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1The Curious sits in a restaurant called Zucco's, drinking milkshakes.
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3Keira, whose family owns Zucco's, is a vain young girl who is obsessed with selfies. Her responsible older sister Marcy is annoyed by her selfie habit, especially when Keira slacks off on their job at the family restaurant. They live with their dad, younger brother Sammy and grandmother, Glams. Marcy also thinks that her crush, Brock, is more attracted to Keira. Unhappy with how her daily selfies turned out, Keira searches online for "how to take the perfect selfie" and finds an app called Flaw Fader, which promises to "take the best of you." She shows it to Marcy, who is unnerved by the creepy music the app plays. Nevertheless, Keira loves the app and the photos she takes with it.
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5Keira starts experiencing blurry vision and requests for "gallery bids" from the app in the morning, but ignores it. Marcy rushes Keira who mentions she bought them both festival tickets. Marcy also notices on Keira’s phone a text come through, from Brock. But she says nothing about it to Keira. Whilst they are at work, customers start screaming at the sight of Keira. She rushes into the bathroom and, although barely able to see, recognises that her face is now almost completely blank and what’s left of her face is a bit like a skull. Marcy returns home angry that Keira has been texting Brock, but Keira explains that they arranged to go to a festival and bring Marcy to spend time with him - since Marcy doesn't use social media Brock found it tricky to contact her. Marcy forgives Keira. Marcy is then horrified to see the state of Keira's face and works out that it was something to do with the app. She goes online and finds dozens of reviews from people whose faces were all stolen by the app.
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7Marcy traces the app's IP to an abandoned building called "The Gallery." The girls break in and find many sentient faces displayed on the walls, including Keira's. They encounter The Hidden: a hologram of a sinister man with a skeletal face, who says the app captured a perfect image of Keira just like she wanted. He stores all the faces to be sold via the app. When Keira says she didn't consent to this, he says she did - via the app's terms and conditions, which she did not bother to read. Marcy hacks into the app and lowers the bid price on Keira's face, threatening to ruin every app The Hidden has ever made. He reluctantly agrees to “unbind” Keira and give her face back but says he won't give her another chance if her face shows up again on any app he creates. Marcy accepts his terms via a message on the app, and the faces on the walls disappear.
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9Keira is happier now that she doesn't have to take any more selfies, and she gave Brock her sisters phone number. Brock texts Marcy to ask her out. However Marcy remembers her deal with The Hidden and reads the terms and conditions before texting back. She discovers she promised to give him ''both'' her and Keira's faces if either of them ever appear in any photo again. When she goes to try to warn Keira and stop her from appearing in a photo with Glams and Sammy, she succeeds but she is unable to stop her father taking a family photo including both girls.
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11Later, The Curious explores the now-empty gallery.
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14!!This episode contains examples of:
15* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Keira's little brother Sammy often steals her phone.
16* BigBad: The Hidden is the creator of many apps which he uses to steal innocent people’s faces. He only seems slightly amused at the thought of him ruining innocent people like Keira’s lives. He might have said that if a face appeared in a photo from this app then the face would be stolen on the Terms and Conditions, but still.
17* BigEater: The opening shows The Curious to have drunk several giant milkshakes.
18* TheBlank: The app steals the faces of those who use it, for the creator to then sell.
19* CameraFiend: Keira has a penchant for taking selfies.
20* DownerEnding: The end of the episode implies that both Keira and Marcy will lose their faces to the Hidden.
21* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Keira and Marcy respectively.
22* HellIsThatNoise: The creepy tune the app plays, which will sound at random times whenever a gallery bid comes in.
23* MissingMom: Keira and Marcy live with their dad and grandmother; it's never mentioned where their mother is.
24* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Keira realises that the app steals any face that appears in one of its photos, even a toys face. Keira has appeared in many selfies taken by the app, so her face has vanished.
25* NewMediaAreEvil: This is both part of the episode's moral, and the opinion of Marcy; who refuses to take selfies or use social media.
26* PlayfulHacker: Marcy is good at tracing IP addresses and breaking into each others' computers, usually for heroic purposes (helping Keira) although she contemplates taking down a rival company's website with a virus.
27* ReadTheFinePrint: The app's terms and conditions do warn that it will steal your face. Pity Keira didn't read them. Marcy also falls victim to this when bargaining for Keira's face.
28* SharedUniverse: The episodes “Trolled,” “Marti” and “Kindlesticks” all reference Zucco's Pizzeria (although this Zucco's appears to primarily sell burgers.)
29* SiblingYinYang: Intelligent, responsible Marcy vs vain, sociable Keira.
30%%* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible:[[invoked]] What The Hidden claims in relation to his "gallery."

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