The Stranger Parade was created in collaboration with Niceaunties, based off of a discussion of our themes and philosophies of art we shared a few words between our prompts and decided on a celebratory parade as the main event. When I began to think of a parade in this context I thought about how a parade is a celebration of an institution or an identity and I thought it was very appropriate for AI to celebrate its identity, ability and strangeness. So I chose to try and incorporate the oddest characters I could think up and have them celebrate together. However I included guns as a security because it is also a protest, a protest for all the weirdness of the world and all the things that aren't first choice or obvious to make room for themselves to exist, or otherwise be ignored. And so it is both a celebration and a protest as I see life is, we celebrate all its greatness but we have to also constantly be protesting the continuing unfairness's of the world because there is that duality always. To be happy is to fight for that happiness for ourselves and for others.

Original track by Pancakepie360 using beatoven