Tamir reads an undated page-15 excerpt from Troll by a user called 'Satisfied Customer'. It is a stream of a young person's online mind: irony pulled over the eyes, Mario speedruns, vanilla Coke and death squads, a 9/11 joke, Seinfeld's laugh track, failing to find the right GIF while a friend's parents divorce, Amazon packages, gore sites, and crying in the silence between videos. Logan says the undated excerpts are meant as a look inside any random person online.
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