Backfire tracking

Start here: The SRA Loop, a reader's guide, the whole story on one page with a timeline and all four parts.

Reader's guides for Latter-day Saints:

• The SRA Loop: how one stake-president story moved between Tim Ballard, Jason Preston and Latter Day Chad.
• Fellow Travelers: Part 2, the wider circle, starting with Justin Riggs on X.
• "It's a series for a reason": Part 3, what Ballard's YouTube records show about the Backfire episodes.
• Same words, new pictures: Part 4, four reels in one night and the stake-president story he told first.
• What "Episode 1" is made of: the 2025 episode plus 14 new minutes, and the "A-B testing" admission.
• Sunday School at 2 AM: his 2:15 a.m. "clip from Backfire Episode 3" and its visual aids.
• The V-Vault: every Ballard video in the TB Backfire Log in one download, with transcripts and a citation for each.
• Isaiah, according to Tim: his Sept 27 Isaiah reading, his words beside the King James text.
• The Good Guy Edit: his Sept 22 video to Matt Holland, with Elder Jack Gerard spliced in as the "GOOD GUY."
• A Rigid Grid and a Relay (preprint): the mathematics behind "Two names, one grid": Aut = C₂⁴, proved, and the time-ordered relay.
• Two names, one grid: latterdaychad on 109 of latterdayavenger's first 253 posts, then 0 of 101; the grid's 16 symmetries, and a hypothesis.
• Who went first: Ballard's own Dec 20, 2025 post with Latter Day Chad, the host account behind the group posts, and the math of the seats.
• The network around the group: the host account and its group of 13, plus everyone they ever co-posted with — 319 accounts, 823 links.
• The choir only: the group's Instagram posts as a four-part choir, 758 notes, rests marked. With sound.
• Mostly other accounts' posts: every @timballard89 Instagram collab in time order, with owners; 1,004 posts, 423 accounts, 709 of the posts owned by the other account. With sound.
• Black hole sun: Latter-Day Avenger's grid with every post's owner; 27 of 334 posts are borrowed.
• The early provenance of Pluto's Mr. Right: Justin Riggs on The Imagination Podcast, three episodes, one headshot; fingerprints, crops and a replication script.
• Latter Day Chad, from the first post: every post on his Instagram grid back to the first one, 2,394 posts, with the full list.
• The Name-Tag Test: the same math in plain English, with a sign-in sheet you can try yourself.
• Sun, Moon and Starlink: all 492 Ballard collaborations through group theory: 73 one-of-a-kind accounts, 99 interchangeable.
• Automorphism Group of the Incidence Structure and Its Orbits: the same results as mathematics (orbit-stabilizer, Burnside, wreath products from pendant stars). Not yet peer reviewed.
• "Shareholder": the Hidden War end credits list Ballard's attorney Mark L. Eisenhut of Call & Jensen as "Shareholder."

Publish it yourself: download the publishing kit (both pages ready to host, an editable template, promo cards and the full source list). Free to republish with credit.

Transcript, corrections and claim checks: github.com/AntMerrill/backfire-tracking