**HEADLINE: AMC Admits 'Dead City' Was Written by a Vending Machine That Only Accepts Cryptocurrency**

HEADLINE: AMC Admits ‘Dead City’ Was Written by a Vending Machine That Only Accepts Cryptocurrency

TRENDING NOW: In a shocking press release that has sent the internet into a hysterical spiral, AMC executives have confirmed that the entire second season of The Walking Dead: Dead City was generated by a rogue A.I. vending machine stationed in a New Jersey Zip Tie distribution warehouse.

“We fed the machine ‘The Postman,’ ‘Escape from New York,’ and a single, soured pickle, and this is what it spit out,” said a network spokesperson, visibly sweating through a Negan-style leather jacket. “We cannot explain why Maggie and Negan have to find a cure for radioactive Zombie Corn, but the machine insisted it was ‘peak cinema.’”

Fans are in an uproar after the latest episode featured Negan not using Lucille 2.0, but rather negotiating a truce with a zombie mayor using a series of complicated NFT handshakes. Maggie’s new catchphrase, “I’m not walking, I’m Dead-in-vesting,” has already spawned a thousand ironic TikToks.

The show will now be filmed entirely on a single green screen that only displays the error message: “BLUE SCREEN OF DEAD.” Critics are calling it “the most authentic depiction of zombie-brain burnout since the last season of Fear the Walking Dead.”