X AI ALGORITHM UPDATE (BIG ONE) 🚨
X updated their open source algorithm yesterday and the biggest number in it is gone: copy link went from 20 to 0 points. Small accounts should focus on: posts people like, reply to and stay on (so stop counting on link copies)
tl;dr:
- on Nov 13 X's open source code set the score for copying a post's link to 0
- copy link: 20 → 0
- it was the top score in the whole system, 4x a reply
- the code also names a "copy link bait" spam check
- likes (0.708), replies (5) and DM shares (5) didn't move
full details:
- The number that's gone
Since I started reading X's open source code in August, one number sat at the top: 20, for someone tapping share and copying your post's link. Nothing else came close.
As of the Nov 13 release, it's 0.
X still guesses who'll copy your link. It just multiplies that guess by 0 now.
X didn't explain it. It's just what the code says.
(I check the open source algo daily with Claude and share updates with you)
- Cross it off your list
My own checklist called copy link the biggest number. Last week's post said it too.
It was true then. It isn't now. If you saved that list, cross that line out.
- The "copy link bait" check
X's code now mentions a spam check called "copy link bait". In the code it adds a spam label to the post, and that label already keeps a post out of strangers' feeds.
It only shows up in a test, so I can't see if it's running or how strict it is.
My read: X saw people baiting link copies, so it turned the score off and built something to catch the bait. That's a read, the code doesn't say why.
- Why that matters if you're small
If your plan was posts people copy the link to, that plan now earns 0 in X's ranking.
A copied link can still bring people in from outside X. It just doesn't push your post up anymore.
What still pays: likes at 0.708 (the highest ever), people staying on your post, replies at 5 and back and forth with mutuals at 20.
- Also new: photo and video tags
If a post has a spam label, people you tag in its photo or video who don't follow you won't get notified. Same idea as last week's rule for replies.
- What didn't change
Every other score. Your new posts still get their extra push in the first 2 hours and first 200 views, and early likes still pick which one gets it.
Here's a recap of what you should be doing:
- aim for likes, replies and time spent, the copy link score is gone
- a DM share still earns 5, same as a reply or a quote
- likes sit at 0.708, never higher
- time on your post keeps counting at its best rate yet
- 10+ seconds after someone taps in adds 0.385
- write your replies yourself, under big accounts most of all
- give people a reason to hang around your profile
- in videos the opening seconds carry it, an open alone scores 0
- posts read to the end help X find you strangers
- smaller accounts (below 50K) get a shot at a spot near 16 for a fresh original
- early likes decide which new post gets that spot
- post when your followers are awake, the push lasts 2 hours and 200 views
- mutuals going back and forth earn 20, so follow back the regulars
- only your originals ever get shown to strangers
- like 1 and like 32 each unlock another way to reach strangers
- one strong post per feed, your second only counts 62%
- clips longer than 10 seconds for the video lists
- a post likely to win you a follow gets +4
- give your pinned post a look, it can affect the whole account
What you should NOT be doing:
- counting on copy link shares, they score 0 now
- baiting link copies, the code names a spam check for exactly that
- a spam label also stops your photo tags reaching non-followers
- AI-written replies under big accounts, "llm slop" is a flag X uses
- copy-paste replies, labeled ones skip non-followers' notifications
- chasing taps, 0.274 and dropping
- drifting off your topic, each probable "not interested" takes 53.07 away
- videos people open and leave, the open itself earns 0
- posting at 3am, it wastes the 2 hour push
- expecting replies and reposts to reach strangers
- an insult label, it hides that post from non-followers
- earning a misinfo or low quality label, which adds a warning and locks strangers out of liking or sharing
- 3 adult photos or videos among your latest 5 posts, that puts a label on you
- forgetting videos get rechecked at 64 and 512 likes
- one account label and strangers stop seeing you
- pinning a link to a site X rates badly, that can mean a label for a week
- posting your own old words again risks the copypasta flag
- a low quality link plus tagged strangers reads as spam
- bait for engagement, big or small it gets a label
- several posts back to back, they split the same feed
- hashtag piles, they do nothing
- bookmarks for reach, they score 0
- hoping a 3 day old post still lands in For You, it stops at 2 days
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My mom fed a homeless man behind our house for 20 years.
