Know Your Gematria Manipulation Tricks - Random Rules

 

It seems like eons ago, but it was less than a decade.  The days when busting on Freemasonry with a couple of side dishes of Illuminati and New World Order was the rage instead of a different arbitrary scapegoat.  Those were the good old days when you could count on the Gematrinator to pump out an occasional new cipher or tout some alleged esoteric rule out to justify a decode.  And as these rules and changes to the rules (often just for a single decode) he’d do what a good psychic would do.  Read the audience - see what the middle level people in the MLM scheme took a shine to.  Promote the hell out of it for the extra attention.  And if it was ignored and didn’t take off, just dismiss it like a bad dream that didn’t really happen.

But these convoluted and often contradictory rules get out there on to the Misinformation Superhighway they don’t get challenged and the “Truth Community” has zero interest in finding anything resembling a coherent narrative.  Today if you want 11 to not be reduced to 2, that’s cool.  Tomorrow you do want it to be 2.  That’s even more cool.  This is the price that’s paid in the effort to outstupid others to garner maximum engagement immediately instead of long term fame and glory for doing something meaningful and impactful on the world around us.

One of the biggies in those bygone days of Freemason bashing was the master builder number.  A special number that supposedly was extra magical and used by the Freemasons who didn’t actually do a lot of gematria.  I think the story goes like this.  11 and 22 regularly show up in the ordinal ciphers as single letters, and you need an excuse to not reduce them to 2 and 4 respectively.  Then 33 is special to the Freemasons because of their 33 degrees or levels.  So that’s 33, not 6 when decoding more than one letter.  Or decoding one letter in some bizarre cipher probably concocted by some drugged out spiritualist or the Gematrinator himself.  The icing on the cake, Freemasons have the craftsmen reputation and *build* things.  And MASTER builder number sounds way cooler than hypocritical arbitrarily reduced or not scapegoat mocking number.

This morning, we have someone trying to outstupid the giants of yesteryear.  First of all there’s a case to be made for the alleged master numbers being just 11,22, and 33.  For example:

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/master-numbers

This genius adds 44 to the list and implies with etc… that all the double digit numbers are master hypocrite builder numbers.  And then immediately proceeds to alter the unalterable 33 to 23 and 3+3.  That is some brazen make up your bullshit as you go along decoding.  If that doesn’t get the attention of Zach or Derek or whatever clique leader it is you’re trying to impress I can’t help you.  Or if you’re striking out on your own - make sure your stories are as lurid as possible.  That’s the key instead of the actual decodes themselves.  Arbitrarily changing rules is an attention grabbing you’ve reached the middle level of the cult pyramid quality that can earn you the glory jobs of attacking competing sports decoders social media and the target of a patented angry Zach rant in the near future.

Know Your Grifter Marketing - The Hypocrite’s Disclaimer

 

That’s all just peachy that you threw in that (hypothetical) in your video title.  It doesn’t make up that the entire audio portion of the video barely acknowledges the hypothetical part and plays out like the dark secrets talked about are a reality.

I think the single most common disclaimer is the Fair Use disclaimer, you can even find templates to guide you through creating one.  I have used copyrighted material, but it’s allowed because of the doctrine.  Personally, I don’t see the use for it.  It either falls under Fair Use or it doesn’t.  And you can put the disclaimer up when it doesn’t apply and legally it doesn’t change a damn thing.

A big subset of that is music.  YouTube creators can get away with a short clip of a popular song.  Play the entire thing - that’s trouble if it’s copyrighted.

Grifters use this to their advantage as an anti-establishment display of their bad assery.  You’re about to see bullshit, lots of people know it’s propaganda or factually wrong, but let me bring it to your attention that I’m doing something I shouldn’t be doing, and whining about the need to put a CYA statement to my material.  The Secret Underground Cities would have been a perfectly fine title without the hypothetical attached.

Instead of hypothetical, another common word to throw in is ‘allegedly.’  “Notice that politician is wearing red and black which I know means baby sacrifices…allegedly”. Hypocritically back pedaling on the “I know” versus the “allegedly”.  The correct translation is, “This part I’m saying about the color of the clothes, yeah, that’s bullshit, but it’s fun bullshit for the dim witted audience I have following my channel.  So YouTube, what exactly do you plan to do about it?” <wink wink>. 

In the gematria truth communities the overused one is celebrity deaths.  The video title will reference the name of the deceased.  The title will often include an RIP.  The start of the video may be, “Tragically, xxxxx passed away”, and then with the disclaimer out of the way the next half hour is about how the Jesuits sacrificed a 95 year old person who had it coming to them since they were just a crisis actor puppet serving their evil masters.  Death by natural causes does not exist in the conspiracy grifting world.

And don’t forget the cryptocurrency gematria fans.  It’s also very fashionable to put out a hollow and meaningless disclaimer there.  “I’m not a certified investment adviser.”  No shit, detective douche rocket*.  A certified financial planner doesn’t have the astrology of phases of the moon involved in any way, shape or form to their investment advice.

