In the video, the room was dark. Then, a light flickered on. A figure appeared at the desk—Elias himself, seen from behind. He saw the back of his own head on his monitor, watching the back of his own head in the video.
He clicked download. The progress bar crawled. When it finished, he hesitated, then hit play. 0gzjpgixd3hby6revi1zw_720p.mp4
The video opened on a low-angle shot of a suburban street, bathed in the sickly orange glow of sodium-vapor lamps. It was high-definition—720p, just as the name suggested—but the frame rate was slightly off, giving the movement a dreamlike, stuttering quality. In the video, the room was dark