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The idealistic gray-alien creator of Planet Beautiful, now punished by success as a corporation guts his passion project.
Bin is the gray-alien producer who created Planet Beautiful to tell the true stories of the cultures the crawl erases. A tired, irritable stereotypical "gray," he clashes with Carl over the show's vile AI-written scripts — but, cornered, drops the act and confesses: his once-quiet passion project became an accidental ratings juggernaut, and now the production giant Titan forces him to use crawler narrators, cut-rate AI script consultants, and ever-more-lurid content, threatening to yank the show unless it gets "interesting." "I was happier when I wasn't noticed," he laments. Carl, briefly sympathetic to the man's genuine wish to preserve Earth's truth, relents and reads a milder segment on video-arcade history.
A stereotypical gray alien — small, big-headed, tired and irritable, with the weary look of a creative being ground down by his own success.
The conflicted creator-producer of Planet Beautiful, caught between his ideals and corporate pressure.
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