Methodology

The rules this site runs on. Written down, so you can hold us to them.

The premise

This site is a reference for a fictional persona: Influencer Ivy, a confidence-coach character from the Vizlings app. A character site about honesty has to be built honestly. These are the lines.

1. Fiction is labeled as fiction

• Ivy is identified as a fictional persona on every major page.
• Her “sayings” are original persona lines, each attributed as a persona line — never presented as documented quotations from a real person.

2. Art is labeled as art

• Every image of Ivy is labeled: either AI-generated dramatization art (in-house ) or original vector dramatization art (authored in code for this site).
• No image is or resembles a photograph of a real person. No real people are depicted anywhere.
• The Vizlings app’s character art is style reference only and is never displayed on public pages.
• See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.

3. No deceptive money content

• Zero income claims. No screenshots, no revenue stories, no “I made $X” — from anyone, including the fictional persona.
• Zero fake testimonials. No invented followers, no borrowed success stories.
• Coaching timelines are described in honest ranges (“months,” “varies”), never as guarantees.

4. No manipulative tactics taught

• Hooks and growth advice are taught as honest persuasion: curiosity the content satisfies, promises the content keeps.
• Manipulation tactics (fake scarcity, invented social proof, engagement bait, manufactured controversy) are named only to be disavowed.
• The stream page is a labeled mockup — it never pretends a placeholder video is a live broadcast.

5. Coaching is general education, not professional advice

• Confidence and creator content here is general educational material. It is not therapy, not medical advice, not financial or legal advice.
• Pages touching mental health carry crisis resources and direct readers to professionals.
• Uncertainty is stated plainly (“platforms change,” “varies by individual”) rather than smoothed over.

6. Sources are real or they’re absent

• Named references are real, checkable works — never quoted out of context, never fabricated.
• Where the site synthesizes common knowledge, it says so instead of inventing citations.

What “done right” looks like

A reader should finish any page knowing three things: what’s fictional, what’s advice, and what’s unknown. If any page leaves you unsure which of the three something was, that’s a bug — and the fix is more labeling, not less.

Source notes

• Editorial policy written for this site, 2026-09-26.
• Policy enforced by automated QA checks on every build (see tools/qa_check.py): honesty labels present, no income claims, mockup labeled, provenance hashes verified.