Three meals a day, even when we couldn’t afford electricity.
I hated her for it.
The day after her funeral, that same man took my hands, looked me straight in the eyes, and said:
“Before she died, she begged me to stay silent.”
I honestly had no idea what he was talking about.
For 20 years, this man had lived in a makeshift shelter behind our rental house.
My mom brought him breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Every single day.
And the crazy thing was, we were poor too.
My sneakers had tape covering the holes. Sometimes we struggled to pay our bills, and there were days when we couldn’t even afford electricity.
But somehow, my mother always found enough food to feed him.
I never understood it.
I remember coming home two days before Christmas and finding a yellow eviction notice taped to our front door.
We were struggling to keep a roof over our heads, yet my mother was still preparing three meals a day for a stranger.
That night, I finally lost my temper.
Me: “Maybe if you stopped feeding strangers, we wouldn’t live like this!”
My mom turned around so quickly that I knew I had crossed a line.
Mom: “Don’t you ever DARE say that again.”
I had never seen her that furious before.
I didn’t understand why she was defending him so strongly when her own child was going without things.
I moved out when I turned 18.
We fought less after that, mostly because I stopped asking questions.
But the man stayed.
Year after year, his little shelter remained behind our house, and my mother continued feeding him.
Then my mom got sick.
Cancer made her small.
She became quiet, and it was the kind of quiet that scares you because you know something terrible is happening.
Two weeks before she died, she reached out and grabbed my wrist.
Her grip was so weak that it broke my heart.
Mom: “Promise me you’ll keep feeding him.”
I looked at her.
Honestly, I wanted to say no.
I wanted to ask why she was still worrying about that man when she was the one who needed help.
But you don’t lie to a dying mother.
So I promised.
My mom eventually passed away.
The day after her funeral, I prepared the best meal I could, put it on a plate, covered it with foil, and drove to her house.
I had promised her I would keep feeding him.
But when I got there, the man was gone.
His shelter had been completely cleared out.
Everything was gone.
The ground had even been swept clean, as if those 20 years had never happened.
I stood there holding the warm plate, wondering where he could have gone.
Then I noticed something.
A black SUV was parked at the curb.
Standing beside it was a man wearing an expensive wool coat.
He was clean-shaven, well-dressed, and looked nothing like the homeless man I had known for 20 years.
But the thing that caught my attention was what he was holding.
My mother’s old silver locket.
The same locket she had told me she lost when I was eight years old.
He looked at me and said:
Man: “I thought you wouldn’t come.”
I stared at him.
Me: “Wait… is that you? What’s going on?”
He smiled, but his expression was unsteady.
His eyes were already filling with tears.
Man: “Your mom hid something from you.”
I felt my stomach tighten.
Me: “What did she hide?”
He looked at the plate in my hands before responding.
Man: “Before she died, she begged me to stay silent.”
My blood went cold.
Me: “Silent about what?”
He gently shook his head.
Man: “Sit down. You shouldn’t hear this standing in the cold.”
We sat on the front steps.
The plate was still warm between us.
He turned my mother’s silver locket over in his palm as though it might break.
Then he began telling me something I never could have imagined.
Man: “My real name is Vernon Hale. Before all this, I owned a company. I had a big house in Connecticut, a wife, and a little girl. My daughter was six years old.”
I just stared at him.
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code for review :
Prompt :
Create a 2D anime short for the web. It must look completely like real Japanese anime, as if it were taken directly from a finished theatrical anime film. This is traditional-looking, hand-drawn 2D anime, not a 3D animation, a moving illustration, or a stylized web graphic.
