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At the three-minute mark, a door at the end of the hallway opened. A man walked out—Elias himself. He was wearing the same grey hoodie Elias was wearing now. In the video, Elias looked exhausted. He sat down at a desk that looked exactly like the one Elias was currently sitting at, in a room that matched his own studio down to the coffee stain on the rug.

On the screen, the "video version" of Elias looked directly into the camera. He didn't speak. He simply held up a handwritten sign that read: g7324.mp4

There was no sound, only the visual hum of an old digital sensor. At the three-minute mark, a door at the