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Message from the future

(The background looks like one of those cliche science labs, I walk into view holding several pieces of paper.) Hello, my name’s Evan, and i’m supposed to be 60. Obviously, I don’t look like it. But that’s what happens when people mess with the concept of time travel. Apparently the year is 2062, and I’m making this video for a simple reason: I want to cease to exist. I should probably explain, sometime around the 2040′s some people thought that it was a good idea to mess with the flow of time, and because of them I now effectively age in reverse. Sounds cool until you learn that you also forget things. Like everything. I could barely write a script for this video, let alone come up with the idea for it. Anyway before I forget what I’m doing entirely, the point of this video is to purposefully evoke the grandfather paradox (hold up the papers from earlier, the front one saying ‘GRANDFATHER PARADOX). At the very least it’ll probably cause some other paradox that will make me cease to exist. I’m sending this video back about 40 or so years, where my past self should see it, and hopefully the butterfly effect or multiverse theory or whatever should cause me to cease existing. Even if my past self doesn’t see this, hopefully what I’m about to say should change the timeline--or whatever--enough to cause the desired effect anyway. (Background changes to a standard looking futuristic city.)   So the future is kinda underwhelming, like a lot of the things that we thought would happen did: flying cars? yep, but way too expensive and impractical. Cybernetic bodies and whatnot? Turns out it can be really dangerous to your body. Robotic sentience? Didn’t actually cause a robot uprising like so many people thought, just a whole lot of moral and legal arguments. (Background changes back into the cliche lab.) Should probably wrap this up before I forget this completely, via a whole lot of work and not so legal means, I got a way to send data through time, which is why you’re seeing this. Hopefully I cease to exist soon, I’d rather not deal with the legal mess of somehow becoming younger than 18. At this point I’m not quite sure whats going to happ--                                      (Video immediately cuts to black.)