The one saving grace was that this intense urge to tell others did not last forever. Once they passed the story on, the urge disappeared.
Those who heard it would also feel some urge to share it, but theirs was nowhere near as strong as the first generation's.
They could choose whether to say anything.
By the time a third generation heard the story, they felt no urge to share it at all.
In other words, the Confessional Urge Virus would spread through at least one generation.
By that calculation, one popularity point would affect at least three hundred people. A hundred points would affect more than thirty thousand.
And thirty thousand was only the minimum. Many factors could influence the spread of the Confessional Urge Virus. Some in the second generation would pass it on; others would not.
If someone in the first generation was surrounded by a crowd when they spread the virus, they could infect several people in the second generation at once.
Those variables were beyond anyone's control.
So all he could say was that one popularity point would affect at least three hundred people. The real number would certainly be higher.
"So this is what Viralization is really about..."
Even Angel could not help marveling at it. This person-to-person Confessional Urge Virus was powerful.
The only disappointment was that the second generation could control the urge.
If the second generation had remained unable to resist it, while the third could, one popularity point would have affected more than ten thousand people...
Spend a hundred popularity points then, and a single use of Traffic Aggregation: Viralization would directly affect over a million people.
What a pity.
Still, according to Turing, the effects of Fashion Magic could be developed further. Adding "footnotes" could increase their power too.