Conspiracy Economics - Competition

 

One of the weirdest aspects about the explosion of conspiracy misinformation on social media is how competition simultaneously promotes the conspiracy and attacks opposing conspiracy theories.  The opposing conspiracies aren’t necessarily directly diametrically opposed (e.g. belief in flat Earth as well as gematria using GPS coordinates).  They are opposed to the marks giving money away to other grifters.

An example from not social media - let’s say you’re creating a microbrew beer in your basement.  You learn the basics of actual making of it, your friends and family give positive feedback and you get convinced to try and supply a stock to some of the local bars in the area.  But, there are already two competitors in that bar.  So what are you going to do to gain attention outside your small circle of friends to gain market share and keep growing?  You can promote the hell out of the positive aspects of your beer and how great it is.  Or, if you’re brewing Gematria Lite, you can attack the existing beers relentlessly.  ABC brand beer is poison!  I don’t have any evidence for this other than I said so!  123 brand beer tastes like shit!  Well, that’s subjective, but your target audience loves complaining, so that helps.

New to social media conspiracy channels have a microbrewery.  They are learning how to go from 50 views per video to a dream of 1000’s per video.  Whether they are fully aware of the grifting and that’s the goal, or they’ve been duped into believing that it helps the cause is not important.  Whether by subconscious osmosis of what’s going on in the truth community surrounding them or direct input from a ringleader, they have learned that advertising your social media requires attacking the enemy.

You don’t see beer companies making ads that say the other brand is actually better.  You also don’t see them making ads that have clear falsehoods.  If ABC beer is not actually poison, there’s a successful lawsuit to be won.  No, they’re going to stick to something subjective like the taste or how it has a nicer head of foam.  The goal is to get the target audience at the bar to make a decision on what beer to buy at the bar NOW.  Regardless of long term faithfulness to the brand based on actual product quality.  These are decisions a low level person in the conspiracy pyramid scheme is making.

The mid level is a person who is trying to manufacture beer themselves.  They want to know exactly what ingredients to use.  They want some tips on the process, how long to ferment, proper cleaning and maintenance of the equipment.  And maybe some tips on higher level marketing like nailing a celebrity endorsement.  They want some staying power instead of just making it for their own enjoyment.  They don’t want to invest time and money to just have the equipment collecting dust in the basement.

In pops in Gematria Lite with promises of an ultimately unachievable goal.  Do this today (buy a beer at the bar) and you are the most important person in your circle (your basement microbrewery).  Here’s a packet of yeast.

The gematria tools are even less beneficial than a packet of yeast.  Superficially designed for success, it’s impossible to not find a match after limited training.  There’s no real rules to follow.  How many ciphers are the correct number?  Drop zeroes and double digits are actually one?  Transpose numbers?  Prime numbers?  I’m allowed to pick both teams, what kind of sense does that make?  Instead of brewing their own beer successfully, the gematria user is trying to just get to the point where they enjoyed that one beer that one time months ago.

The master brewers love how the microbrewer can’t achieve any true competitive status.  The microbrewer is missing the one key piece to the puzzle.  The marketing skill to sell the useless packet of yeast to other microbrewers.  People like Zach are not selling the idea of gematria success, they are selling their marketing skill.  How to be successful at getting away with calling ABC beer poison without getting sued.  How to be as disrespectful as possible without getting ostracized beyond the family and schoolmates that already find you creepy and weird without getting your YouTube channel deleted and fired from your job.

If you’re doing it wrong, and you’re always doing it wrong, your bogus master brewer will throw more useless info at you.  You forgot to use water, duh - you’re an idiot, try harder.  And if you actually figure out what the product really is, the hatred.  Well, don’t try and sell your beer at the same bar as me.  The claws come out.

The problem that the master brewers have to overcome is the limited supply of microbrewers.  There’s a fair number of microbrewer wannabes that have dreams of master brewing.  Finding the microbrewer is an art form.  You simultaneously want to encourage belief in every conspiracy under the sun, at the same time as discouraging those that have figured out your scam enough that they are dangerously close to stealing some of your precious market share.