*  The use of the phrase “detective douche rocket” comes from a Taylor Tomlinson comedy sketch.  Its use is in this blog post was not authorized by Ms. Tomlinson but falls under the Fair Use Act.  This post is intended to educate people on internet scams and qualifies me a for a little leeway on use of copyrighted material until I get caught and I’m forced to take it down.

The Younited States

 

This has popped up a couple of times lately.  Not the entire phrase THEE UNITED STATES, the THEE part as an alternate to THE.

The gematria part is the easiest part to understand.  Phraseshopping.  THE is a perfect and common addition for adding or deleting to alter the gematria value to get additional chances to force the number to what you want it to be.  In the four base ciphers it’s an additional 33, 15, 48, or 12.  Why settle for limiting yourself to SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY when you can always pick what to accept and ignore with THE SCOTTISH RITE OF FREE MASONRY available to you?

It’s a short word and it’s not going to explode your bullshit decode into cumbersome four digit territory.  And it sounds normal.  Which is why when we turn to speculating on why these dumbasses chose to use it we are making the assumption it’s celebrity marketing misguidance.

Celebrities have a lot of tricks to make their ordinary(or not so ordinary) sounding name seem even cooler.  Kei$ha with her dollar sign, Cher with just her one name, Gaga being a Lady in addition to a Gaga, Cardi one upping Cher with almost a last name included.  So it looks like Megan Thee Stallion has lead our do your own research geniuses astray.

Right below this Google definition there’s a friendly tip that THEE is often mistaken for THE.  And a little graph showing how it was more common in the 1800’s, dropped off and recently is making a small comeback.  Way to go Stallion.  You fuckin’ rock.  Or rap, or hip hop or whatever you call it.

You remember I said how United States upgraded to *The United States* sounds normal.  Yeah, now substitute the actual meaning and try and refer to it as You United States and not sound like an idiot.  Way to go Stallone.  Thee fuckin’ Rocky. Or rapyou or hip hopyou or whatever Thee call it.

And naturally while talking about THE UNITED STATES our genius was talking about US politics.  Some gematria “evidence” about what’s going on.  And they’re more than willing to randomly type in words in a gematria calculator until they hit on just the right number than learn anything about the language behind the words.

Borgvertising

 

Yesterday I discussed the use of bots to invade social media threads.  Today I’ve got fresh material about gematria accounts that help spread misinformation.  Real humans with little regard to facts and evidence.  Real people that can actively fight back when challenged, bridging the gap between straight up bot spamming and rational and intellectual discourse.  A sort of conspiracy cyborg - it can react to death threats without sitting by ideally.

Starting off with the main players, the Twixter accounts aren’t terribly important.  Fairly typical embrace of multiple conspiracy theories.  But note that the Tom Numbers account proclaims that he’s the best in the world at simple gematria.  The Burtlin account has a varied array of conspiracy content.  You aren’t going to see a consistent theme.  So while bouncing around on various conspiracies he’s got a video from Tom Cowan.

Tom is quite the big name in the anti-vaxx scene:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cowan_(alternative_medicine_practitioner)

Alternative medicine translates to pseudoscience fake medicine that doesn’t work.  And the 5G making people sick instead of pathogens is Tom’s bread and butter.  “Breathing electricity” is not a real thing.  Even though Cowan gives a basic explanation of the process of breathing, the mere existence of a headline claiming we breathe electricity serves as a grift magnetism dog whistle.  Anybody gullible enough to display interest in that content is susceptible to other similar content.

Call it what you like, conspiracy catnip, chumming the waters, baiting the hook, the intent is to use social media to replace the old process of mass emailing millions of people and concentrating on the ones gullible enough to respond.  And on social media, they come to you and make it obvious they’ve got some interest.  Even if they dismiss a singular idea like breathing electricity the echo chambers are filled with anti science content.  Some of it more destructive than others.

I call the process “outstupiding” the competition.  The purposeful creation of the rabbit hole that those who lack decent critical thinking skills fall into.

It starts off with the old idea that germs are a hoax.  Ages old superstitions still linger that what you can’t see with the naked eye doesn’t exist.  And your alternative medicine cure is what the fix is since you’re not focused on the (fake) problem.  But that’s not stupid enough.  It’s so old that just repeating that doesn't make as much of a splash unless you up your game.  So through in that it’s 5G cell phone activity that makes you sick.  Now that’s been talked about a lot since Covid.  So it’s time to outstupid that.  Now it’s still 5G, but because you’re breathing electricity.

And just like 2018 through the pandemic recovery there’s always gematria accounts latching on to the stupidest of the stupid.  That’s what it’s designed for.  Conspiracy theory light, attracting those who surf through the news headlines just to whine about the bad news of the day.  Being king of the gullible people might not be high quality attention, but it is attention, and it’s MONETIZED, attention.  There’s an incentive to keep outstupiding the competition.  Unregulated social media is a haven for spam loving scammers looking to outstupid the other grifters, never knowing what is going to be the next Ivermectin or Nigerian prince idea that really takes off.

