From 4f3c90043cbfbcdc027c49880c72a9076c5d408a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "prompt.ac/@jeffrey" <mail@aesthetic.computer>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2026 12:49:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?wild=20page:=20rich=20media=20=E2=80=94=20every?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20sighting=20slurped=20onto=20our=20own=20shelf?=
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wild-slurp.mjs archives each /wild entry's media (yt-dlp video, Pullpush
thread JSON, MediaWiki parses, page snapshots + og posters) into the
assets CDN so sightings outlive their sources; wild.html renders the
archived players, posters, and ⤓ links. 64/80 archived; the rest are
rate-limits and bot-walls logged for a later pass.
---
 system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild.html      |   50 +-
 system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild/wild.json | 1122 +++++++++++++++--
 toolchain/whistlegraph/wild-slurp.mjs         |  188 +++
 3 files changed, 1231 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 toolchain/whistlegraph/wild-slurp.mjs

diff --git a/system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild.html b/system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild.html
index 463b57a7d8..eda8af7874 100644
--- a/system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild.html
+++ b/system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild.html
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@
   .excerpt::before{content:"“"}
   .excerpt::after{content:"”"}
 
+  .media{margin:8px 0 4px}
+  .media img,.media video{display:block;max-width:100%;max-height:360px;
+    border:1px solid var(--hair);border-radius:6px;background:#efece2}
+  .media a.shot{display:inline-block;line-height:0}
+  .keep{font:11px var(--mono);color:var(--dim);margin-top:3px;display:block}
+  .keep a{color:var(--dim)}
+
   footer{max-width:760px;margin:30px auto 0;font:12px/1.7 var(--mono);color:var(--dim)}
   footer a{color:var(--dim)}
 </style>
@@ -61,8 +68,9 @@
 <main id="field"></main>
 <footer>
   Third-party sightings across the open web, gathered by coordinated search
-  sweeps and link-verified before listing. Some pages may have drifted or died
-  since; that is the wild for you.
+  sweeps and link-verified before listing. Media and page snapshots are
+  slurped onto our own shelf (⤓) so a sighting outlives its source; the
+  originals may still drift or die — that is the wild for you.
 </footer>
 
 <script type="module">
@@ -113,6 +121,44 @@ try {
         q.textContent = e.excerpt;
         art.append(q);
       }
+      if (e.media) {
+        // Slurped copies (wild-slurp.mjs): the sighting's own media, kept on
+        // our shelf so it outlives the source page.
+        const m = e.media;
+        const box = document.createElement("div");
+        box.className = "media";
+        if (m.video) {
+          const v = document.createElement("video");
+          v.src = m.video;
+          v.controls = true;
+          v.preload = "none";
+          v.playsInline = true;
+          if (m.poster) v.poster = m.poster;
+          box.append(v);
+        } else if (m.poster) {
+          const shot = document.createElement("a");
+          shot.className = "shot";
+          shot.href = m.archive || e.url;
+          shot.rel = "noopener";
+          const img = document.createElement("img");
+          img.src = m.poster;
+          img.loading = "lazy";
+          img.alt = e.title;
+          shot.append(img);
+          box.append(shot);
+        }
+        if (m.archive) {
+          const keep = document.createElement("span");
+          keep.className = "keep";
+          const ka = document.createElement("a");
+          ka.href = m.archive;
+          ka.rel = "noopener";
+          ka.textContent = `archived copy · ${m.slurped || ""}`;
+          keep.append("⤓ ", ka);
+          box.append(keep);
+        }
+        if (box.childNodes.length) art.append(box);
+      }
       sec.append(art);
     }
     return sec;
diff --git a/system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild/wild.json b/system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild/wild.json
index 4e2a829cd1..2e3d6b0dc2 100644
--- a/system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild/wild.json
+++ b/system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild/wild.json
@@ -1,130 +1,998 @@
 {
-  "about": "Sightings of whistlegraph in the wild — third-party content across the open web, gathered by coordinated search agents on 2026-09-05 and link-verified. Source ledger: toolchain/whistlegraph/WILD.md.",
-  "updated": "2026-09-05",
-  "sections": [
-    {
-      "title": "the lore machine",
-      "blurb": "The October 2022 incident — Jeffrey vanishing from videos, the blood video, the TikTok ban — set off a genuine ARG hunt across Reddit's theory subreddits.",
-      "entries": [
-        { "date": "2022-11-01", "platform": "r/ARG", "title": "Anyone know what's going on with whistlegraph?", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/yjevha/anyone_know_whats_going_on_with_whistlegraph/", "gist": "The ARG community asks if it's a live ARG; a commenter recounts the whole lore for outsiders." },
-        { "date": "2022-11-01", "platform": "r/GameTheorists", "title": "TikTok mystery (I think?)", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/yivwwx/tiktok_mystery_i_think/", "gist": "MatPat's community flags whistlegraph as an unsolved TikTok mystery." },
-        { "date": "2022-11-02", "platform": "r/FilmTheorists", "title": "WHISTLEGRAPH LORE????????????", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/yklzpj/whistlegraph_lore/", "gist": "The imposter-Jeffrey theory; still drawing comments as late as June 2024.", "excerpt": "even jeffrey himself said that wasnt the real jeffrey" },
-        { "date": "2022-11-05", "platform": "r/ARG", "title": "Whistlegraphs", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/ymem0m/whistlegraphs/", "gist": "The third member vanishes from main videos but appears in cryptic ones — Halloween bit or real ARG?" },
-        { "date": "2022-11-11", "platform": "r/FilmTheorists", "title": "What the heck is going on with the whistlegraph account", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/yryd77/what_the_heck_is_going_on_with_the_whistlegraph/", "excerpt": "some sort of cult and Guy #3 has been missing", "gist": "Fans tracked Jeffrey's on-camera disappearance as ongoing lore." },
-        { "date": "2022-11-16", "platform": "r/FilmTheorists", "title": "So the numbers in this video are suspicious", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/yx7nzz/whistlegraphs_so_the_numbers_in_this_video_are/", "gist": "Fans ran the five-number sequences through Wolfram Alpha and got December 19 of 2020 and 2018." },
