Sycamore X by Falconer Craig A

Author:Falconer, Craig A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

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Trixilicious

Trish by birth, Trixi to her friends, and Trixilicious to the 2.7 million consumers currently watching the world through her eyes via Sycamore’s incredibly popular Star’s Eye View app.

Whatever you wanted to call her, she was a bona fide superstar. The numbers didn’t lie; with an average of 50 million viewing hours logged each day, no one else came close.

For Trixi, the 19-year-old failed model behind the Trixilicious persona, it had all happened far too quickly to sink in.

“Hey everyone!” she said, waving into her bedroom mirror as she walked past on the way to the kitchen. Her bedroom was plushly decorated with fluffy pillows and sparkling drapes. The kitchen, as everyone saw when she entered, was ultra-modern and almost overflowing with appliances. Much of Trixi’s video output in the pre-Sycamore streaming days had focused on easier-than-it-looked food preparation and other domestic hacks, and a large portion of her fan base had followed her to Star’s Eye View. Her position as the most viewed SycaStar of all certainly owed a lot to timing and the fact that her online career had been on a steep upward trajectory when Sycamore’s Seed came along and changed everything.

“Hello, boy!”

Truman, Trixi’s five-month-old beagle, shuffled his way across the kitchen. Within seconds, words like “Truman” and “aww” and “cute” dominated the word-map in the corner of Trixi’s vision which kept her abreast of viewer opinion by aggregating comments in real-time and displaying the most used words in a large font.

Trixi knew this would happen. This always happened. Seeing a cute dog set people up for the day, and she didn’t doubt that a meaningful percentage of her viewers tuned in for her 7:30 alarm call knowing that she would visit Truman immediately. With the first-person nature of Star’s Eye View making it so much more immersive than any other form of entertainment, Trixi wasn’t surprised to read frequent comments from viewers who felt like Truman was as big a star as she was; after all, he was in shot more often than she was. Walks with Truman regularly ranked among her most viewed segments, whenever in the day they occurred.

Trixi couldn’t pretend to understand the psychology that underpinned her huge success and had been advised by her Sycamore rep that it was better not to think about it too deeply. “Don’t worry about why people are watching,” the rep had said, “worry about how many.” Trixi didn’t even have to worry about that; whatever she did, the numbers kept rising. Even on days when she didn’t leave the house other than to take Truman out — in fact, especially on those days — the figures rose and rose and rose.

“Should we go outside now or make some breakfast?” Trixi asked her viewers. “Vote outside or breakfast.”

She added the “vote outside or breakfast” emphasis at the end so that her viewers knew exactly what to say to cast their vote. Words like yes and no were too common in ordinary chat conversations to provide clear answers, as Trixi’s Sycamore rep had told her countless times until it finally got through.

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