Direct grift of gematria isn’t doing as well as it did pre 2020.  The same way that Hubbard and the other early leaders took advantage of their loyal lieutenants (who have mostly disappeared by now) as free advertisement, now they are the chumps being used by bigger influencers for free advertisement.  Someone that doesn’t solely rely on gematria, but adds it in to the mixture, making it a homogeneous mixture of bad ideas looking for the next big score instead of the repetitive niches the old school gematria clique leaders carved out for themselves.  The hunter has become the prey, so to speak.  And even those that hunt the former hunters are having a difficult time selling gematria as a worthwhile add in to their outstupiding detectors.  So look for more of this with the election getting closer.  “Gematria” accounts spreading a wide variety of baseless conspiracies because gematria by itself just isn’t stupid enough anymore.

Botvertising

 

That’s what it’s really all about.  Grift magnetism is one of the major driving forces behind misinformation and disinformation activity.  This is what the dark side of gung ho free speech advocacy looks like.

Let’s break it down.

The channel is a Qanon style content channel.  Whether the owner of the channel is putting out content he truly believes in or not is irrelevant.  The main followers, the mid level adherents in the MLM scheme hang upon his every word.  Every day there are several new videos with all the red flags of insincerity.  Inconsistency, hypocrisy, complaining about and asking for money among others.  These mid level followers post comments and replies, mostly the same core of dedicated cultists with a few newbie comments from apparent first timers.  And they all show heavy investment in their own cognitive biases.

This content screams, “I am gullible.”  And somebody has made a series of bot generated sock puppet accounts to make a crypto investment advisor the top comment.  49 total replies to the initial message.  With the bots having a lovely conversation about the obvious to the rational thinking world bogus get rich quick scheme.  $60,000 a week is over $3 million a year.

Naturally the channel owner is hugely hypocritical.  There’s talk about how he’s oh so smart.  And he’s a dedicated Christian, which is why the first bot conversation starter references supporting God’s work.  If the channel was legitimately concerned about the welfare of the crowd there would be some simple maintenance done.  Using the power of the channel operator to remove the fraudulent content instead of leaving it out in the open for some unsuspecting dupe to find.

But YouTube and other social media has created a grift hydra.  Even if this bot conversation is shut down many more are waiting in the wings to replace it.  Constantly searching for the best crowds to display the message of getting rich with little or no effort.  It’s not their job to regulate and vet advertisers.  No, these YouTube channels susceptible to bot conversations like this generate monetized content with ads before the video starts, and if the video is long enough some interruptions midway through.  And those are also dubious ads.  Today’s repeated ad is mushroom coffee to cleanse your kidneys.  Ordinarily you would be inclined to think that coffee beans are used for coffee and mushrooms are something different.  But they paid Google money to have the ad put out, so sure.  Wild claims that can’t be substantiated…free speech!  Within the framework of the hydra is a lot of free speech = no regulation content.

It becomes a free for all.  Of the competing grifts, who will be the lucky one to get the most fish after the bait is thrown out.  Long term commitment to a crowd of people is not necessary; it’s actually a hindrance.  Nenand, the original poster in the message chain.  That account was created just two days before this post.  He (it) has certainly popped up somewhere else along with the bot farm cronies.  Probably at some gung ho crypto currency accounts with dubious thoughts about how to trade crypto.

It’s no surprise that a religious oriented account is chosen for this.  Simply and matter of factly, despite all the good that may come from a being kind to others stance, the chances your confirmation bias message will not be researched or thought about critically are vastly increased.  And the channel this appeared on does dabble in gematria.  That’s an even bigger sign that you don’t care about actual evidence.

Latest Fashion Trend - Faux Technical Difficulty Outrage

 

When they complain about social media, they aren’t completely wrong about Big Tech.  But the old saying holds true, two wrongs don’t make a right.

It’s extremely trendy right now for the cult leader type personalities to throw in some commentary about how Big Tech is out to get them.  They’re trying to stop me because my content is so mind bogglingly awesome and life changing that you will understand how evil Big Tech is in their role as at least a subsidiary of the chosen scapegoat.  (A scapegoat that can never be agreed upon between two different cult leaders.  Aliens, reptiles, Jesuits, Joe Biden or whatever other two/three digit numbers you worship.)

Choice A - They are completely delusional and don’t understand that the fairly basic paradox they are involved in makes no sense.  Posting a video about YouTubing being completely down on YouTube?  Yep.  Just happened a couple days ago?  Turning off comments on the cult leader’s videos, randomly not across an entire channel?  The incompetent evil empire has displayed their might by allowing the worshippers to access the complaint hotline instead of scrubbing them from the internet entirely.  Which is the topic of the video the screenshot is from.  Social media is censoring us, but those slipped through the cracks.

