Coming of age in America feels like waking from a horrifying, existential nightmare to hear a looping YouTube short that you fell asleep to.

Mining from personal, deeply embarrassing experiences, Brain Rot is a coming-of-age comedy centered around technological dependence and community resilience during the dystopian present.

At once you are trapped in a surveillance state nightmare, while simultaneously navigating the pop cultural wasteland that is the America mainstream. Like neon plastic toys covered in layers of murky grime, there’s a specific kitsch that makes up urban America.

And it is within this landscape, our future grows up.