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routine surveillance check." He said that the tone of "The Hyper
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in 2016. He noticed that the content was starting to become more focused on lifestyle videos than actual ASMR content: "It started to affect my life, whereupon I started to sense this phoniness in a lot of it, especially the online content that I trusted and relied upon." The videos were using
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as "darkly humorous and somewhat scary," honoring it as a "fascinating commentary on the presence of advertising in our daily lives. Rather than ignoring it, Antwood embraces it, subverts it, and turns it into mind-blowing
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also deals with "intentionally devaluing the things" of people, which was inspired by
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reviewer called the album an "intelligent and well-crafted piece of work," praising its handling of heavy topics without "being weighed down" by them and its "scary and pristine" sound design.
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found the album "weirdly fascinating" but also opined it took its dark concept "a bit too easy," such as when it used it for meta-humor or "undermine the power of the music."
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robot walking through a "pristine, underground subway environment" with "ads shining on the tiled walls," Pearson wrote.
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sounds with "different soundscapes, much like opening different corridors," hence why he originally planned to name it
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