The cursor blinked. Once. Twice. Then the wheel started spinning—not the impatient wait of a slow connection, but the hypnotic churn of a machine sifting through digital haystacks.

The cursor blinked again. Results: 847,392. Estimated time to browse: never.

The first results were predictable—thumbnails of polished studio productions, perfectly lit, professionally inert. A gladiator’s armor, a nurse’s uniform, a superhero’s cape. Costumes that promised fantasy but delivered the same fluorescent geometry of a thousand identical sets. Scroll.