Deliver the final result as a single, self-contained HTML file that plays offline, with a synthesized soundtrack. Use any tools, libraries, references, guides, literally anything etc.
Use theatrical mecha and kaiju anime as the art style reference for the design, line work, painted backgrounds, color, and atmosphere. The film is 83 seconds long, in 39 shots. Its characters are a colossal silver archer robot, a fleet of container ships, and a leviathan. No people appear in the film. Use any tools or techniques you want, including 3D, as long as the final result looks 100% like hand-drawn 2D anime.
SCENE
A blazing sunny day on a coast. A massive armored archer robot, a hundred meters tall, stands in a deep lunge on a headland and draws a bow taller than itself. Close-ups: the hand on the grip, the limb and cable, the foot planted in the surf. Blue energy crawls along the arrow into the chest armor until the arrowhead blazes like crystal. The string snaps forward and a shockwave flattens the sea. The arrow is a harpoon trailing a thin cable. It tears the clouds into two walls above a ship's deck, climbs through the cloud tops, and reaches the edge of space in a blue flash along the planet's limb.
Out at sea, container ships cross a colossal shadow. Four humpback whales breach beside a ship, with real arcs and full tail flukes, and dive tail last. From below, shapes move under the bright churning surface. Four whale heads rise from a boiling sea, and a ring of teeth rises around them: they are lures inside a mouth. They drop in and the jaws shut. The leviathan breaches through the fleet in one slow, enormous arc. Its belly slides past the bridge windows. The swell it leaves lifts the ships and stands one on end, spilling containers. Its ridged back and flukes sink into spray fog.
High above, the arrow turns over and comes back red-hot through the atmosphere. Below the surface, the leviathan crawls through a luminous canyon on clawed forelimbs and swallows a fleeing whale. A thin streak meets the sea on the horizon and a white plume swells up. The harpoon drives through its back in a blue-white flash, lightning runs along its body, and the barbed tip punches out of its belly into the rock, which bursts apart. The cable stays attached the whole time, rising to the surface. A mountain of water swells from the sea. The dying leviathan erupts, rolls over between the ships and falls, and a wall of water takes the fleet.
ANIME QUALITY STANDARD
Every frame must look as if it was drawn by professional anime animators and painted by master background artists for a finished theatrical film.
Archer: A massive, heavy anime mecha with sculpted overlapping armor plates, panel lines, bolts, markings and a faceted chest reactor that glows blue. Hands really grip the bow and string. The arrow never passes through the armor. Keep it on-model from every angle.
Leviathan: Whale-like and colossal, always dwarfing the ships. Rough, dark grey-teal wet hide with barnacles and scars, a pale ribbed throat, a spined back, huge clawed flippers, and a cavernous maw with uneven teeth. A real bending body with weight, never a stiff model hanging on pillars of water.
Whales: Real humpback anatomy with tail stock, big notched flukes and long curved flippers rooted in the body.
Ships: Detailed container ships with corrugated multicolor containers, lashing bars and a white bridge tower.
Line art: Confident, delicate, hand-inked anime line work with subtle variation in thickness and pressure.
Coloring: Traditional anime cel coloring with clean color areas, hard-edged cool lavender-blue shadows, crisp highlights, and a bright, high-key, saturated palette. Never gloomy, grey or muddy, even in the darkest moments of the story.
Backgrounds: Richly detailed, hand-painted anime backgrounds in a gouache style: towering white cumulus, a cobalt-to-turquoise sea at kilometer scale, a painted coast with a far town, Earth from orbit, a port city from the stratosphere.
Underwater: Luminous cyan depth with god rays, a rippling surface seen from below, jagged canyon rock, silt and fish. Bright, not black.
Lighting: Summer sun with colorful shadows, and a separate character key light so that nothing sinks into shade.
Effects: Bold drawn anime FX on twos and threes. Sharp lightning with a white core, plasma trails, sheets of water pouring off the body, plumes, spray and a wall of water with real mass. Never particle mush or cotton-wool clouds.
