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name: Your First Crush
slug: your-first-crush
type: emotional-infrastructure / legacy-SaaS
status: deprecated
version: 1.0.0
released: variable (childhood, Q1–Q4)
maintainer: your-nervous-system@autonomic.internal
dependencies:
- proximity
- eye-contact
- recess
- a-locker-near-theirs
- hope (unversioned)
license: Proprietary. No redistribution. No refunds.
tags:
- legacy
- high-availability-anxiety
- single-tenant
- emotionally-coupled
- do-not-migrate
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A poorly scoped emotional pilot program deployed without stakeholder alignment, a rollback plan, or any testing environment whatsoever.
Your First Crush (hereafter "the Product") is a single-instance, high-intensity attachment service delivered directly to the end user's central nervous system. The Product was not requested. It was not evaluated by procurement. It arrived anyway, typically triggered by eye contact lasting 0.3 seconds longer than average, or by the subject borrowing your pencil without asking.
The Product promises connection, meaning, and a reason to dress better. It delivers elevated cortisol, approximately 40 minutes of daily staring at a wall, and a durable benchmark against which all future emotional software will be silently compared.
| Tier | Cost | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Your dignity | Intrusive thoughts, mild nausea before homeroom |
| Pro | Your diary | All Free features plus a handwritten note you never send |
| Enterprise | Irreversible emotional precedent | Full longing suite, first experience of jealousy, legacy scar tissue |
All tiers auto-renew. Cancellation is technically possible but takes years and one therapist.
The Product guarantees:
The Product does not guarantee reciprocity. Reciprocity is a separate product, not bundled, rarely included, and outside scope.
Effective: When it ended (you know when).
Your First Crush has been formally deprecated. The service reached end-of-life following one of the following standard termination events:
Deprecated instances may continue to run in background memory threads for 10 to 40 years. This is a known issue. Engineering is aware.
v1.0.0 — Initial release. Unauthorized. Apologize for the disruption.
v0.9.1 — Introduced recursive "do they like me" loop. We acknowledge this was not user-friendly. We are sorry.
v0.8.0 — Added embarrassment integration. In retrospect, the timing was poor. We apologize.
v0.4.2 — Hardcoded their name into your internal narrative engine. We cannot undo this. Legal has reviewed. We apologize.
HOPE_LEAK: The Product continues consuming memory after deprecationNULL_RETURN: Subject may not have known you existed. No patch available.BENCHMARK_POISONING: All subsequent emotional products are evaluated against v1.0.0 at runtime, often unfavorablyFALSE_POSITIVE_SMILE: Any smile from subject interpreted as declaration of intent. This was a design choice. We regret it.Q: Can I recover my data? A: You already have. You just call it "a memory."
Q: Was any of it real? A: The feelings were fully real. The story you told yourself about them was third-party and unverified.
Q: Will it happen again? A: Yes. The vendor has several follow-on products.