Explaining Recursion
Motion Design#8-bit#explainer#genre shifts#self-referential
Made by Ethan Mollick (@emollick on X)View original post
A recursion explainer that dives through nine nested genres, from terminal to 8-bit to noir to infomercial, hits a plain base case page, then climbs back out.
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Made by Claude Opus 5.5 from one prompt: "A video explaining recursion, where every explanation about recursion has a radically different video style, make this self-referential & clever & fast moving."
The prompt shown here was written afterwards from the finished clip, so it describes what is on screen.
