January 27, 2024

I was looking for an SFM video to put on the big screen when I saw a familiar thumbnail on YouTube. I remembered the video only having been around 3 minutes long but the timestamp reported the runtime to be around 340 minutes. It started off as a regular TF2 machinima however the screen went black a few minutes in. It then seemed to loop the same video multiple times but it wasn’t until the 3rd iteration or so that I noticed small changes were creeping in.

Each loop was its own variant. And after the 7th loop, there was a cut to the creators of the video talking about their work and their political motivations. It turned into a documentary about how a team of creators came together to make the video we were watching.