No way I wasn't gonna make a page for this series after I made the gnome page.
Half-Life VR But The AI Is Self Aware is an improv machinima web series created by wayneradiotv and his friends. It follows a supposed "experimental build" of Half-Life VR, featuring "NPC's powered by voice recognition and machine learning". Together, Gordon and the Science Team (and Benrey) endeavor to escape Black Mesa and survive the Resonance Cascade.
In reality, it's not actually AI. The AI characters are played by some of Wayne's friends, and they're in Garry's Mod, not actual Half-Life. It sounds like a fun time, and it is! But, see, the thing that fascinates me is how it changes. HLVR:AI is a comedy first and foremost, so how did we go from "Hee hee passport :)" to "I don't know what's going to happen to us once you exit the game for good, but I know we'll never forget you. I hope you won't forget us." And why did a corner of the Internet go absolutely hogwild about this series?
Well, I can't say for sure. But I can tell you how I, personally, feel about the series.