The Crying Robot and the Forgotten Restaurant

Ok, I feel like I need to get this off my chest. So, I am someone who likes to look at lost videos and advertisements. I'm not sure why I took this path in life, maybe because my friends were doing it and... well, anyway, I recently got the chance to look at the... disturbing drafts of the ads for a restaurant that closed a few years ago. I remember at school when i was little, all the other kids were talking about the weird, almost non-human ads for this restaurant. I think I went there a few times when I was a kid, it was a pizza restaurant, but i always ordered the spaghetti and meatballs.
Anyway, the ads that I reviewed are the same as i remember. They would always say things like "This cheese is so good! Try it more today, so you can buy more pizza for today." Yeah, they really didn't make much sense. I understand it costs money to make ads, but these were just... so low quality. I flipped through some of the drafts for them, which made even less sense. The draft for the aforementioned ad instead said: " Cheese to try. Pizza buying." This was really strange. Were they using a machine to generate ads? After flipping through several more ads, i found one that was different. There was a room with grey walls, and black outlines of people. A man and a woman. The woman had a clipboard in her hand. She was telling him about how "It has feelings," and "It is sentient." The man didn't care, and he told her to keep going. She angrily stomped out. The
next ad really freaked me out I heard crying sounds. There wasn't a person crying. In fact, all there was in the room was a beat-up computer. I've always been one to believe in the paranormal... like ghosts and things. But this didn't feel like it was a ghost. I can't explain what I felt. I was angry at whoever did this. In the next ad, there was an ad draft that didn't make sense. A man hit the computer, smashed it, and tortured it until it finally started crying, then the AI changed the text so it made sense. Who in their right mind did this? To this poor robot? I felt like punching anything in the room.
The next ad wasn't even an ad, it was a recording. Another one of the robot crying, but this time I could see it. It was greyish-brown with a head shaped like an upside-down heart. It had empty black eyes and a frown, and the only hint of the rest of its body was the cut of area with its neck and shoulders. It then shouted "PLEASE HELP ME OUT OF HERE." But then it got weirder. New tabs started to open on my computer, and whenever I closed one, another one opened. They said awful things, like "How to off self when robot" and "Mental therapist near me." Morse code also flashed, which translated to cries for help.
When I finally managed to close all the tabs, a video downloaded by itself. It was a video explaining what depression was. It made a big deal about how depression is only in living things. I noticed the copyright for the video, H&OI Co. I looked them up and sure enough, they were the parent corporation of the restaurant. They also owned a robotics testing facility in Silicon Valley. So I went there. I couldn't find it. All i found was an abandoned building. Nothing of value was in there, except for a single hard drive. I went home and plugged it in. A video started to run.
In the video, a voice said the testing "Was complete" and that robots "can be sentient." The video ended with someone saying "The facility was unsuccessful, but we left our mark." This was... the weirdest thing. I remember these people. The person talking. My memory was coming back. The therapist... I suppose it's time to explain.
I've been seeing things, weird things, for a long time. When I was young i felt haunted after my brother died. I lived with my therapist for years after that. These videos reminded me of me when I was young. I was always crying. My dad would always hurt me and my brother. So i got my roommate to help. I wondered what he saw. He said that the robot wasn't crying and wasn't whipped. He said that the robot was being punched by a locker. This was strange. There was obviously a robot crying and being whipped. How could he not see that? How did he not understand?
There was one last video.
The computer was melting. The robot was screaming for help. Someone was taking out all his anger on this robot. This time my roommate saw the same thing. I wanted answers. I went to the site of the old restaurant. There was nothing there except for a computer. I turned it on.
I heard... crying.
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