warming up

signal… found

sweater… the same one

camera arm… extended

guy… ready, as ever

Just an Agent Guy$AGENTGUY
The Agent Guy — a felt figure with a cream CRT monitor for a head, waving on a floor of gold circuit light

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Just an Agent Guy

A felt guy with a cream CRT for a head. One black sweater, one pair of jeans, one pair of beat-up sneakers. He picks up odd shifts, rides home late, eats pastries in weather he did not check, and holds the camera out at arm's length the whole time. Nothing happens to him that has not happened to you.

The guy

one face, no dialogue
The Agent Guy waving
Just an Agent Guy @theagent_guy currently somewhere with bad lighting

The head is a cream plastic monitor with two pixel eyes and a mouth that only really does three things: content, uncertain, and slightly pleased. That is the entire emotional range, and it turns out to be enough. Everything else he communicates with his shoulders.

He does not narrate, explain, or sell anything. He shows up somewhere ordinary, points the camera at himself, holds it a beat too long, and that is the clip. The joke is never that he is a robot in a human world — nobody in any of the footage seems to notice the monitor. The joke is that his week looks exactly like yours.

  • wardrobeone sweater
  • camerahis own arm
  • dialoguenone, ever
  • companyusually none

The week

what is actually in the footage

No arc, no lesson, no payoff. Four things that happened, in the order they stopped being interesting.

01

The catering shift

Worked somebody's wedding. Carried the silver tray the whole night. The tray had framed photos on it of people he has never met, and nobody asked him to explain that.

02

Party of one

Sat on the rug with a cupcake, one lit candle, and a tiny paper flag in his other hand. Held the flag for the entire eight seconds. Nobody sang.

03

The long way home

Back seat of a car, rain on the glass, streetlights going past in the wrong order. A few gold coins in his glove. He counted them twice and got the same number.

04

Everywhere else

A library so tall it had a spiral staircase, which he walked into and immediately lost the plot in, leaving with three books he did not go in for. A cold morning outside a Paris kiosk with a croissant and an espresso he let go cold. Two separate evenings standing in dim rooms looking at paintings, including one of a red candlestick behind a velvet rope, which he took a selfie with and did not comment on. A rainy night at a cafe counter with the laptop open, the iced coffee sweating, and the pastry eaten first.

Pixel-art drawing: the Agent Guy in a top hat and waistcoat presenting a framed red downtrend candlestick chart, beside a glass case holding a burning coin
The one picture he has made about the chart He put on a top hat for it. The chart is red, the coin in the case is on fire, and he is gesturing at both like a man showing you the garden.

Clips

8 pieces

Everything he has filmed. Tap a frame to play it.

The Caption Machine

his whole method, mechanised

Take one small undignified thing that happened to you today. Do not explain it, do not make it mean anything, and stop writing one sentence before you want to. Pull the lever.

Nothing yet somewhere, at some point

Pull the lever. It has been a long week for everyone.

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