“We’re thrilled to be replaced with AI.” So we delivered.

Are you fed up with countless companies slapping AI slop and gimmicky subscriptions to customers and even employees, when they were supposed instead to soar in the clusters of Clouds and ship NFTs over the OpenSea?

In the age of Digital Transformation where Hollywood vision and consumer apathy are imminent to appease increasing shareholder value (and those little traders who came late to the grifts and stock markets to secure a piece of the latest iPhone and their future)—you’re not alone.

The use of Generative AI is a real concern to us, including their questionable novelty, originality, and significant spiritual consequences when included into our ministry. However, there are some legitimate and useful cases of AI, like working with Reinhart’s FIT5239 course in Monash University, as well as fighting against online scams or even soulless AI customer service, that we’re still interested to work with.

That’s why instead of slapping actual AI into our lovely (>_ )s and (#- )s, we’re also designing another set of exclusive characters that are:

• Designed by Generative AI,
• Powered by Generative AI,
• and everything that is AI-related in the future will be exclusively represented by these characters.

(>_ )s and (#- )s will remain protected and AI-free, but some of Team I/O intellectual property rights are waived for the sole purpose of getting mashed up with different AI models, Italian Brainrot, and contributing towards the Dead Internet Theory. Note that we still have the intention to register the copyrights of our software which feature the presence of Team I/O characters.

We are planning to bring some official merchandise that features a mix of our characters, and it is easier to identify the teams by their colors:

• 💙 - (>_ )s / the Shifts
• 💚 - (#- )s the root kids
• 💜 - Team I/O's Indigo
• 🧡 - Team I/O's Orange

Content Warning: Content from Generative AI models are presented beyond this point.

Acknowledgement of the Use of Generative AI Technologies

ChatGPT 5.2 (2026-01-04 version) has been used to generate the images beyond this point.

Understanding Team I/O’s Identities and Prospective Contributions to the Cyberspace

Just like the rest of us, Team I/O consists of 2 new couples that we named them Indigo and Orange. As we elaborate on their names later, these team will handle different types of jobs or “workflows” that would be either feature or powered by Generative AI technologies.

The individual names are not conventionally named like “Orange, the boy.” Instead, we're excited to name them based upon the endless chasm of strategic and synergic corporate ambitions that have existed upon the 2010s.

The Indigo Team: An endless mission of progress

First, the 💜 Indigo team has Innovate (boy) and Optimize (girl). They are excited to come up with new ideas and satisfy any product manager requirements to optimize their business workflows.

The Orange Team: A twist to agentic productivity

Then the 🧡 Orange team has Integrate (boy) and Organize (girl), your irreplaceable human-replacing agentic AI operation subsystems. Not sure what those words mean—I mean, they’ll look nice for our next VC pitch deck.

Conclusion

Therefore, I/O here stands for both team names (Indigo, Orange) and each of their team members. Remember that unlike the Shift and the root, every boy names here start with an I, but girl names start with O.

We hope that the introduction and integration of Team I/O in our projects and products would bring unparalleled benefits to our community.

It’s not about AI slop.

It’s not about forcing you to pay more for your computer hardware and in-app subscriptions.

It is an integral part to our strategic efforts to deliver the best of our products to those kinds of people, just exactly as they needed. Or simply,

“Command (>_ ) Executed”. (mic drop)