The video opened not with the Adult Swim logo, but with a shaking, hand-cam recording of Rick’s lab screen. The audio was tinny, the colors washed out, and occasionally the silhouette of a man in a hoodie walked past the camera. It was an HDRip—recorded in a movie theater? No, that didn’t make sense. This was weirder.

The lights flickered. Outside, a sleek chrome ship descended onto the lawn, its hull emblazoned with a logo: .

He wasn’t facing a Glorpian death squad or a Cronenberg mutation. He was sitting in his underwear, laptop balanced on a pillow, typing “Rick and Morty S02 HDRip” into a sketchy search engine.