Creator / Lilith

"I'm changing how I'm presenting it to myself. [...] hence... I'm learning how to be that person for myself."
"I wanna get there one day."

— Lilith, in an untitled 2023 video published to TikTok

Lilith is a creator of Internet-based short media, involving video, audio, speech, and text. It usually loops.

Her work usually relies on metafiction, recursion, and her personal views of time, alongside similar forces in our universe. Her works usually feature at least 1 (one) Bunny-Ears Lawyer. (computer science is a notable exception as it features no characters directly, but uses only text to suggest the existence of characters.)

She is also a fellow troper. Given a Creator page, she would say hello, as follows:

Lilith: [deadpan] Hello.

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Some of her works are listed below.

Lilith's film-based works

• being Hands

• computer science

• how it feels to listen to Psyclon Nine while eating pretzels

• #RollModelTheory

Lilith's literature-based works

• You Would've Done The Same

• Nine Spell Wands

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Lilith has paid homage or reference to the following works:

• Primer: Primer features a small cast, and presents a story by way of narrative devices such as a time machine; it's a story presented using temporal fiction. The film temporal humor explanation also features a small cast, while using temporal narrative devices. However, there is no time machine in temporal humor explanation. Time travel in the setting of the film exists via replaying the film; footage is presented in an edited fashion, but the footage wraps around the boundaries of the runtime.

• Serial Experiments Lain: In multiple videos, Lilith is seen with a tattoo of the Copland OS logo, which Lain sees when opening her desktop Navi. Additionally, in her short video baby number zero, Lilith acknowledges her own words, in that everyone is "baby zero," then immediately pivots to something else in lieu of self-acknowledgment. In Serial Experiments Lain, Lain has a similar realization. By the end of the series, Lain acknowledges herself, but is also not present.

• Upstream Color:
  • In her short video covid / Upstream Color / Thoreau, Lilith directly mentions Upstream Color as an influence.

  • The film being Hands opens with a character fetching books from shelves, under pressure, while reciting titles; in Upstream Color, Kris dives for rocks in a swimming pool while reciting lines from Walden.

Lilith's work contain examples of the following tropes:

• Rule of Three:
  • The short film #RollModelTheory is presented in three parts.

  • One of Lilith's characters in being Hands uses ventriloquism three times in different variations; the next usage is presented in Lilith's personal voice.

  • In her video a message to myself [...], the phrase "act 3" is typed onto the screen. There is no act 4.

Lilith's work contains shout-outs or nods to the following public figures:

• Bill Bailey: In being Hands, one of Lilith's characters takes a moment to experiment with the sound of her voice.

• Henry D. Thoreau: Lilith mentions Thoreau by name in the short video covid / Upstream Color / Thoreau.

• Suzy Izzard: Lilith mentions Izzard by name in the short video covid / Upstream Color / Thoreau.

Lilith's work exists using the following genres and framing:

• Bottle Episode: The films being Hands, computer science, how it feels to listen to Psyclon Nine while eating pretzels, and #RollModelTheory all take place on closed sets with closed plots and very few actors.

• Cyberpunk:
  • As mentioned in a message to myself [...], computer science was created using only a phone.

  • In her video learning how to think in n-Dimensional pictures, Lilith turns an aspect of her personal disability into a software concept.

• Genre-Busting
  • how it feels to listen to Psyclon Nine while eating pretzels uses an industrial metal soundtrack, but a comedic character.

• Genre Mashup
  • a message to myself [...] uses a two-song soundtrack consisting of American rap and industrial metal. The video is recorded using a phone, per TikTok-style videos, but shifts into an explanation of animating using screen recording and other techniques described therein.

• Romance: You Would've Done the Same is a love story between two characters.

• Myth Punk: Lilith's characters often use mythological powers to solve problems.

• New Weird: Lilith's work is often presented as looping video.

• Present Day: a message to myself[...], being Hands, computer science, how it feels to listen to Psyclon Nine while eating pretzels, temporal humor explanation, #RollModelTheory, and send up to Brennan are all set in 2023. They were also all recorded in 2023, within 3 days of each other.

• Real Life Writes the Plot: In barefoot contessa wept, Lilith mentions she "tried making ramen". The following dialog between Lilith and her partner only occurs because of this.

• Scavenged Punk: As shown in a message to myself [...], Lilith uses a phone to make most of her videos. Her characters similarly use temporally relevant plot devices (or physical devices).

• Science Fantasy: computer science devolves into this as an unnamed textual narrator begins to challenge Real Life companies. By the end of the film, a textual narrator advocates for open information and communication, using the same tools mentioned earlier in the film by the first narrator.

• ScriptSpeak: In a message to myself [...], a textual narrator types "clapboard" before letters appear in time with the soundtrack.

• Slice of Life:
  • When Lilith appears in her work, she usually mentions she's recording using her video diary, rather than a purpose-built set.

  • how I sing when I'm alone is presented as part of her video diary.

  • Lilith is seated in a car during this is a long one about computer science and web stuff; this is also the car she drives in some of her other videos.

• 20 Minutes into the Future: a message to myself [...], being Hands, computer science, how it feels to listen to Psyclon Nine while eating pretzels, temporal humor explanation, #RollModelTheory, and send up to Brennan are all set in 2023.

Lilith's work contains the following tropes:

• Brick Joke:
  • temporal humor explanation was recorded after #RollModelTheory, but published before the latter. spatial registration was recorded before the latter, but published after both the latter and former.

  • for TV Tropes, mostly begins using the same song used in the beginning of the video a message to myself [...]. a message to myself [...] ends with the same song used in the end of how it feels to listen to Psyclon Nine while eating pretzels.

• Plot Time: Lilith's characters often figure things out as the plot requires, in a temporally irrelevant way.

Lilith's work uses the following concepts:

• Temporal Mutability: Lilith's works are often presented via looping video.

• Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness:
  • Lilith leans on the fourth wall, then breaks it in being Hands.

  • In nearly every work uploaded to TikTok with the tag "#diary", Lilith includes the following elements:
    • Lilith converses with cameras.

    • Her characters speak through cameras.

    • Both Lilith and her characters talk around cameras; rather than focus on a lens, they often look slightly aside of it. (Despite this, they also look directly at a camera frequently.)

• Mind Screw: Lilith's work is often presented without context or explanation at time of publishing. Many works are unscripted, and Lilith often remarks that she's lost the plot. The following text appears in a message to myself [...] without explanation:
  unnamed textual narrator: [deadpan] Hello.