What Football Will Look Like in the Future

It is a tale about a boy and his friends that play a game together. Homestuck lasted approximately seven years and reached a total of approximately 8000 pages. For example, both What football will look like in the future and Homestuck give the reader the opportunity act as a detective in order to try to find an answer to unanswered questions. As Kevin Veale writes, Just like ARGs, Homestuck is a vast puzzle at the same time as it is a story, and readers are left trying to solve that puzzle with the same skills they have outside of the game (Veale, 2012: 182-185). In What football will look like in the future there is the moment when Pioneer 9 asks Pioneer 10 a couple of questions about the state of the world in the year 17776. Pionner 10 only answers one question while Juice tries to answer every question from Pioneer 9 before Pioneer 9 rested, therefore leaving some questions unanswered. Both stories also give the reader the opportunity to have a great time. As Daniel Funke writes, Two things that make '17776' so immersive and engaging are its infinite scroll and dynamic loading aspects. Each installment of the storyline is contained on one web page, with new graphics, videos and GIFs loading in real-time as you scroll, a la 'snowfall' by the New York Times (Funke). By scrolling down the page, looking at images or gifs, and watching videos, the reader has the opportunity to experience what life would be like in the future if he or she was given immortality. Up to this day there are people that still write in online forums in about new findings of Easter eggs and theories that possibly connect both stories together.

Veale, Kevin. 'Friendship isn't an emotion fucknuts': Manipulating affective materiality to shape the experience of Homestuck's story. New Zealand: Convergence, 2017. This article is about the webcomic known as Homestuck. It discusses the story, its structure, and connection to media. Homestuck is a tale about a boy and his friends playing a game together. The popular webcomic lasted approximately seven years with a total of 8000 pages. In the article Kevin Veale describes Homestuck as a webcomic that is unique because all of its content can be found on a single website. In addition, he describes the mode of engagement for reading Homestuck by saying how the reader wanted to read more about the webcomic because it was so entertaining to read. He mentions that the reader approached each page of the webcomic with isolation because they couldn't wait a day or a few days for the next page to be available on the website. Kevin Veale also describes Homestuck as a vast puzzle where the reader will have to read the text repeatedly in order to understand its content better because at first it can be confusing. He mentions that the reader has the opportunity to act as a detective in order to collect information like putting pieces together in a puzzle. To this day many online fans take their time to write about Homestuck in wikis and forums in order to discuss about the story, characters, theories, and easter eggs. Kevin Veale argues that Homestuck is a webcomic that breaks the fourth wall because the characters hear commands that were given to them by the reader after trying to ignore them at the start. Homestuck lets the reader have the opportunity to experience what it feels like living in a different world where the most important thing for every character in the story is to play a game. Both Homestuck and What football will look like in the future have very different structures but create similar effects because both show what is like to live in a fictional world where the most important activity to the characters is to play.

Crouch, Ian. The Experimental Fiction That Imagines Football-Obsessed Americans In the Extremely Distant Future. New York: The New Yorker, 2017. This article reviews Jon Bois's work 17776, also known as What football will look like in the future. Ian Crouch describes the online fictional narrative as a captivating story because the beginning of the story makes the reader fall into a state of incomprehension. The first chapter Please answer me begins with a conversation between two characters that can be seen on a calendar as a background. At one moment the reader would feel confused and curious of what was going to happen with both characters since the character named Nine had to wait approximately 27 years for him to be in contact with the character named Ten. Ian Crouch mentions that Jon Bois has been doing all kinds of weird works in the world of sports. Crouch names one of Bois's other works titled The Tim Tebow C. F. L. Chronicles which describes the life of a quarterback playing football in Canada. He also mentions another of Bois's work which is titled Breaking Madden. Crouch describes Breaking Madden as a way to break football because the first season of the project ended with a controversial Super Bowl final between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. Bois made the roster of the Seattle Seahawks huge while he made the roster of the Denver Broncos small which was completely unfair. He also states that What football will look like in the future is another example of a work where Bois breaks football due to the change of rules in the future. Crouch recognizes 17776 as a success because it generated a lot of enthusiasm from fans online which is surprising because most of them were not introduced to the sport of football before. He ends his article by mentioning one of the themes of Jon Bois's work about immortality and how being immortal cannot prevent a person from being bored. He states that the individual needs to do an activity like playing football in order to not get bored.

Funke, Daniel. This SB Nation story has everything: Robots, football and 2.3 million pageviews. Poynter, 10 July 2017, www.poynter.org/news/sb-nation-story-has-everything-robots-football-and-23-million-pageviews. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018. This online article reviews Jon Bois's work 17776 also known as What football will look like in the future. Daniel Funke describes the piece as "immersive" because it fills the reader's screen with text as a form of an online narrative. He describes that after reading the first long paragraph of the first chapter, the reader will experience confusion. He mentions that if the reader feels confused, Jon Bois's experiment is a success. When the reader enters the page for the first time the look of the website will change after the reader scrolls down the page. This transition from the SB Nation website to the story itself is described by Daniel Funke as a "surreal, science fiction-like trip". Daniel Funke also writes that Jon Bois's goal was to give the reader a great time. Funke also describes the piece as "confusing, uncomfortable, and cool" and labels it as a must read. Funke also writes that many journalists on Twitter described 17776 as "strangely beautiful" because it was a story that a person would not expect to see in the SB Nation website. Funke also mentions another of Bois's work titled "The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles" which it was when Bois first started to focus in the idea of a "futuristic, arti-scifi project". What is interesting about the article is the mention of Bois's What football will look like in the future as the kind of work that SB Nation would do. This makes sense because the website is concentrated in the sport of football. Since its creation, 17776 has been a success because it is a combination of both literature and football which has attracted a lot of readers that do not have knowledge about the sport.

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