
Could be seen as foreshadowing that after these prequel events (that is, in the game proper) things are going to be different, even though they're really in a different timeline from the game, and side-story-Monika is just looking at her own in-universe camera. Also, Monika is not Medium Aware in these stories, and she doesn't face the screen either (well her sprites do since they're the old ones, but not in any of the new pictures), except in the very last CGI, which also features all the others not doing it.

Not helped by the fact that Monika is the only one of the four girls whose sprites have her directly face the screen looking at the MC/ the player, unlike Sayori, Yuri, and Natsuki's sprites, which are faced at an angle.That epiphany is the realization that her world is a game. On the first day, Monika mentions she's had an epiphany that has been influencing her poems.

Notably, her comment about constantly saving and loading is a key hint to getting the Golden Ending. There's Monika's fourth-wall-breaking comments, and her comment about feeling like she and the player character are the only real people in the club.Some songs, such as "Sayo-nara" and "Just Monika," have characters removed from the image, hinting at their eventual removal within the game. Team Salvato has the game's soundtrack uploaded on their official Youtube account.This could be taken to foreshadow what Yuri says she does with your pen later in the game. Then, she realises what she just said and stumbles in attempting to clarify.

