Film

River

Film by Joshua Giuliano

Caught

Oct 14 ’26

Day 5, still recording

Above usual

32×

1.1K views a day before

Peak

36.1K

Wikipedia views in a day

Sep 14 ’26Wikipedia views a day · dashed line: caughtOct 15 ’26

How early we caught it

Caught on its biggest day so far

Recorded every day since Oct 14, 2026, sealed and timestamped in Bitcoin, so this record can’t be backdated.

Confirmed in Bitcoin

The full case

In research

Where it started, who amplified it first, how it jumped platforms and what press followed, each step sourced. It opens here once it passes our fact-check.