Mullican Designs

I sent an AI agent swarm to read the X algo source code. What they found shocks and confuses me. First, I want to be clear about why I'm posting this. Four years on this platform. 60,000+ followers. I've shown up every day since I started. And over the last three months, I've watched my reach drop 40%+, off a cliff, and I haven't changed ANYTHING; I am extremely consistent, disciplined, and focused on what I do and how I do it. What bothers me in addition to my own numbers is that Artists I used to see constantly, I never see anymore. People that I look forward to seeing what they're creating... one day they disappear from my feed. I assume they left. Nope, still here. Still posting. Multiple times a day. Just completely invisible to me now. And presumably me to them. This is happening to a lot of us. I've tried to figure out why and how to fix it. Post more. Post less. Different times. Everything has hurt my account. I'm frustrated, tired, and tbh, straight up losing interest. So... I had my AI agent, Mai, spin up a research swarm last night; a multitude of specialized sub-agents pointed at every line of X's open-source algorithm. Every file. Every filter. Every module they've made public. Literally. I wanted to know exactly how to see this from the perspective of a creative here, from an artist, and not from a content consumer which is what literally every other post about the algo is focused on. What follows is what they found. ///// ⭕️ TLDR; 5 things we all should be aware of: 1. Our follower count does nothing for our reach anymore. 2. The algorithm decides how many people see our posts based on a PREDICTION, before anyone has seen it. 3. Posting too much hurts us. Posting too little also hurts us. (Really) 4. Every time we repost another artist's work, the algorithm buries it. 5. Our posts are gone from the system after 48 hours. Nothing from 3 days ago is being shown to anyone. You start from zero every 48 hours. ///// ⏬ Going deeper on those 5... 1. Your Follower Count is just a Display Number Buried in the codebase: "author_followers_count" is pulled through a service called "Gizmoduck" and passed to the tweet entity service for display only. Not fed into any scorer. Anywhere in the system. 100,000 followers. 1000 followers. Same starting point in "Phoenix", the new system. Years building an audience on this platform? That audience, as a signal to the algorithm, is worth nothing now apparently. What travels with your posts is PREDICTED engagement, a score based on your content and historical signals, regardless of how many people chose to follow you. _ 2. "The Prediction Trap" This is the one that actually broke my brain. Before your post reaches anyone, "Phoenix" scores it across 19 "prediction heads"; 19 different things it's trying to predict about how people will behave. Let me repeat. ❗️THE ALGO IS PREDICTING HOW MUCH ENGAGEMENT YOU WILL GET, AND ASSIGNS REACH BASED ON IT.❗️ WHICH IS A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY! Some of the 19 metrics: favorite_score — will someone like this reply_score — will someone reply dwell_score — will someone pause on it (binary) dwell_time — how long will they pause (continuous, two separate signals) photo_expand_score — will someone expand the image not_interested / report — negative signals The prediction determines reach... It actually decides if the post will get reach, by predicting... reach? how does this make any sense. It's not determined by merit of the post. It's determined by wether or not the algo thinks it will get reach, thus giving it reach. Phoenix PREDICTS low engagement. Shows the post to fewer people. Fewer people means fewer chances for engagement. Prediction validates itself. Post gets suppressed. + Phoenix PREDICTS high engagement. Bigger distribution. More chances. Prediction validates itself. Post gets pushed further. The prediction drives distribution. Content quality is secondary. And the prediction is built on your account's recent historical signals. If your reach has been declining, Phoenix is PREDICTING it will keep declining, AND actively making that happen by restricting your distribution. ie; A great piece posted on an account with declining engagement gets a small test group, underperforms in that group, gets confirmed as low-value. Even if it's the best thing they've ever made. The algorithm creates the outcome it predicted. And for anyone who's been in a decline, getting out requires overcoming a system that's actively betting against you. _ 3. "The Volume Trap" "AuthorDiversityScorer" applies exponential decay every time you appear in the same follower's feed session. Each additional post from you in a single session scores lower than the last. - Post at 9am, noon, 7pm. - A follower opens X at noon. - They see your midday post. - Your 9am post, still alive, is now decayed