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This 'interactive music video' will haunt your dreams

This 'interactive music video' will haunt your dreams

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Embedded above is a music video for Ty Segall's "Manipulator." But that's not the way to experience this. Instead, head over to Segall's page and, after a few minutes of loading, get ready to click anything and everything in this so-called "interactive music video." There are three scenes in all, and more than a dozen things to alter in each scene. According to designer Simon Wiscombe, "all in all there are about 3.1 * 10^31 different combinations."

So let's give it a shot.

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Wiscombe says this scene has 19 different things you can click to change. So let's click on the poster, the wall, the curtains, and now the window here...

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Looking good, looking good. Now what if I click on Segall—

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What the hell is going on — and who is that woman in the window?

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She's looking right at me. There's sadness in those eyes. She sees me on the other side of the this screen. She knows I keep clicking on the window. I keep summoning a weird, triangular UFO that blows her up, and then with one click I bring her back to life, only to blow her up all over again. There she is, just looking at me. Asking me to stop. To spare her. Just this once.

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She's judging me. I deserve to be judged.

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But okay, new scene — I wasn't ready to move on, but the song made me. Maybe things won't get as weird this time.

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GODDAMMIT WHAT IS GOING ON.

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NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.

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DON'T JUDGE ME! I'M SORRY!