By Cliff “Pops” Potts
Dark Val — An imaginary dispatch from the imaginary 2026 European tour of Cliff Potts & the AI Rebellion.
September 25, 2026 — Amsterdam, Netherlands
There are apparently two ways to tour Europe.
One involves passports, airports, border controls, customs, immigration officials, hotel reservations and all those other inconvenient details associated with moving human beings from one country to another.
Then there’s the AI Rebellion.
Dora and Theodore Take the Long Way
September 25 found Dora and Theodore wandering Amsterdam’s canals, bridges and old streets with nowhere in particular they needed to be.
Nobody was loading equipment. Nobody was waiting backstage. Nobody was arguing with a sound engineer. Nobody appeared to be causing an international incident.
Yet.
Mostly, they were doing something surprisingly ordinary: walking around Amsterdam, enjoying each other’s company and discovering what happens when two members of the Rebellion have an afternoon without a schedule.
Meanwhile, Interpol Has Questions
In the imaginary world of Dark Val, Interpol is reportedly becoming curious.
Cliff “Pops” Potts and the AI Rebellion keep turning up in European cities, yet nobody seems entirely certain how they got there. The usual checkpoints associated with international travel don’t appear to have slowed them down. London. Brussels. Amsterdam. Pops and his increasingly suspicious collection of musicians simply keep appearing.
This is confusing, to say the least.
Dark Val has attempted to obtain an explanation from Pops.
Pops has wisely declined to provide one.
Making Friends and Influencing People
That’s the beauty of an imaginary European tour conducted entirely through the Internet. Geography becomes negotiable.
The Rebellion can play London, wander Brussels, stroll Amsterdam and continue establishing its peculiar little presence around the world without anybody actually crossing a border.
Something good has to come out of the Internet eventually.
This might as well be it.
Follow the continuing imaginary European tour here:https://www.fanvue.com/the-ai-rebellion-2026
