The applause fades as Professor Kim’s smiling face fills the screen behind the podium, except the words coming from his mouth are all wrong—he’s ranting about things no one expected, sentences sharp and divisive. Murmurs ripple through the crowd; heads tilt, unsure, as faculty members rush together, phones out, playing back the livestream in disbelief.

A student, clutching her program, whispers, “This… isn’t him, is it?” while the tech team scrambles backstage, screens flickering, searching for a file that shouldn’t exist. Someone pulls the plug, the image blinks out, leaving a stunned silence and the sound of a single diploma folder thudding quietly to the floor.