Influencer House: Last Upload
A Creator House, a Sealed Studio, and Four Digital Alibis
“4.2 million followers. One sealed studio. Nobody saw a thing.”
The Crime
Ashley Kim — 4.2 million followers, the face of a top-ten creator house — died in the soundproof recording studio her collaborators nicknamed the Black Box. The studio door was sealed from 1:33 AM to 6:12 AM. The house has cameras in nearly every room; Ashley had personally curated the smart-home automation. Somehow, none of that captured what happened inside the Black Box. Four housemates had financial exposure to Ashley's next move: the house manager, who controls brand contracts; a lifestyle influencer quietly short several months of sponsor splits; the house editor, who runs post-production and controls what footage exists; and a prank-stunt creator with a long warning file. Ashley had recently discovered financial irregularities and was about to go public. The studio was sealed at 1:33 AM. By 6:12 AM everyone in the house had an alibi on camera.
The Setting
A modern luxury creator house at night. Floor-to-ceiling glass, minimalist architecture, LED strips pulsing pink and purple along the hallways. Inside the Black Box: acoustic foam, a single ring light still glowing white in the dark, a professional camera on a tripod pointed at an empty chair, frozen video editing timelines on a row of monitors. The smart-home panel in the hallway displays a red locked icon. The rest of the house is beautiful and visible from almost every angle — which is the point. It's a set. And sets hide what happens when the cameras face the wrong way.
Suspects & Persons of Interest
Handles brand contracts, payout splits, and house operations. Maintains admin access to the smart-home hub and shared storage.
Highest visibility creator in the house. Publicly supportive, privately furious about missing sponsor money.
Runs post-production and manages the NAS ‘raw vault’. Can make footage disappear—or reappear.
Known for extreme stunts and ‘content first’ decisions. Has multiple safety warnings on record.
Face of the creator house brand. Recently discovered financial irregularities and threatened to go public.
What You'll Investigate
Blockchain tracing — the house runs on sponsor deals, crypto payouts, and creator-economy financial plumbing. Follow the money to the motive.
How this technique works →Video and photo metadata — the house produces thousands of files per day; the metadata is where the timeline actually lives.
How this technique works →Smart-home hub forensics — every light switch, every camera, every lock event logged to a central system the suspects do not all have equal access to.
How this technique works →Encrypted DMs — the arguments that mattered weren't on the public feed.
How It Plays
Hard difficulty. Approximately 115 minutes. The only DetectiveOS case set in a modern social-media environment, and the only one where the evidence layer is overwhelmingly digital: smart-home logs, sponsor contracts, crypto payouts, streaming timestamps, and DM threads. Every suspect has a video alibi; proving those alibis wrong is the investigation.
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