The pull rate was printed at the bottom of the terms in grey: 0.025 percent. She had read it twice and modelled it in a spreadsheet during a stand-up, thirty-eight years old, backend engineer, good salary, quiet apartment. Two hundred dollars was the budget she set for the anniversary banner. Across nine days she spent eleven hundred and forty.

When it finally came she said the whole absurd name out loud to an empty room, every star and diamond of it, then screenshotted the screen four times and posted it to a Discord where eleven people typed congratulations. The animation ran nine seconds. Underneath it the art was a static figure and a lens flare. She checked how many hours were left on the banner.