Four characters look at the camera through a laptop webcam. At the keyboard sits a young person, Rudy, sticking his tongue out in cartoonish anticipation. Behind him stand three figures, all watching the screen; the first (from left), Valerie, smiles, one hand on the shoulder of the second, Kade, who appears tense. The third person, Cyrus, is blank-faced with raised eyebrows.

The phrase “hello-world” is typed onto a black screen.

The typer presses Enter.

Below “hello world,” the cursor flashes on a new line.

Nothing happened. The second and third person glare at the first, who’s unpleasantly surprised; the typer frowns.

The flashing cursor taunts them.

Further smashing of the Enter key does nothing, to everyone’s displeasure.

A file menu shows three items: an “archive” folder, an “assets” folder, and “reset(4).exe,” the latter of which is selected. The archive folder suddenly fades and disappears; reset(4).exe vanishes shortly after.


/404

reset

Zooming out, the four are gathered around one end of a table. The typist speaks in green: “Now what.”