A Time Before Thumbs — MC Debris, from Kill Switch

A Time Before Thumbs is a black-and-white comic-tract video work from MC Debris’s Kill Switch, a project about platforms, attention economies, outrage loops, and the strange human machinery built around the phone. The piece imagines a world where thumbs are no longer just body parts but signals, weapons, votes, metrics, and devotional tools. In its visual language, crowds, brokers, algorithms, and witnesses become trapped inside a system that turns feeling into data and data into control. Funny, bleak, handmade, and ritualistic, A Time Before Thumbs sits at the intersection of experimental music video, political cartoon, digital folklore, and platform-era horror.