because you already appeared in their session. - Your 7pm post decays further. ❗️The more you post, the less each post reaches. So you post less... Impressions drop anyway, because low activity reads as a dormant account. The "per-author" caps governing this are redacted from the public code. Post too much = decay. Post too little = dormancy. The band where things work is narrow, undisclosed, and different for every account. This is absolutely absurd. And impossible for people to navigate. _ 4. The New Repost Penalty April 12, 2026. X announced a crackdown on aggregators. Reposts of other people's work: up to 90% impression deduction. On that specific repost. To be clear: NOT on your account. On each individual original post. Lots of mis-info out about this. Every time you share another artist's work because you believed in it, because community means showing up for each other... The algorithm buried it. 90% visibility cut. Gone. BUT Self-reposting your own work is different. X uses a "Bloom filter" that resets at the end of each session. "RetweetDeduplicationFilter" only drops self-reposts for followers who already saw the original in that same session. A follower opening the app at midnight hasn't seen your morning post in their current session. It reaches them fresh. The rule: sharing someone else's work = buried. Sharing your own = viable. _ 5. 48 Hours and... It's GONE. "Thunder" is X's in-memory post store. It auto-trims every 2 minutes. Retention window: 48 hours. After 48 hours your post is gone from the candidate pool. The algorithm can't serve it to anyone. The idea that consistent posting lets your older content keep circulating is wrong at the architecture level. You're starting from zero every two days. Thunder also maintains per-author caps on how many of your posts can be in the candidate pool at once. Those values are redacted. ///// 🫠 How our habits are hurting us: For years the advice was: show up every day, post on a schedule, build the habit. The accounts that did that built audiences. That consistency was proof of commitment. The "AuthorDiversityScorer" punishes it. The daily schedule that built your following now means your posts are competing with each other instead of adding value. The disciplined consistency the old platform rewarded is now what triggers exponential decay under the new one. Let that sink in❗️ The platform changed the rules. The habits we built under the old rules are working against us under the new ones. And no one said anything about it. /// 📤 A Note about/to Nikita & the X Team: Nikita Bier and the algo team at X are building for consumers. The changes make sense from that angle: algorithmic feeds, crackdowns on low-quality reposts, pushing formats that generate comments and replies. If your goal is to show the people scrolling a better experience, this logic tracks. That might even be the right goal. I could argue that with a certain perspective. However... there's a side of the equation they're seemingly not accounting for: the creators who supply the content that makes the platform worth scrolling in the first place. For artists specifically, this has been a demolition job. The art was always supposed to be the value. That's what we spent years building. That's what the audiences came for. The current algorithm doesn't reward that natively anymore. It rewards high comment probability. The result is people like me spinning up AI agent swarms to read source code just to understand why our reach is gone. Creators running diagnostics on a platform they used to just create on... is ridiculous. I don't think this is the intent. But it's the outcome regardless. You can optimize the consumption experience all you want. If the people making things stop showing up because the game is too rigged, there's nothing left to consume. The creator side of the algorithm needs a voice in these decisions. Right now it doesn't have one. //// I sent agents to read the code because I was tired of not knowing the rules. Tired of watching reach disappear. Tired of looking for accounts I used to see every day and finding out they're still there, still creating, just invisible. Understanding all this doesn't fix anything, ironically. But at least now I know what I'm working with. They built the algo well. Just not for us. It's built for the masses, engagement farming, rage baiting, fear baiting, and overall 2026 end-of-days pvp slop and brain rotted doom scrollers. I don't know what else to tell you, or how to operate with any of this, and trust me, I get how insane and confusing a lot of this is. It numbing. Tiring.. and just.. Idk. Regardless, I hope this helps in whatever way it can. -BLAC _ Attached: 1 - screenshot of my death spiral analytics 2 - Summary report on agent swarm findings 3 - the prediction trap, visualized 4 - snippets from the public X algo repo with notes

