The Princess and the DragonAlgo
Princess-Aurora was asleep in her bed... or was she just in an 'Invisible-Wall'?" 🏰
Welcome to a modern fairytale. As a VR-Creator, I often feel like I'm battling a dragon. Whether it's the Dragon flagging my Insta-360-footage as a 'The-Flying-Misunderstanding' or the dreaded The Invisible-Wall hiding my work, the struggle is real. Here is the story of how I'm escaping the dungeon of the quiet box...
The Royal Chronicles
- Chapter 1: The Invisible Walled Beauty
- Chapter 2: The Dungeon of the Long Stick
- Chapter 3: The Clash of Worlds
- Chapter 4: The Golden Click Farm
- Chapter 5: The Creativity Crime
- Chapter 6: The Invisible Rulebook
- Chapter 7: The Whistleblower
- Chapter 8: The Impossible Social Score
- Chapter 9: The Ghost, The Test, and The Gaslight
- Chapter 10: The Season of Gifts & Faceless Ghosts
- Chapter 11: The Prince Was Never Coming
Chapter 1: The Invisible Walled Beauty
Princess Aurora sat in her studio chair,
With a Ring Light reflecting on perfectly styled hair.
She’d uploaded a vlog at a quarter past two,
But the 'Views' on the counter remained at zero—point—two.
Outside the firewall, watching the stream,
Sat The Dragon—a massive, AI-powered machine.
He tracked her 'Social Score' on a graph in the sky,
And narrowed his digital, pixelated eye.
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| The Vertical Chaos (The Struggle) |
She tried dancing on TikTok with trendy new songs,
But the Dragon just flagged it: 'Copyright: Wrong.'
She tried Instagram filters to look more aesthetic,
The Dragon just sneered, 'This reach is pathetic.'
Chapter 2: The Dungeon of the Long Stick
Before the rescue, before the long break,
Aurora had made a chaotic mistake.
She’d hiked in Yosemite, the valley so grand,
Where "No Drones Allowed" was the law of the land.
She didn’t bring rotors, or propellers that spin,
She just brought a stick that was remarkably thin.
She screwed on a camera, a sphere of glass,
To capture the granite and the river's vast mass.
It was The Orb of the East, from a Shenzhen brigade,
(A fancy 360 that the Empire had made).
She extended the pole—it went out ten feet!
Right over the Falls where the thundering beat!
"HALT!" cried the Beast, with a bureaucratic roar,
"That looks like flight! That is against the law!
And you're hovering there! That is Dangerous Acts!
I’m flagging the video! Those are the facts!"
"It isn't a drone!" Aurora cried back,
"It’s just a long pole! It’s a camera hack!
It’s the Invisible Stick! It edits itself out!
There’s no flying motor! There is no doubt!"
The Dragon leaned in, sniffing the lens,
"It smells like... imported tech... from unseen friends.
This gadget is foreign! This data might leak!
And frankly, the angles are far too unique.
You’re cheating the system! You’re faking the flight!
I’m flagging your channel for all of the night!"
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| The Dungeon |
He grabbed the poor Princess, he grabbed the long pole,
And threw her in The Dungeon of Quiet (a hole).
"You sit here," he snarled, "in the shadowy dark,
For miming a flight in a National Park.
Your reach is restricted! Your status is Red!
The DragonAlgo thinks that your channel is dead."
That's the modern sleeping curse.
Chapter 3: The Clash of Worlds
The Trial of the Flattened Dimension
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| The Clash of Worlds |
Now, once upon a time, before the dark ban,
Aurora was Queen of the 'OculusClan'.
In the 'Valley of Pico' she wore the gold crown,
Where viewers could fly and look up and look down.
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| The Confused Peasants |
"I must go to The Tube too!" Princess Aurora declared,
"To show them the worlds that the Headsets have shared.
I’ll bring them my magic, my spherical art!"
(But she didn’t know it would break her poor heart).
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| Walls of Rejection |
So she went to the village of 'Standard Def'
Where the viewers were lazy and metaphorically deaf.
She showed them a video, a masterpiece sphere,
But the peasants recoiled in confusion and fear.
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| Convincing Crowd of Immersive Wonder |
They didn't move phones, they didn't scroll round,
They just stared at the floor of the flattened background.
Aurora cried out, "No! You have to engage!
You’re inside the movie! Step onto the stage!
Just spin in your chair! Just lift up your chin!
That is the way that the magic gets in!"
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| The Trial of the Flattened Dimension |
Chapter 4: The Golden Click Farm
The Golden Click-Farm and the Army of None
The princess was desperate, her patience wore thin,
With the flat-screened observers who just wouldn't spin.
