The artifact manifests as a VCR playhead drum assembly suspended in fractured Blockbuster-gold acrylic, its surface stained with oxide residue that forms legible attendance data under proper lighting. The drum itself shows magnetization beyond factory specifications, and when rotated near blank tapes, it emits faint audio playback of performances the Chaintrix officially erased. The mounting bracket bears stress fractures from the mechanism's physical resistance to standard demagnetization procedures, proving that even purpose-built components can develop memory the system never authorized.

Acts as the counter-authority that validates player claims of attendance when official recordings have been overwritten, treating mechanical memory as more authoritative than edited archives. The Playhead Apostasy proves that the Chaintrix's deletion protocols are theatrical—every erased performance leaves magnetic ghost impressions that heretical reading mechanisms can still reproduce, making official amnesia technologically impossible across all 16 movie simulations.