The “Brutal Throat” element referred to the player character’s own breathing—aggressive, guttural, phlegmy, as if the player was choking. The sound file was actually a heavily pitch-shifted recording of a bullfrog mixed with a chain smoker’s cough, a fact later discovered by audio sleuths.
Within a week, the video was gone. The channel was deleted. But not before a small community of horror-mod enthusiasts downloaded the linked .gma (GMod addon) file from a now-dead MediaFire link. The mod, whose full internal name was heavenpov2023_novaflame_brutalthroat_andana , was a surreal single-player horror experience built inside Garry’s Mod . Players spawned into the white void (“Heaven POV”). The only goal: follow the floating “NovaFlame” orbs. Each orb, when touched, played a different audio clip of a person whispering “andana” in increasing panic. heavenpov2023novaflamebrutalthroatandana
One player documented on a defunct forum post: “I played for 12 minutes. My throat went raw. I wasn’t even screaming. Just the breathing sound made me dry heave.” By March 2023, every known copy of heavenpov2023_novaflame_brutalthroat_andana.gma had been remotely wiped from users’ local machines. How? The mod, once installed, contained a hidden script that—after the “ending” triggered or after 30 days—used GMod’s built-in file access to delete itself and the entire garrysmod/cache folder. No known mod before or since has performed a self-destruct. The “Brutal Throat” element referred to the player