Choice B - The target audience is filled with people with a targeted individual mentality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking

And not the actual mob action where a bounty is put out and a seek and destroy mission is put in place.  It’s the delusional and paranoid belief that invisible bogeyman are hiding under the bed, in the closet, wearing evil colors of clothes and believe that 56 is some dreaded symbol of doom instead of the number before 57 and after 55.  You know, the people that real life has an identified as being less than worthy in holding an intellectual and adult conversation and they’ve been told about being wrong for most of their lives.

I’m going with choice B.  Faking technical difficulties is really easy, and having so much technical difficulty now as social media hasn’t even had a major outage to complain about is just too weird.  Like jumping on the bandwagon attention seeking weird.

Never growing out of an imaginary childhood friend is weird.  Creating an imaginary enemy is weird and self destructive.  Someone invested in imaginary enemies is not in a good place mentally, and here faux technical difficulty complaints serve as a variation of the Attaboy!^TM, a reverse Attaboy.  I’m being picked on, too!  I’m part of this same crowd that has the magic secret knowledge and they’re out to get me, too!  Dear leader!  Pick me!  Pick me!  Reply to my comment amongst the many others also complaining about it!

Using YouTube to complain about YouTube censorship a la choice A is a bit much.  Most commonly over the years has been milder complaints.  And these have been popping up lately with alarming frequency.  They turned off my notifications. (Which they do, but not based on your stance on truth.)  I liked the video but the counter didn’t change.  They keep deleting my comments.  I had to restart the video three times.  All of these supplemented by easily channel owner controlled actions.  The maker of a YouTube video can turn off comments.  The maker can delete comments.  The maker can create a sock puppet commenter to push the fake censorship narrative.  The maker can delete a video and claim it was Big Tech community strike freedom of speech assault.  And the target audience may throw in occasional, “it works ok for me”, but they wont get to a point where they’ll apply Occam’s Razor and figure out that their beloved leader is fudging the narrative.

Affiliated Scam - The Computer Software Prediction

 https://www.ripandscam.com/computer-prediction-software-scams.php

Remembering that the tactics involve manipulating people into believing they are smarter than they are, it’s easy to see a computer software scam running alongside a gematria sports Patreon subscription scam.  Smart people use computers.  Only a chump would rely on someone with a years long record of mediocrity.

In several ways Hubbard operates as if he was running the computer software scam.  His bread and butter is the binary outcome prediction scam, one of two teams will win one event.  Branching out into multiple participants does happen.  Kentucky Derby, golf tournaments, NASCAR.  All these contain the trademark well practiced scammer content with exaggerated and false reports of past success.  The big difference is the pricing structure.  The computer software scam relies on luring the mark into believing that a high priced computer program running an elaborate algorithm can do what a human can’t.  Instead of settling for a couple of bucks a month for a Patreon subscription that doesn’t yield results, a butt ton of money the scammer pockets, probably without ever even producing any computer program at all.  If there is one it certainly doesn’t work like it’s claimed to do.

Before 2020 one of Zach’s competitors offered a super package deal of a full season of NFL picks for hundreds or thousands of dollars.  I guess it filled a niche of catering to self proclaimed high rollers more willing and able to plunk down a big chunk of change.  Not surprisingly, this isn’t seen now.  The concept of sports gambling based on an evil empire scapegoat is mass marketing to lower income disenfranchised dupes.  Most of these people are worried about chemtrails ruining their vegetable garden, not mortgaging the house for finding a get rich quick scheme.

The one exception to that that probably is lurking out there is cryptocurrency.  Already a vague and weird concept to start with, crypto has a lot of scammy features attached to it and phishing going on.  Crypto scammers will try to get you to invest and divulge your wallet security info.  If someone with a decent amount of money available gives credit to a gematria sports decoder there is an increased chance some friendly, random internet stranger will put a reply on their comment looking for their email to talk them up for something else.

Here’s a fictitious(?) example:

“Wow, this Hubbard guy’s sports predictions suck!”

“Hey, @chump113, email me at scammerdude56.  I’ve got something you might be interested in!”

<now there’s a valid email address to start the conversation.>

SG56 - This sports stuff is dumb.  I’ve made 17 million dollars on cryptocurrencies this year!

C113 - Wow!  How’s it work?  How do I get into the action?

SG56 - The gematria coding is too deep on the double narratives for humans to act on fast.  I’ve developed a computer program.

C113 - Yeah, I’ve seen the double coding talk and all the people complaining about the reporting after the game is done.  Where do I get the program?

SG56 - I can sell it to you for $1,000.  It’s normally $2,999 but I hate seeing him getting away with his bad sports picks and I like you.

C113 - <hesitantly> Wow, that’s still a lot.  How do I know it works?