-        { "date": "2022-11-19", "platform": "r/FilmTheorists", "title": "Butterfly symbolism thread", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/yz59o6/whistlegraphs_i_couldnt_upload_all_the_butterfly/", "excerpt": "There are no happy butterflies", "gist": "\"Jeffrey is the butterfly, right?\" — noting the destroyed spider web and the account's reply." },
-        { "date": "2022-11-22", "platform": "r/GameTheorists", "title": "Theory Suggestions Megathread pitch", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/p12qd6/theory_suggestions_megathread/ixbg8u0/", "gist": "A fan formally pitched whistlegraph for a MatPat episode." },
-        { "date": "2022-12-11", "platform": "r/FilmTheorists", "title": "The channel keeps deleting their videos", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/zihafa/so_the_whistlegraph_channel_keeps_deleting_their/", "excerpt": "Jeffrey might've been traded for the girl?", "gist": "A fan archived videos as fast as they vanished, hunting hidden messages in a commercial." },
-        { "date": "2022-12-12", "platform": "r/FilmTheorists", "title": "Dropping lore but idk how to decode it", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/zjlnht/whistlegraph_tiktok_is_dropping_lore_but_idk_how/", "gist": "Spectrogram-hunting the static in album teasers; cross-posted to r/ARG for backup." },
-        { "date": "2022-12-13", "platform": "r/FilmTheorists", "title": "The mystery includes a trippy art app", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/zl8afp/the_whistlegraph_mystery_includes_a_trippy_art/", "gist": "The ARG hunt led fans into nopaint.art." },
-        { "date": "2022-12-23", "platform": "r/FilmTheorists", "title": "Y'all, there's been a lore drop! Their new album!", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/ztrocl/yall_theres_been_a_whistlegraph_lore_drop_their/", "gist": "Fan gallery of the 12/22/22 album release, plus an image from a deleted video." },
-        { "date": "2024-03-09", "platform": "r/FilmTheorists", "title": "The retrospective", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/1b9wgqe/what_it_a_franchise_or_show_you_really_wanted/ku1dpyf/", "excerpt": "an ARG that involved trying to literally make a new art form", "gist": "The main theorist, remembering it two years later." }
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "title": "the fan wiki",
-      "blurb": "An organized fan community wrote a fourteen-article encyclopedia at whistlegraph.fandom.com.",
-      "entries": [
-        { "platform": "Fandom", "title": "Whistlegraph Wiki", "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Whistlegraph_Wiki", "excerpt": "The official wiki for all things Whistlegraph. Lore. People. More.", "gist": "The main page, featuring trio fanart credited to Mikaela Hamilton." },
-        { "platform": "Fandom", "title": "Whistlegraph lore", "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Whistlegraph_lore", "excerpt": "He is trapped inside of a computer", "gist": "The richest fan-theory document found anywhere: the October Incident, the ban, the petition." },
-        { "platform": "Fandom", "title": "The Whistlegraph trio", "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/The_Whistlegraph_trio", "excerpt": "Organization Type: Performance Trio, Band, Religious coven", "gist": "Fan-written history from the 2020 Ashland cabin to a 'Disbandment' section dated Nov 2023." },
-        { "platform": "Fandom", "title": "Whistlegraph (Concept)", "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Whistlegraph_(Concept)", "gist": "A fan-authored definition of the art form, with lyrics transcribed from memory." },
-        { "platform": "Fandom", "title": "Perry (Periyala)", "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Perry_(Periyala)", "gist": "A wiki page about a superfan: her Zoom interview, cassette documentary, Discord ban, and continued activity on aesthetic.computer." },
-        { "platform": "Fandom", "title": "Ella Fleck", "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Ella_Fleck", "gist": "Fans tracking peripheral collaborators — the Whistlegraph dance, 'Hair doodle for Ella'." },
-        { "platform": "Fandom", "title": "The Whistlegraph House", "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/The_Whistlegraph_House", "gist": "The Ashland cabin as a lore location." },
-        { "platform": "Fandom", "title": "Squeezy", "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Squeezy", "excerpt": "Squeezy is something.", "gist": "The entire body text of the page." }
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "title": "the 252-million-view butterfly",
-      "blurb": "The biggest whistlegraph artifact in the wild is a reupload.",
-      "entries": [
-        { "date": "2021-02-11", "platform": "YouTube · Viral Queens", "title": "I Am A Butterfly (reupload)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslk5WclnRw", "gist": "~252 million views, 4.9M likes, ~10,000 comments — dwarfing the official channel; its comment section is a live fan archive." },
-        { "date": "2021-04-12", "platform": "YouTube · Viral Saga", "title": "I Am A Butterfly TikTok WhistleGraph", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj-sOdKS2Fs", "gist": "Another compilation channel riding the 2021 wave." },
-        { "date": "2021-09-26", "platform": "YouTube · Drawing For Kids", "title": "Butterfly reupload", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rWhUeAb6hI", "gist": "The butterfly recirculated as children's drawing content." }
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "title": "fan works",
-      "entries": [
-        { "date": "2022-05-18", "platform": "Archive of Our Own", "title": "Dot, Dot, Kiss", "url": "https://archiveofourown.org/works/39079263", "excerpt": "credits to the \"song\" go to whistlegraph on tiktok!", "gist": "A 2,091-word One Piece songfic structured scene-by-scene on a whistlegraph's strokes — the only whistlegraph hit on all of AO3." },
-        { "date": "2022-06-11", "platform": "YouTube", "title": "whistlegraphblocks & whistlegraph", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBHR7VwU6ys", "gist": "A fan channel invented a 'whistlegraphblocks' spin-off concept — the first of at least three tribute videos." },
-        { "date": "2022-10-25", "platform": "Change.org", "title": "#SAVEWHISTLEGRAPH", "url": "https://www.change.org/p/bring-back-whistlegraph", "gist": "The petition Perry started when TikTok banned the account; 21 signatures; the fan wiki credits it with the restoration." },
-        { "date": "2023-06-05", "platform": "YouTube · LBBWhistlegraphs", "title": "Student whistlegraphs, 2022–23 school year", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNg4XssVyoM", "gist": "A teacher's channel dedicated to whistlegraphs made with students — the form taught in classrooms." },
-        { "date": "2023-06-05", "platform": "YouTube · LBBWhistlegraphs", "title": "Student-inspired whistlegraph", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LY6VvVIdco", "gist": "With a companion blog at lbbwhistlegraphs.com, now offline." },
