I’m sticking with my common sense initial reaction to a livestream gematria presentation being way too long. People simply do not have the patience to watch a three hour long video its entirety. Especially one that recaps material that’s been covered before. So I spent some time thinking more about it and what reasons there are. What disadvantages and advantages does doing that do?
One of the first things to mention is that Zach and The Illusion are the only leader figure in the Zachosphere that consistently go on air way too long. And Zach is so industrious that his wide assortment of videos have running times that cover a wide range of lengths.
People who’s Dunning Kruger effect blocks them from realizing what goes on miss the point of a lot of conspiracy hoaxer content. The now so common question with what is to me a simple answer. Why do people fall for this? Because it’s a business. Or at least a form of transfer of wealth as mostly scams aren’t considered real business. The platforms used by internet grifters don’t care what the content is. More views = more ads regardless of the quality of the ads. (And right now the ad quality on gematria videos is all dubious other scammy content and political donation begging. Which I suppose are the same.)
Here’s some reasons to do an overly long livestream. There’s overlap between the reasons I list.
Reason #1
Even if it’s not a spiritual or religious oriented clique the format is a preacher delivering a sermon. Whatever day it’s being delivered, there’s a set beginning time. It will show as a scheduled UPCOMING time on YouTube. Announcements are made on Twixter and other places, “Going live at 3pm”, or “Going live in an hour.” So the people that want to play hooky from work or whatever can jump in instead of being involved in something less self destructive.
Reason #2a
Troll control. People can and do post negative comments regularly on gematria videos. And often they use the same account to pop in and make a pest control f themselves. It’s faster and easier to have moderators stop them at the livestream level before the video gets turned over to what operates as just a regular YouTube video that wasn’t a livestream. The longer a livestream goes on, the better chance that a troll will find out about it and pop in. A longer video gives the appearance of being dedicated and a worth as a leader.
Reason #2b
Troll control.
The video can be set to Live chat replay only. If the video didn’t get any significant trolling it’s not possible for any negative commentary to show up at all. Once in the “ordinary video” mode newcomers who aren’t aware of the debunking of the scam don’t get any contrary info to maybe make them think twice about getting involved. Deleting comments is a pain in the ass for these guys. Sure, they work it to their advantage and claim that YouTube is doing it all the time, but a lot of times newcomers self generate a lot of good points. Not actively trolling even, just wondering about something they find suspicious. If these are buried within livestream comments than can just be ignored during the livestream. You don’t want to answer why you’re talking about predictions when you wait until the event has occurred? Don’t call on that student that raised their hand, lousy little troublemaker. If they should get hold of your email or question you further you can gauge whether they are worth more time investment or if they’re too dangerous (not gullible enough) to waste time on.
Reason #3
People like to be recognized. First of all, instead of a handshake and a quick hello at the start of the service, latecomers can be acknowledged throughout the sermon with a quick hello that doesn’t interrupt things too much. A newbie that has announced, “Greetings from Arizona!” can have some Diamondbacks or desert heat climate change stuff thrown in to cater to their real life situation. The Diamondbacks fan may never realize that the pump was being primed to start making Diamondbacks connections on their own, even though the numbers can apply to other teams that don’t make any sense.
Reason #4
$$. The real life church passes the offering plate once in the middle. Never miss a chance to collect when they come in late. The longer a video goes on, the more talking there is about hitting the like button, sharing the video, sharing the secret knowledge, the better chance that someone will cough up something, even if it’s small.
Reason #5
Those pesky misinformation notifications.
Surprisingly, they don’t like these. They milk these when they appear with the “proof I’m a dangerous badass” line of logical fallacy reasoning. I’ll have to pay more attention, I think I’ve only seen it a few times on livestreams. I don’t know, and I don’t think YouTube knows either, what kind of lag time there is between a conspiracy hoax video being uploaded or started to the time the warning message appears. It does seem that a livestream avoids having it posted for newcomers to see real information. Make hay while the sun shines. Keep going as long as possible and just don’t worry about it after it’s in normal video mode instead of livestream mode. I like to use these as an invitation to report the video for misinformation. It may not have any real impact, but it feels good.
Every gematria video is an introduction to gematria, just in case there’s a new fish to real in. It’s accepted that the presenter is busy with explaining the bad news of the day, and not have to take time out to start from scratch to answer, “what does B equal, again?” If someone steps into the church an hour and a half late, there’s somebody there to handle this during the actual stream. A livestream feels more important, more special than just another video to pick from. It’s better to say you were at the concert than just buying the DVD replay. Longer videos = better chance for engagement. A better chance to steer the conversation to where the hoaxer and grifter can work their way into your mind and wallet.
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