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+## 1) Overflow = White Noise
+
+**Style:** Expressionist cityscape (public-domain vibe, Munch/Kirchner energy)
+**Show:** A river of speech bubbles merging into static; one small ear trying to listen
+**Prompt:**
+“An expressionist, 16:9 painting of a nighttime city where **billions of overlapping speech bubbles** flow like a river and dissolve into TV static; a single, small human ear on a pier tries to listen; high contrast, nervous brushwork, limited palette of electric blues and sickly oranges; no logos or text; cinematic lighting.”
+**Caption:** “Overflow: when everything talks, nothing is heard.”
+
+---
+
+## 2) Pretenders (confidence ≠ competence)
+
+**Style:** Renaissance anatomy-chart spoof (public domain vibe)
+**Show:** A figure wearing multiple badges (law, medicine, finance) that don’t fit
+**Prompt:**
+“An old illustrated anatomy-chart parody, 16:9, sepia ink on parchment: a single character labeled with mismatched badges (gavel, stethoscope, calculator), sleeves too long, shoes on wrong feet; cross-section callouts pointing to ‘confidence’ balloon vs ‘competence’ thimble; woodcut linework, no text.”
+**Caption:** “Volume isn’t proof.”
+
+---
+
+## 3) Context Drift
+
+**Style:** Surreal collage (Hannah Höch/photomontage feel, public domain textures)
+**Show:** A thread unspools from “trash dispute” → “lottery math” → “3D printing ad”
+**Prompt:**
+“Surreal photomontage, 16:9: a red thread snakes across three vignettes—1) overflowing dumpster in a courtyard, 2) lottery tickets and calculators, 3) glossy 3D-printer ad; the thread tangles into a knot labeled by a blank tag; muted newsprint textures; no readable brand names.”
+**Caption:** “From A to off-topic in 6 replies.”
+
+---
+
+## 4) Metric Chasing (Goodhart’s Law)
+
+**Style:** Retro scoreboard illustration
+**Show:** A scoreboard labeled “Posts” towering over tiny “Truth” scale
+**Prompt:**
+“Graphic illustration, 16:9: a colossal retro stadium scoreboard with a glowing counter ‘POSTS: 10,000’ overshadowing a tiny balance scale labeled by a blank plaque; confetti, people tossing paper to feed the counter; bold shapes, limited palette reds/blacks/cream; no text in scene.”
+**Caption:** “What you measure becomes the goal.”
+
+---
+
+## 5) Format Sabotage
+
+**Style:** Ukiyo-e woodblock parody (public domain style)
+**Show:** A messenger carrying a stack of screenshots of screenshots
+**Prompt:**
+“Ukiyo-e style woodblock, 16:9: a frantic courier runs with a teetering stack of **blurred screenshots of screenshots**, edges misaligned; a bridge over waves of exclamation marks; pastel inks, visible woodgrain; historical yet playful; no modern logos.”
+**Caption:** “Evidence you can’t check.”
+
+---
+
+## 6) No Memory, No Ledger
+
+**Style:** Minimalist info-design
+**Show:** Meeting table with chairs; decisions float away as paper birds
+**Prompt:**
+“Minimalist vector illustration, 16:9: an empty meeting table with scattered minutes turning into origami birds that fly out a window; a simple wall clock with hands spinning; calm color palette, lots of negative space, soft shadows.”
+**Caption:** “No record, no progress.”
+
+---
+
+## 7) Incentive Misalignment
+
+**Style:** Constructivist poster (public domain aesthetic)
+**Show:** Three pulleys pulling in different directions: platform, crowd, resolution
+**Prompt:**
+“Constructivist poster-style graphic, 16:9: three bold pulleys labeled by blank nameplates pulling a central weight in different directions; arrows for ‘engagement’, ‘attention’, ‘resolution’ (no words in image); red/black/cream palette, grainy print texture.”
+**Caption:** “Different goals, same thread.”
+
+---
+
+## 8) Bad-Faith Shielding
+
+**Style:** Baroque theatre set (public domain vibe)
+**Show:** Comedians’ masks deflecting arrows labeled by blank tags
+**Prompt:**
+“Baroque theatre scene, 16:9: two oversized comedy masks on sticks deflect incoming arrows; the arrows’ flag tips are blank for later overlay; rich velvet curtain, spotlight, dust motes; painterly, dramatic chiaroscuro.”
+**Caption:** “‘Just joking’ isn’t a shield.”
+
+---
+
+## 9) Bots & Astroturf
+
+**Style:** Noir graphic with halftone
+**Show:** A garden of identical hands ‘liking’ a single sprout
+**Prompt:**
+“Noir halftone illustration, 16:9: a dark greenhouse where identical mechanical hands press ‘like’ on a lone sprout under an industrial lamp; subtle cables, repeating patterns; teal/black palette; moody and ambiguous.”
+**Caption:** “Synthetic momentum.”
+
+---
+
+## 10) No Exit Criteria
+
+**Style:** Escher-ish staircase (public domain geometry vibe)
+**Show:** Debate podiums on an endless loop staircase
+**Prompt:**
+“Surreal architectural drawing, 16:9: an impossible loop staircase with small debate podiums on each landing; speakers face different directions, arrows in circles on the floor; pen-and-ink precision, cool greys.”
+**Caption:** “No definition of ‘done’.”
+
+---
+
+## 11) The Method: Read, Extract, Stop
+
+**Style:** Clean diagrammatic poster
+**Show:** Three panels: What’s said → What’s shown → What’s missing
+**Prompt:**
+“Crisp, modern diagram poster, 16:9: three side-by-side panels with icons—1) mouth/speech lines (what’s said), 2) document with checkmarks (what’s shown), 3) empty frame with dashed outline (what’s missing); flat design, high contrast, accessible colors.”
+**Caption:** “What’s said | shown | missing.”
+
+---
+
+## 12) Claims vs Proof (Alphabet letter beat)
+
+**Style:** Engraving-style split screen
+**Show:** Left—hand writing promises; Right—scale weighing numbers/audit stamp
+**Prompt:**
+“Engraving-style illustration, 16:9 split screen: left panel shows a graceful hand writing ornate promises on fine paper; right panel shows a scale weighing numbers, charts, an audit stamp; dense crosshatching, sepia ink, museum-plate feel.”
+**Caption:** “Claims on the left, proof on the right.”