Too Late Show
A live talk show which debuted at Alchemy 2019 by the Third Floor Society, hosted by the now infamous Dr. Beelzebub Crow. It ran at Alchemy for many years, dominating the prestigious Southeast Regional Burn Talk Show circuit so severely that nobody else even tried to make a talk show (except for the Too Early Show, of course). Beginning in 2024, it became just one show of several underneath the banner of the Too Late Network, TLN. Following a live broadcast that went viral, Dr. Crow's fame and popularity exploded and he grew to become a world-famous international mass media mogul over the following decade, growing the Too Late Show into one of the largest and most recognizable brands in the world over that period, until it grew to become one of the first hyperbrands, a brand with its own full-stack memeplex and way of life.
By growing the Too Late brand, Dr. Crow was able to direct and fund fundamental research into memetics in the age of qualia computers and brain-machine interfaces, with the most dangerous research occurring at the Psywar Research Corporation. PRC was credited with inventing mind swappers, ensmoothening binaural beats, memory erasers, and worse.
Since the Noospheric Munitions Act of 2042 was first signed into law, he has been missing.
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Metaphysical/philosophical/speculative scientific concept + current cultural discussion + parody of cultural artifact = TLS joke -Dr. Crow
The Too Late show is a show where the characters are in a show where their characters in the show are played by their characters, and the show is a metashow about itself where the show is about what the show is about, which is a show about characters playing their characters in a show about their characters playing their characters. In other words, absolute navel-gazing hogwash of the lowest grade. -Critic