And some microbrewers just never figure it out.  These are the people with enough psychological damage that don’t get that subconsciously they are constantly being reinforced (bad sports pick, again; didn’t add water to the yeast packet) they are wrong all the time, while simultaneously, verbally and in print, being told they are right (narrative for the other team; your beer is awesome) they are right all the time.  Like slot machine addicts that don’t get one lucky spin doesn’t make up for losing ten times as much the entire night, they only remember the short term success of that one beer they enjoyed this week.

That one glass of ABC beer that was left out overnight that made you sick because you drank it and it’s generous supply of bacteria doesn’t make all ABC beer poison.  That one 123 beer you found exceptionally refreshing because you spent the previous two hours doing yard work in the hot sun doesn’t make 123 the best tasting beer to everybody all the time.  There’s room in your life to enjoy both if standards are met.  Whether you impose them on yourself or get forced do it is up to you.  Your government doesn’t want you to drink one because it tastes better, they want you to stop leaving it out overnight because there will always be idiots that drink it anyway.  What never helps is wasting resources on a packet of yeast that is marketing nothing but conflict.

Conspiracy Economics - No Honor Among Thieves

It doesn’t matter which side of the street you enter from.  One direction is financial benefit leading towards constant not following rules.  One direction is not following rules leading to some financial hook now that they have your attention.  But be very clear - there is a strong correlation between the weirdness, as silly as at seems at times, towards a financial hook.

The first picture is someone already heavily invested in the sovereign citizen pseudolegal arguments where the people who are owed money want that money.  Years worth of unpaid taxes and utilities, a fair chunk of change for sure.  Add up the penalties and interest and this is a life altering disaster.  And the begging for help from the cult leader.  Queen Romana - yeah…that ain’t gonna happen.  We’ll get back to her in a bit.

The second picture is someone heavily invested in the narrative that vaccinations are the worst thing ever.  Having fallen for the cult control tactics, they are at the point where pretty much nothing can persuade them otherwise, as can be seen that their own dialogue debunks their own arguments.  Of course a new variant goes after the unvaxxed.  If you had been vaccinated you wouldn’t have the problems you have now.

Crank magnetism compounded by relentless grifting keeping the feedback loop going.  Keeping the feedback loop going, where there’s not enough resources to combat everyone disinforming the public and settling for the occasional ringleader that goes too far where something really needs done about it.

It’s worth noting that Queen Romana just gave a speech that included death sentences for those who disobey her.  These types of comments generally follow after one of the flock has gotten fed up with not getting the results expected.  Promised not having to pay bills and it being fine.  Friends and family that know what’s going on are only providing negative feedback because of concern or abandoning them entirely.  The economic cost of the endgame of conspiracy belief is to be avoided.  The promises are always hollow.  There’s no honor in thieves, the ability to callously steal does not allow room for compassion.

Bearing in mind the cost of wasted resources by waiting to do something before it’s too late, awareness is for now the best that we can hope for.  The earlier the wake up call before becoming too heavily invested in the narrative, the better.  Our governments seem to be stuck in a rut of waiting until it’s too late before action.  One of their big tools?  Relying on how there’s no honor among thieves.  Alex Jones ex-employees don’t want to go to jail?  Turn on him.  You participated in the January 6th riot?  Give me some dirt on those higher up on the food chain.

For the same reason that forced vaccinations have a problem - the scared, vulnerable and confused are neurologically ill equipped to cope with being told to contradict an ingrained pattern.  Having chosen a hero, they don’t want to “snitch” on that hero unless forced to.  The same reason that the work code of honor says you don’t snitch on your brethren for taking that 17th cigarette break of the day.  If you’re at the point of forcing someone to snitch to save their ass, it’s already too late.

There probably will come a time where education will include a better understanding of grifting techniques on the Internet than is happening now.  The same way that eventually the 419 scam lost the actual Nigerian Prince and they started selling for new and fresher variations.  And therein lies the problem.  Even if gematria disappears, somebody will think up a new weirdness that will take off.

Effective warfare requires a degree of misinformation.  Propaganda leaflets dropped from planes, the feint for the strategically important hill that was cover for the real target of the supply depot, D-Day and all the cover up that worked to make it happen.  So what do you do in a cyber war when the tactic is misinformation itself?  Combat it with information.  Instead of pushing back against subjects in school deemed too dire for our babies to handle we need to tell our politicians we are fed up with misinformation.

