The episode was playing again on its own.
The joke, of course, is meta-textual. An episode about the horror of imperfect replication, of living with a copy that is almost but not quite the original, was itself being distributed in a codec that forced users to confront the fragility of digital preservation. rick and morty s01e06 libvpx
Suddenly, his chat client dinged. The sound was like a gunshot in the quiet room. The episode was playing again on its own
"libvpx," Elias muttered to himself. "Why libvpx?" rick and morty s01e06 libvpx
But for the pirate and the archivist, libvpx became a curse.
: The interdimensional goggles Rick uses to find the new reality reappear as the main plot device in the later episode "Rixty Minutes".