Cody MooreEverything that didn't make it, and why. Most of what gets made for a reel never posts — that's the job working, not failing.
The number that shipped wrong. The model rendered 600 into a locked cover and a finished master, and it got past three human reviews while every note in the folder said 690. Headlines, dates and scores have been rendered locally as cards ever since — the picture gets generated, the words don't.
The week it happened →One of five A/B rolls from a different model, all rejected. Cheaper, and the eagle came back a different bird each time.
Tease A dropped the rust-red tail feathers and read as a second eagle in a dark jersey at thumbnail size. The tail feathers are canon now; this one is the record of why.
The first Monday draft put the poll sticker where Instagram draws its reply bar. It looked fine in the editor, which doesn't draw the reply bar. The next draft moved it, and the bottom of every Story is now measured before it posts.
The first of four eight-second motion tests before there was a reel at all. Only one camera move survived into the cut.
Same prompt, fourth roll. Different eagle every time — which is the problem these tests were finding out about.