Beautiful modern stylized pixel art, premium game-cinematic aesthetic in the visual register of Owlboy, Eastward, Hyper Light Drifter, and Octopath Traveler (HD-2D). Crisp pixel grid with intentional chunky pixels, NOT blurry, NOT anti-aliased to smoothness. Strong readable character silhouette, rich disciplined color palette with deep shadows, warm highlights and cool atmospheric midtones. Cinematic game-ready lighting — subtle volumetric glow, rim light on character edges, soft bloom on bright light sources. Parallax-style depth: crisp foreground, softer mid-ground, hazy atmospheric background. Premium game mood — dramatic but controlled. STRICTLY NOT photo-realistic, NOT 3D-rendered, NOT painterly, NOT watercolor, NOT chibi, NOT voxel-blocky, NOT black-and-white line art.

SETTING: Same bisected composition, same dark bedroom below, same meta-iris pupil above.

CHARACTER: Scroll-victim: a ~64px-tall pixel-art faceless silhouette of a person hunched on a bed, dark room around them, only light source is the cold phone screen they hold close to face — light hits forehead and shoulders in sharp blue-white, leaves the rest in deep purple-black shadow, posture says addicted-passive-unaware. same posture, has not moved — still hunched, phone in hand. Meta-iris: a ~96px-tall menacing pixel-art digital iris filling a black phone-bezel frame, iris ring built from concentric Facebook-blue and Instagram-magenta-orange gradient bands, pupil is a hollow white square that reflects scrolling thumbnails, faint Meta-infinity logo etched at bottom-edge of the frame. same position but pupil-square is now pulsing red-orange instead of blue. The data-tendrils between them are now thick, fast, and pulsing red-magenta — surveillance has escalated into prediction. A red prediction-arrow appears in mid-frame pointing at the next thumbnail BEFORE the scroll-victim's thumb has even moved.

LIGHTING: The phone screen light on the victim is now tinted magenta-red rather than cold blue. The meta-iris pupil casts warmer red light downward. Mood: pre-emption, unsettling lead, mind hijacked.

LAYERS: Foreground — scroll-victim and the red prediction-arrow. Mid-ground — thickened pulsing data-tendrils. Background — dim bedroom + glowing red meta-iris pupil.

CONTINUITY HOOK: Faintly visible in the reflection on the phone screen, the scroll-victim's mirror-face is starting to resemble the brain-twin from earlier — small physical/digital split appearing on the reflected forehead, suggesting THIS IS HAPPENING TO YOU.