This Account is PLAGUED BY THE PREVIEW

"These crazy moths are flying into the candlelight, and burning themselves to death, and that's what's happening to me. I don't have enough money to make these films, and ... I'm not feeding my children properly, because of these damn films, you know. And I'm burning up here ... What can I do?" — Stan Brackhage, “Mothlight” (1963)

As content consumption becomes increasingly addictive, self-help is spiraling into self-reference. Videos like  “How to stop being lazy and pathetic” by @Thewizardliz advise you to stop watching them. But as the interface of YouTube adapts to meet the users desire to consume, it creates space for an infestation. YouTube’s dynamic thumbnail is composed from every 25th frame of a video, making the interface itself a medium for film. On the moment of these snapshots, a moth inserts itself into the video. While scrolling through the dynamic thumbnail usually allows you to skip forward to the most stimulating part of the video, now it reveals the disgusting pest.