-        { "platform": "Pinterest", "title": "My First Whistlegraph", "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/my-first-whistlegraph--624100460884046714/", "excerpt": "I decided to create a whistlegraph of my own!", "gist": "An original fan-made whistlegraph — a smiling figure with a heart." },
-        { "platform": "Pinterest", "title": "Lady Bradi Bug Whistlegraphs", "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/lbbwhistlegraphs/", "gist": "Teacher and blogger Bradi Harrington built a whole personal practice of original whistlegraphs." },
-        { "date": "2023-06-11", "platform": "YouTube", "title": "@whistlegraph (tribute)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykO8AkXREn8", "gist": "A third tribute from the same dedicated fan channel." },
-        { "date": "2024-08-06", "platform": "YouTube · bo en archive", "title": "some of the time (unreleased)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwwiNvglfw", "gist": "A fan-run archive channel preserving an unreleased whistlegraph × bo en collaboration from a livestream." },
-        { "date": "2024-08-06", "platform": "YouTube · bo en archive", "title": "butterfly (extended instrumental)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgvA4kvMShA", "gist": "Rescued from a special mixtape and mirrored on archive.org." },
-        { "date": "2024-08-19", "platform": "YouTube", "title": "(cursed video) Triaingle", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L--nKFXq6bI", "gist": "The songs circulating as meme raw material years after the peak." },
-        { "date": "2025-06-03", "platform": "YouTube", "title": "@whistlegraph But Nickelodeon Creatures", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5552rV8PC4w", "gist": "A kid-culture mashup redrawing whistlegraph performances as Nickelodeon characters." }
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "title": "haters and doubters",
-      "entries": [
-        { "date": "2020-04-23", "platform": "r/delusionalartists", "title": "This video is trying way too hard to be artistic", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/delusionalartists/comments/g6oqtk/i_get_what_hes_trying_to_say_but_this_video_is/", "gist": "An early mockery thread (42 points) — u/whistlegraph replied in person, explaining the work." },
-        { "date": "2020-04-23", "platform": "r/delusionalartists", "title": "This fully grown man considers himself an artist", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/delusionalartists/comments/g6nb1e/this_fully_grown_man_considers_himself_an_artist/", "excerpt": "He calls his work \"Whistlegraphs\". He's 100% serious.", "gist": "Deleted by a mod for pearl-clutching; comments split between mockers and defenders." },
-        { "date": "2022-04-07", "platform": "r/AskReddit", "title": "What shouldn't irritate you as much as it does?", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tyai70/whats_something_that_shouldnt_irritate_you_as/i3r3ahz/", "excerpt": "idk why I just really can't stand them", "gist": "Broad-audience irritation as a measure of reach." },
-        { "date": "2022-04-22", "platform": "r/AskReddit", "title": "What TikToker do you hate the most and why?", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/u9hud3/what_tiktoker_do_you_hate_the_most_and_why/i5s1vqh/", "excerpt": "Whistlegraph. I don't know why though. Just something about them.", "gist": "The same user, two weeks later." }
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "title": "memory, recognition, and the word escaping",
-      "entries": [
-        { "date": "2020-04-07", "platform": "r/Documentaries", "title": "Meeting Mr. Kid Pix comment", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/fvfmel/meeting_mr_kid_pix_2020_description_in_comments/fmn8k4e/", "gist": "A commenter connects the filmmaker to 'a tiktok account called Whistlegraphs'." },
-        { "date": "2020-06-18", "platform": "r/InternetIsBeautiful", "title": "No Paint thread", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/hb6qa6/no_paint_a_simple_website_for_creating_unique_art/fv93964/", "excerpt": "made by whistlegraph on tiktok! hes a nice guy", "gist": "Commenters identify No Paint's author." },
-        { "date": "2020-07-29", "platform": "r/tipofmytongue", "title": "The rhythm-doodles hunt", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/i04w7h/tomt_tiktok_account_where_he_makes_rhythm_doodles/", "gist": "The work stuck in memory before the name did — solved by commenters as Whistlegraph." },
-        { "date": "2020-12-09", "platform": "r/AnimalsOnReddit", "title": "Wild voice recognition", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsOnReddit/comments/k9ryvn/big_fur/gf61fvj/", "excerpt": "your voice sounds exactly like the whistlegraphs guy on tiktok", "gist": "On an unrelated animal video." },
-        { "date": "2021-01-16", "platform": "r/whistlegraph", "title": "Join the No Paint Discord", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/whistlegraph/comments/kyaahy/join_the_no_paint_discord/", "gist": "A dedicated fan subreddit exists, created January 2021." },
-        { "date": "2022-12-13", "platform": "r/whistlegraph", "title": "I'm excited about the album 12/22/22!", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/whistlegraph/comments/zkfoqd/im_excited_about_the_album_122222/", "gist": "The superfan brought the hype to the fan subreddit." },
-        { "date": "2023-04-24", "platform": "r/oddlysatisfying", "title": "Pen plotter synced to piano", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/12x9ie1/pen_plotter_programmed_to_sync_with_piano_piece/jhjuuxp/", "excerpt": "Whistlegraph?", "gist": "The coined word used as a genre label for a stranger's work." },
-        { "date": "2023-09-10", "platform": "r/tipofmytongue", "title": "The second hunt", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/16eognd/tomt_word_or_account_20212022_help_me_find_the/", "gist": "'A really lovely song/drawing style on TikTok' — solved in February 2024; people still re-finding it years later." },
-        { "date": "2024-01-27", "platform": "r/4tran4", "title": "Anyone know what this image means?", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/4tran4/comments/1abv3tt/anyone_know_what_this_image_means/kjr3jh4/", "excerpt": "Apparently this is a whistlegraph", "gist": "A whistlegraph image circulating out of context in a shitposting subreddit." },
-        { "date": "2026-07-16", "platform": "Wiktionary", "title": "whistlegraph, n.", "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whistlegraph", "excerpt": "a piece of art created via whistlegraphing", "gist": "A third-party editor added the noun — and 'whistlegraphing' the same day. The coined word entered a crowd-edited dictionary." }
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "title": "press, criticism, institutions",
-      "blurb": "Coverage beyond the archive's known press list.",
-      "entries": [
