You first come across MAPKNA when you’re torrenting an old film you can’t find anywhere else. A Polish horror film called Nieznajomi, though you never get to watch it, because when you open the torrent folder there’s another file in there that gets your attention: there’s Nieznajomi.1978.KL.480p.DVDRip.x265.HEVC.FLAC-QWEENANT.mkv, which you expect, and there the usual subtitle files and an info.txt but there’s also another file, MAPKNA.s04e03.mkv. You open it and skip through the video. It’s an episode of a show. A sitcom? It looks like it was made in the eighties. Something about the hair, the sound of the synthesisers, and the grain of the low-grade videotape. You forget Nieznajomi and watch this instead.
