It's quite easy to forget any one of the miserable moments from the last 12 months of Welsh rugby.
You could try to sum up the daily news cycle of anguish and torment, but odds are you'd end up missing something out.
"I saw a tweet earlier that catalogued the events of the year," said Ospreys coach Toby Booth last week, "and they didn't even mention Dean Ryan leaving!"
There's rarely enough words or characters to fittingly describe the state of the game in this country right now. Yet, on Thursday night, one 33-second video went a fair way to summing up the feeling of it all.
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In that half-minute video posted by Cardiff on their social media channels, 16 departures from the senior squad were confirmed ahead of next season. Among them were seven Wales internationals and a number of genuine club legends. You can see the full list here.
It's a sorry reminder of where Welsh rugby is right now and, more importantly, where it's heading.
To compound matters, in the room where it was first announced, at Cardiff's end-of-season awards night, their director of rugby wasn't present. Dai Young was suspended last week amid whispers of an unhappy camp at the Arms Park.
Cardiff have stayed quiet on the matter, but it's just the latest in the long line of unwanted headlines for Welsh rugby this season. When it rains, it pours.
Ironically, days before his suspension, Young had spoken philosophically about the impending exodus of players from the Welsh capital. He talked of this perhaps being the natural finishing point for a squad that had been together for a while.
That was perhaps putting a brave face on it, though. In 33 seconds, the scale of what Cardiff had lost was laid bare.
We already knew that the likes of Jarrod Evans and Dillon Lewis were going, while the retirements of Josh Navidi, Kristian Dacey and Jason Harries had all been announced. But seeing Lloyd Williams, Willis Halaholo and Rey Lee-Lo listed only confirmed Cardiff fans' worst fears.
It's maybe a little too easy, in the unrelenting grind of what has been a campaign unlike any other, to almost normalise this list. We've known what the situation was for a long time - from a dozen players been told all that was on offer was £30,000 each back in February to the growing realisation that squads would be severely depleted as budgets get tightened.
Perhaps the scenario playing out at Cardiff is a little worse. The situation unfolding with Young aside, the departure list is greater than the Dragons and Scarlets and that's largely down to contract liabilities - the type of business-minded phrasing that, in a perfect world, you shouldn't ever hear a club captain utter.
And yet, lo and behold, Josh Turnbull has said exactly that more than once - such is the dire situation from week to week.
More so than any other region, Cardiff rolled the dice on signing Welsh internationals like Josh Adams, Liam Williams and Taulupe Faletau on National Squad 38 contracts, whereby the WRU provides a payment that covers 80% of a player's salary as reimbursement for access.
However, the new standard contracts will mark the end of that, with all four sides to receive a equal split of £4.5 million-a-year from 2024 onwards.
Speaking about the end of those NS38 contracts and how Cardiff's situation was acute, Welsh Rugby Union interim CEO Nigel Walker, who once claimed that the regions needed £7.5m to be competitive, said that the regions could spend that £4.5m "as they see fit"
It's hardly a figure that inspires confidence that the future will consist of anything other than struggling to survive. Especially when, crucially, it comes to Cardiff's high-profile internationals, the club still have to honour their existing contracts from within that smaller pot.
There's also the one-year extensions that the club handed out at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. That hasn't helped the current situation.
Cardiff's late long-term benefactor Peter Thomas saved the club from administration in the months before his death in March. It'll be a long time before the club gets anywhere near the heights he aspired to.
Certainly, it feels like things will get worse before they get better. Players, fans and coaches will continue to publicly call for more money to be invested in the four sides, but will that change any time soon?
All of this has been known for some time. It's easy to get desensitised to it after a while. The staggering nature of it all can be numbed a little when it comes through thick and fast.
But 16 names across 33 seconds of video brings about the starkness of it all better than anything else right now.
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