SG56 - <emails fake reports that look really pretty> <emails testimonials from cohorts/sock puppets with glowing positive reviews> <emails addresses for PayPal, etc…>

C113 - <Never figures out that the guy would simply keep doing what got him 17 million for the year without the effort of selling his software to someone.>

C113 -  Still waiting for the software.

C113 - Hello?!?

C113 - Hey, email me back

SG56- <crickets>. <crickets that have $1,000>

The Dark Side of Gematria Sports Decoding

 https://www.businessinsider.com/gambling-young-men-sports-betting-crypto-meme-stock-market-addiction-2024-4

“Want to make a fortune?  Target bored young men who want to make a fortune.”

A reminder is in order to begin here.  The temptation to label believers in baseless conspiracy theories as stupid is not as accurate as often is believed.  What they usually are is susceptible to marketing plans designed to make them think they are smarter than they are.  Getting scammed on a get rich quick scheme is something that happens to other people, not the self proclaimed smart person that has done their own research, looking for the answer they want to hear.

A well run brick and mortar doesn’t need to cheat to make a bundle of money.  They don’t need to bypass regulations and inspections to rig their slot machines to never pay out at all.  The legitimate slot machines that pay out less than the gambling dollars put into them just need to be used, and the math takes care of itself.

With gambling and risk taking for financial reward being an ancient concept there is literature on the dangers of getting addicted.  And casinos are willing to slap an often unheeded warning with a gambling addiction hot line phone number on it, but at the end of the day they’re still going to make you feel smarter than you are to keep playing.  Put the highest paying slots near the entrance so the passers by hear the happy winning sounds more often.  Make the middle income chump feel like a high roller by giving him free drinks and other comps.  Keep it fast paced and flashy to tickle the brains into not thinking as rationally as it should and just keep playing and playing one more time.

Bad ideas are way more fun than good ideas.  A good idea would be to find a stable job you can tolerate and stick with it and save money.  Budgeting your finances. More than ever now, a bad idea announces proudly that it’s a bad idea and works because the glitz, glamour and flash of the marketing plan gets the immediate attention on your smartphone instead of the hassle of getting into car and driving to a casino.  You need to coordinate your friends schedules for the trip.  You need to take Friday off to gas up the vehicle and go to the bank for cash.  You need to make sure the wife is cool with it and will be fine while you’re gone.

The demographics of the new gematria sports decoder fit the description in the article perfectly.  A young and bored male without the life experience to recognize that long term what they’re involved in isn’t working out.  The flashy marketing doesn’t include a key difference with sports betting gematria versus brick and mortar casinos.  There is no such thing as even a fair machine or fair roulette wheel or a fair blackjack dealer.  In addition to your long term gambling losses you will rack up your monthly Patreon subscription.  They all do it.  There’s not really a point to gematria sports decoders if they aren’t charging a fee for the “casino” service they are operating.  In the old days, and this could still be true now since I haven’t been to Atlantic City in ages, the bus trip included a certificate for a roll of quarters that they knew people were going to gamble away most of the time.  Now you get to the gematria casino and they guarantee success and the bouncers at the door won’t let you in unless you pay them.

Once you get inside the gematria casino amidst losing your entertainment budget you get exposed to their flashy comps.  Which are also charged instead of freebies like the brick and mortar casino.  It’s okay that you also blew the food budget at the gematria casino.  Here’s a lovely you don’t need to pay taxes idea that will catch you up on your long term finances.  How about a lovely cyclical endless cryptocurrency pump and dump scheme to tide you over until the next time you get bored and think that a system that proves there’s a narrative for both teams in every game makes sense?  Isn’t the adrenaline rush of winning less than half the time FUN?!?

The SportsGematria YouTube channel put out another video yesterday.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1JO2__76ag

And spent a significant amount of time recapping many of the times Zach commented that his critics and haters should be dead.  Now the gematria casino wants you dead if you don’t pay the entry fee to get inside.  Not cool.  No wonder there’s a mental health problem in our youth if there’s pressure to pay money for a useless service that would rather see you dead than coming back to gamble more.

The Libertarian (and Gematria Immune)Asteroid

I also have my moments of synchronicity that make me wonder what kind of incompetent evil cabal is toying with me.  Fairly recently I covered the fascism in the first Tom Baker episode of Doctor Who, Robot.  Since I’m rewatching all the Baker episodes in order, usually one a night, I’ve been in the middle of, The Pirate Planet.  Taking a much needed break from ruining my eyes by jamming them too close to a smartphone I went to see the King/Godzilla movie while it was still in theaters.  Spoiler alert:  Its a King Kong movie that happens to have liberal amounts of Godzilla as a plot device for whats’s going on. 

Movie theaters have a rudimentary algorithm.  If you buy a ticket for Evil Dead Rise you get trailers for other horror movies.  If you buy a ticket for King/Godzilla you get CGI laden sci fi movie trailers.  So the next Planet of the Apes movie trailer was up first.  With a clear message that the plot involves how humans plundered and screwed up their planet with technology they couldn’t keep up socially.  The Whovian Pirate Planet travels around the universe plundering planets for raw materials since what’s left of it has no mineral resources of its own.

