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Slack.com slash DHQ. It started as most things do with my boredom. I was surfing around

YouTube looking for funny videos or scary videos when I stumbled across something that caught

my interest. It was run by a user who went by the meat man and involved stop-motion footage

using some very disturbing puppets. The thing that honestly caught my eye first was the

thumbnail. It was a figure that appeared to be crafted entirely out of ground meat. I

remember seeing the model in lifting an eyebrow as I took in what I was seeing. Now when

I tell you that the models were grotesque, I don't mean that they were ugly or they were

badly made. I mean, they were very well put together in the amount of detail that had

gone into them was astonishing. These meat puppets had hair and clothes and facial features.

The ones that had been meticulously crafted to the point of being a little uncanny. I would

have almost expected them to blink or move on their own and they seemed too lifelike

for the medium. The episode I had found was Episode 5. And as I watched it, I quickly began

to realize this was no normal bit of YouTube content.

Episode 5 involved three characters, Lisa, Steve and Michael as they prepared for the

arrival of their fourth character, Dawn. The background music was jangly and discordant

somewhere between a calliope and a marigoround and often made the voices hard to hear.

The characters were cleaning up the house, which was mostly a sheet of paper with window

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