Every handle was verified against a loaded page on 4–5 August 2026, and each card carries the date its own count was observed. Follower counts are as the platform displayed them that day, with two disclosed exceptions: Instagram blocks logged-out reads for some accounts, so a small number of Instagram figures come from third-party trackers dated within a day; and LinkedIn counts rest on its search-indexed pages. YouTube rounds to three significant figures. A number without a date is a claim that decays; every number here carries one.

Where a figure is self-reported, like portfolio valuations, cumulative revenue or download totals, the card says so in plain text. Self-reported is not false; it is unverified, and the distinction is the point of this volume.

Every quotation is a verbatim self-description from a page we fetched, from a property the subject controls. Context lines cite their sources: court dockets, the SEC, the UK Advertising Standards Authority, the BBC, the Guardian, Bloomberg Law. Where a matter is unresolved, the card says unresolved, with the date we checked.

The audience bar is logarithmic from 10,000 to 1 billion, two decades wider than Volume I, because the scale is different. Portraits are published photographs from each subject’s own site, employer, press page, or Creative Commons, cropped to one frame; provenance for every image is in the production file.