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The video appears to be a religious edutainment cartoon retelling the birth of Jesus Christ.
The camera pans to the two shepherds resting, before a bright flash of light wakes them up. A realistic portrait of an Angel, The Archangel Gabriel to be more specific, appears infront of the shepherds to tell them about the birth of Christ and where they can find him, leaving afterwards. The video soon takes a turn, however.
An electronic voice tells the viewer about Mary, who's got a message from an angel named "REDACTED". The video pans to Mary collecting fruit, before the Angel, whose distorted face is quickly covered up by a censor box, descends from Heaven. He tells her a message, which is completely unintelligible in the video and depicted as binary code in the closed captions. The angel then departs.
At night, next to a sleeping Joseph, Gabriel shows up, who tells him that he's going to fool the shepherds and know their and Joseph's greatest fear. He demands the man to wake up repeatedly.
As he promised, Gabriel appears in front of the shepherds. He proclaims that he's their true savior, that he knows what makes them human and what they love and dread. His face distorts, with a blaring song in the background.
The scene cuts to the sky, where a red text notes how he fooled them and calls them "weak minds". A white text shows up that calls out to God for help.

Overthrone shows an example for:

  • And I Must Scream: The fate of the speaker at the end is this. They themselves describe it as "a tomb of infinite sand" and that their "chains become heavier by every step".
  • The Bad Guy Wins: The false Archangel Gabriel, better known as Satan, is successful in fooling everyone involved in the birth of Christ, taunting who can be assumed to be God for this.
  • Caps Lock: Satan's text at the end of the episode is on all caps and in red.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: While Satan's text uses Caps Lock and in red, the Speaker's text uses all lowercase letters and in white.
  • Impersonation-Exclusive Character: The real Archangel Gabriel, if that even is him, is only in this episode for no more than 20 seconds before never showing up in the series again after being replaced by Satan.

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