-        { "date": "2020-02-01", "platform": "Twitter", "title": "bo en announces the butterfly collab", "url": "https://x.com/boenyeah/status/1223732726597066757", "gist": "Musician bo en (Calum Bowen) quoting the lyric to his followers." },
-        { "date": "2021-03-16", "platform": "Schneider Museum of Art", "title": "Art Beyond 2021", "url": "https://sma.sou.edu/whistlegraph/", "gist": "The hometown museum featured Whistlegraph at Lithia Park, Ashland." },
-        { "date": "2021-05-27", "platform": "Schneider Museum of Art", "title": "Creative Industries Discussion", "url": "https://sma.sou.edu/virtual-creative-industries-discussion-whistlegraph/", "gist": "A public talk hosted by the museum; recorded on their channel." },
-        { "date": "2021-06-11", "platform": "YouTube · Schneider Museum", "title": "Creative Industries Discussion (video)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZRVTHLu10I", "gist": "The talk, uploaded on the museum's own channel." },
-        { "date": "2021", "platform": "Schneider Museum of Art", "title": "Free Family Days with Whistlegraph", "url": "https://sma.sou.edu/free-family-days-with-whistlegraph/", "gist": "Sketchbook giveaways and drawing prompts at Lithia Park." },
-        { "date": "2021-10-05", "platform": "The Adam McBride Show", "title": "An Artist's View on NFTs, Art, and Apes", "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-artists-view-on-nfts-art-and-apes-jeffrey-alan-scudder/id1410811576?i=1000537658640", "gist": "A podcast interview; the host recommends the whistlegraph TikTok." },
-        { "date": "2021-11-10", "platform": "TrendHunter", "title": "Whistlegraphs Combines Music and Drawing to Create Poetic Images", "url": "https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/whistlegraphs", "gist": "The trend industry files whistlegraphs under brand opportunity." },
-        { "date": "2022-03-02", "platform": "Rhizome", "title": "Apply to Whistlegraph Workshops", "url": "https://rhizome.org/editorial/2022/mar/02/apply-to-whistlegraph-workshops/", "gist": "Free Write-a-Whistlegraph workshops for teens ahead of the New Museum performance." },
-        { "date": "2022-05-20", "platform": "Twitter", "title": "Taipei Dangdai announces the Launch Stage", "url": "https://x.com/taipeidangdai/status/1527708136865337344", "gist": "The art fair opened its Launch Stage with a live whistlegraph performance and a conversation with Casey Reas and Feral File." },
-        { "date": "2022-05-20", "platform": "christopheradams.io", "title": "Launch Stage", "url": "https://github.com/christopheradams/christopheradams.io/blob/master/_posts/2022-05-20-launch-stage.md", "gist": "The stage's builder lists Whistlegraph for Feral File among four featured digital-art platform artists." },
-        { "date": "2022-06-03", "platform": "YouTube", "title": "Live at Cold Spring Hollow", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3p1WlvGgus", "gist": "Audience-shot recording of a live performance in Belchertown, Massachusetts." },
-        { "date": "2022-09-13", "platform": "Rhizome", "title": "First Look: The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far)", "url": "https://rhizome.org/editorial/2022/sep/13/first-look-the-longest-whistlegraph-ever-so-far/", "gist": "The commissioned work's online debut announcement." },
-        { "date": "2022-10-05", "platform": "Rhizome", "title": "Write-a-Whistlegraph workshop documentation", "url": "https://rhizome.org/editorial/2022/oct/05/write-a-whistlegraph-workshop-documentation/", "gist": "The Far Rockaway curriculum residency, preserving student-composed whistlegraphs like 'I Love Jim' and 'Third Eye'." },
-        { "date": "2022", "platform": "New Museum", "title": "Rhizome Presents: TLWESF", "url": "https://www.newmuseum.org/event/rhizome-presents-the-longest-whistlegraph-ever-so-far/", "gist": "The museum-side listing of the chalkboard performance, debuted May 14, 2022." },
-        { "date": "2022", "platform": "Feral File journal", "title": "Doodling Clockwork in Lore and Score", "url": "https://feralfile.com/journal/close-up/whistlegraph-doodling-clockwork-in-lore-and-score", "gist": "Dorothy Howard's commissioned close-up essay on the whistlegraph form." },
-        { "date": "2022-11-06", "platform": "cmarthoughts.com", "title": "Whistlegraph: body language", "url": "https://cmarthoughts.com/whistlegraph-body-language/", "excerpt": "performance at its perfection", "gist": "An independent blog review analyzing the trio's body language — unsolicited criticism on no known press list." },
-        { "date": "2023-03-07", "platform": "Galerie Yeche Lange", "title": "Whistlegraph survey talk", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD-6j1cNgMo", "gist": "The NYC gallery presents the work including Underpainting's debut at School of Truth." },
-        { "date": "2023-09-06", "platform": "Dirt", "title": "What is a whistlegraph?", "url": "https://www.magazine.dirt.fyi/p/whistlegraph", "gist": "Nika Simovich Fisher's explainer, framing the trio as a pandemic-era introduction to conceptual art — cited as a source by the fan wiki." },
-        { "platform": "KADIST", "title": "Jeffrey Alan Scudder", "url": "https://kadist.org/people/jeffrey-alan-scudder/", "gist": "Collection artist bio crediting the whistlegraph TikTok and its drawing tutorials set to music." },
-        { "platform": "Wildxyz", "title": "Jeffrey Scudder", "url": "https://wild.xyz/jeffrey-scudder/", "gist": "Artist profile describing the founder of a performance group popularizing an art style by the same name." },
-        { "platform": "left.gallery", "title": "whistlegraph [aka Jeffrey]", "url": "https://left.gallery/jeffrey-alan-scudder", "gist": "The gallery adopted the whistlegraph identity for his artist page." },
-        { "platform": "celinekatzman.com", "title": "Curator portfolio", "url": "https://celinekatzman.com/entrance/tag:new+museum", "gist": "Celine Wong Katzman documents her commissioning of The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far)." },
-        { "platform": "OpenSea", "title": "TLWESF collection", "url": "https://opensea.io/collection/the-longest-whistlegraph-ever-so-far", "gist": "Five tokens, two owners, and the Herbert W. Franke tribute edition on secondary-market infrastructure." }
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "title": "tech and design worlds",
-      "entries": [
-        { "date": "2021-08-05", "platform": "Hacker News", "title": "Kid Pix as a JavaScript App", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077188", "excerpt": "It's by Jeffrey Alan Scudder aka Whistlegraph", "gist": "Greg Sadetsky recommends the Craig Hickman mini-documentary and calls No Paint fantastic." },
-        { "date": "2021-10-23", "platform": "Are.na", "title": "the way conversations move", "url": "https://www.are.na/block/13686465", "gist": "leslie liu cites whistlegraphs while thinking about neurodivergent conversation cadence — a conceptual reference, not a bookmark." },
