion. HeÕs funded the folks who keep pushing the Armageddon anti-Christ narratives because he knows that will keep people in a hair on fire panic rather than stepping back and rationally thinking: hey, is this freaking clown trying to use my faith to steal my cash? They wouldnÕt spend billions on it if it didnÕt work. (music) Now that IÕve given you the scoop, feel free to yank that wizard out from behind his curtain! Be rigorous in your news sources and donÕt feed the trolls or the bots. When something online seems designed to send you into a rage spiral, ask why. If you find yourself in a bad habit with some of this content, find ways to replace rage habits and other habits and wean yourself off of the bad stuff. I recommend starting by adding some positive content to your algorithms. Do whatever you can to make sure that when these organizations harvest rage, they reap nothing from you! Next week, IÕll be back with some book and other recommendations for you to help you go more in depth, if you want. Until then, stay paranoid, and thanks for joining the good fight. (outro) This Campfire Edition of the Civic Flame is brought to you by Dr. Fun Sponge Media in association with Creator Amber Vayo and Sound Producer Matthew Munyon ? Campfire: Bot and Rage Farm Book Recommendation Hello, and welcome back to the campfire. At this weekÕs meeting of the midnight society, weÕre going to continue our not-so-short conversation on the role of social media companies in reshaping the American political and cultural landscape. If youÕre just joining us, this is part 3 of our cyber security episode. You can check out our YouTube Page The Civic Flame for some important Ted Talks, and get to the other two episodes on bot farms and rage farms if youÕre interested. If youÕre already on the path, this episode is to drop some recommendations your way. Hopefully, IÕll get off the couch (I have a herniated disc) and do a YouTube book review for some of this soon. (music) Okay, Last time we talked about bot farms and rage farms. If you missed that one, hereÕs the short story: tech companies allow (and encourage) these bot farms which are usually AI based programs that sell likes, comments, saves, followers, and shares on social media posts. They help drive the algorithm that decides what you see. Rage farming is how they go about it: they sew and harvest rage because that keeps people on the platforms and keeps the algorithms working. Now that weÕre all caught up, grab your tinfoil hat and your bookbag, and follow me! As I mentioned last week, if youÕre a visual kind of friend like me, or you like to see someone lay the data and news stories out for you, IÕve got some recommendations for you on that front. If you have access to HBO Max, I recommend watching the CNN/HBO docu-series 2010s episode ÒThe Social Media BoomÓ or the movie 2073. I know 2073 is a dystopian sci-fi, but a huge chunk of the movie is told through ÒflashbacksÓ to real news clips. ItÕs deeply disturbing from the collection of real news clips (the story itself leaves a lot to be desired, despite the high quality acting). In this political scientistÕs opinion, despite its limitations, 2073 makes a pretty good case for where weÕre headed if we donÕt get this rage farming thing under control. If you have access to Netflix, I recommend the Turning Point: The Cold War and the Bomb episodes, especially ÒThe End of History,Ó ÒMoscow Will Not be Silent,Ó and ÒWe Are not Dead Yet.Ó They offer some great context on the development of social media and its use in international espionage. Several of these episodes discuss the use of social media as a counterterrorism problem. The documentary Zero Days on Apple TV discusses the Stuxnet virus that we still donÕt know a lot about. Watch that one if you need trouble sleeping at night. I also recommend the book Careless People by former Facebook exec Sarah Wynn- Williams. She discusses her personal journey from believing Facebook could be a global force for good to seeing what it became (which is a true disappointment because I think sheÕs right that it could have been so much more. You look at these tech bros and realize that if theyÕd been a little less greedy, theyÕ have been remember like Pericles as world heroes, but the greed always gets ya, and theyÕll go down in historyÑif there is a history as the villains). Wynn-Williams documentary deep dives into things like Internet.org, FakebookÕs China Policy, and just how much they knew about the harm they were causing. And as she put it, they just didnÕt give a fork. If youÕre rolling with YouTube and Podcasts, Behind the Bastards does several episodes on variations of the Facebook papers and social media that IÕm working through now. Because I like to be enraged on my beautiful fall drive into work in the morning. They cover some key elements of controversies like Brexit, rage farming, etc. Why am I throwing all of this at you? Because itÕs important to have good sources, and the fact that so often we donÕt is kinda the point of this Campfire. ItÕs not just that bots and rage farming are happening, itÕs that they are deliberately dragging us all down to an un-reality where democracy cannot exist and weÕre too hateful, mistrustful, and exhausted to try and fight back. Anne Applebaum writes in her book The Twilight of Democracy about several of these key elements, among them, the need for truth as a shared basis for reality. IÕd recommend that book (though I like the audio book, which you can get for free through your public library). If youÕre looking for short easy reads, Timothy SnyderÕs On Tyranny is a good one as is Jason StanleyÕs How Fascism Works. Check out my Instagram and TikTok pages (@drfunsponge) for my recommendations on these. For shorter article length reads, on things and several interesting news reports and some intelligence reports, especially from the CSIS--the Center for Strategic and International StudiesÑ a bipartisan non-profit group that stacked with intelligence analysists an experts who deeply love the US and want us to be safe and secure. