Your week streak.

Most streaks are designed to make you feel bad. Gasper's asks for one thing: rank one film a week. Do that and the flame climbs. Miss it and the streak freezes for three days before it goes out. Three achievement cards sit alongside, and they mark discovery rather than grind: a new week on the streak, your first film from a director, your first film of a subgenre.

The week streak

The streak counts weeks, not days. One rank in a week keeps it alive; ten ranks in a week count the same as one. The due dates sit on a fixed seven-day grid from your first rank, so if you ranked your first film on a Tuesday, every due date after that is a Tuesday. The flame shows the current count as "N-WEEK STREAK", and it has its own slide in your Bloodwork.

A week is deliberate. Horror is not a daily habit for most people, and a daily streak would turn the app into a chore within a fortnight. A weekly one is a nudge, roughly the rhythm of a film club, and it is sustainable for years.

Frozen, not lost

Miss a due date and the streak does not drop. It freezes for three days, the flame turns icy, and if you allow notifications the app says "Your streak is frozen". Rank anything inside that window and the streak climbs again as if nothing happened. If the fourth day arrives with nothing ranked, the streak drops to zero and the next rank starts a new one.

The frozen days are there for the weekend that got away, not as a second deadline to plan around. If you find yourself ranking on the third frozen day every week, your streak is fine, but you may have found that your natural rhythm is ten days, and that is also fine.

For the exact rules, the help entry how the streak works has them in order. The glossary has the short definition of a streak.

The three cards

After a rank lands, up to three cards can follow the result. The first is the streak itself, when this rank is the first of a new week. The second reads "NEW DIRECTOR": your first film from Dario Argento, or Jennifer Kent, or whoever it was. The third reads "NEW SUB-GENRE": the first slasher, the first found footage film, the first kaiju film. They land as you rank, without ceremony, and then they are gone. There is no badge collection and no milestone to grind toward.

The shape of them is the point. There is no card for ranking a hundred films in a month, because that is not something anyone should do. There is one for your first Argento, because that is an evening worth marking, and because it quietly encourages the thing that makes a horror fan better: breadth. A list of a hundred slashers knows one thing. A list with a first film from forty directors knows the genre.

Breadth also makes your scores better. The scare score is a position in your list, and a list that spans Val Lewton's shadows of the 1940s and the French extremity of the 2000s has a wider, truer scale than one that lives in a single decade.

Why weekly

The best horror fans are not the ones who watch the most. They are the ones who keep watching, across years, through phases, past the point where the obvious films are done. A weekly streak measures that: not intensity, but persistence. It also pairs well with the daily pick, which hands you a film every day so that at least one week in seven has an easy answer.

If you want the streak to carry a group, the ranking with friends guide covers a shared weekly watch, which is the most reliable way to keep several flames lit at once.

What it does not do

The streak does not care how many films you rank in a week, or how scary they were. One is enough, and a Barely flinched counts the same as a Terrifying.

It does not count watchlist additions, hearts or comments. A rank is a rank: the film goes through the head-to-heads and lands in your list.

It does not punish you for the first missed day. Three frozen days are built in, and they are the rule, not an exception you have to ask for.

And the cards cannot be bought, traded or lost. They are a note of where you have just been, shown once, and nothing in Gasper costs money.