Vibe Laundering, pt. 3: Back to the future with Citrini in the Global Vibe Laundering Memo from June 2029
A speculative memo about possible pathways in a future with vibe laundering where Grand Theft Auto VI has still not been released but everything else is printing
In Part 1, I introduced the concept of vibe laundering and its architecture mapped around disclosure and positions. In Part 2 I talked about language in edits to the authorship attribution for the fictional Citrini report. For part 3, I promised speculative fiction, so here it is as a memo from June 2029. That’s right, we’re going back to the future.
It is June 2029, which means Grand Theft Auto VI has still not been released, Tom Brady has once again decided to un-retire, Sam Altman has announced he believes AGI is six months away for the third year running, and Bill Ackman has announced a new SPAC targeting the vibes economy in a 47-part thread on X. It has also been over three years since a work of speculative fiction dropped on Substack and preceded a selloff that took the Dow down 821 points.
What happened after February 2026 depended on which version of Citrinitas was operating behind the scenes at the time of writing. All three possible imagined pathways were consistent with the …
