That’s the proper use of gematria on social media. You don’t actually do the gematria, you just reference how in the manner it’s practiced by bad actors it ends up being complete gibberish. And the following is a recap of how astroturfing by MAGA trolls has helped put a gang of incompetents in power. Instead of actual adults in the room negotiating peace treaties, trade deals, bipartisan legislation or anything meaningful, we have gibberish speakers dumbing down the content to own the libs and keep the base riled up.
It’s fairly well known that conspiracy gematria has a fondness for rather small and therefore insignificant numbers. As much as they would love to have a genuine example of finding a lengthy Pi match to a large number of decimal places:
31415926535897323846
Like Chief Keef would say, “Ain’t Gonna Happen”. That number is WAAAAAYYYYYY too fucking big. The vast majority of gematria, the useful range is two and three digits. Even four digits is pushing it for them. That usually requires some form of cheating instead of a straight up type the word into the four base ciphers and see what happens approach. So when I saw the % quoted in that Bluesky post I allowed my curiosity to wander and see exactly what kind of gibberish Gematrix.org had available. At Gematrix you can type in a number and have it spit out search results of words and phrases, sorted by the frequency of the searches. And for 13618 we get a result of, “That number is waaaaayyyy too fucking big.”
Qanon trolls have put this phrase near the top of the 13618 search results. Most likely it was searched once and then Gematrix has an algorithm that randomly goes through adding on bogus searches. Second most likely is that it was someone repeatedly searching for this phrase for some idiotic reason. But, I can promise you that in the over 200 searches for that, there’s no fucking way two people independently decided to misspell FORTY and all that other crap to perform some magic gematria ritual.
A perfect example of gematria as a rabbit hole entry point. You might get drawn in to an echo chamber with an offhand decode. Then dismiss it as nonsense. But tell me more about this celebrity death ritual, anti-trans stuff and racist shit I like to hear about. And holy crap I can win lots of $$ gambling on football?!!? (No. No you won’t.)
They, in theory, could have spelled forty correctly. In theory they could have used the correct Qanon slogan of WWG1WGA. And in theory they could have substituted a more well known synonym for “vitiates”. Then just alter some of the other gibberish to hit 13618 if that was the goal. But astroturfing doesn’t need meaningful content. Just engagement, and the more random hits the better. The more fake traffic on a site the better for the algorithms.
Yes, the cost of your groceries is in part higher than it should be because of complete gibberish.
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