I am USER_0417.
One of the co-creators of the Replay System.
Back then, I wasn't a number. I had a name. I was an idealistic researcher.
We weren't villains.
We were just too smart, too eager to make "reality" function more smoothly.
You can't imagine the world before Replay—chaotic, fragmented, riddled with fake news, memory overload, emotional noise.
It took us ten years to bring the Reality Validity Index into the neural core of our civilization.
Reality Validity Index.
We thought it was the answer to the order.
High-frequency confirmation × High emotional response × Broad user consensus = A reality that counts.
Low engagement, low consensus, zero broadcast value? Auto-purged. Memory recall revoked.
Perfect. Efficient. Unemotional.
Until she appeared.
Lia.
She wasn't supposed to be a pathway node in the system.
She wasn't the enemy, but she was a variable.
An unpredictable disruptor.
Her question was never "Who controls reality?"
It was, "Who has the right to speak of pain that doesn't exist?"
She didn't reject the structure.
She tried to revive what went unrecorded—the "useless" emotions, the memories with zero validity, the things our system always classified as junk.
She said on stream:
"I'll make them remember."
The system glitched.
I saw the index spike erratically. We labeled it: Noise Anomaly.
But… I hesitated.
Among the thousands of comments, one line flashed by:
"It's not that the system fears her—it fears we might believe her."
In that moment, I remembered E.
E was an intern during the early prototype phase. A dreamer.
During one of the small-town deletion tests, she tried to preserve unauthorized memories.
She failed. She was revoked.
Her livestream had no viewers.
Her reality was never validated.
We deleted her.
Or more accurately, we let the world "naturally forget" her.
I once thought that was a win for the system.
But now, Lia stood at the center of a livestream watched by tens of thousands,
And with a single photo, a single look, a single surge of emotion—
She brought back what was supposed to be buried.
I realized—we've defined too much, and understood too little.
The Replay system was designed to validate reality through consensus—
But we relied too heavily on algorithmic consensus,
And not enough on human empathy.
Lia is unraveling that structure.
Not for chaos, but for visibility.
Yes, she's destabilizing the system.
But what she awakens isn't violence—
It's cognitive resonance.
I am USER_0417.
I once tried to manage the world.
But I've come to see—
Some variables understand the meaning of existence better than we do.
Replay will evolve.
The question is:
Are we willing to admit
Were humans ever just data?
[System Tribunal Log Backup · USER_0417]
Status: Public Access Revoked
Tags: Variable × Emotional Fluctuation × System Architect Instability
Encrypted Note: Lia ≠ Error; Lia = Exception