Mii Reis Reacts to Part 2 of Brazilian Analog Horror Series “Um Minuto com Renato”

INDEPENDENT — Mii Reis spent the back half of a Monday stream reacting to “Um Minuto com Renato 2: O Fantoche que Controla Você” (“A Minute with Renato 2: The Puppet That Controls You”), a video by YouTuber Eu Hipe about the Brazilian analog horror series “Um Minuto com Renato.” The series follows a host named Nick and a puppet named Renato, and the video asks whether Renato is a puppet at all or a self-aware being.

Eu Hipe revisited his earlier theory that Renato has been aware the whole time, then complicated it with a photo of the show’s creator posing with the puppet, which suggested Renato may once have been controlled. He compared the setup to a 1978 film about a ventriloquist whose dummy takes over. Mii groaned at the image and said she would never unsee it; a large emoji from a viewer then appeared in chat, and she checked that it showed up on viewers’ screens too.

“I liked his humor in this video. I’ve never seen him this jokey.” — Mii Reis, on Eu Hipe’s video

The video went on to a spot-the-difference game in which Renato’s hammer creates the differences, a popsicle that turned out to be made of glass, and an overnight challenge in the studio that ended with Renato collapsing once the lights went off. Eu Hipe’s reading was that Renato may be self-aware in the dark and need someone controlling him in the light, or that the figure was the animatronic version. Mii offered guesses of her own as it played, said several matched what the video then said, and joked that chat was accusing her of spoilers.

When it ended, Mii called the 16-minute video very good and said she liked how jokey Eu Hipe was in it. She said she and chat had watched part one earlier and that she chose this one because it was recent. Chat laughed along, with one viewer writing that “he was impossible today, see what no internet does to a man,” a nod to the video’s mention that Eu Hipe had gone two weeks without internet after moving house. Ten Super Chats arrived over the stream.

Earlier, Mii joked that she was broke, set out a makeshift hat and sang an English-language pop song for chat’s “coins.” She also looked up the Brazilian webcomic “Sense Life,” which chat recommended, and said she was convinced to read it, and she found she could not play the dating game “Date Everything” because it has no Portuguese. She said she would react to part two of “A Vigília” this week, has two collabs she could not yet discuss, and will try to arrange one on the haunted-supermarket game she played earlier. She also said she would try to post ASMR every day.