What If 8 Billion People Vanished at Once?

It's 9:14 on an October morning at Rockefeller Center, and all of a sudden you're the only person left on Earth. You start walking down Fifth Avenue, and the walk keeps going long after the lights, the subway, the buildings and eventually you are gone. 🗺️ Chapters 0:00 Everyone's gone 0:39 Power's out 2:06 Night one 3:08 Subway floods 5:18 First winter 7:23 Satellites fall 9:08 Pripyat 9:52 Year forty 12:29 First tower falls 15:25 The bridge 17:06 10,000 years 19:09 Ice age 20:57 Still saying hello 📊 Where the numbers come from What the captions count is real. The year a landmark falls is a guess though, taken from Life After People, Aftermath: Population Zero and Alan Weisman's The World Without Us, and those three don't always agree. You, the walk and your death in year forty are made up. Some of the sources: Cars into Manhattan every day: MTA baseline before congestion pricing The 2003 blackout: Wikipedia, "Northeast blackout of 2003" Subway pumps: MTA via NY1 Reactors running worldwide: IAEA PRIS, November 2025 ISS without reboosts: NASA, 2024 Chernobyl forest and wolves: Matsala et al. 2021, Deryabina et al. 2015 The next ice age: Ganopolski et al. 2016, Nature Voyager 1 one light-day out: earthsky.org/space/voyager-1-1-light-day-from-earth-november-17-18-2026/ 🛠️ How we made it Every frame comes out of code, the city, the weather, the decay and the light. No AI footage, no stock footage, no narrator, only captions.