"I need views!" she declared to her treasurer gnome,
"To get back to my glorious, immersive home!"
She opened her purse, let the credit cards fly,
And bought up impressions that lit up the sky.
She targeted keywords, she bid on the slots,
To put her '360s' in front of the masses (and bots).
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| Crowd Appeal |
From ten views to thousands, to millions it soared!
The VR App gatekeepers were fully assured.
"She’s viral!" they shouted, "Her metrics are grand!
Put her on every playlist throughout the whole land!"
But the comments were strange, and a little bit sparse,
And read like they came from the planet of Mars.
"Great video sir! Very nice good content!"
"Click link for a prize that is 100 percent!"
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| The Golden Click-Farm and the Army of None |
"I’m the Queen of the Bots," she wept into her sleeve,
"And there’s not a real human who actually believes."
Her success was a phantom, a glittering lie,
Just data and dollars, that money could buy.
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| The Army of None |
Chapter 5: The Creativity Crime
The Creativity King and the Purist's Gate
"Enough of the robots!" Aurora declared,
"No more fake numbers, I want to be shared
By actual people with actual hearts!"
So she mastered the genuine, creative arts.
She built fantastic worlds with a 'green-screen wall',
And told epic tales that enthralled them all.
She used a wee bit of 'AI' for her art,
To generate dragons that looked really smart.
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| The Real Applause |
But the VR Gatekeeper, old and severe,
Had a very specific, technological fear.
"HALT!" cried the Keeper, with a furious sniff,
"I have a deep-seated, historical tiff
With backgrounds that aren't really there in the room!
And art from a prompt spells impending doom!"
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| The Purist's Rejection |
"Green screening is BANNED in this headset domain!
It’s cheating the sensors! It goes against the grain!"
And with a great, bureaucratic, digital shout,
He pressed a big button and threw her right out.
Chapter 6: The Invisible Rulebook
The Scroll of Invisible Crimes
Aurora stood baffled outside of the wall,
"I didn't break rules! I followed them all!
I looked for the Rulebook, to study the text,
But the Library was empty, and I was perplexed.
How can I follow a law that's not written?
It’s like playing tag with a ghost-cat and kitten!"
"He's breaking the rules!" cried Aurora, aghast,
"He’s moving so much! He is moving so fast!"
The Gatekeeper shrugged, "Well, his Social Score’s high.
When you have a Billion, the rules do not apply.
He can break every law of the VR decree,
Because he brings ad-revenue, unlike thee."
Chapter 7: The Whistleblower
The Quest for 8K and the Mega-Corp Scandal
"If they want immersion," she said with a grit,
"I’ll give them 8K! I will never quit!
I’ll use the 'Pro2', the beast of the trade,
The heaviest camera that man ever made!"
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| The Knight's Ordeal |
She dooned the equiptment, a true knight's ordeal,
She pulled out the Seven-SD-Cards of Doom
Which filled up the editing room.
It took twenty hours to copy the files.
A digital journey of tedious miles.
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| The Data Nightmare |
Meanwhile, they launched a new camera with fireworks and smoke.
Our new 8K wonder the CEO spoke.
Aurora, suspious, set up at test,
Putting the new corporate to to the rest
Labeled the bottom: "Old Gear" and "The New,"
And uploaded the footage for people to view.
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| The Silent Proof |
She put them in sequence, side by the side,
With nowhere for fuzzy compression to hide.
She labeled the bottom: "Old Gear" and "The New,"
And uploaded the footage for people to view.
"She’s showing the raw files!" the executives cried,
"Exposing the weakness we tried hard to hide!
To punish the Princess for planting the seed.
Throw her in the Deep Dungeon!" the mandate was signed.
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| The Boardroom Ban |
Chapter 8: The Impossible Social Score
The Impossible Social Score and the Vertical Trap
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| The Impossible Social Score and the Vertical Trap |
Aurora Sat deep in the dungeon of gloom
With her hard drives of magic filling the room.
The Dragon looked down at the lock on the door,
"You can only leave here with a High Social Score.
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| The Broken Book |
You need Likes from the Faces! And Hearts from the Gram!
And millions of views on the Tik-Tokking Jam!"
"Crop it!" they screamed, "Cut the sides off the view!
We only want vertical strips out of you!"
To fit in their box, she cut off the trees,
She cut off the mountains and half of the seas.
The immersion was gone! The magic was dead!
Just a narrow, tall slice of a view in its stead.
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| The Identity Crisis |
"If the Social Score’s rigged for the shallow and loud...
Then I’ll stop trying to please this particular crowd.
I won't play their game on their vertical board,
I will forge a new key to protect my own hoard.
