They called it
If you were scrolling through obscure Tumblr blogs, early Reddit threads, or the deep trenches of YouTube in 2013, you might have stumbled across a tag or a comment that stopped your thumb: exxxtrasmall kate bloom
Let’s talk about a ghost from the early 2010s internet. They called it If you were scrolling through
Her most famous (or infamous) piece was a 14-minute short titled Lint . In it, Bloom plays a woman who cleans her apartment obsessively while listening to voicemails from her mother. It was raw, unpolished, and very, very real. Around 2014, a user on a now-defunct forum began splicing Bloom’s dialogue from Lint into a bizarre deep-fake (well before deep-fakes were a term). They distorted her voice to a high-pitched squeak, digitally shrunk her figure in the frame, and added exaggerated, lo-fi sound effects. It was raw, unpolished, and very, very real