You can broadcast a single thought to everyone alive. What thought would cause **immediate chaos** everywhere?

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This is assuming that the thought is translated into something each person can understand.

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"YOU ARE MY CHOSEN DISCIPLE. GO FORTH AND SLAY THE NON-BELIEVERS IN MY NAME."

Don't even say who you are. Everyone will just assume it's the god they already believe in. And everyone who doesn't believe in a god would start questioning everything.

"Message to all players: Resetting simulation in 24 hours"

Blink to save your current progress and stats

Don't blink to return to character creation menu

"Did you just switch it to broadcast? Fuck, turn it off!"

"This is not you, this is god, you are the new messiah like my son Jesus before you. It is up to you to right all that's gone wrong in my world. Many will come forward and say that they received this message but do not be fooled for that is Satan trying to defeat you."

Then I get popcorn and watch the whole world burn.

I think if you said son or sons and left out "Jesus" you would get greater effect. Make it ambiguous enough that it calls to every Abrahamic religion.

use "your god" instead of god, "chosen one" instead of messiah and "evil" instead of satan and you get the polytheistic religions to join in as well.

also, some highly confused star wars fans, maybe.

Or just say "you are the antichrist. Go forth and conquer"

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
โ€• Mark Twain

โ€œYou just lost The Game.โ€

Funny thing about that, it's a losing battle to spread it since by the very rules of "the game", you thought about the game to post it, and thus lost :D

Ah, however, one plays not to win, but to force others to also lose.

'YOU! You know what you did! Make it right!'

Then sit back and look at all the guilty faces.

Might as well add a threat to it to really drive the point home.

I would find it irresistible to do, "So long, and thanks for all the fish."

"There is no Heaven or Hell. The only Paradise is that which you create for others by your own hand. And you are failing."

Kind of against the letter of the rule since this isn't really intended to cause chaos for the sake of chaos,but I'm sure chaos will result nonetheless.

"This is God, there's a reason why i put variations on love thy neighbor in every single religion. Differences in faith and race don't matter, helping others and making the world a better place do. You've disappointed me, do better"

I believe God would approve, at least of the intention. ๐Ÿ™

"We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."

"nah, don't tell the humans, it would just cause panic and there's nothing they can do anymore"

"Is this thing on ?" And then never say anything further.

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Weโ€™ve been trying to reach you about your carโ€™s extended warranty.

"The other religion is the true one."

I feel like a way worse thing to say would be "your religion is the right one." This would 100% increase religious tensions and fan the flames of fanaticism. Saying the other one is true isn't likely to play into people's already established worldviews and established worldviews are not changed by a single sentence regardless of who or how it's said.

"Remember you'll die."

I'm not a troublemaker so it would have to be for a good reason... and how I wish I could shake people out of their stupor and there's no better way than to consider your own mortality, as it puts things into perspective.

Millions of traumatized children, though.

Eh, they were gonna be aware of it regardless, it's just a bit uncomfortable, lol. I mean, the whole prompt was to create chaos, this is but a step above "Santa's not real" and under "Western amorality and capacity to organise for the purpose of murder and pillage with no second thoughts has given the West their position in the world for about two millennia". Any reasonable human was gonna realize it eventually, is what I mean. ๐Ÿคท

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"We heard you. We're on our way."

Ok for real chaos

To all the women: "This is God. For eons, women have been subjugated. Women are the superior gender, take your rightful places on the throne"

To all the minorities, "This is God. You are the superior race, take your rightful places on the throne"

To all the men "This is God, I have made men rightful rulers for eons, do not give it up so lightly. Take back what it is rightfully yours"

To all the majorities, "This is God. Defend your homes against the invaders. They are wolves in sheep's clothing"

And of course, randomize it slightly, so a few men get the women's message, some women get the men's message, etc. Really play into the faction angles.

The government has been secretly tracking everyone's farts since 1998. The next one you release will trigger your official ranking on the Global Flatulence Leaderboard. visible to everyone.

Half the world holds it in, the other half tries to fart so hard they shit themselves.

time for what if xkcd: "what if every human and animal on the planet farted at the same time?"

Why would the government keep that a secret?

If it's just a thought and not a phrase or words that has to be translated or anything ... and an image that everyone could understand ... I'd go with the standard ...

Imagine everyone all over the world seeing this thought all at once and everyone confirming what they saw among themselves and everyone else everywhere ... everyone confirming the same image across languages, countries, regions, religions, rich, poor, literate, illiterate.

A bonus would be to have the alien say something in a language and voice that absolutely no one on the planet could possibly understand.

Then repeat the broadcast for five seconds once a day, every day.

The world will end in a year unless 80% of the human race is killed

My message is in stereo. In the right ear, a booming, authoritative voice saying "Question everything, don't trust authority, the God you believe in might not be real."

In the left ear, a serpentine voice telling them to trust their religious leaders, you don't know much yourself, you can't trust your logic, you have to have faith.

If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

The Purge begins in 3... 2... 1...

Do they know itโ€™s my thought or do they think itโ€™s their own?

"You will expire in 30 days."

Retain the ambiguity across all translations.

"Hey guys, sorry, I had to step away for a bit. What did you guys do!? Now I have to start all over again. I'll put you guys in the archives along with all the other ones, play nice!"

Does this forget that intrusive thoughts exist for everyone and generally most people would assume it was just that?

None of you are correct, except Jeff, he can get it

Nobody is who they seem to be

OR

Everything is food

The rapture of the holy happened five minutes ago and no one was saved. The next 3.5 years will be chaos, starvation and death. Save yourself if you can.

They're all laughing at you behind your back.

You guys know "everyone" includes trump, putin, jo-un, jimping, and all the other crazies out there right?!

Do we want to end the world?

Something like "This is God speaking." and "You were right, and all the other religions were wrong". Nukes would just fling flang and we'd finally just end it.

"I hope you've enjoyed your free trial. Please consider subscribing before your trial end date in 3 days. All deleted data will not be recoverable."

"I need to go to the toilet. #2. Immediately."

"go drain your bank account"

Heavens full, sorry guys you're all gonna have to go to hell.

Wouldn't matter for people who still don't really have access, but I'm taking a page out of supervirus Daemon's book and telling everyone the web has been 100% infected and that they only have a short amount of time before it deletes itself permanently.

Gradually escalating unidentifiable whispering. Everyone starts asking if you can hear something, you all start agreeing you can hear whispering but not what it is, then the paradolia kicks in and people start hearing what they expect to hear. The constant gradual increase in volume. Increases the fear and certainty in what people are hearing, but also disrupts sleep and wakes anyone who was sleeping. Soon everyone is awake, sleep deprived, and panicked.