Actually from July 2017, but not noticed by me until early August.
The video is Gematria Busted! by Beastt17 available on YouTube. My monthly award intends to honor those foolhardy enough to post a critics comment on the far too numerous pro gematria gibberish available. Some elements of this video make a good case for an exception.
The video is 7 years old. The author created a computer program that in some depth analyzes exactly how many innocuous matches occur for a given target total.
Despite the age of the video the original author responded to a recent comment. A month ago someone got the bright idea to suggest that reverse Gematria had more meaning than the original alphabetical order. The author's response is too lengthy too retype. If you're interested these are the first two entries in the comments. The first sentence of the rebuttal....
"The entire premise is simply bankrupt."
I like to think the author wanted to be harsher but exhibited amazing restraint. I would have been more likely to say, "What part of "gematria busted" did you not understand? It doesn't matter what numbering system you employ, there's simply nothing credible to the entire concept.
There's only about three dozen comments. It's also telling that the current heavy abusers haven't attacked this video yet. That's because seven years ago gematria hadn't mutated into the current sports/celebrity death/conspiracy/hate speech monster that it is now.
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