Synth (the Dead Formats archivist) finds it within six hours. He tweets: "I’ve seen a lot of lost media. This is different. This is a kid in 1997 predicting the entire vibe of 2020s indie film. Watch with headphones."
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The tweet gets 50,000 retweets. Then 200,000. Paragon Media’s legal team issues a DMCA takedown. But by then, 2 million people have watched it. Reaction streamers cry on camera. Film Twitter calls it "outsider cinema." The original show’s surviving cast members start posting old set photos, ignoring Paragon’s cease-and-desists. Synth (the Dead Formats archivist) finds it within six hours