REC — FIELD CAM 03
SUBJECT: THE GUY · STATUS: ADVANCING
00:00:00:00
$GUY / ARCHIVE TAPE 001
PLAYBACK: SLOW / LOOP
[FIELD REPORTER] They just keep coming. Nobody told them to stop, so they didn't.
Intercepted transmission

THE MARCH
DOES NOT
STOP.

This footage was recovered at 0.4× speed. It is the only speed at which the scale of the thing becomes visible. What you are watching is not an animation. It is a headcount.

Exhibit A — The paper trail

THEY WROTE IT
DOWN THEMSELVES.

Recovered press clippings, spanning a decade. The financial press has been narrating the same fight the whole time — big money versus the little guy — and mostly calling it for big money. Filed here as evidence of motive.

MarketWatchOpinion

Wall Street will always crush the little guy, but the stock market could be fairer

Annotation: "always" — noted.
Business InsiderSep 2016

The little guys are winning on Wall Street

Annotation: earliest known sighting.
Wire reportPost-GameStop

In Wall Street vs "Little Guy", US seen siding with big money again

Annotation: "again". They keep count too.
Business Insider +2Origin story

Robinhood was named for a founder "trying to help the little guy" against Wall Street norms

Annotation: even the apps are named after him.
Tape 001 — Analysis

EVERY FACE IN FRAME
IS THE SAME FACE.

Standard crowd analysis failed here. There is no leader to isolate, no weak point to identify. The one in front is only in front because he happened to be. This is the guy every headline has been writing about for a decade — the one who was supposed to stay crushed.

Headcount

Uncountable past frame 40

Formation

None. Correct anyway.

Morale

Loud

Threat assessment

WOODEN SWORDS.
REAL PROBLEM.

Their equipment is, by every conventional metric, a joke. Toy blades. Felt hats. One feather each. The assessment team's conclusion: none of that matters, because the weapon was never the sword. It was the number of hands holding one.

Armament

Symbolic, extremely effective

Supply line

Self-replicating

Recommendation

Join them

Historical record

THIS TAPE IS
ALREADY OLD.

Whatever number was true when the camera rolled, it is wrong now. The papers said he loses. The papers said he wins. The papers said the referee sides with big money. The guy stopped reading the papers and kept walking.

Filed

Too late

Accuracy

Expired on capture

Trajectory

Forward. Only forward.

Enlistment office

GET YOUR
MARCHING FACE.

Every soldier in this footage started as a regular face. Upload yours, and the enlistment office will issue you the standard uniform: hat, feather, attitude. Set it as your PFP and fall in.

IDENTITY PROCESSING UNITSTN-03
Your upload
photo.jpg
STATUS: AWAITING PROCESSING
UNIFORM: STANDARD ISSUE
FEATHER: RED, ONE (1)
End of tape

FALL IN,
LITTLE GUY.

The tape ends. The march doesn't. There is exactly one open position in this army and it is the one right next to everybody else.

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Archive tape 001 · Not financial advice · The guy abides