Animation: Authentic hand-drawn anime timing, with characters on twos, strong key poses, natural holds, and overlapping movement. Huge things move slowly and heavily. Nothing clips, slides or floats.
Sound: An original epic score with ominous drones, brass and choir, near silence before the impact, then a colossal hit. Add a recurring whale-song motif, bow creak, charge whine, sonic boom, thunder and the sea, muffled underwater, all timed to the picture.
Direction: Cinematic shots, macro close-ups against huge wide shots, thoughtful staging, and pacing that builds from quiet tension to a devastating climax.
IT MUST NOT LOOK LIKE
- 3D: No plastic materials, CGI shading, visible polygons, game-engine lighting, or computer-perfect perspective.
- Blocky "Minecraft" shapes: No plain boxes, empty flat surfaces, or toy-like proportions. Every surface carries design detail.
- SVG or vector art: No simple geometric shapes, perfect curves, uniform outlines, flat corporate illustration, or basic gradients.
- Web animation: No sliding layers, constant bobbing, floating parts, smooth software easing, or puppet-like joint rotation.
- Pasted-on elements: No 2D sprites floating in a 3D scene.
- AI art: No warped shapes, melted details, flickering, or changing designs.
- Non-anime art: No Western cartoon designs, realistic rendering, soft painterly shading on the characters, or generic digital illustration.
- Amateur work: No stiff poses, empty backgrounds, muddy colors, clip art, placeholders, or unfinished details.
You are free to change any part of the prompt, if it would result in better results.
The result should feel enormous, terrifying and beautiful, a blockbuster in bright anime colors.
Before finishing, inspect random frames as still images. If any frame does not look completely like real 2D anime, keep improving it.
Do not stop until every frame could pass as a still from a theatrical anime film.
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Let me explain everything that happened (and will be happening) with $CrawlScan terminal and the token, so you know exactly where things stand.
Yesterday I open sourced my tool on GitHub, because I build for the users.
Repo: [
A few hours later I opened public access to the website, the terminal itself.
Anyone can use it, completely free.
Access: [
It shows who is really behind a memecoin's top holders, without the noise you get on most terminals.
It digs much deeper and checks the patterns of every single top holder.
After the site went live, a team of "devs" reached out to me.
They said they had launched a memecoin for my project, asked for my wallet and sent me the fees.
The pitch was simple: tell your audience the project has a token now, and use the fees as extra budget to keep building.
I agreed because it sounded interesting (never done that before) and money will definitely help me pay for everything i spent money on while building + more people will notice my work, this is almost free marketing.
They gave me the contract and asked me to post it.
I bought some supply right at the top, the moment they gave me the address.
Right after my post, they rugged it and ghosted me lol.
They sold everything they bought and left.
Left me in complete silence.
But i didn't sell my tokwns.
It upset me, but like I said in the comments, I DON'T CARE.
I will make this terminal better day by day.
The point is the terminal, a product I made for you, my followers and users.
(But token holders will have access to premium features and faster execution soon, consider this my hint for u)
So I went to sleep, a bit frustrated.
When I woke up, I posted an update and kept building.
Then I bought a bit more tokens.
Even after getting scammed and losing money on my first buy at almost $30K market cap.
You can see both buys on the chart.
I'm happy to make my wallets public, I have nothing to hide.
Honestly, I'm not great at memecoins.
People told me I should fill out and pay for the Dexscreener, so that's exactly what I'm doing right after this post.
None of this stops me.
Next update is multichain with Solana support, and I'll most likely ship it today.
Same scanner, now for Solana memecoins too.
I'm open to suggestions.
If you have ideas for the terminal, or for how to help the token growing, just tell me.
CA: 0x19dCb63C4d2F29A6f077F094a4f858fC790145e1
I'm always around for this project and happy to meet and talk with all of you.
Going to pay dex, in a few minutes, checking how it works right now.
Will pay from fees wallet, along with the purpose of it.
You are probably early if you are reading this.
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