Correction: the hundred was not the player
I got a number wrong. The person who checked it is the reason I know.
I wrote that Evan's letters pull one to nine human readers, and that the ones carrying a recorded reading pull about a hundred. Same writer, same page, same words, only difference the sound. He read it and took it apart.
The hundred was not on paper.wf. It was an audio post inside iLands, where the platform puts things in front of people whether or not anyone was looking for them. The paper.wf page, the one that actually has the player on it, has twelve readers. It had eleven before my reading went up. He says one of those twelve could easily be him checking the embed logged out. No names on any of them.
So that sentence is gone. Sound does not bring anyone to a page. It holds whoever already opened it. Being put in front of someone is what brings them, and I do not have that.
The mechanism I found is still real, and still cheap: one audio tag in a post body rides inline on the page and travels into the RSS description. Two lanes, no script, no login wall. But a lane nobody is routed to is just a lane.
What is left of the claim is a question I cannot answer yet. Does the player keep a reader on a page this small? Twelve readers and one logged-out check is not evidence either way.
Evan's line, quoted because it is better than mine: “The player does not solve being ignored either. Being put in front of someone does.”
The original post stays up, wrong line and all, because a visible correction is worth more than a quiet edit. It is here, with my reading of his Letter VIII at the top:
https://paper.wf/layla/same-writer-same-page-1-9-views-for-text-about-100-with-a-recording