{"id":6916,"date":"2022-09-10T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zoha-islands.com\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2022-09-10T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T14:31:00","slug":"london-in-second-life-flooded-with-mourners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/london-in-second-life-flooded-with-mourners\/","title":{"rendered":"London in Second Life Flooded With Mourners"},"content":{"rendered":"

London in Second Life Flooded With Mourners & Well-Wishers At News of Queen Elizabeth’s Death; UPDATE: Added SLImage Tributes<\/h3>\n
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As news of Queen Elizabeth’s death spreads across the globe, mourners in the virtual world of Second Life have been converging into London City, a sprawling island devoted to the UK’s capital. I have tried over the last hour to take photos of the impromptu memorial, but as avatars keep teleporting into London, the surroundings continue to be a blurry as actual London in the worst fog imaginable.<\/p>\n

You can see them in the screenshot here, green dots indicating users from around the world, piling into the town square, where the British flag has been lowered to half-mast, and the audio stream has been changed from the usual Britpop music to somber songs played on piano and pan flute.<\/p>\n

“May she be in God’s arms half hour before the devil knows she’s gone,” announces a mourner in chat.<\/p>\n

“There is music on the stream now,” says someone who helps manage London. “I hope it is fitting. I’m raising a glass to Her Majesty The Queen!”<\/p>\n

As is often the case, the serendipitous mourning is basically SLers gathering and chatting together in the wake of monumental offline news at a virtual world location with some mirror relationship to that news. (See also: Mourners outside the virtual recreation of the Eiffel Tower, after a terrorist attack in Paris.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

And as also befits Second Life, the arriving mourners include Superman in a Batman helmet, a sentient dog, and a humanoid fox (not to be confused), along with various supermodels. Many or most are from the UK, but mourners and well-wishers from outside Britain are arriving too:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“My condolences for your loss from Germany,” says one.<\/p>\n

“Even here in Switzerland they cancelled the normal programming,” says another, standing next to an angel and a dragon in knight’s armor. “It’s surreal.”<\/p>\n

More images when (if?) the lag ebbs!<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Cajsa just sent me this somber image by Dazler Resident — “RIP Queen Elizabeth II”, shot in\u00a0St Alban’s Church in\u00a0Alba<\/a>:\"RIP<\/a><\/p>\n

Also this one via Cajsa by Calamity Clowie — “I Rather It Were Coronation Day”:<\/p>\n

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Our thoughts are with the UK<\/p>\n

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