Snitch on them.  Vote them out.  The good ones are the ones you don’t hear much about.  The ones that are encouraging the drones with limited critical thinking skills to get out and keep their political grift alive.  Don’t be afraid to go to a school board meeting and challenge the vocal and obnoxious Karen spouting off hatred and bigotry with no empirical evidence.  Learn some of the phrases that aren’t too antagonistic that cause some of the more entrenched to double down; see if they are open to genuine dialogue or are just being contrary for the sake of being contrary.  Here’s one to start you off?

So, explain to me what kind of evidence I need to provide that could change your mind?  None?? Ok, there’s your problem.

There’s some pretty basic math involved.  If everyone is stealing and nobody is producing, what is there to steal?

Between A Rock And An Angry Rock

If there’s an Internet strategy game out there that’s legitimately fun, free and has a concept that is fresh and innovative, I’ve never found out.  Movies are the same now.  Shymalan came out like a gang buster, then changed into a shadow of his former self with not just bad, but amazingly bad content.  Reproducing, or at least trying to reproduce the success of someone else is way easier than the effort to achieve ground breaking new success.

Economics, unlike the hard sciences, is geared towards just treading water and not looking ahead while building on the past knowledge.  The Rat Race is a huge time suck.  The few people that are truly happy with what they are doing are few and far between.  Making a difference in the world, becoming admired by family, friends and random people and what you do to make money are not necessarily lining up together.

As a dedicated sociopath, I’ve never fully appreciated the need for attention while understanding that it is important to others.   Being thrust into an employment situation, you are now required to follow a set of rules of conduct to interact with other people.  Your life experiences have already trained your brain - socialization.  And you’ve internalized a set of rules for getting along with other people.  Now there’s a brand new set of work rules, and these don’t line up 100% with what you think you should be doing.  The people that are not you far outnumber the people that are you.  Some self confidence is healthy, but the extremely cognitively biased demonstrate early on that they simply do not care about following other rules other than the directives of their own confused noggin.

Whether this is poor socialization (nurture), there’s something wrong with the wiring (nature), or they have discovered the joys of grifting (more nurture) is not important.  These people exist and they are out their in the wild, and they are a huge pain in the ass.  They disrupt the workplace, the family, the church congregation.  And social media.

And boy do they love being the king of social media.  Eventually the people that are not you at other gatherings will stop inviting you to the weekly poker game.  You will get fired from work for not wearing pants.  Again.  The people at church will get up and move to a different pew, muttering some excuse about needing to catch up with Bill over there that they haven’t seen in ages, with ages actually being last Sunday.

The Internet is a strange contradiction, where the only people who get along with people who don’t get along with other people are people who don’t get along with other people.

Instead of learning the much needed lesson of sucking it up and taking one for the team to fit in, you are allowed on the Internet to just keeping on doing your own thing regardless of the consequences.  In real life pain in the ass takes a back seat to Internet pain in the ass while the critical thinking impaired brain is being trained, mostly by the grifting community, to seek out and destroy anybody that demonstrates the perceived weaknesses of actual intelligence and empathy.

So, Mr./Mrs. In Real Life Pain In the Ass has just started their journey onto the Internet, and what are some of the things that happen that go wrong with the socialization? 

 Social media’s existence.

It’s supposed to be fun.  Sharing recipes, pictures of your family vacation, pets, and other real life not pain in the ass things.  And as soon as businesses found out about “social” media they dove right in.  Of course.  Social media is supposed to be fun and free.  Nothing is fun and free.  There have to be advertisers to charge to pay the bills.  Somebody trying to talk you into booking their airline for the family vacation.  Someone trying to sell you the bestest dog toy ever.  Somebody trying to sell you spices for that carrot cake recipe.

As soon as the algorithms latch on to how much you like a fun issue, the grifting starts.  You like pharmaceuticals to ease your symptoms?  Try my homeopathy.  You like shooting at the target range?  Try my survival gear with a side dish of sovereign citizen content.  You want a pet black mamba?  You’re stupid enough to believe pretty much anything so here’s everything else stupid.

The individual is stuck between a rock and an angry rock.  And thanks to pressure from the grifters, after showing the signs of not getting along with others, they are encouraged to continue to not get along with others.

