With our own hand-coded creations, we can corrupt and disrupt the online structures that are so often hidden from us. In Soft Corruptor Everest Pipkin reflects on when they first discovered the ‘view source’ function on webpages: ‘I could see how it was put together,’ they write. ‘I could break it into pieces and let myself in.’ Pipkin explores these permeable digital boundaries; they remember falling off the glitched edges of video games, finding places where the code revealed itself in ways that could be pierced, hacked or played with. Soft Corruptor itself is broken up into indented lines which visually mirror HTML, allowing us to glimpse the ghost of its own structure. The user must expand each fragment, unfurling line-by-line a stream of nested thoughts and memories. As the lines reach further and further across the page, they begin to form a kind of staircase. Descending these stairs, Pipkin invites us to join them in the back-end and build the scaffolding for a new kind of internet.