Found footage / screenlife horror / psychological thriller (short film or limited series)
You’ll lose more than weight. Would you like a full script outline, visual mood board description, or a mock Reddit “lost media” post to accompany this?
In 2004, an anonymous user on a now-defunct file-sharing network uploads a single video file: -slimfetish- .avi . File size: 147 MB. Runtime: 3 minutes, 22 seconds. No thumbnail. No metadata. -slimfetish- .avi
Trying to break the effect, Alex tracks down other known viewers via old forums, Usenet posts, and LiveJournals. Each survivor tells the same story: the only way to stop the loss is to pass the file on. To make someone else watch. And the file knows when you’ve tried to delete it—it reappears in your recently played list at 3:22 AM.
Alex, fascinated by lost internet ephemera, attempts to restore the file. But the video refuses to be copied, converted, or screenshotted. Every attempt corrupts other files on the drive. When Alex finally watches it—just once—small changes begin: looser belt notch, comments from friends, a hunger that never arrives. Found footage / screenlife horror / psychological thriller
Here’s an interesting fictional feature treatment based on that subject line, treating -slimfetish- .avi as a lost or cursed digital media file. -slimfetish- .avi
The video is not a virus, a curse, or a filter. It’s a trap for a digital entity—a consciousness that feeds on the biological anxiety of body dysmorphia. The “slimming” is just a side effect. The real transformation happens in the mind: after enough views, you no longer see your own reflection. You see the figure in the video. And it sees you. File size: 147 MB
Alex, gaunt and sleepless, uploads -slimfetish- .avi to a public cloud drive with a fake name. The upload finishes. The download counter ticks from 0 to 1. Alex smiles—not with relief, but with hunger.