-        { "date": "2023-02-08", "platform": "Are.na", "title": "Whistlegraph: Winter 2022", "url": "https://www.are.na/block/20283279", "gist": "Saved by designer-educator Rosa McElheny; roughly thirty whistlegraph blocks exist across Are.na." },
-        { "date": "2024-06-16", "platform": "Grant Custer's blog", "title": "Inspiration: Meeting Mr. Kid Pix", "url": "https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2024-06-16-19-33-19-Inspiration-Meeting-Mr-Kid-Pix", "excerpt": "So nice to see people putting effort to understand + be understood.", "gist": "Using the film to think through why delightful paint programs differ from video games." },
-        { "date": "2024-06-19", "platform": "Hacker News", "title": "Don Hopkins quotes the praise", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725172", "gist": "The HCI figure passes Custer's recommendation along." },
-        { "date": "2024-09-13", "platform": "Hacker News", "title": "Mapping the ecosystem", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528056", "gist": "A commenter shares the aesthetic-computer repo as background for other readers." },
-        { "date": "2026-03-30", "platform": "Are.na", "title": "Whistlegraph TikTok Compilation No. 2", "url": "https://www.are.na/block/44887043", "gist": "Saved by artist Travess Smalley this past March — still circulating among artists." }
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+ "about": "Sightings of whistlegraph in the wild — third-party content across the open web, gathered by coordinated search agents on 2026-09-05 and link-verified. Source ledger: toolchain/whistlegraph/WILD.md.",
+ "updated": "2026-09-05",
+ "sections": [
+  {
+   "title": "the lore machine",
+   "blurb": "The October 2022 incident — Jeffrey vanishing from videos, the blood video, the TikTok ban — set off a genuine ARG hunt across Reddit's theory subreddits.",
+   "entries": [
+    {
+     "date": "2022-11-01",
+     "platform": "r/ARG",
+     "title": "Anyone know what's going on with whistlegraph?",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/yjevha/anyone_know_whats_going_on_with_whistlegraph/",
+     "gist": "The ARG community asks if it's a live ARG; a commenter recounts the whole lore for outsiders.",
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+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-11-01",
+     "platform": "r/GameTheorists",
+     "title": "TikTok mystery (I think?)",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/yivwwx/tiktok_mystery_i_think/",
+     "gist": "MatPat's community flags whistlegraph as an unsolved TikTok mystery.",
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+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-01-reddit-1f8ddd.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-11-02",
+     "platform": "r/FilmTheorists",
+     "title": "WHISTLEGRAPH LORE????????????",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/yklzpj/whistlegraph_lore/",
+     "gist": "The imposter-Jeffrey theory; still drawing comments as late as June 2024.",
+     "excerpt": "even jeffrey himself said that wasnt the real jeffrey",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "thread",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-02-reddit-e29b15.reddit.json",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-11-05",
+     "platform": "r/ARG",
+     "title": "Whistlegraphs",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/ymem0m/whistlegraphs/",
+     "gist": "The third member vanishes from main videos but appears in cryptic ones — Halloween bit or real ARG?",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "thread",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-05-reddit-39ae02.reddit.json",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05",
+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-05-reddit-39ae02.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-11-11",
+     "platform": "r/FilmTheorists",
+     "title": "What the heck is going on with the whistlegraph account",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/yryd77/what_the_heck_is_going_on_with_the_whistlegraph/",
+     "excerpt": "some sort of cult and Guy #3 has been missing",
+     "gist": "Fans tracked Jeffrey's on-camera disappearance as ongoing lore.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "thread",
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+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-11-reddit-f92e66.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-11-16",
+     "platform": "r/FilmTheorists",
+     "title": "So the numbers in this video are suspicious",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/yx7nzz/whistlegraphs_so_the_numbers_in_this_video_are/",
+     "gist": "Fans ran the five-number sequences through Wolfram Alpha and got December 19 of 2020 and 2018.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "thread",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-16-reddit-5f78c8.reddit.json",
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+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-16-reddit-5f78c8.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-11-19",
+     "platform": "r/FilmTheorists",
+     "title": "Butterfly symbolism thread",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/yz59o6/whistlegraphs_i_couldnt_upload_all_the_butterfly/",
+     "excerpt": "There are no happy butterflies",
+     "gist": "\"Jeffrey is the butterfly, right?\" — noting the destroyed spider web and the account's reply.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "thread",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-19-reddit-680ec4.reddit.json",
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+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-19-reddit-680ec4.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-11-22",
+     "platform": "r/GameTheorists",
+     "title": "Theory Suggestions Megathread pitch",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/p12qd6/theory_suggestions_megathread/ixbg8u0/",
+     "gist": "A fan formally pitched whistlegraph for a MatPat episode.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "thread",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-11-22-reddit-cb71e2.reddit.json",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-12-11",
+     "platform": "r/FilmTheorists",
+     "title": "The channel keeps deleting their videos",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/zihafa/so_the_whistlegraph_channel_keeps_deleting_their/",
+     "excerpt": "Jeffrey might've been traded for the girl?",
+     "gist": "A fan archived videos as fast as they vanished, hunting hidden messages in a commercial.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "thread",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-12-11-reddit-4c879d.reddit.json",
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+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-12-11-reddit-4c879d.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-12-12",
+     "platform": "r/FilmTheorists",