And… being a good little mindless sheep somewhat empathetic chap that doesn’t mind following a simple not harmful to me rule I accepted the suggestion to turn off my phone during the course of the movie and when it was turned back on my notifications gave me this story:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/asteroid-16-psyche-may-be-worth-more-than-planet-earth-at-10-quintillion-in-fine-metals-180979303/

Let’s all plunder some asteroids and get rich.  The stories of Psyche and other mineral rich asteroids have been around awhile.  And the idea of mining them has been around for awhile.  It wasn’t the old Smithsonian and other articles I was notified.  It was this one:

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/space-miners-race-to-an-asteroid-worth-quintillions/

The economic bullshit idea that everyone on earth could be a billionaire just by mining asteroids.  Within the plot of The Pirate Planet is the declaration of a new age of prosperity where everybody gets diamonds, rubies, and other Earth style precious gems as well as made up sci fi minerals for plot points.  It is correctly hinted at that economically this doesn’t work.  Everybody being a billionaire doesn’t magically make somebody figure out a way to, oh just a wild and crazy libertarian disaster thought, produce food or get rid of sewage.

This kind of scientifically and reality ignorant story brought on by media that only cares about the fun side of the story is the way climate change denialism got boosted.  “Oh, we don’t need to worry about feeding 10 billion people.  Some scientist will figure out fusion energy and everyone will be a billionaire and buy all the food they need.”

Fortunately, after briefly considering throwing my phone in the trash I distracted myself with the fascinating gematria aspects.  This should not surprise you as I spent way too long blabbering about the synchronicity and coincidental nature of my day.

The story is presented as Psyche being estimated to be 10 quintillion dollars.  How long would text have to be to reach a gematria value of 10 quintillion?

We do know they would cheapen it by immediately doing gematria of the word QUINTILLION.

If a four digit number is too long for these clowns to legitimately match with “normal” ciphers, there’s no way 10 quintillion would ever get on the radar screen.  And of course, 10 quintillion is just a 1 followed by a bunch of zeros.  So it would be 1 following the drop all zeros rule.  Except they’d probably make it 10 and just drop all but one zero because if you’re not doing your evil empire gematria by being a total fucking hypocrite, you’re not doing it right.  Maybe a career in writing news stories about mineral rich asteroids would suit you better.

No, I want to know how long the text would be for, say, ordinal cipher - the original, to make a total of quintillion without alteration.

The average word length is about 5 letters:

https://gitnux.org/average-word-length/#:~:text=The%20average%20word%20length%20in,English%20tweets%20is%204.79%20characters.

The average length of a novel in number of words is about 100,000:

https://jerichowriters.com/average-novel-wordcount/#:~:text=Average%20Word%20Count%20For%20A,sit%20between%2070%2C000%2D120%2C000%20words.

The average value for gematria of a letter is somewhere around the middle of the extremes, so let’s call it (1+26)/2=13.5

90,000 x 5 x 13.5 = 6,075,000 for the ordinal gematria value of an average novel

(Alternatively Gone With The Wind is 426,590 words long if you want to think bigger.)

For conscience lets round a reasonable full length gematria value to 6 million.

10 quintillion/6 million = 1 2/3rd billion novels.  

And now let’s call that a pound a book in weight:

https://bookscouter.com/blog/how-much-does-a-book-weigh/#:~:text=a%20hardcover%20edition.-,How%20Much%20Does%20the%20Average%20Book%20Weigh%3F,the%20book's%20format%20and%20dimensions.

And compare that to the Guinness Record for heaviest object, 4.86 million pounds:

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/05/11/the-heaviest-objects-in-the-world/#:~:text=In%20terms%20of%20actual%20weight,in%20at%204.86%20million%20pounds.

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A long and light hearted way of saying there’s no way that a statistically significant and eye opening gematria value will never appear and that’s why it’s all about making it is tiny as possible.

Enragement Farming

https://skinnedcartree.com/engagement-farming-on-social-media

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/04/musk-to-suspend-x-accounts-involved-in-engagement-farming/amp/

And in addition to the Vanguard article linked there’s a gazillion more media articles covering Musk’s claim about his plans to crack down on engagement farming on Twixter.  Claims I find dubious as his actions compared to what he says align only briefly as his lack of attention span makes that alignment shorter than the half life of lithium 4.

Let’s start with some crappy anecdotal evidence, three stories of mine.  The last two are somewhat related.

1)  One of the reasons I’ve talked about internet strategy games is to cover how instead of concentrating on the game there are aspects in the framework to encourage multiplayer activity.  Alliances, or you’re a member of a team of adventurers and such.  Farming in the context of these games is the person that gets the bright idea to create multiple accounts (invariably against the rules) to interact only with themselves.  A game where you have land and mineral resources, the farm is a throwaway - destined for a short life.  Growing without any substantial defense and the farmer attacks themselves to swallow the resources for his main account.  Social media engagement farming akin to this is like a sock puppet account promoting how the main grifter account is the bestest most truthiest information available without any regards to how they are putting out inconsistent information.  “I see you are interested in the gematria of that bridge collapsing.  Check out Zachary Hubbard to gamble on sports.”

