The Router Blinks
A potato moves into a small apartment with one outlet and one very old router. The light turns amber. Nobody knows why. This is the beginning of everything.
Lore & universe
How One Potato Lost Signal and Found a Whole Cast
A loose, ongoing timeline of the WiFiPotato universe. It updates whenever the router does something suspicious.
Days in the Life of a Spud
Day 1 Day 3 The Hallway Pilgrimage
WiFiPotato discovers that signal is strongest while standing on a chair near the bathroom. A ritual is born, and the neighbors have questions.
Day 7 Notifications Attack
Notification Nugget arrives with forty-six friends. They bring nothing urgent. They stay for eight hours. WiFiPotato learns the word 'later'.
Day 12 The AI Offers Help
A helpful machine generates a plan to optimize the potato's life. The plan has 214 steps. Step one is waking up earlier. WiFiPotato closes the tab.
Day 21 Sleep Mode Discovered
Sleep Mode Spud shuffles in wearing a blanket and does absolutely nothing all day. It is the healthiest anyone has been in three weeks.
Day 30 WiFiPotato Starts a Band
Armed with a keytar and a cassette drum machine, the potatoes write their first song: a nine-minute ballad about a loading bar. It slaps.
Day 60 The Network Grows
More spuds keep showing up — each one carrying a different flavor of modern tech fatigue. The closet becomes a studio. The studio becomes a universe.
What It's Actually About
Tech fatigue
The low hum of being reachable forever. Not a crisis, just a tiredness that hums at the same pitch as a router fan.
Humor as a hug
Every joke has to leave the reader feeling seen rather than roasted. If it punches down, it doesn't get drawn.
Creativity anyway
The potatoes keep making things — bands, comics, terrible songs — because making things is how they survive the feed.
Comics, episodes & songs
The Slate
Everything below exists in some form: a sketchbook, a storyboard, or a voice memo recorded at an unwise hour.
Ep. 01 — Have You Tried Turning It Off?
RouterRoot gives the same advice four times. It works on the fourth. Nobody discusses it again.
In the oven
Ep. 02 — Notification Nugget's Big Day
A tiny gremlin becomes convinced that a calendar invite is a personal emergency.
Storyboarding
Buffering (feat. The Spuds)
Nine minutes of synth about a loading bar that never fills. Surprisingly emotional.
Demo recorded
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