+     "title": "Dropping lore but idk how to decode it",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/zjlnht/whistlegraph_tiktok_is_dropping_lore_but_idk_how/",
+     "gist": "Spectrogram-hunting the static in album teasers; cross-posted to r/ARG for backup.",
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+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-12-13",
+     "platform": "r/FilmTheorists",
+     "title": "The mystery includes a trippy art app",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/zl8afp/the_whistlegraph_mystery_includes_a_trippy_art/",
+     "gist": "The ARG hunt led fans into nopaint.art.",
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+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2022-12-13-reddit-f2e916.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-12-23",
+     "platform": "r/FilmTheorists",
+     "title": "Y'all, there's been a lore drop! Their new album!",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/ztrocl/yall_theres_been_a_whistlegraph_lore_drop_their/",
+     "gist": "Fan gallery of the 12/22/22 album release, plus an image from a deleted video.",
+     "media": {
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+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2024-03-09",
+     "platform": "r/FilmTheorists",
+     "title": "The retrospective",
+     "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/1b9wgqe/what_it_a_franchise_or_show_you_really_wanted/ku1dpyf/",
+     "excerpt": "an ARG that involved trying to literally make a new art form",
+     "gist": "The main theorist, remembering it two years later.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "thread",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2024-03-09-reddit-c7d98f.reddit.json",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
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+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "title": "the fan wiki",
+   "blurb": "An organized fan community wrote a fourteen-article encyclopedia at whistlegraph.fandom.com.",
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+    {
+     "platform": "Fandom",
+     "title": "Whistlegraph Wiki",
+     "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Whistlegraph_Wiki",
+     "excerpt": "The official wiki for all things Whistlegraph. Lore. People. More.",
+     "gist": "The main page, featuring trio fanart credited to Mikaela Hamilton.",
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+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "platform": "Fandom",
+     "title": "Whistlegraph lore",
+     "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Whistlegraph_lore",
+     "excerpt": "He is trapped inside of a computer",
+     "gist": "The richest fan-theory document found anywhere: the October Incident, the ban, the petition.",
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+     }
+    },
+    {
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+     "title": "The Whistlegraph trio",
+     "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/The_Whistlegraph_trio",
+     "excerpt": "Organization Type: Performance Trio, Band, Religious coven",
+     "gist": "Fan-written history from the 2020 Ashland cabin to a 'Disbandment' section dated Nov 2023.",
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+     "title": "Whistlegraph (Concept)",
+     "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Whistlegraph_(Concept)",
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+     "title": "Perry (Periyala)",
+     "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Perry_(Periyala)",
+     "gist": "A wiki page about a superfan: her Zoom interview, cassette documentary, Discord ban, and continued activity on aesthetic.computer.",
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+     "platform": "Fandom",
+     "title": "Ella Fleck",
+     "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Ella_Fleck",
+     "gist": "Fans tracking peripheral collaborators — the Whistlegraph dance, 'Hair doodle for Ella'.",
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+     }
+    },
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+     "title": "The Whistlegraph House",
+     "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/The_Whistlegraph_House",
+     "gist": "The Ashland cabin as a lore location.",
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+     "title": "Squeezy",
+     "url": "https://whistlegraph.fandom.com/wiki/Squeezy",
+     "excerpt": "Squeezy is something.",
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+  },
+  {
+   "title": "the 252-million-view butterfly",
+   "blurb": "The biggest whistlegraph artifact in the wild is a reupload.",
+   "entries": [
+    {
+     "date": "2021-02-11",
+     "platform": "YouTube · Viral Queens",
+     "title": "I Am A Butterfly (reupload)",
+     "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslk5WclnRw",
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+     "platform": "YouTube · Viral Saga",
+     "title": "I Am A Butterfly TikTok WhistleGraph",
+     "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj-sOdKS2Fs",
+     "gist": "Another compilation channel riding the 2021 wave.",
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+     "platform": "YouTube · Drawing For Kids",
+     "title": "Butterfly reupload",
+     "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rWhUeAb6hI",
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+  },
+  {
+   "title": "fan works",
+   "entries": [
+    {
+     "date": "2022-05-18",
+     "platform": "Archive of Our Own",
+     "title": "Dot, Dot, Kiss",
+     "url": "https://archiveofourown.org/works/39079263",
+     "excerpt": "credits to the \"song\" go to whistlegraph on tiktok!",
+     "gist": "A 2,091-word One Piece songfic structured scene-by-scene on a whistlegraph's strokes — the only whistlegraph hit on all of AO3."
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2022-06-11",
+     "platform": "YouTube",
+     "title": "whistlegraphblocks & whistlegraph",
+     "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBHR7VwU6ys",
+     "gist": "A fan channel invented a 'whistlegraphblocks' spin-off concept — the first of at least three tribute videos.",
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+     "excerpt": "Whistlegraph?",
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+     "excerpt": "Apparently this is a whistlegraph",
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+     "gist": "Free Write-a-Whistlegraph workshops for teens ahead of the New Museum performance."
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+     "platform": "Twitter",
+     "title": "Taipei Dangdai announces the Launch Stage",
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+     "platform": "Galerie Yeche Lange",
+     "title": "Whistlegraph survey talk",
+     "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD-6j1cNgMo",
+     "gist": "The NYC gallery presents the work including Underpainting's debut at School of Truth."
