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Alpha by Algorithm

20 lines · 130 words · 2 min read

He speaks in clips: a snare, a hiss, cigar ash, kick-drum, camera-glitz. A jaw clenched hard for thumbnails' sake, a leased supercar beside a lake.

He calls it truth, then sells the course: ten steps to status, sex, and force. "Ecsape the cage," he tells the feed, then locks them in with debt and need.

Dark glasses indoors. Ring-light glare. A girl reduced to market share. His laugh clicks in a second late, like locks rehearsing at the gate.

The boys in comments learn the game: make hurt a brand, call softness shame. They quote him back in little knives, mistaking cruelty for drive.

He says a man must rule the room, must smell of petrol, sweat, perfume. Not every king rides Bugatti-red— some just tuck a kid into bed.

— Lilith