Hour 1–6
The first posts appeared at 3:47 AM GMT on obscure forums frequented by political junkies and conspiracy theorists. Anonymous accounts, freshly created, all posting variations of the same four words.
Reynard Vale has returned.
For the first hour, they went mostly unnoticed. Lost in the endless scroll of content, buried under arguments about Mark's latest housing policy and debates about whether the current system could be salvaged.
But then someone screenshotted them. Posted a compilation to a larger platform with the caption: "Weird coordinated posts. Psyop? ARG? What is this?"
That post got traction.
Within three hours, #ReynardReturns was trending in seventeen countries. Within six, it had gone global.
Social media erupted. Every platform—regardless of rank restrictions, regardless of Mark's attempts at algorithmic suppression—overflowed with speculation, debate, and frantic energy.
"He's alive? How? Where has he been?"
