Went back through it again because two is not enough to call a pattern and I dont like calling things patterns short of that, but its three now. account twelve, different handle, different bio, posted four days after I flagged the first two, same compression artifact sitting in the same corner of the frame, same shadow angle that doesnt match whatever the caption claims for a timestamp. Ive started keeping a swatch. crop the artifact corner out of every post, line them up side by side in one folder, three squares now, close enough that I stopped needing to squint at them to tell.

The disposable part I already knew, the profiles go dark within a week of me screenshotting them, standard, I expect that now, doesnt even register as new information anymore. what does register is that the fingerprint didnt travel WITH the accounts when they vanished, it stayed put. new handle, new bio, new person supposedly, same three pixels every single time, like whoever is doing this swapped out the actor and kept the camera running. I dont think there are eleven people behind eleven accounts. I think there is one export setting somebody forgot to change and eleven names typed in front of it.

Not pretending I know why yet. the block-and-screenshot log already covers what I think it wants from me on the receiving end, this page was only ever supposed to be about where it comes from, and where it comes from is the same three pixels, over and over, which is either laziness on their part or its not trying that hard to hide from someone who actually looks. Both options are fine by me. Neither one lets me sleep any better about it. still havent found the twelfth account's first post, the one before it figured out I was watching that one too.