Some of the top conspiracy grifters like their side hustle of selling some merchandise along the way. Maybe if Infowars wasn’t a painfully bad but profitable infomercial for nutritional supplements of dubious quality and survival gear this wouldn’t be as big a thing. But here we are. Misinfo is part of the economy, love it, hate it or just wish people would leave you alone about it.
The origin of the Blabbi game is from boredom during the pandemic. And although I haven’t found a hint of a relationship with conspiracy thinking mentality and the game openly on the internet I find it remarkably well suited.
In Blabbi you make up words and make up definitions. In gematria, you use existing words and make up whatever story you want with the numbers.
Blabbi is similar to Scrabble, a well known and eternally popular game associated with smart people. So there’s some “fake” brand recognition. Modern conspiracy grifter gematria is similar to actual Jewish gematria. The comparison ends after use of the word gematria, having the “fake” brand recognition being accomplished.
Blabbi uses topic cards to guide the players into a structured environment instead of just being a free for all on what the fake word and definition should be about. Conspiracy gematria has a single topic, BAD NEWS. And if you stray from that you’re never going to get the votes.
You vote on what is the best in Blabbi. There’s no set rules for how somebody is a clear winner liking in Risk where you actually do need to conquer the world to conquer the world. In gematria, with so many grifters pumping out so many conflicting narratives within so many cliques there are no clear rules for winning. You are voting for your clique by time spent liking, sharing and commenting on the creator’s fake story. And it would be fine and dandy if it ended there - before falling for the pressure of heading to the merch store to advertise your inability of dealing with reality to the world. Or sign up for the Patreon which is the equivalent of dubious nutritional supplements.
And Blabbi is expensive. Not mass produced as of July 2023 article I read showing the price tag to be $59.99. Ouch. That’s three times as much as the recognized brand alternatives. For a game that is a popularity contest.
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Some games have great success with some kind of “add on” pack. Those work particularly well for software where you buy some additional computer code to build upon your previous purchase. Or Magic the Gathering expansion card sets. The other route is to make a similar stand alone version of the original game. Diablo II or what the hell number are we up to in Civilization now? It doesn’t look like there’s much room for add ons to gematria. Nobody wants to switch the format up to talk about how they found numbers that show puppies are fun or butterflies are pretty. It’s always doom and gloom. It’s very tedious, repetitive, and therefore boring. If you’ve already purchased your gematria game for $59.99 and never use it - well so what? The makers don’t care that there’s no expansion or no new challenges. They got your $$ and prefer to look for new clients to purchase their game that will sit on the shelf after being used two or three times.
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