

Your favorite 90s sitcom has been eating its cast. Check the tape.
A VHS tape recording of the popular 90's sit-com "Gap Year" shows mysterious scenes and disappearances that goes against the original memory of the show.
Direction
Hopko weaponizes laugh tracks into genuine dread.
Production
Period-perfect 90s aesthetic that slowly unravels.

Director
Morgan Hopko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 2020s analog horror explosion, where Gen Z and Millennials weaponize dying media formats against their own nostalgia. The sitcom format specifically targets our false collective memory of 'simpler times.'
The 14-minute runtime mirrors actual VHS tape degradation patterns—Hopko reportedly used real magnetic tape damage as a storyboarding tool, meaning the 'corruption' follows actual physics of dying media.