Primary Failure Pattern: Overestimation of audience patience in a fast-scan marketplace. The project’s intent centered on understated, professional sarcasm, but execution assumed the audience would slow down and engage with restraint. In a thumbnail-driven print-on-demand environment, that assumption did not hold. The work functioned intellectually but underperformed behaviorally. What still works: tonal restraint, typographic discipline, and print-safe execution. What should not be fixed: the minimalist approach or sarcastic tone. The failure stems from misaligned priority between discoverability and production optimization.