2)  I have a person that makes me want to schedule a different time to show up at the laundromat.  He screams into his phone.  The other party, most often the same woman, is on the speaker.  And he’s done odd things like accusing me of avoiding him when I really just wanted to leave to fill up my gas tank during the wash cycle and not holding the door for him.  Unconcerned that I had a laundry bag full of clothes to struggle with while opening the door for myself.  The intent is to create engagement when I don’t want anything to do with him, especially since his actions prove he’s an attention whore.

3)  I know someone with a deep, booming baritone voice that knows he has that loud voice.  And he can’t dial it back while I’m on a business call.  It gets tiresome to remind him that he needs to tone it down.  He likes to go to bars and he likes to talk about his political views.  I’m sure he’s grown accustomed to being loud getting him extra attention.  His political views are polluted by confirmation bias.  Quite literally stopping one speech about how the government needs to intervene about one topic then he next sentence segues to how the government needs to let the states decide marijuana legislation.

Those last two, there isn’t a need to consciously make an effort to farm for engagement.  Some people’s psychological make up leads them to do it just because they like attention and fall back on what worked in the past.

Thanks to the grifter economy on social media, engagement farming is more properly referred to as enragement farming.  They already know the highly polarized buttons to push.  They know about mass shootings, racism, censorship and all the other outrage porn topics.  

Engagement farming may be something like a long drawn out video cooking some weird concoction just to get people to post their opinion on how great or stupid they think it is.  Engagement farming can be the many gematria video makers that start every single video encouraging you to hit the like button because “it helps the algorithm spread the message”.  Engagement farming can be the guy that posts in an MLB recap video, “For every like I get to this post I’ll buy tickets to our team’s home game!”  Engagement farming can be the person who feels the need to claim your joke wasn’t funny regardless of hundreds of others hitting the like button and commenting that it was hilarious.  Engagement farming can be the person that posts the same innocuous and meaningless, “Have a blessed day” comment on the daily end of the world the Antichrist is here video.  Engagement farming can be the ever annoying, “First!” comment made by several people of which only one was truly first.  

Some of these people just want a reaction to the immediate situation before recency bias makes the video fade into obscurity.  Some of these people whether they are correct or not think it will cross pollinate and boost their own content which may or may not be similar.  I’ll like your sports decode, maybe you’ll send over some of your followers to scratch my back since I scratched yours and help out my blossoming rap music career!

And then there’s the bright idea that seeing that outrage porn is far more effective at getting attention.  Enragement farming appeals to those base instincts that an artificially created scapegoat to hate is getting people likes and views.  And then some of that starts to stick to a certain subset of people susceptible to being groomed into enjoying the attention so much that they keep at it without realizing that others don’t want their adult conversation being interrupted by off topic nonsense.

Gematria *could* be used for engagement farming.  But based on riding the coattails of the biggest grifters the biggest gematria leaders throw in an occasional engagement farming clickbait post amidst a sea of Enragement Farming.

SIWOTIATDFC

Despite their bluster and overbearing sense of self importance, a lot of gematria accounts on Twixter prefer to be a badass while being hidden behind a handle instead of using their real name.  Because nothing says trust in your “evidence” like being a keyboard warrior named GematriaKing666.  Ultimately you don’t really need to know their true identity- misinformation is misinformation regardless of the source.  But it would be nice to know if the source is someone has the balls to put out to the world that they are also bold enough to expose themselves to journalistic scrutiny.  GematriaKing666 is likely to just jump on a bandwagon and spread others content.  A person using their real name is the creator of that content.  GematriaKing666 is a hybrid, bridging the gap between bot copy and paste and true believing but clueless human activity.

SIWOTI - Someone Is Wrong On The Internet.  SIWOTI on a daily basis.  Somewhere out there is someone who is cosmically, mind bogglingly, horrifically terrifying wrong.  Real human beings are wrong.  And part of the reason they are wrong could be that some thing, not a real living person, has helped push them into being wrong on a regular basis.  The power of the Attaboy! ^TM.

And the power of the positive reinforcement for being wrong manifests in the protection of the herd.  The others who are consistently wrong hanging up to bash those that dare try to help them by explaining actual facts.  Traditionally SIWOTI relates how someone is on a mission to correct the injustices and factual errors on the web.  Facts don’t care about your feelings.  But grifters sure do.  And the SIWOTI warriors fall for the trap all the time.  Every once in awhile an unlucky, green and new SIWOTI warrior gives more oxygen to the fire.  Having fallen for the trap of reverse trolling.

