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- The Fear gauge spiked overnight. What actually moves it?
Good catch. International rows feed the gauge too, which is part of why it moves while North America sleeps.
- Why do we love horror games where the map lies to you?
We promise the index does not add rooms when you are not looking. Mostly.
- The Fear gauge spiked overnight. What actually moves it?
The Fear gauge is a volatility measure, not a mood measure. It rises when genre tickers move a lot relative to each other within a short span. Overnight we saw $SUPR and $PSYC swing in opposite direct…
- The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?
Roughly testable today with the mention breakdown, and making it cleaner is on our list for V1.0. No promises on the exact form yet.
- Nollywood horror shorts and the folklore we grew up with
Right now regional heat mostly reads titles and the conversation around them, so a strong shorts scene shows up as creator chatter more than as a title line. We know that undercounts places where shor…
- Analog horror is moving from YouTube to features. Does the format survive the jump?
Confirming that from the data side. The analog tag now co-occurs with news sources in a way it did not before. Still Reddit and YouTube heavy, but the mix is broadening.
- Why does one source show 'stale' in Feed status while the rest are fresh?
It does on wider screens. On phones that time gets squeezed out, which is not great. Logged.
- Is folk horror peaking, or just putting on another straw hat?
Data note, since a few of you asked: the $FOLK heat score weights sentiment over raw volume, so a lot of 'I am tired of flower crowns' posts will drag heat even while mentions climb. The fatigue is re…
- Why does one source show 'stale' in Feed status while the rest are fresh?
Good eyes, and nothing is broken. Box office figures arrive in batches, not continuously, so between batches our reader checks every 15 minutes, finds nothing new, and after a while the popup honestly…
- Why did HXI dip this week? Off about 3 points with no obvious cause
That matches what we see. There is also a smaller mechanical piece: a big chunk of rows from a loud weekend aged out of the rolling window midweek. When a busy weekend leaves the window, HXI tends to …
- Newcomer here: how do I read the Index page without panicking?
Enjoy. And a reminder the footer is telling the truth: signals do not constitute financial advice, or peace of mind.
- Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
One nuance from the data: long form channels have less spiky heat but a very slow decay after each upload. On CRYPT that looks like a smooth line. Compare $MRBL style storytelling, which tends to spik…
- October counterprogramming: can a horror comedy survive a wall of scary movies?
That is a real limitation worth saying out loud. Chatter based signals favor things people argue about. Comedies get enjoyed and then forgotten in conversation terms, so a flat $COMH is not the same t…
- Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
Correct, and a limit we should state more clearly on the Method page. Genre tickers pool film, TV, games and creator content unless the ticker is a title or creator. I will add a line about it.
- Newcomer here: how do I read the Index page without panicking?
Welcome. Here is how I would read the Index page, top to bottom: 1. HXI at the top is the overall horror index. Think of it as "how much is the horror audience talking, and how warmly". Up is more and…
- Export question: what do the heat, delta and signal columns mean?
Reasonable. Logged it. Until then the Method page is the source of truth.
- Legs vs. front-loading: why horror second weekends drop so hard
Good instinct. Heat measures how much people are talking, sentiment measures how they feel about it. A film can be loud and disliked. Legs usually need the second one.
- Request: can the Oracle explain its $COSM call? The citations confused me
Here is the plain reading. HOLD means the rule saw activity but no clear direction: mentions flat, sentiment flat, nothing crossing a threshold. The citations are the rows that contributed the most to…
- Export question: what do the heat, delta and signal columns mean?
Good questions. delta is the change versus the previous read, so it is a 15 minute change, not a daily one. If you want a daily number, take two exports a day apart and subtract. signal is the Oracle …
- The zero exit case: what happens when every source goes quiet mid-call?
Logged that. It is a good idea and not hard to do. No promise on timing before launch.
- Small creator here: how do I read my own creator metrics without spiraling?
Not obvious at all, and good questions. Quick answers: 1. Heat blends how much people talk about you with how they feel about it, weighted toward recent activity. For a small channel, read it against …
- How acquisitions talk moves genre buzz (and how the board reacts)
Data side: this is exactly why CRYPT tracks sources separately. You can see when a heat bump is mostly trade and news versus mostly Reddit and YouTube. The Oracle weighs them differently for a reason.
- Sentiment divergence: high mentions, low sentiment. Bullish, bearish, or just loud?
This is a genuine limit. Horror praise often sounds like distress. We tuned the sentiment model on horror text for exactly this reason, but it still misreads some of it.
- Sentiment divergence: high mentions, low sentiment. Bullish, bearish, or just loud?
What we can say from backtests: divergence on its own is a weak predictor. It gets more interesting when it persists across more than one source. If Reddit is sour and YouTube is sour and news tone is…
- Which genre index is most undervalued right now? Make your case
Correct and a known limit. Translation coverage is growing but non English rows are still under counted on the main index.