Cryptolemurs

I found a group of Twixter users that have latched on to a combination of gematria, computer code, and AI.  And lemurs.  For that social club and secret society type vibe they’ve latched on to lemurs as their spirit animal.  That’s actually kind of quaint.

Before I got too far into wondering if it was just a silly and idle pastime, the aforementioned club, I found the bit where there’s a program that I believe is supposed to find words and phrases with a 666 value in Satanic Gematria.

Here’s some trading of crypto wallet addresses or something (sorry, I don’t waste my time in crypto):

 

The “negative time” thing in the first screenshot is mentioned in other posts.  And there’s a lot of pictures of stock charts with various different cryptocurrency.  And a use of an old lemur pun - lemur lemerrier - several times.

Even the mention of gematria (or misspelled GEMETRIA as in the above hashtag) is enough to destroy any credibility.  But they had to go for looking for 666 in Satanic Gematria of all things.  The red flags are in place, there’s a financial hook, and a scapegoat of Satan, and lots of wild numbers like the 9vqs… character string stuff and wildly fluctuating price points in crypto values within a single day.  And yes, like you might imagine a quantum gematria would operate where it’s significant and a message designed for a particular user and not globally, when YOU check the price and its $0.000437 per coin that’s a message for YOU to drop the zeroes and pull out your gematria calculator and stat looking for 437.

There is likely a nice little gradient in the works here.  Some will get fully invested in the magical idea and start poking around the Qanon/Maganon world of some liberal figurehead being the Antichrist.  Some will find it silly and start messing with it for the lulz (a “smarter person’s” sports betting) and somewhere out there is someone that’s lying about their success rate and selling courses on how to improve your discernment, correctly evaluate the negative time calculations and which coins you should be switching to and when.  The one account on YouTube I’m most familiar with also sells shirts as well as expensive courses.

And that brings me to the final point.  That account is also talking up End of Times eschatology as a talking point.  I personally find this to be the most ridiculous hook I’ve heard in years.  It takes a deeply unserious and/or cognitively damaged person to get into a mental state where you should invest gamble on cryptocurrency if the world is coming to an end.  At least the evangelicals that use gematria still talk about preparing your soul for The Rapture instead of trying to take your money with you to the afterlife.  Or maybe it’s actually a good idea to lose your money on shady crypto investment advice so you don’t have any to take with you to the afterlife?