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2023-09-06",
+     "platform": "Dirt",
+     "title": "What is a whistlegraph?",
+     "url": "https://www.magazine.dirt.fyi/p/whistlegraph",
+     "gist": "Nika Simovich Fisher's explainer, framing the trio as a pandemic-era introduction to conceptual art — cited as a source by the fan wiki.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2023-09-06-magazine-d80023.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05",
+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2023-09-06-magazine-d80023.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "platform": "KADIST",
+     "title": "Jeffrey Alan Scudder",
+     "url": "https://kadist.org/people/jeffrey-alan-scudder/",
+     "gist": "Collection artist bio crediting the whistlegraph TikTok and its drawing tutorials set to music.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/undated-kadist-76684b.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "platform": "Wildxyz",
+     "title": "Jeffrey Scudder",
+     "url": "https://wild.xyz/jeffrey-scudder/",
+     "gist": "Artist profile describing the founder of a performance group popularizing an art style by the same name.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/undated-wild-efdf95.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05",
+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/undated-wild-efdf95.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "platform": "left.gallery",
+     "title": "whistlegraph [aka Jeffrey]",
+     "url": "https://left.gallery/jeffrey-alan-scudder",
+     "gist": "The gallery adopted the whistlegraph identity for his artist page.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/undated-left-c88c9a.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05",
+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/undated-left-c88c9a.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "platform": "celinekatzman.com",
+     "title": "Curator portfolio",
+     "url": "https://celinekatzman.com/entrance/tag:new+museum",
+     "gist": "Celine Wong Katzman documents her commissioning of The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far).",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/undated-celinekatzman-3aeb4a.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "platform": "OpenSea",
+     "title": "TLWESF collection",
+     "url": "https://opensea.io/collection/the-longest-whistlegraph-ever-so-far",
+     "gist": "Five tokens, two owners, and the Herbert W. Franke tribute edition on secondary-market infrastructure.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/undated-opensea-19e4b2.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05",
+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/undated-opensea-19e4b2.jpg"
+     }
+    }
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "title": "tech and design worlds",
+   "entries": [
+    {
+     "date": "2021-08-05",
+     "platform": "Hacker News",
+     "title": "Kid Pix as a JavaScript App",
+     "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077188",
+     "excerpt": "It's by Jeffrey Alan Scudder aka Whistlegraph",
+     "gist": "Greg Sadetsky recommends the Craig Hickman mini-documentary and calls No Paint fantastic.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2021-08-05-news-117036.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2021-10-23",
+     "platform": "Are.na",
+     "title": "the way conversations move",
+     "url": "https://www.are.na/block/13686465",
+     "gist": "leslie liu cites whistlegraphs while thinking about neurodivergent conversation cadence — a conceptual reference, not a bookmark.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2021-10-23-are-58f557.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05",
+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2021-10-23-are-58f557.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2023-02-08",
+     "platform": "Are.na",
+     "title": "Whistlegraph: Winter 2022",
+     "url": "https://www.are.na/block/20283279",
+     "gist": "Saved by designer-educator Rosa McElheny; roughly thirty whistlegraph blocks exist across Are.na.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2023-02-08-are-d44574.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05",
+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2023-02-08-are-d44574.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2024-06-16",
+     "platform": "Grant Custer's blog",
+     "title": "Inspiration: Meeting Mr. Kid Pix",
+     "url": "https://feed.grantcuster.com/post/2024-06-16-19-33-19-Inspiration-Meeting-Mr-Kid-Pix",
+     "excerpt": "So nice to see people putting effort to understand + be understood.",
+     "gist": "Using the film to think through why delightful paint programs differ from video games.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2024-06-16-feed-c04bc1.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05",
+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2024-06-16-feed-c04bc1.jpg"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2024-06-19",
+     "platform": "Hacker News",
+     "title": "Don Hopkins quotes the praise",
+     "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725172",
+     "gist": "The HCI figure passes Custer's recommendation along.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2024-06-19-news-0773cc.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2024-09-13",
+     "platform": "Hacker News",
+     "title": "Mapping the ecosystem",
+     "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528056",
+     "gist": "A commenter shares the aesthetic-computer repo as background for other readers.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2024-09-13-news-6f457a.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05"
+     }
+    },
+    {
+     "date": "2026-03-30",
+     "platform": "Are.na",
+     "title": "Whistlegraph TikTok Compilation No. 2",
+     "url": "https://www.are.na/block/44887043",
+     "gist": "Saved by artist Travess Smalley this past March — still circulating among artists.",
+     "media": {
+      "kind": "page",
+      "archive": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2026-03-30-are-ee0d1f.html",
+      "slurped": "2026-09-05",
+      "poster": "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild/2026-03-30-are-ee0d1f.jpg"
+     }
     }
-  ]
+   ]
+  }
+ ]
 }
diff --git a/toolchain/whistlegraph/wild-slurp.mjs b/toolchain/whistlegraph/wild-slurp.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f212a36a63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolchain/whistlegraph/wild-slurp.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// wild-slurp.mjs — archive the media behind every /wild sighting so the
+// field guide survives link rot. Reads the page's wild.json, fetches each
+// entry's media by platform, stores it in the assets tree, and writes the
+// media pointers back into wild.json for the page to render.
+//
+//   node toolchain/whistlegraph/wild-slurp.mjs [--force] [--only <substr>]
+//
+// Strategies:
+//   youtube.com / youtu.be  → yt-dlp mp4 (≤720p, ≤300 MB) + jpg poster
+//   reddit.com              → Pullpush submission JSON (reddit.com blocks
+//                             plain fetches) + first preview image
+//   everything else        → full HTML snapshot + og:image poster
+//
+// Media lands in system/public/assets/whistlegraph/wild/ (git-ignored) and
+// ships via `npm run assets:sync:up` to assets.aesthetic.computer. wild.json
+// only ever gains CDN URLs, so the site repo stays light.
+import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
+import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import path from "node:path";
+
+const REPO = path.resolve(path.dirname(new URL(import.meta.url).pathname), "..", "..");
+const WILD_JSON = path.join(REPO, "system/public/whistlegraph.org/wild/wild.json");
+const MEDIA_DIR = path.join(REPO, "system/public/assets/whistlegraph/wild");
+const CDN = "https://assets.aesthetic.computer/whistlegraph/wild";
+const STAMP = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);
+const FORCE = process.argv.includes("--force");
+const ONLY = process.argv.includes("--only")
+  ? process.argv[process.argv.indexOf("--only") + 1]
+  : null;
+const UA = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0 Safari/537.36";
+
+fs.mkdirSync(MEDIA_DIR, { recursive: true });
+const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(WILD_JSON, "utf8"));
+
+const entryId = (e) => {
+  const hash = createHash("md5").update(e.url).digest("hex").slice(0, 6);
+  const host = new URL(e.url).hostname.replace(/^www\./, "").split(".")[0];
+  return `${(e.date || "undated").slice(0, 10)}-${host}-${hash}`;
+};
+
+const sleep = (ms) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms));
+
+async function grab(url, opts = {}) {
+  const res = await fetch(url, {
+    headers: { "user-agent": UA, ...(opts.headers || {}) },
+    signal: AbortSignal.timeout(opts.timeout || 20000),
+    redirect: "follow",
+  });
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${res.status}`);
+  return res;
+}
+
+function shrinkPoster(file) {
+  // Cap posters at 900 px wide so the CDN payload stays light.
