Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Know Your Grifter Marketing - Fake Videos

There’s a certain sense of pride that generated when a gematria believer has a successful decode, whether that decode represents connections that are simply personal or a successful “prediction”, usually from picking what amounts to essentially the flip of a coin.  There’s even more pride associated with being part of a community that encourages creation of videos documenting these decodes.  Even if the comments section bears out that other decodes hold the opposite view, there’s an unwritten rule that no decode is a bad decode.  Truth is not as important as the community and fellowship of being a part of a group of similar minded people.

For now, at least, the gematria community doesn’t produce much in the way of fake videos.  By that I mean altered images, or interviews clipped to take things out of context.  They have no need to.  Although this could prove useful when attacking fellow grifters when playing the shill game, for now it’s mostly character assassination with or without gematria to back it up.  A gematria flame war can be entertaining for outsiders - there’s always numbers to back up that so and so in the crypto clique is a shill, or so and so in the NWO clique is a lying Freemason.  But the gematria followers, they fit into the fake video market quite well.  Remember, it’s about engagement and going at least temporarily viral.  And confirmation biased individuals can and do spread fake video content on a regular basis.

Now that there’s another war in the Middle East, the fake content troll machine is in full swing.  And it’s for both sides.  A war, like political grifting, has clear sides where there’s pressure to be for or against one side or the other.  The reality is nuanced with room to accept that based on actual evidence that both sides are wrong.  But a gematria loving type personality has a preconceived set of ideas about exactly who is right and who is wrong.  And they’ll back that up with a decode of fake number evidence, ignoring even the possibility of the same numbers being the polar opposite of what they believe.

The fake videos, amassing millions of views in a short time, are often actual events, but they’re years old.  Sometimes they aren’t even related to an actual war.  Fireworks from a celebration, anything with a crowd in a street can be called a protest, burning buildings.  Anything that pre-exists.  Production of a new video from scratch is way too difficult and doesn’t fit the need for the grifter to elicit a spontaneous knee jerk emotional reaction.  Get the target audience fired up to spread the fake content NOW, before the take a step back and actually think what’s going on.

In a particularly nicely shallow touch that gives a hint of fake video to come, there’s material from the video game Arma 3 that’s a popular source of alleged actual war footage.  The fact checkers that have debunked it simply cannot keep up with the amount of clueless non critical thinking enlightened spreaders.  Compared to war related video games of yesteryear, the images are pretty convincing, as if they came from an actual battle.  Naturally, as the video technology has evolved consumers of people who enjoy games expect the realism, instead of Pong style graphics.

The appropriate response to being presented with video content is to check the source.  Even better is to stop even beginning to think that news from Facebook or Twitter is reliable.  If the source of your “war video” dabbles in gematria, posts a lot of hateful memes, spreads everything that’s been thoroughly debunked as a baseless conspiracy, they are one of those accounts that their job is to purposefully be wrong about EVERYTHING.  You are allowed to have an opinion on who is right or wrong, even a very strong and vocal opinion.  Let that opinion be based on actual evidence instead of manufactured evidence.

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