After Level 2 closed, the Game changed shape. Instead of a round every week or two, it issued a numbered transmission almost every day, each with one mission: comment MISSION, do the task, come back. Transmission 001 went out on 17 May 2026. Transmission 038 went out on 30 August, the day before this paper was written.

Counted from the platform, the series has a shape. Day one drew 57,936 comments. Days two to thirteen settled at a few thousand a day, with two exceptions the feed carried: Transmission 012 to 17,530 and Transmission 013 to 63,441. On 1 June the Game reopened entry with comment IN and comment PLAY, and those posts drew 302,000 comments on four million views, the largest participation event in the series. Then the daily floor fell: a typical June day 5,400, July 3,000, August 280, while single days still spiked, Transmission 031 to 24,801.

This paper is about that curve. A daily series on a recommendation feed does not retain an audience the way a subscription does. Each day is decided again by the feed, and most days it decides small.

What happens to participation when a game asks for something every day? The rounds measured a crowd on one instruction. The daily series measures the same crowd on thirty-eight, and the question is whether the number holds, decays, or does something else.

• Source: the Instagram Graph API snapshot of 31 August 2026, every post from 17 May onward whose caption carries a transmission number. 171 posts: 153 across the 38 numbered transmissions, most of them two to five posts (the mission, a task board, a check), and 18 for the June re-entry.
• Transmission day: all posts carrying the same number, summed. Views, reach and comments are the platform's counts.
• The June re-entry: the posts captioned TRANSMISSION 001 // ENTRY CHECK on 1 and 2 June (comment IN, comment PLAY) restarted the numbering for new players. They are counted as one event and kept out of the day-by-day curve so they do not masquerade as a day.
• Typical day: the median transmission in each month. Medians are used because the spikes are the feed, not the routine.
• Accumulation: May posts have had three months to gather comments; the last August posts have had a day. Comments arrive mostly in the first day (the Do Not Comment paper measured 78 percent within 24 hours), views keep arriving longer. The August floor is therefore firmer for comments than for views.

Two curves are in the data and they are different things. The floor is the routine: the people who came back for the mission because they had made a habit of it, and that number decayed, from about 3,600 in May to about 280 in August. The spikes are the feed: a transmission the recommendation system decided to carry to strangers, and those arrived without warning at 17,000, 25,000, 63,000, and, on the re-entry, 302,000. The routine is the Game's. The spikes are the platform's.

The re-entry is the clearest single lesson. When the series stopped asking for a mission and asked instead for a one-word declaration, IN or PLAY, it drew more comments in two days than the other thirty-seven transmissions combined. The exactness papers already explain why: a token is cheap and a task is not. Entry is where the crowd is largest; the mission is where it thins.

For the design of the next series the reading is practical. Do not measure a daily game by its launch day or its spikes; measure the floor, and expect it to fall by an order of magnitude over a season unless something re-earns it. The record shows what re-earns it: an entry post, and a transmission the feed chooses to carry.

• Accumulation is uneven. The last transmissions have had days to gather counts; the first had months. The comment floor is firmer than the view floor for the reason in the method, but the August numbers will rise.
• Posts per transmission vary. Some days had one post and some five; the day totals sum whatever was posted. A day with more posts had more chances to be carried.
• Retention is inferred, not measured. The platform does not say which commenters came back. The floor is read as returning players; it could include new arrivals on quiet days.
• Numbering is the Game's. Transmission numbers were assigned by the operation and one number (013) was reused on 30 August; the reuse is counted with the original.

The same snapshot taken again in a month, so the August floor can be read once its posts have aged, and a per-commenter view of the series, which the archive can supply for the days it holds: how many of the people commenting on Transmission 030 had commented on 001.

The daily series is filed on The Game as the Daily missions tab. Its first transmission followed the close of Level 2; its Chronicle entries begin with THE DAILY SIGNAL, ⟡036.