My Brain Is Broken is a twenty-one-second film by Kobala, posted to Instagram in August 2026 under the tag #ai, with no tool named.
The missing reaction shot
The usual AI reel is built around a gasp. Something impossible arrives and the edit cuts to a face so you know what to feel. Kobala has cut out the face. An alligator taller than the graffiti wall behind it walks down the pavement in a white T-shirt and jeans, tail dragging, and the man coming the other way does not turn his head. Seven men in dark jackets carry a gold anchor on a gold chain along the street the way pallbearers carry a coffin, with a chihuahua leading the procession. Nobody at the kerb has an opinion about any of it.
A street from before phones
The joke holds because of where it is set. Film grain and a lens wide enough to bend a building put the footage somewhere before smartphones. A man in a grey cardigan talks into a payphone. At the petrol pump the counter is mechanical, and a man in a black jacket stands and watches it click over. Those two shots have nothing impossible in them, and the film gives them the same weight as the alligator.
The raccoon's turn
The moment to forward to a colleague is the domino table. An older man in a flat cap sits on a porch over the tiles, and across from him, standing on a chair to reach, a raccoon in black sunglasses considers its move. Kobala gives the raccoon the close-up, one paw on the dominoes.
The caption reads My brain is broken via Kobala, then five hashtags. There is no title card and no model credited. The film takes its name from the first four words, and a grey card with KOBALA in red capitals is the only credit.