We have worried so much about the proliferation of artificial intelligence, believing that we are creating a beast, that few stopped to ask if our creation would be endowed with the same powers. Artificial intelligence has already demonstrated its ability to create complex language, text, articles, music, voices, comic books through image generation, and now even cryptid creatures like Crungus. The ways in which artificial intelligence poses a danger to mankind might not be through a terminator-like extinction, but instead by the slow erosion of the human faculties of creation: art, culture, music, language, and even religion.

All the things we are creating on the Internet are the expressions of our innermost daemons and they are very much alive in cyberspace. Like Momo or Slenderman, Crungus is a thought-form with the ability to jump into physical form through human activity. Its creator came up with the name at "2/3" am, the witching hour. Crungus in an urban dictionary is the crud under a fingernail, the occult part of human anatomy wherein demons can enter - the fingernail or cuticle. This is why witches often have blackened fingers.

Crungus is like Momo, and when the statue of the latter was destroyed the creator kept a single eye for another art piece. When an Indian teenager killed himself for Momo he wrote ‘Devil’s one eye’ on the wall first. The EYE is a gateway to the soul, and the right eye is the enlightened right-hand path of the sun, or the Eye of Horus/RA. Down the left-hand path is a world of serpents and monsters like those of Lovecraft. In theme of the latter, the octopus or squid, its ink, and tentacles, are a metaphor for the Internet and technology. Tentacles represent the interconnected networks of computers and the Internet. The ink is the black mirror of our screens that distorts our perception of the real world. It is also the ink in our pens that we use to create new worlds through paper and art.

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