If You Ever Get a Text From Your Own Number… DO NOT REPLY

If you ever get a text from your own number, do not reply. A survival protocol for a situation nobody trained you for — an analog horror short about number spoofing, smishing, and what happens when the sender is you. There are 7 rules. Most people break the fourth before sunrise. What to do when the text arrives at 2:14 in the morning. What to do when your own voicemail greeting answers. What to do when the sent folder shows messages you never sent. File 045 — SENDER. Issued by the Department of Domestic Anomalies. ABOUT THESE FILES Survival protocols for situations nobody trained you for. Bradikinin is an archive of calm, dark, slightly unprofessional instruction tapes: analog horror told with pictograms, a deadpan narrator, and a short list of rules. One file, one situation. If something in your home stops acting normal, there is a protocol for that. Rule 1: Subscribe — so you are not the one who breaks rule three. Everything here is a work of fiction. Number spoofing is real: scammers genuinely send smishing texts that appear to come from your own number, and your carrier can confirm it. The rest is ours. #analoghorror #survivalprotocol #smishing #scaryinstructions #ifyouever