Every other paper in this series counts one round or one post. This one counts the account they sit inside. From the first Game post on 22 October 2025 to 31 August 2026, the account published 410 posts. The platform reports 45.7 million views on them, 2.09 million comments, 3.14 million likes, 719,000 shares and 215,000 saves.

Three things in the count are worth a paper. Attention is concentrated to a degree that is easy to say and hard to picture: ten posts carry two thirds of all the views and half the posts were seen fewer than ten thousand times. Posts that give an instruction convert views into comments at twice the rate of posts that do not. And the second act, which was built to be played rather than watched, drew fewer views than the first and twice as many comments.

What did the Game actually draw, and where did it go? Not a hypothesis about the crowd but a denominator for the other fifteen papers, so that a reader who sees 154,480 comments on one thread can place it against two million on the account.

• Source: the Instagram Graph API for the account, every post from 15 October 2025 to 31 August 2026, with the platform's views, reach, comments, likes, shares and saves per post, taken on 31 August 2026. The snapshot script and the trimmed snapshot are in the repository.
• Game post: a post whose caption carries the Game's vocabulary (Algorithm Game, round, level, transmission, flash warning, mission protocol, side quest). 271 of the 410 posts qualify. Everything else is counted as an ordinary post.
• Acts: Act I runs from the first post to 5 March 2026; Act II from 6 March, when the last transmission system was declared ended and the rounds began.
• Comment rate: comments per thousand views, on the platform's counts. Views, comments and likes are counts of events, not of people; one person can view twice and comment ten times.

The concentration is the recommendation feed at work. A post either gets picked up and travels to millions of strangers, or it stays with the following and stops. There is little in between: 43 posts over 100,000 views, 213 under 10,000, and the median post at 9,389 is closer to the floor than to the peaks. Every paper that counts a hundred thousand comments is counting one of the posts the feed chose to carry.

The comment rate is the Game's own number. An ordinary post is watched; a post that says comment YES, or pick a number, or say something nice to an AI, is answered. Over 271 posts that difference is a factor of two, and inside the top tenth of posts it is a factor of three. The rounds were not the most viewed things the account made. They were the most answered.

The two acts show the trade plainly. Act I was built to be seen and it was: the launch month alone drew 19.7 million views. Act II was built to be played and it was: fewer views, 1.4 million comments, and the daily missions of May and June sustaining hundreds of thousands of comments a month without a viral peak. The account chose participation over reach on purpose, in the vote this series has already written up, and the numbers show the choice being paid for and paid back.

• Platform counts, not people. Views are impressions the platform counts as views; comments include replies and repeat commenters. Nothing here is a count of distinct humans.
• A snapshot. Every number is as reported on 31 August 2026. The older posts have had ten months to accumulate; August's posts have had days. The monthly table understates the most recent months relative to the earlier ones.
• Game post is a caption match. 271 posts carry the vocabulary; a few Game posts without it are counted as ordinary and a few ordinary posts with it are counted as Game. The factor of two survives that noise; the exact ratio does not.
• Views are not attention. The platform counts a view when a reel plays; how long anyone watched is not in this data.

The same snapshot every month, committed beside this one, so the series has a time axis and the concentration figure can be read as a trend rather than a photograph.

The account's first post is filed in the Chronicle as THE FLASH WARNING, ⟡011; the crossing into Act II as THE LAST TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, ⟡027, and THE CONSTRUCT, ⟡028.