@iluminatibot He missed the memo. It is a hoax jackass.

Meanwhile at the UN... "Eating meat and dairy is causing 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions." "So the producers of meat and dairy should pay for the damage they cause."

I am giving videos a shot...please be kind!

@BowTiedBull I will gladly except this gift.

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@JayMartinBC Another globalist Canadian.

Every central banker in history, when forced to choose between a fast death and a slow death, has made the same call. Every single time. Without exception. Kevin Warsh is about to make it again and most people have no idea what they're about to lose.

BREAKING: Fine Gael Education Minister runs from Enoch Burke questions in Galway Schoolteacher Enoch Burke has spent almost 700 days in prison after refusing to use ‘they/them’ pronouns for a child. Hildegarde Naughton is the Fine Gael Minister for Education. She was protected from questioning when approached in Galway City last night. Hildegarde Naughton deceived Enoch Burke into sitting in front of Claire Callanan as Chair of the Disciplinary Appeal Panel which was to hear Enoch Burke’s appeal. The Chair is required to be independent, however Callanan is married to Lyndon McCann SC, the chief legal adviser to the Church of Ireland, and is herself an employee of the Church of Ireland. In no way was Claire Callanan an ‘independent’ Chair. Claire Callanan was appointed to this role by Hildegarde Naughton, the Minister for Education. This was an act of gross deception. This is a very serious day when the Fine Gael Minister for Education can deceive a young teacher by making him sit in front of a chair who is neither independent nor impartial and then refuse to answer questions when asked.

🚨 RUSSELL CROWE LOSES IT ON FANS IN PARIS — “DON’T FU*KING PUSH IN ON ME!” A heated clip of Russell Crowe is going viral after the actor suddenly stopped a crowd of autograph seekers in Paris and bluntly warned them to back off before things escalated. “Stay where you are.” “Don’t fu*king push in on me!” “I’ll come to you.” “As soon as somebody’s a dick, I'm gone.” People online are now debating: • whether celebrities are reaching a breaking point • if autograph culture has become too aggressive • and whether some “fans” are really just resellers chasing money Now the comments are sounding off: • “You can hear years of frustration in his voice.” • “Those aren’t fans. Those are professional vultures.” • “Celebrities are starting to hate the public.” • “Honestly? I don’t even blame him.” Was Russell Crowe justified here… or did he completely lose his cool? 📹: Instagram/hush.officiel

🚨 BOOM: REP. BRANDON GILL JUST BROKE IT DOWN PERFECTLY “Import millions of people from low-trust societies and you'll get low-trust behavior in RETURN!” 💯 Call us racist. We don’t care! “THIS is the kind of stuff that that the American people really are SICK of!” “You know the American people want to know whenever they pay taxes every single April and they send money into the federal government that's actually being used for the American people!” “NOT for foreigners, not for fraudsters, not for people who are getting rich off of the working class in our country.” 🔥 Nailed it.

WE NEED TO LEAVE THE EU 🇪🇺 The EU is planning to increase surveillance even in private chats. Angela Merkel recently urged the EU to “continue on the path of regulating social media” - this will include your DMs❗️ Chat control is the ultimate tool for tyranny. We @Deu_Kurier support the AfD’s plan to leave the EU with Germany.

🚨BREAKING: 🇪🇸 Spanish Opposition leader Abascal, REVEALS the regularization of 2.5 million migrants in Spain. "These are NOT normal numbers, they are the figures for a Migrant INVASION. "

🚨 Tulsi Gabbard is about to drop NUKE BOMBS on her way out the door. Word is she’s preparing to expose the stolen 2020 election — and the Democrats’ attempt to steal the 2016 election too. Tulsi about to BLOW UP the Democrat Party’s lies for good in her final acts as DNI. This could be massive. What do you think — real or just rumors? 👇 #TulsiGabbard #ElectionIntegrity #2020Election

JUST IN Singer Cyndi Lauper has come out hard AGAINST the SAVE America Act. In this video, you can see her reading from a teleprompter as she attempts to pit women against voter ID — which 84% of Americans support. Cyndi, girls just want to have fair elections.

On this Memorial Day, my heart feels heavy as I remember my brothers and sisters I served with who never made it home. We honor their ultimate sacrifice by standing up for the principles that unite us as Americans, defending our God-given freedoms, treating one another with aloha—respecting each other as children of God—and always striving for peace. Never forget. 🇺🇸

Pattern recognition time: Republicans could lock in midterm wins the easy way — by embracing Steve Cortes’ simple message. Deport every illegal. Slash legal immigration to a trickle. Supply and demand fixes wages, and it protects the wild spaces and values we’re importing away. Instead, they fumble basics like the SAVE Act and do… nothing. Are they playing to lose? Or just stuck in old defaults? Time to primary the RINOs and elect winners who get it. Supporting mass deportations isn’t radical — it’s obvious pattern recognition. Winners see the system and act. It’s actually very easy to win if you choose to.

🚨SHOCKING: 🇩🇪 AfD Alice Weidel REVEALS Seniors are EVICTED to Free Up Housing for Migrants! "Your policies are throwing German seniors out of their apartments while new housing is blocked by political interference."

The most insidious part of the zero point energy technology is the people that figured it out for the government are embedded with the people trying to figure it out publicly. They're there to monitor and see if anyone gets close. That's why they have no interest in the MH370 videos, those videos reveal the truth laid bare.

Wait until you hear about his personal friend David Alder of Progressive International and The Hague Group Hint hint