The project critically explores how pandemics and crisis in general, trigger waves of misinformation, fear, and conspiracy theories amplified by media. These narratives often arise from a human need for control during uncertainty. Based on this, we developed a speculative design project around a fictional hacktivist

collective called [ANTI_STREAMING_ARMY], which dis covered the pandemic manipulation. Streaming plat forms organized a meticulus plan to make more profit through platforms’ subscribers. The pandemic served as a marketing strategy to make us stay at home watching. The project includes a physical prototype,

Decrypta, which is used to decrypt hidden messages inside streaming content. Through visual identity, cryptography, and interactive experience, the project reflects on digital dependency and the blurred line be tween truth and fiction. It uses design as a critical tool to question contemporary media power structures.