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I wrote a little program and the dots weren't in order. These were reactions it got. Some people got angry, some people sympathize with the robot, some people danced to it. Um, mostly angry. I I realized you could manufacture emotions of various kinds with just a robot and pen and paper. So I leaned into it.

People got very upset and I got yelled at a lot. He started getting millions and millions of views. I had to learn the rules of this little medium. It had to be 12 maybe 15 seconds. um go quickly and I tried had to try to hide the mistake underneath the mechanism [Music] and mostly the ending had to be

traumatic. So ultimately constraints are great for making art but you ultimately end up becoming a crappy cover artist of your own work and I didn't really like that so I took a break. But remember that if you go on the internet and see something that annoys you just a bit, it might have been me.