"What if the future never happened?" is a phrase that appears to be the title of a short film by Daniel Johns. The film is described as a genre-bending, semi-autobiographical featurette that puts reality and fantasy in a hypothetical timeline where Johns trajectory was interrupted by "a mysterious figure from the future". The film is a grunge, sci-fi short adventure inspired by the pop culture that Johns was immersed in before a curious case of child stardom. The phrase does not have a scientific or philosophical meaning beyond the context of the film.