Wildest thing you Googled for this story?
Veronica: The “watching-eye effect,” which basically means that if you put up a picture of an eye somewhere, people behave better, as if they’re being watched. This has apparently been studied extensively, and it’s so strange to me that we react to drawings and illustrations of eyes as if they’re real eyes and real observers! In Poster Girl, everyone had an ocular implant under the old regime, so while there are no pictures of eyes, there’s this constant glowing ring around everyone’s right eye, serving as a reminder that they’re being observed. Mass surveillance plays a big role in Poster Girl, so I wound up down a lot of weird Internet rabbit holes about the psychological effects of being surveilled. Basically what I found out is: it’s not great, Bob.
