If you’ve entered the world of disinformation and online grifting just recently, boy did you miss out on a lot of the fun and batshit crazy stuff. It wasn’t always talk about Nazi’s attacking marginalized groups, peaceful protesters getting murdered, and the President throwing a dart at the Big Board of Arbitrarily Selected War Crimes. The early pipeline from angry confirmation bias based grievance to active monetization and mobilization of boots on the ground forces had moments of fun. Like the whole evolution of gematria from grifting on sports betting to a major part of Qanon LOL fun.
The in video YouTube advertising in the Zachosphere was self contained. You wouldn’t turn on your TV or car radio and hear about gematria because it absolutely was low quality evidence and frankly, quite stupid. It wasn’t designed to be high quality. The niche it filled was the social media audience. The “real life job isn’t paying the bills, maybe I can get rich quick” audience. The emotional reaction with no critical thinking audience. The slick talking sophist demagogue delivering the Attaboy!TM and bringing to the surface the worst qualities of the worst people audience. The monetized harassment Alex Jones audience.
Qanon commandeering gematria wasn’t inevitable. I get the sense that sports betting gematria would have been totally fine without the political misinformation and disinformation crowd muscling in on the turf. But once it happened, the love/hate relationship was introduced. Pre Qanon, it was start an occasional flame war with Flat Earthers. Now, the constant search for the most gullible had a crowd that was first introduced to gematria as a symbolic secret message. A full blown cult tool instead of just a petty grift. And how do you run a business of grift and attack your enemies when it boils down to the same tactics? Cult leaders, con artists, corrupt politicians, it’s all the same. Hit ‘em fast and hard. Overwhelm them with the message as fast as possible before they realize what’s going on. Nobody likes to admit they’re wrong about the tiniest little thing, and with the doctrine of No Truth = No Consequences in place what have you got to lose?
Well, maybe there is something to lose. It just took too damn long to come about. When the well runs dry and you keep trying for nonexistent water it’s a waste of energy. The overabundance of gematria is finished. And now post Charlie Kirk the right wing grift is doing their own version of fighting for their grifting pie market share. Nick, Ben, Candace. Maybe they or some of the others considered adding gematria, but that hasn’t happened. But Candace has a dream. Not that she’s judged by the content of her character instead of the color of her skin, but we’re literally to give her money because her actual dreams MEAN something. Fuck your dreams you not Candace people. My dreams are the best. My dreams mean something. And my high powered brain deciphered them, because that makes soooooooo much more sense than my high powered brain figuring it out during waking hours.
This is gematria without the words and numbers. Its interpretation, deliberate and willful misinterpretation, of commentary with no actual evidence that the data being analyzed actually existed. It’s a narrative that screams out to the actually functionally intellectual, “PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE ME YOUR NEW CULT IDOL!!”. It’s intellectually lazy passing the offering plate to the assembled crowd without any effort into putting together a sermon that might at least give a little comfort to the flock. The only thing missing is her pick to win the Super Bowl.
Again we see how it’s difficult for the online grifter these days. Weeks ago I mentioned that now even other grifters are more likely to call out their own kind via critical thinking topics, a facet missing from online grift a decade ago. Candace’s dreams aren’t going to help your medical bankruptcy from unaffordable health insurance. Candace’s dreams aren’t going to stop corporate greed and your grocery bills. Candace’s dreams aren’t going to stop your father being in the wrong restaurant and getting deported because ICE showed up and he had the wrong color skin despite no actual criminal record. Maybe she can have a weekly call in show where people can request her to dream about specific issues. (Which would be fun to troll). But this presentational pivot is just weird. The only good quality it has is avoiding the actual gematria that could have been used. Because now that has a stigma attached to it. Maybe the people it would work on are a little bit more likely to Google gematria and find Qanon content and not enjoy what they hear.
The gematria synchronicity crowd has some dream content. Actually, too much. Although it’s understandable. That increases the spiritual and occult angle. Dreams and their interpretation are an old internalized belief system. These are my dreams, they MUST be important. And since I walk around and interact with other people they and the dreams MUST have some connection. And simultaneously they have internalized stigma. Wait a second there, you gematria decode and/or dream. Does this mean I’m a bad person or a good person? Maybe I’ll ask the cult leader, surely they will figure it out. I’ll just skip the electric bill this month for my bribe. I’ll just roll the late fee into the requested interpretation that makes me so wealthy I won’t have to worry about electricity ever again. For my children, too.
At the end of the day, stripped of its spiritual and mystical angle, stripped of the stigma of avoidance of other tactics that don’t work anymore, this is good old fashioned monetized harassment. A convenient excuse to slander enemies with a prepackaged courtroom defense of “I never said that myself, my dreams said that.” The same as not saying the Freemasons ritually sacrificed that celebrity, the gematria did it. The voices in my head said it. Listen to the voices in my head, and I will tell you what to think and say. And don’t ever forget to tell other people that they are the mindless sheep, not you.
A while back I listed some YouTube channel recommendations. The linked video is the new channel for the Dark Brandon crew mentioned in that post. I read rumors of a hacking problem and loss of control of that channel. But they’re back here and in good form still. A modestly sized video length with sourced content and meaningful commentary. Commentary that doesn’t just scream out that something is wrong, but points out the logical fallacies and factual errors that showvwhays wrong.
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