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YouTuber We're in Hell commissioned a short ‘shitpost-style’ animation—an absurdist nightmare built entirely from MrBeast thumbnails. The piece explores the uncanny, algorithmic energy of YouTube clickbait, where facial expressions are optimized into something almost inhuman.

Using the Blender add-on FaceBuilder, I transformed distorted thumbnail faces into 3D characters, then dropped them into this surreal dream sequence inspired by Squid Game, influencer worship, and generative sludge.

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