Scareware

Scareware is a fictional product line and store powered by Janet40 offering solutions and/or alternatives to anxiety, sleep deprivation, the end of the world, personal and global thirst, internet privacy, plants and other greens (like money) and the general need for answers. Combining social engineering and cult like methods, Scareware aims to save you from what you hate most: stuff you really really need but you can't actually pay for. Scareware is a selection of works as products and/or services by ASCO+ORU, Arturo Cerda, Hannah Dubbe, Marian Garrido, Happy99, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Chema Padilla, Adrian Pijoan, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer and Canek Zapata, curated by Janet40 for The Wrong 2019.

[It's 5:40 and you're already late. For capitalism. Capitalism is over you and don’t really need you anymore.]

To those who have heard of Janet40, We might relate Janet to Ja as Yes in German and Net to what the media dubbed the World Wide Web. We made some splash in the news in 2017 and disappeared from the scene shortly after that. And some of you might have heard of some efforts that we have made to try to share a little bit of what we have learned with the public, periodically, between late 2018 and now.

We'll try to just put it as briefly as we can and as clearly as we can. This stuff you see is about to be recycled, refurbished, started over. That doesn't mean it's going to be destroyed, it doesn't mean it's the end of the world. Now, you can say, "Well, who are you to say that?" And We'll tell you who We are. As to whether or not you believe who We are is up to you. And whether or not you believe that this whole store is going to be recycled or refurbished is up to you. Now, the purpose of this text is to warn you that this is about to happen, and that it's going to happen very soon.

If we would title this text, it would be "Last Chance to Buy Our Shit Before It Is Recycled" - last chance to buy our very own Scareware line made in collaboration with beautiful artists before it is recycled. If you've read any of our other texts - the information that we have - you know that our discipline is strict, that we sell and exhibit "overcoming artsy ways", overcoming artsy addictions.

Our Purpose

The purpose of those overcoming artsy addictions and mind blowing collaborations is not for religious reasons, or for morality, or in order to become "righteous." The purpose of that is to go to China and purchase cheaper goods in bulk from the right hands. We want to inspire to cultivate the confidence you need to buy our shit, enrich your life, nourish your family and fuel communities around the world.

Our Vision

Ignite a global community of proud Scarewarers to realize their best selves through the irrefutable power of UFO sightings, energy drinking, rice eating, pillow talkin'… We are committed to accelerating profitable revenue growth for the benefit of all our mortal souls.

If this store is about to be recycled - refurbished - the only ones that get to leave it are the ones who want to buy our shit.  The only ones who survive the recycling are the ones who want to buy our shit, the ones that have found a partner in any of our products; they own the information you need to leave. Now, what we mean by that is that information is available only during the time that we're here.  And here we are, We are Janet40, this is Scareware. Welcome to the Machine.
— Janet40