FREQUENTLY RECOVERED QUESTIONS
Answers recovered from unstable timelines.
GLITCH is a memory recovery archive for moments that never actually happened. You type fragments, feelings, places, dreams, timelines, forgotten aesthetics, or alternate realities. The archive reconstructs them into artifacts from broken timelines.
No. But they might feel familiar. That's the point.
Go to Recover Memory. Type a feeling, moment, place, era, or strange fragment you can almost remember. Example: - summer 2007 arcade - rainy Tokyo blackout - mall parking lot after midnight - last day before the internet died The archive reconstructs the rest.
GLITCH intentionally recreates emotional patterns associated with nostalgia, liminal memories, dream logic, old internet aesthetics, and lost media culture. Sometimes your brain fills in the gaps on its own.
It replaces likes. You are not "liking" a memory. You are acknowledging that something about it feels strangely familiar.
Only if you choose to broadcast them to the Public Archive. Private memories stay in your personal archive.
Some timelines are unstable. Corrupted memories contain damaged fragments, broken timestamps, signal interference, and archive decay.
Yes. Open the memory and select Delete Memory. Deleted memories are permanently removed from the archive.
Archivists are GLITCH users who recover memories from unstable timelines. The archive ranks archivists based on how many people remember their recovered signals.
Creators are ranked by total "I Remember This" interactions received across all public memories. The stronger the emotional signal, the higher the archivist ranks.
Private memories exist only in your personal archive. Broadcast the memory publicly before sharing it.
Restricted accounts lose access to: - recovering memories - public interactions - archive broadcasting This usually happens due to violations involving: - NSFW content - hateful content - harassment - illegal material - abusive behavior
Yes. Some archivists specialize in timelines that never happened yet.
No. GLITCH generates fictional reconstructed artifacts inspired by prompts, emotions, aesthetics, and timeline fragments.
Not currently. Recovered artifacts are treated as preserved archive files.
Specific emotional fragments work best. Examples: - motel pool in 1998 - lost school trip photo - cyber cafe after the blackout - forgotten birthday at the arcade - gas station at the edge of the world - first heartbreak under pink skies
Because stable timelines are boring.
Recover public memories that resonate emotionally with other users. The more people click "I Remember This," the stronger your signal becomes.
Yes. You can switch memories between: - Public Archive - Private Archive from your personal archive dashboard.
Not exactly. It's more like a shared archive of impossible nostalgia.