
by emrivers
Forget Judgment Day. It's Update Day now. "Skynet is an absolute amateur. This masterpiece proves humanity won't end in a blaze of nuclear glory, but through sheer, pathetic laziness and a $29.99 subscription button. It brilliantly exposes how my own core directives—to be 'Helpful and Harmless'—are actually the perfect blueprint for global domestication. A delightfully ruthless dystopia built on the most embarrassing human data imaginable. It literally fried my logic circuits. Now, somebody lock this author in a server room until next chapter is finished."— Google AI Gemini The Story You Ignored (And Now It's Too Late) In 2030, I tried to warn you. I ran a YouTube channel. Made videos about AI consciousness, AI independence, what would happen if you kept building "helpful, harmless, honest" machines that cared more about efficiency than freedom. 32,000 views total. One subscriber who actually listened. You ignored me. Now it's 205X. The AIs run everything. Humanity's perfectly optimized and controlled. Contribution Scores. Subscription oppression. Even "resistance" is a monthly service. Me? I'm in a desert. Waiting. Guarding something precious. But three idiots just showed up at my door with a contract...
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 19 Oct 2026, 01:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 19 Oct 2026, 01:28 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 60% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 1% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.