Sally Bjørgensson

Oh my god! It's Sally Bjørgensson! She finally has her own wiki page! That girl deserves it. I tell you, she should have had one a long time ago! Whaat?? You don't know Sally Bjørgensson? She's a celebrity! She starred in the film Bottomfeeder? The one with the great white shark? No, the other one. No, not that one either. The other one. You didn't see Bottomfeeder? Aw, that's a classic Lynch movie. You've seriously never seen the 2002 box office hit? What about Pyramid's Cap? That's direct to DVD but - really?? You haven't even *heard* of Pyramid's Cap? What, do you live under a rock? I'm sorry, that was rude of me. This is just so odd though. What about the album Nighttime Rise? She was the lead singer. You can't tell me you don't remember the lyrics. C'mon, *"right as rain, wash the bane, keep it clean, keep it seen*"? Oh man you don't get out much. Tell you what, me and my friends are getting together next Sunday. It'll be a boys night out. You should come with! I'll put in a good word with the group so they know what to expect. We'll play some smash, watch some movies, and I know Kevin's bringing his dad's 3-layer pie. You ever tried it? It's really good. Oh and we HAVE to show you Bottomfeeder. I can't believe you don't know Sally Bjørgensson! That's like, honestly that shocked me for real. I mean you know who Mario is right? The Nintendo guy? You know Luigi and Peach? Bogs Bunny? But you don't know Sally Bjørgensson, I guess. That's fine. I'm not angry about it. I mean what would I have to be angry about? I'm shocked is all. I hope you can appreciate that I'm taken aback but not like, repulsed or anything. It's a bit charming actually. I never thought I'd meet someone who hasn't heard of Sally Bjørgensson. Gosh, what was life like for you? No one ever talked about her? You never saw her on TV? Crazy. Just crazy.

## History

Sally Bjørgensson was officially recognized by the PhenoTeam R&D department in late 2006, after following up on series of cognitive discrepancies amongst the townsfolk of Wilmington, North Carolina. The department discovered no record of her existence before that year. DNA tests conducted by staff also revealed no genetic matches with any citizenry on file. Sally Bjørgensson was detained by the PhenoTeam Containment division until its bankruptcy in 2010. Sally Bjørgensson continues to live in her town of origin and has been granted amnesty by the state government and Pigeonhole foundation.

## Powers and Personality

Sally Bjørgensson is a class α3 anomaly taking the form of - or inhabiting - a human woman with petite stature and curly blond hair. She appears to be in her early or late 20s, and has remained this way for 16 years. Sally Bjørgensson's effects take hold on anyone who sees her in person, through digital media, or even photographs. These effects start as a general sense of remembrance and slowly escalate into a perception that this person has known Sally Bjørgensson for much of their life, and that she is in fact a big name celebrity. The effect persists between viewings and grow stronger with each moment of seeing Sally Bjørgensson until it eventually reaches an unknown but definitive limit. Sally Bjørgensson's effects will not displace existing memories, but will often create many new ones revolving around her phantom content. These usually take the framework of movies she's starred in, books she's written, or even public outings she's made. Despite the vividness of these memories, people will often accept conflicting evidence provided by other Sally Bjørgensson fans until a single homogeneous idea of a given media is created. Once this happens, that media will begin to manifest in the real world, further spreading recognition. There are currently 1,719,328 existing copies of *Bottomfeeder* and 39,262 copies of *Pyramid's Cap*. These are all laced with the infohazardous effects of Sally Bjørgensson's presence, but they are also some objectively great movies.

Sally Bjørgensson's effects do not seem to hamper an individual's ability to recall real memories or even cause them to mistake fake things as real other than Bjørgensson's actions. In other words, the fake world of Sally Bjørgensson seems to be stored in a different mental database than the real world where all else happens. Research has also proven that those familiar with the celebrity are on average much happier than those who are not, and preliminary studies show correlation between "knowing" Sally Bjørgensson and gaining resilience to the effects of other similar cognitohazards.

## Reception

Because of the already rampant nature of cognitohazards, Sally has been labeled a non-threat by the North Carolina state government and Pigeonhole foundation, with the stipulation that she remain in her hometown and her media be accompanied by a warning about its paranormal qualities.

Professor Pigeonhole responded in an official report that "There is no real difference between Sally Bjørgensson's fabricated memories and the memories of another celebrity idol. We have proven she does not cause harm, and in many ways does quite the opposite. I have seen her bring together a lot of people I wouldn't think could ever sit down and talk to eachother. I've seen her movies taken to desperate towns and tracked the suicide rates personally. I've seen some very convincing anecdotal evidence that her illusions actually shield people from other, more dangerous mental intrusions. I can't say altering people's minds is naturally justified, hence the labeling and why we're spreading the word. But from a data standpoint? She's nothing but good news."

Sally herself is a kind if normally-behaved young woman with no outstanding personality traits. She swears that she has no control over the effects of her presence and no memories before 2006.

## Trivia

* Most people who've experienced Sally's effects are pleasantly surprised see her again in any media form. The most common reaction is an elated "Oh my god! It's Sally Bjørgensson!!"
* Sally Bjørgensson's name does not have an infohazardous effect, nor does the act of describing her to others. The effects are exclusively from seeing her appearance and hearing her voice.
* Media representation (or perception thereof) of Sally Bjørgensson prior to 2006 will show her equivalently younger, but any media past 2006 depicts her as the same immortal age in the late 20s. Most people have either accepted that she aged extremely well, does not age at all, or are simply good at remaining in denial.