By noon, the world realized it wasn’t a countdown. It was a tally.
The ticker appeared on the morning of June 1st, hovering in the bottom-right corner of everyone’s vision like a digital ghost: . 1 Fat Every Second
The global economy shifted entirely to "The Burn." Electricity was now generated by millions of people on massive, communal kinetic cycles, desperately trying to oxidize the fat as fast as it appeared. To sit still was to grow; to sleep was to wake up heavier than you went to bed. By noon, the world realized it wasn’t a countdown