The digital afterlife isn’t quite what you expected | Chris & Jack

Heaven on a hard drive: a sci-fi dream, or our real future? With advancements in computing and AI, an eternal digital afterlife could someday be possible. But like realistically, the tech industry would probably make it pretty bad. If you could upload your consciousness forever (like in Black Mirror's San Junipero, which we loved), would you? And then, I guess, would you be pretty bummed if it was kinda a scam?

Either way, consider iTernity: the afterlife experience of your dreams.

We're Chris W. Smith and Jack De Sena (aka Chris & Jack). We've been friends for years and love making high-quality, high-concept sketch comedy. Chris is an occasional Blue Man in Blue Man Group. As a voice actor, Jack played Sokka in Avatar the Last Airbender and Callum in the Dragon Prince. In 2016 we united to create this channel, confusingly titled “Chris & Jack”, which has served as a shared platform to write, produce, direct, edit, and star in our own stuff. We're releasing comedic sketches of all shapes and sizes. Sci-Fi, Heists, animation, movie tropes, absurdist bits, and plenty of fun new experiments. But above all else, friendship.

A huge thank you to all our Patrons, including our "Producer Tier" friends:
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We love you!

CAST:

Paul - Jack De Sena
Voice - Chris W. Smith

CREW:
Written/ Directed/ Produced by - Chris & Jack
Edited by - Chris W. Smith
Director of Photography - Eric Lombart
Gaffer / B-CAM - Chris Wehba
Sound - Mike Cooper
VFX - Lane Carter
Thumbnail design by - Matthew Ramirez
Chris & Jack main theme song by - Jeff Toyne
Special thanks: Cort Maclean, Steve Wyshywaniuk and the whole Studio 71 team

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[ChrisandJack]

Hi friends! Hope you enjoyed! Just curious, what would you like in your digital heaven? (Note: sorry, that is unavailable at this time.)

[LordBigSlime]

This is such a disturbing video. The idea that hundreds of years into the future people are still buying chain wallets? Haunting.

[slimeinabox]

Having six recursive raytracing mirrors reflecting to each other would be INCREDIBLY expensive, having an active volcano resort would be cheaper.

[asan]

This reminds me of the game SOMA, where the guy you play is just a digital scan of the guy like some 100 years earlier. Like they have the same memories but they aren’t the same person. That and also the ending of the game is scary too.

[firiel]

The worst thing about this is that hundreds of years into the future we still haven't completely solved the uppercase-I/lowercase-l problem

[infernalspectre]

What's crazy is picking a tennis racket, when he could have picked a cool chain wallet.

[musket]

I love how they cleverly hide the cameras reflection by keeping jack in the center of the screen

[MagicTurtle]

I was relieved to discover that the character has the option of being deleted hahah. That soothed my existential dread and allowed me to enjoy the sketch.

[Aaronmillager]

God I’m so relieved the video didn’t just start over implying the hard drive he’s on is corrupted and he’s reliving that startup every 5 minutes or so

[RedWithTheLongYoutubeHandle]

Appreciate how well you hid the camera in a room full of mirrors

[Why_It]

Love the idea that AI sight-reads instead of just computing the binary of the text.

[airplanes_aren.t_real]

The horrifying thing is that if this actually happened you wouldn't be able to sue

[MosaidDeath]

Any one else watching this from 2038 after the AI uprising? These 2d videos were so interesting and innocent. If they only knew what awaited them a few years later it would blow their minds. Plus, it’s funny to see Jack with all of his hair.

[anonym]

Reminds me of back when Tom Scott did little Sci-Fi videos over a decade ago. He did one about digital afterlife being ruined by lawyers which included having to pay license fees to remember copyrighted works in the digital hereafter, and it had a value option that let the sky be replaced with advertisments and your stored brand preferences changed to match the sponsors.

[thewoodpeckers]

5:38
“That’s… actually some pretty solid evidence.”
“RENE DECARTES!?”

[OmicronAustin]

I was not prepared to have this much existential dread this early in the morning

[Jhost]

Jack acting skills are crazy and it's super cool to see them continuously grow.

Also, this is so real, like bureaucratically and capitalistically terrifying, worse than any Black Mirror

[kiartoons]

Love how his feelings about the mirror room immediately changed once he realized he was staying there forever.

[chunics]

This situation like preordering games. High promises, low environment at release. And no charge back.

[SmashAdams]

It was so terrifying until the chain wallets, what a hilarious punch line. I can only imagine the back and forth that finally lead to "Chain Wallets".