The Fret Clock

Debt clock content?  Hogwash for toddlers.  The real conspiracy grifting money is in unmoderated conspiracy videos on Tik Tok.  Look, the site is even named like the sound of a clock ticking.  That’s some serious predictive programming.

Media Matters - conspiracy videos on Tik Tok

It doesn’t matter how much actual evidence there is to guide people into the mindset that there’s something not right with social media’s approach to conspiracy content.  The ultimate bottom line remains - people would rather have money than be right.  And why try to reinvent the wheel of misfortune when the clickbait outrage porn system works so well?

There are reasons to certain topics I bring up that are not directly related to gematria.  Internet poker created a weird system that to a long term rational player became pretty obvious that something wasn’t right.  Funny things going on, like players going all in every hand.  Like the bad beats becoming statistically far more frequent than they should be.  Like how odd games instead of the traditional Texas Hold ‘Em were astroturfing number of players and hands dealt.  Odd things that eventually lead to banking sanctions and criminal charges.  Why would anybody else would create a new scam system when there’s a perfectly good method already developed?  Of course chess on the internet is going to go through the same bot infested nonsense.  (Albeit the chance for AI assisted human play is greater as chess playing AI is so far superior to humans compared to AI assisted poker play versus humans.  Poker is not anywhere near as complex.)

Alex Jones has a perfectly wonderful system.  No need to reinvent that wheel of misfortune.  Just migrate it to Tik Tok.  For example, Quora went through a phase with their Partnetship Program, with people being monetized for asking intelligent questions that resulted in intelligent answers.  Oh, who are we kidding.  It was a nightmare.  People were asking the most mind numbingly stupid, repetitive copy and paste questions available just for engagement.  Oh who are we kidding.  Easily programmed algorithms were pumping out things like:

Why is <fruit name> the <‘best’ or ‘worst’> in <country name>?

And making a pittance on individual questions, but still encouraged to make up for the lack of quality in the question by the quantity of questions.  You just never know if there’s a mango fan in Madagascar who might reply.  Eventually the Quora partner program was dropped.

Tik Tok has the edge with people being lazy.  Reading and writing is too much work.  Videos with their engagement enhancing tricks are much more effective.  Through the misinformation out in a rapid fire patter, through some visual and audio effect bells and whistles in, and make the video just barely meeting the stated community standards (which are abysmally low) so it gets monetized.  And now completely driven by AI.  No thought, no quality of messaging.  Just the first thing that pops into the freakishly devious AI conspiracy theory algorithm.

Returning to chess, the supercomputers that are at the top were trained on good information.  Neural nets constantly going through ridiculous numbers of outcomes of a single move in ridiculously short times.  Eventually becoming far better than any human can hope to achieve.  Contrast the conspiracy bot.  Deliberately being trained on bad information.  Deliberately being trained to put out a wrong answer.  With audiences in varying degrees of susceptibility to misinformation.  There may not be a lot of belief in every single one minute video, but confirmation bias doesn’t work that way anymore.  Instead of mistrusting the source in its entirety for the clickbait nature people will pick and choose which one minute videos they’ll say, “Hey, that shit resonates with me.  I never realized that sports were rigged by gematria.  I should stop paying my taxes.”

Let’s see what possible solutions to some of the problems raised in the Media Matters video.  And let’s warn up front about the likelihood that it isn’t going to happen in the near future.  Social media wants money, not being right.

Stop the fake celebrity endorsement.  Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.  Love him or hate him or somewhere in between, no pilfering his voice to make him say whatever you want.  Even if it is awfully entertaining.

Raise the time limit for monetization.  Boy, that’s really never going to happen on Tik Tok.  The really short video is their claim to fame.

Context warning.  For those that think it’s fun to be allowed to have a constitutional right to the wrong answer.  Clearly label entire libraries of bs content creators as the bullshit artists they are.

The Fret Clock is Tik Tok-ing away.  Those that wish to troll and harass are now being paid for it.  Every time there’s a new technological toy the grifters start looking into how to abuse it.  Just like there are those that say that when looking for arbitrary scapegoats in baseless conspiracy content it always goes back to the Jews, I personally think the anti science content part goes all the way back to the 70’s when it was far too profitable to make money on fossil fuels than worry about the consequences decades later.  It all comes back to climate change and what tricks were learned along the way.  The right time to stop the Fret Clock was when it was hours away, not less than the length of a Tik Tok video.