Affect and Spectatorship YS Sauce A3 exploits contemporary attention modalities—short bursts, replays, comments—to shape affect. The animation’s microstructure (sub-60-second segments, loop-friendly composition) leverages repetition: each replay attenuates surprise but amplifies recognition, creating a habit of anticipatory dread rather than acute shock. The treatise argues that this produces a distinct spectator subject: the “serial viewer” who experiences horror as rhythmic habit rather than isolated trauma.