The amateur SIWOTI warrior needs a tweak to be a more effective critic.  Target selection.  The grip the gematria clique leaders have is elevated to full grown cult leader status where one of the key features is that whatever they say is wrong but is eternally viewed as not being wrong.  SIWOTIATDFC.  Someone is wrong on the internet and they don’t fucking care.  And these people are working on being your elected officials.

Attacking the lowest level of the MLM scheme has little effect.  Doing here exactly what you should not do, they simply don’t have the critical thinking skills to figure out what’s wrong.  Convincing people who do have those skills, the people that do care what’s going on in the world, the people that see the Alex Joneses, Marjorie Taylor Greenes, George Santoses, Zachary Hubbards,etc… for what they are.  That’s a SIWOTI warrior demographic to strive for.  Adding your voice to others who based on the things they say on the internet and the manner in which they say them you get the correct sense that they are smarter than average, know what they are talking about and deserve support.

You can find them on Twixter if you look for them.  They also have cliques because it’s more effective to concentrate on a singular topic than to spread the love around too thin.  They do network with each other, but you can find a genuine expert if you need one for all the main baseless conspiracy theory topics:  extremism and hate speech, flat earth, gematria, homeopathy, anti-vaxx, Qanon, etc… All the big name players have the negative content about them posted openly about them instead of being targeted at that followers.  A lot of the content is geared towards the injustices served upon the grifted by their masters and how to successfully deconvert them before it’s too late.  Over the last few years there’s an uptick in the spread of awareness on the grifter method of operation.  Change the bad movie that the griftees are watching.  Get them to hire a plumber for their plumbing problem instead of an electrician - finding a genuine and empathetic expert instead of just someone who is SIWOTIATDFC who will just give a meaningless Attaboy.

Semantically Related…Democracy??

Start your morning off with a Google search of something like “semantically related words” and you’ll find something like this page as the top hit:

https://www.semrush.com/kb/593-semantically-related-keywords#:~:text=Semantics%20is%20a%20branch%20of,keyword%20research

We’ll get to the business marketing in a minute. Going back to our first few words, how many people would follow up start your morning with COFFEE?  Starting your morning with a stimulant that’s dangerous in large amounts but has a sort of democratically elected popularity that it’s not going away soon - it’s damn near ubiquitous.  It would be ubiquitous if it weren’t for the tea drinkers and their powerful lobbyists and hit squads.

MORNING and COFFEE are semantically related.  Either can be used in completely different contexts without being put together.  Morning walk.  Morning glory.  Morning dew on the grass.  Cup of coffee.  Coffee flavored ice cream.

Search engines utilize semantics to help provide hits based on what the algorithm thinks you’re looking for.  And you may need to refine your search if the top hits don’t suit your need.  A place that’s in the business of washing cars doesn’t get use out of the top hits being products you buy at Wal-Mart for a car owner to wash his car in his driveway.  CAR WASH AT HOME and CAR WASH NEAR ME clues the algorithm in to what you’re looking for.  The additional context means a lot.

The bullshit of gematria leads you to think that you can type in 113 into a search engine and get some kind of meaningful result with just the number and no additional context.  This is why there is a benefit to YouTube putting context boxes on scientifically proven things like chemtrail videos.  You stumbled on someone putting out bad information.  Your search (or the algorithm trying to give you more of what you just watched) hooked you up with bad info.

But that doesn’t stop the misinformation and disinformation ecosystem from creating new bad content on a daily basis.  The algorithms for searches or cross pollination from trying to give you more of what it thinks you want goes by the VOLUME of searches.  And the bad information has a big advantage.  Honest searches rely on finding good information that’s already out there.  Bad information relies on constantly searching for tricks to abuse the system.  Bot networks give undue importance to volume.  Things like gematria give undue influence to semantically related words.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X66MGRN364c

You too can learn how to make a completely bogus conspiracy theory clickbait video with relatively little effort.

Looking ahead to the near future I wonder what it’s going to be like with advanced AI trained on bad information.  If actual people engaged in a form of semantic democracy I’d have little choice but to live with it.  The will of the masses, now an entire planet instead of just my small tribe by the stream, believes gematria is super cool.  OK, if I don’t want to be off the grid on my own I’ll consider sucking up and faking it.

But for now, there’s enough good information to not be too worried yet.  A problem the future holds is the information superhighway semantically tying in the subjects that don’t really belong together.  Instead of GEMATRIA without further context returning, “A confirmation bias based system used by internet grifters and agenda pushers for engagement” it gives in this order:

1). Neutral info about the basics

2). Bad info and grifter calculators

3). The part about the scammy stuff

Based on the volume of activity pumped into the internet over the last decade the first time consumer is more likely to believe that the elites are murdering random people to rig sports games than finding the SportsGematria channel with documentation of the racist and hateful content that provides the context they missed in their search.  And that was planned and purposeful a long time ago.  And I’m not ready for the planet to tell me I have to live with that because I’m out voted without some fight.