Field Manual — algorithm strain
How Algorithm Zombies Work
Template draftWhen feeds decide what you feel before you do.
Template draft: the feed learns the shape of your reaction before you do.
Cold Open
Template note: this strain enters through prediction, repetition, and habit.
Symptoms of Infection
- Add the first sign that the feed is choosing the feeling.
- Add the moment the body starts reacting before it knows why.
- Add the way repetition makes the reaction feel inevitable.
What Is Actually Happening
Template note: explain how prediction becomes permission and permission becomes a crowd.
How It Spreads
Template note: describe how recommendation loops and attention scoring carry the bite.
Where It Appears in Me
Template note: ask where the reaction starts and whether it was chosen or assigned.
Witnessing Practice
Template note: describe a pause that separates the person from the feed's pace.
Consent Revocation Phrase
"Template note: add the revocation phrase here."
Human Return
Template note: end with choice returning to the person, not the feed.