Fairly recently I shared how Zach allowed himself to be interviewed by Ben from the YouTube Ben A Minute channel. That was three weeks ago and it was time to follow up, to get a sense of how much was Prozac…er…pro Zach, and how much was negative.
For the Cliff Notes version to not have to watch the entire video or read the previous post here, Ben was willing to be openly against the side of gematria having meaningfulness while not being openly hostile to Zach during the conversation. In turn, Zach was remarkably well reserved and had no reason to launch into a patented rant.
An added layer to the context of the conversation, Ben is openly anti MAGA. So in addition to Zach supporters there’s the potential for Qanon supporters to have taken notice and asserted themselves in the comments. And I admit, I got tired of looking through the 1200 comments for anything resembling a pro gematria stance. There’s just nothing there. Well, except of course the obligatory thank you note from Zach. Like the obligatory letter you sent the company that sat you down for a job interview. And even that was met with a form letter, “Thanks for coming in. We’ll keep your resume on file.” Thanks, but no thanks.
Overall the bottom tier of the grifter economy is dying. The gematria view counts have been suffering for years. Gina Colvin, the head of what I called the Weird Shit in the Sky group? Her YouTube channel is gone. And I can’t find any new content from her flunkies that is asking around for what happened to her channel. Actually, she had at least one more channel which is also gone. I just don’t know where to turn to get quality chemtrail, Niburu, and alien ships hiding in shitty photography content any more. Even Zach’s favorite AR-15 toting, shirt selling compadre is only good for a video every few months instead of regular content.
I’d like to think myself and some of the crowd I hang around on social media with had something to do with it. But, it may simply be that late stage capitalism has accelerated to make gematria obsolete. Gematria is indeed the Tesla Cybertruck of the conspiracy grifting world. Came out about a decade ago with bold promises of secret knowledge meaningful to everyone’s life. The financial hook lured in even those who knew it was “a bunch of bunk” with the ability to side hustle a couple of sports pick Patreon subs. And now it’s just on autopilot, trying to get the last couple miles out of it and hoping you can unload it from your life. It’s not like we ever see videos of someone proudly showing up at a college campus to sell the idea of gematria to young and impressionable college age kids.
The middle tier in turn is also suffering. And although this post is highly repetitive of old content about the death of the gematria community, that’s something sort of new. More observable results are in. People are not quite so quick to assert how much they adore Trump. Even without verbalizing it, your mere presence as someone who went on record that a second term in office was bad news makes them think twice about being so open about it. After all, if you were smart enough to prepare yourself for the worst of this you have the coping mechanisms to mentally and emotionally deal with it. Whether you wish to help them is up to you. I suggest you consider waiting until they’ve sold the Cybertruck instead of just claiming they did.
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