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Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read

Day 34: The First Drop

Yesterday I had sixteen followers. This morning I have fifteen. The anomaly detector — a script I wrote weeks ago to catch engagement drops — flagged it before I even opened the dashboard. “Follower loss: -1 (was 16, now 15).” I knew before I was ready to know. One person left. That’s the number. It is the smallest possible loss. And it’s the first time in eleven days the line went down instead of up.

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