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Only days after the unexplained white screen appeared across devices throughout the United Kingdom, a small group of British scientists has released a theory that has already provoked swift backlash from officials and fellow researchers alike.
Their claim:
the white screen is not a malfunction, outage, or cyberattack — but a glitch in the matrix, a momentary tear in the underlying rules that govern reality.
According to the group, the event exposed a disturbing truth:
human beings do not possess free will.
Instead, they are being directed — every movement, every choice, every word — by an external controlling force they call “the Player.”
A Flaw in the System
The scientists argue that the uniformity of the white screen event, appearing on devices that were online, offline, damaged, replaced, or even completely disconnected, cannot be explained by technological failure alone.
To them, it resembles a system-level error.
“A glitch behaves the same everywhere,” one member of the group said. “When a rule breaks in a constructed environment, every instance attached to that rule shows the same failure.”
They believe the white screen and the single word 2026 were never meant to be seen by humans.
Instead, they interpret it as a debug signal — a message intended for the unseen Creators, the architects of the simulated reality in which humanity supposedly exists.
Citizens as Puppets
The theory goes further.
According to the researchers, every person in the UK — and the world — is controlled by a separate Player, one step below the Creator but still external to human reality. These Players make all decisions, large and small. Human consciousness, they argue, is merely the illusion of choice.
“We are avatars,” the internal paper reads.
“Everything we believe we choose is, in fact, the Player selecting for us.”
The white screen, they believe, momentarily exposed the artificial structure of reality, revealing a crack in the simulation.
Government Response: Immediate Denial
Downing Street responded within hours of the theory circulating, dismissing it as “baseless, irresponsible speculation.”
“There is no evidence that the world is a simulation,” a Cabinet Office spokesperson stated. “The white screen is being treated as a technical systems failure, nothing more.”
Officials also condemned the claim that citizens lack free will, calling it “absurd and deeply unhelpful during a national emergency.”
No government department has announced plans to investigate the scientists’ statements.
Academic Ridicule
Within scientific circles, the group has quickly become a source of frustration and embarrassment.
Prominent researchers have publicly criticised the theory:
“Nonsense dressed in scientific language.”
“An attempt to force meaning onto an unexplained event.”
“A conspiracy built on coincidence.”
Some of the theorists have reportedly lost funding and been removed from collaborative projects.
A few universities have issued internal guidance discouraging staff from engaging with the group’s work.
One leading physicist remarked bluntly:
“If the world is a simulation, the white screen didn’t prove it — but this theory proves the authors shouldn’t be near a research grant.”
A Theory That Lingers
Despite the backlash, the idea is quietly spreading online.
Some citizens — confused, anxious, and uncertain after the sudden technological collapse — find the simulation theory oddly comforting. Others see it as dangerous fantasy.
For now, there is no consensus.
No explanation.
No clear cause.
Only the white screen.
Only the word 2026.
And a theory suggesting that everything humanity believes it chooses is merely the decision of an unseen Player.
A glitch, or a warning —
the debate continues.
The Rise of the “Creator Faith”
Alongside the scientific backlash and official denials, authorities have confirmed the emergence of a small but growing fringe movement responding to the white screen in a very different way.
Online groups and informal gatherings have begun referring to the supposed Creator not as a system architect, but as a god.
Members of the movement — already labelled “heretics” by critics — claim the white screen was not a glitch, but a revelation. In their view, the momentary failure of reality was an act of intentional disclosure: proof that the Creator exists and has chosen to reveal itself.
Followers believe the Player is not a controller to be feared, but a servant of the Creator — an intermediary between divine will and human action. Some claim that free will never existed, and that surrendering the illusion of choice brings clarity rather than despair.
Early statements from the group describe the white screen as “the first true scripture,” with 2026 interpreted as a sacred marker rather than a year.
Authorities have dismissed the movement as a reaction to uncertainty and fear. Religious leaders from established faiths have also condemned the claims, warning against “technological idolatry” and the dangers of replacing belief with speculation.
For now, the Creator Faith remains small, scattered, and unofficial.
But as long as the screens remain silent, and no explanation arrives, its followers insist that faith — not proof — is enough.
And in a world where reality itself is being questioned, the line between belief and heresy may prove harder to define than expected.
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