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist is also a solid place to go for this. What they all show is that we are living in a serious time of misinformation and fake news that is deliberately constructed for the profit of a handful of tech bros. These articles discuss how these rage farmers, including a few hundred kids in Macedonia who made money building fake news and fake social organization pages on Facebook would do some genuinely crazy things. These kids would set up a protest outside a mosque or church or something by acting like community members or small groups. Once they got enough people committed to going, they would set up a counter protest in the same space. The goal was on the street chaos, and it worked. Just as Black Lives Matter was taking off online with read civil rights protestors, Blue Lives Matter was being pushed by these astroturfing click farms and bot farms to enrage folks. Think about it: there is no reason Black Lives Matter means that any one else doesnÕt, and it certainly doesnÕt mean police (or so called blue lives) donÕt matter. Who made that up? The bot farms and the rage farms. They wanted people to infiltrate and counter Black Lives Matter, but normal people arenÕt in favor of police violence. So, the bot farms and the click farms changes the narrative: they created a fake fight between BLM and the police, called it Blue Lives Matters, and convinced people on the ground that they needed to take sides. You saw the thinness of the Blue Lives Matter folks on full display on Jan 6th when insurrectionists decked out in Blue Lives Matter merch beat police officer Michael Fanone with their Blue Lives Matter flags, threatened to Òkill him with his own gun,Ó and tazed him so badly he had to retire. Why? Because Blue Lives never mattered to them, the rage did. And that rage was deliberately directed and encouraged to make them overthrow the governmentÉ.all with the assistance of social media companies that made a lot of money off it. This is why the tech bros went for Trump this year, the Democrats wanted to break up Big Tech. ThereÕs every reason to believe Facebook an other platforms are responsible for all sorts of on the ground political violence, and theyÕve faced accusations of precipitating the genocide in Myanmar (which we discussed last week) and helping China crack down on pro-democracy protests. WeÕre walking into a different problem now with Facebook and TikTok leaning on information techs who are Zionists and have had working relationships with the Israeli military. ItÕs no wonder any pro-Palestian speech is censored. And of course Twitter (or X) is a known haven for neo-Nazis and hate speech. This shouldnÕt surprise you terribly A billionaire owns Twitter.. A different billionaire own the LA Times. Another different billionaire owns both the Wall Street Journal and Fox News. Another billionaire owns CBS (and I think that same billionaire wants to buy or is buying TikTok). And still another owns Facebook and Instagram. An of course there are the billionaire controllers of Disney which includes Hulu and ABC. I want to be clear that this list, while exhausting is not exhaustive. There are plenty of these other billionaires who own our information sphere. And the effect is having catastrophic ecological problems include the water shortages and potential power grid and electricity crises that are coming from AI generated content and algorithms. ThatÕs probably why these billionaires are building 20 story underground survival bunkers. ThatÕs true by the way. I recommend that you Google (another multi billion dollar company which also owns YouTube), the conspiracy correlation matrix, and youÕll see how YouTube uses its algorithm to basically offer viewers increasingly incendiary and addictive conspiracy theories and drag them down rabbit holes. (music) So, this week was a recap of the bot farms and rage farms with a lot of book recommendations. Why? Because this entire info sphere of non-reality is, at least to a political scientist, PlatoÕs Cave on steroids. How do you get out of the cave? IÕm throwing all of these sources at you so you can fashion a ladder, and drag your friends up with you! If youÕre looking for more books, check out our Instagram and tiktok, at dr fun sponge, and weÕll share more videos on the YouTube channel (the civic flame) Until next time, keep climbing, IÕll see you around the next campfire, and thanks for joining the good fight. (outro) This Campfire Edition of the Civic Flame is brought to you by Dr. Fun Sponge Media in association with Creator Amber Vayo and Sound Producer Matthew Munyon