There's Nothing Underneath (or, The Physical Manifestation of Your Seething Anxieties)

This was my entry in the 2025 RICE contest. I threw this together in a few days leading up to the deadline in a desperate fit of FOMO -- this is not a video that had a lot of forethought going in to it, or a clear purpose for its existence other than to allow me to be a part of what has become an incredibly well-run and high-quality peer-reviewed online AMV contest that is very fun to participate in. As I edited it, however, it began to sporadically take on shades of meaning that I hadn't intended or foreseen which would attach themselves to me before suddenly floating off into the breeze again. The video's title is a reflection of this kind of interpretive ambivalence. Similarly, half the time I consider it, I think it's the worst video title I've ever come up with.

Also, I'm not saying you should jump ship from this channel if you don't like emotionally ambiguous pop punk/emo AMVs BUT

Technical notes:
Edited in Magix Vegas 15.0. Total time editing was probably 8-10 hours. If you saw this video in RICE, I have made a handful of minor but (imo) significant changes (that you may or may not even notice) to various scenes, cuts, and general timing that had begun to bug me as I rewatched it over the course of the contest.

Anime: Cencoroll
Song: "Pop Shuvit (Hall of Meat, Duh)" by Hot Mulligan