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It might be too much to ask for logic from this series, but maybe there is an
answer somewhere.

In Episode 2 of Humanity has Declined, the narrator discovers that the board
of directors of the factory producing weird items is a bunch of chickens that
were butchered, plucked, and prepared for eating in Episode 1. They somehow
came to life and gained intelligence and the ability to speak by making weird
honking sounds. (The narrator can get overly literal subtitles of their
language using a pair of universal translator glasses provided by her fairy
companion.)

![butchered chicken](https://i.stack.imgur.com/G0Whbm.jpg)

The butchered chickens manage to trap the narrator in a cage and declare their
intent to erase her memory with drugs and leave her somewhere far away to
watch as they complete their insidious plan to destroy the ailing human
society. However, the narrator's silent assistant enters and starts taking
pictures of the chickens with his camera. For some reason, this terrifies
them, and they run away. Several of them fall into the factory equipment and
become food during the ensuing chase; the remaining group clusters against a
seaside cliff and leaps into the sea rather than face the camera, while "Ave
Maria" plays.

Pretty much everything about this episode is worthy of a big question mark,
but I found it most puzzling that the chickens feared the camera so much that
they leapt to their deaths rather than face it. (Yes, really, _that_ was the
part I found most puzzling.) Why were they so afraid of the camera?


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Why did the skinned chickens fear the camera?


I was correct in my earlier comment - The skinned chickens don't want to be
revealed to humankind so they avoid being photographed.

This is revealed in the first dialogue with the chickens:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0rGjD.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0rGjD.jpg)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dfb7B.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dfb7B.jpg)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/e2LZy.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/e2LZy.jpg)

If they knew of their existance, humanity could easily overpower them because
of the chickens' feeble bodies. Hence they try to avoid the assistant.

[![enter preformatted text
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gTkhm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gTkhm.jpg)

Don't worry, the main character missed it too:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iInz6m.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iInz6m.png)


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