+  try {
+    execFileSync("sips", ["--resampleWidth", "900", file], { stdio: "ignore" });
+  } catch { /* sips absent or image too small — keep as fetched */ }
+}
+
+async function savePoster(url, id) {
+  const res = await grab(url);
+  const buf = Buffer.from(await res.arrayBuffer());
+  if (buf.length < 2000) throw new Error("poster too small to be real");
+  const file = path.join(MEDIA_DIR, `${id}.jpg`);
+  fs.writeFileSync(file, buf);
+  shrinkPoster(file);
+  return `${CDN}/${id}.jpg`;
+}
+
+async function slurpYouTube(e, id) {
+  const out = path.join(MEDIA_DIR, `${id}.%(ext)s`);
+  execFileSync("yt-dlp", [
+    "-f", "bv*[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]/b",
+    "--merge-output-format", "mp4",
+    "--max-filesize", "300m",
+    "--write-thumbnail", "--convert-thumbnails", "jpg",
+    "--no-playlist", "--no-progress", "-q",
+    "-o", out, e.url,
+  ], { stdio: ["ignore", "inherit", "inherit"], timeout: 600000 });
+  const video = path.join(MEDIA_DIR, `${id}.mp4`);
+  if (!fs.existsSync(video)) throw new Error("yt-dlp produced no mp4 (filesize cap?)");
+  const media = { kind: "video", video: `${CDN}/${id}.mp4`, slurped: STAMP };
+  if (fs.existsSync(path.join(MEDIA_DIR, `${id}.jpg`))) media.poster = `${CDN}/${id}.jpg`;
+  media.bytes = fs.statSync(video).size;
+  return media;
+}
+
+async function slurpReddit(e, id) {
+  const m = e.url.match(/\/comments\/([a-z0-9]+)/i);
+  if (!m) throw new Error("no thread id in url");
+  const res = await grab(
+    `https://api.pullpush.io/reddit/search/submission/?ids=${m[1]}`,
+    { timeout: 30000 },
+  );
+  const body = await res.json();
+  const post = body?.data?.[0];
+  if (!post) throw new Error("pullpush returned no submission");
+  fs.writeFileSync(
+    path.join(MEDIA_DIR, `${id}.reddit.json`),
+    JSON.stringify(post, null, 1),
+  );
+  const media = { kind: "thread", archive: `${CDN}/${id}.reddit.json`, slurped: STAMP };
+  const img =
+    post.preview?.images?.[0]?.source?.url?.replaceAll("&amp;", "&") ||
+    (/\.(jpg|jpeg|png|webp)$/i.test(post.url_overridden_by_dest || "")
+      ? post.url_overridden_by_dest
+      : null);
+  if (img) {
+    try { media.poster = await savePoster(img, id); } catch { /* thread text survives regardless */ }
+  }
+  await sleep(1200); // pullpush is a communal resource
+  return media;
+}
+
+async function slurpPage(e, id) {
+  const res = await grab(e.url);
+  const html = await res.text();
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(MEDIA_DIR, `${id}.html`), html);
+  const media = { kind: "page", archive: `${CDN}/${id}.html`, slurped: STAMP };
+  const og =
+    html.match(/property=["']og:image["'][^>]*content=["']([^"']+)["']/i)?.[1] ||
+    html.match(/content=["']([^"']+)["'][^>]*property=["']og:image["']/i)?.[1];
+  if (og) {
+    try {
+      media.poster = await savePoster(new URL(og, e.url).href, id);
+    } catch { /* snapshot alone still counts */ }
+  }
+  return media;
+}
+
+async function slurpFandom(e, id) {
+  // fandom.com 403s plain page fetches, but its MediaWiki API is open.
+  const u = new URL(e.url);
+  const page = decodeURIComponent(u.pathname.replace(/^\/wiki\//, ""));
+  const api = `${u.origin}/api.php`;
+  const res = await grab(`${api}?action=parse&page=${encodeURIComponent(page)}&format=json&prop=text`);
+  const body = await res.json();
+  const html = body?.parse?.text?.["*"];
+  if (!html) throw new Error("mediawiki parse returned no text");
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(MEDIA_DIR, `${id}.html`),
+    `<!doctype html><meta charset="utf-8"><title>${body.parse.title}</title>\n${html}`);
+  const media = { kind: "page", archive: `${CDN}/${id}.html`, slurped: STAMP };
+  try {
+    const qi = await (await grab(
+      `${api}?action=query&titles=${encodeURIComponent(page)}&prop=pageimages&piprop=original&format=json`,
+    )).json();
+    const pages = qi?.query?.pages || {};
+    const orig = Object.values(pages)[0]?.original?.source;
+    if (orig) media.poster = await savePoster(orig, id);
+  } catch { /* text archive stands on its own */ }
+  return media;
+}
+
+const isYouTube = (u) => /(^|\.)((youtube\.com)|(youtu\.be))$/.test(new URL(u).hostname.replace(/^www\./, ""));
+const isReddit = (u) => /(^|\.)reddit\.com$/.test(new URL(u).hostname.replace(/^www\./, ""));
+const isFandom = (u) => /(^|\.)fandom\.com$/.test(new URL(u).hostname.replace(/^www\./, ""));
+
+let ok = 0, skipped = 0, failed = 0;
+const failures = [];
+for (const section of data.sections || []) {
+  for (const e of section.entries || []) {
+    if (ONLY && !e.url.includes(ONLY) && !e.title.includes(ONLY)) continue;
+    if (e.media && !FORCE) { skipped += 1; continue; }
+    const id = entryId(e);
+    process.stdout.write(`· ${id}  ${e.title.slice(0, 56)}\n`);
+    try {
+      if (isYouTube(e.url)) e.media = await slurpYouTube(e, id);
+      else if (isReddit(e.url)) e.media = await slurpReddit(e, id);
+      else if (isFandom(e.url)) e.media = await slurpFandom(e, id);
+      else e.media = await slurpPage(e, id);
+      ok += 1;
+    } catch (err) {
+      failed += 1;
+      failures.push(`${id}  ${e.url}  →  ${err.message}`);
+      process.stdout.write(`  ✗ ${err.message}\n`);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+fs.writeFileSync(WILD_JSON, JSON.stringify(data, null, 1) + "\n");
+console.log(`\nslurped ${ok} · skipped ${skipped} (already archived) · failed ${failed}`);
+if (failures.length) {
+  console.log("failures:");
+  for (const f of failures) console.log("  " + f);
+}
+console.log(`media → ${MEDIA_DIR}\nnext: npm run assets:sync:up  (then commit wild.json + deploy)`);
-- 
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