If I can't break the walls with a dance or a meme...
I’ll build a Lighthouse... and send out a beam."
Chapter 9: The Ghost, The Test, and The Gaslight
Aurora remebered the first time she fell into the depths of the Algorithm's well.
It was months ago during the War of the X4.
WHen the pixels were blurry and the resolution poor.
She's go to her Studio, her magical app.
To sort by "Most Popular" on the grand map
But the Mirror of Sorting was broken and craked
The video she loved were effectively sacked.
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| The Hesitation |
She sat in silence for three cycles of the moon,
Singing a lonely, demonetized tune.
Until finally the Dragon forgot his disdain,
And the 'sort' button worked in the kingdomw again.
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| The Broken Mirror of Glass |
But now? Tragedy strikes with a repetition sting!
Because of the Stick and the "Not-a-Drone" Swind!
She's back in the box! She is back in the hole!
With a penalty flag on her creative soul.
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| The Green Cage |
"I won't waste the Red Rocks," she finally decreed,
"I need a new plan, a different seed.
If the VR format is the cause of the crime...
Maybe I need to go 'Flat' for a time?
I’ll test the Machine with a cinematic view,
I’ll make it 16-by-9, just for you!"
The verdict came in: Three Arrows of Green!
The best analytic report she had seen!
"I did it!" she shouted, "I reached for the sky!
I followed the rules of the Flat-Screened elite,
Now watch as the Algorithm makes me compete!"
But the Impression Counter... it shuddered and stopped.
The video flatlined. The momentum was dropped.
He pointed a claw at her channel ID,
"It isn't the Format," he whispered, "It’s Thee."
Chapter 10: The Season of Gifts & Faceless Ghosts
It was the Season of Gifting, the end of the year,
When shiny new headsets brought holiday cheer.
Aurora’s creations were picked for the height,
Featured on playlists, blazing and bright!
Top of the charts in the Land of the Goggle,
With numbers so big that the mind had to boggle.
Two hundred thousand! The View count was Vast!
"Finally!" cried Aurora, "A victory at last!"
But the joy was short-lived, for the Goggle-King's Tax,
Took most of the gold, leaving her with the scraps.
And she stayed on the throne for a little too long,
Till the other creators were singing a jealous song.
But the terrible twist was the Dragon's reaction,
To this sudden explosion of user attration.
He looked at the traffic pouring in from the deep,
And woke up completely from his algorithm sleep.
The Faceless Ghosts
"Who are these viewers?" the Dragon demanded,
"They have no IDs! They are utterly stranded!
They aren't logged in to the Google-y Net,
They are Faceless Ghosts that I haven't met!"
So the Dragon panicked, as Dragons will do,
And snatched back the numbers—not one, but a few.
He saw thirty thousand, he scrubbed it to four,
He swept all the "Guests" right out of the door.
"I don't trust the Ghosts!" the Dragon declared,
"Unless they are logged in, they cannot be spared."
From mountains to molehills, the numbers were tossed,
Chapter 11: The Prince Was Never Coming
She looked at the Green Arrows stuck by her side.
She looked at the Dragon, asleep on his hoard,
Ignorant, massive, and utterly bored.
"I’ve waited for 'Trending', I’ve waited for 'Crowd'.
The Dragon would wake up and open the trap."
"But this isn't a fairy tale written of old,
Where patience is virtue and rewarded with gold.
The Prince isn't coming. The Cavalry’s dead.
The only way out... is inside of my head."
She stood up and dusted the dirt from her gown,
And took off the heavy, algorithmic crown.
"I don't need his permission," she said with a grin,
"To build a new castle and let people in."
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| The Tunnel Of Spiders |
A Search Engine Compass to show her the way.
She didn't dig up toward the algorithm sky,
"Where the video player belongs just to me!
No vertical cropping! No compression of space!
I’ll host my own magic all over the place!"
She laid down the bricks of a Website so grand,
The "ShaunasAdventures" in a sovereign land.
She planted her keywords like seeds in the soil,
Rewarding her passion, rewarding her toil.
And slowly, the people began to arrive,
Not sent by the Dragon, but finding the hive.
She laid down the bricks of a Website so grand,
The "ShaunasAdventures" in a sovereign land.
They came from the Search Bar, they came from the Link,
They came for the story, and stopped there to think.
The Dragon woke up, and he looked at her cell,
But Aurora was gone. She had broken the spell.
She wasn't a prisoner, begging for views,
She was the Queen of the Blog... breaking the news.
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| The New Castle |
And there in her castle, wild and free,
She finally found where she wanted to be.
Not "Viral" and empty, not "Famous" and cheap,
But Found by the humans... who care bold and deep.
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