And the social media sites themselves are stuck between the rock and the angry rock.  Relying on algorithms to separate legitimate advertising compared to angry advertising has worked……never.  The “rules” are posted which mean nothing to the people that don’t want to follow rules.  The grifters produce content to deliberately encourage not following the rules that the people that most need some rules should be following.  The biggest openly talked about issue with social media is the rock of economically trying to suck in as much money as possible with dubious practical value to society and the angry rock of not wanting to be responsible for the content.  Again I restate - saying “Stop, or I’ll say stop again!!”, doesn’t work.

The advertisers are stuck between a rock and an angry rock.  Unhappy advertisers wanting to diversify the target audience don’t want to be associated with morally reprehensible content.  Dead people don’t buy products either.  In a polarized political atmosphere roughly half of the target audience is the wrong side.

It’s no wonder that gematria got merged into the angry rock portion of the Internet.

There are no rules in gematria.

Not just an absence of rules, but encouragement to create your own rules.  People who are real life pain in the asses love making up their own rules to justify their actions.  Today it’s okay that I dropped a zero, tomorrow I do a gematria decode where 201 isn’t 21.  Today I was right on my narrative for the Warriors victory.  Tomorrow I was wrong, but I was really right because there was a narrative for both teams (there always is.)  Today I hate Christians. Tomorrow I am a Christian.  Today my cult leader died in an accident.  Tomorrow he faked his death and he’s still alive.  On and on it goes.

Conspiracy Theory Economics 201 - YouTube

CTE 101 is easy.  Every good scam needs a target.  Find target.  Run the scam.  Collect the money.  The greatest asset of modern conspiracy grifting is an audience predisposed to be ignorant of the danger and coming to you on social media instead of you searching them out.

There was a time on YouTube not that long ago where things were a bit different.  The more advanced brains in the grifting world figured out how to manipulate the algorithms to boost their narrative.

The algorithm didn’t care if it suggested Celebrity John Doe legitimate death story versus Celebrity John Doe bullshit story.  An easy to figure out ploy was mass production of bullshit stories and let the math take care of the rest.  The susceptible minds would land on the less than sincere content, enter into the rabbit hole and nature took its course.  At one time the dislike button actually counted the dislikes, or at least displayed them.  You could actually create a bunch of sock puppets and have conversations with yourself to either agree or disagree just to keep traffic going.

These type of things haven’t disappeared completely yet some are more difficult and require more effort to achieve the goal.

Legitimate YouTube content operates roughly like this.

Create a channel.

Promote your channel.

Qualify for advertising revenue.

And most of the interesting ideas have been taken up by this point.  Creation of a fresh and exciting new idea is not necessary for the conspiracy grifter.  Like Democrats endlessly whining about the Republicans and vice versa, the goal is to become a parasite.  You are posting what’s wrong with the legitimate content, relying on logical fallacies and the types of debating arguments designed to win an argument without being right.  To approach the top of the multilevel marketing pyramid you need help.  The more clueless the help the better.  Some of the target audience is only useless for short term donations.  You need some that have a bit more staying power, the mid level tier of the pyramid.

This is a site of dubious value.  To me it reeks of narrative boosting funneling outside of but related to YouTube.

https://tz.youtubers.me/gematria-effect-news/youtube-estimated-earnings/en.amp

A new YouTuber who has gotten curious and into so called truth seeking might either independently decide they love the new found attention they’ve been getting and start a new channel on their own, or they may be pressured into performing in a manner more in line with what the cult leader says they should be doing.  Legitimate YouTube- the main source of content that drives the algorithm recommendations is the like button.  Because of the math, sharing is encouraged.  It’s simultaneously amusing and distressing as the cult leader waffles between bragging about how much money they make and begs for likes and shares as if they were a homeless person that hasn’t eaten in three days.

The ringleader has some tools to throw at the potential MLM middle tier.

1)  Recorded videos - the comments section.  Legit YouTubers can’t keep up with thousands of comments on a video with millions of views.  Not a problem for the MLM cult leader.  Like every positive reply.  Throw a couple channel ❤️s into the better, more adoring comments.  Give the people who don’t get attention in real life attention.

2)  Livestream and livestream chat - Legit YouTubers promote trusted individuals to monitor the chat for the inevitable trolling from those that think it’s more fun to disrupt than to be a team player.  Give the MLM people a wrench.  I’ve seen conspiracy videos with every comment being made by someone with a wrench, which is super pointless.  That is unless you realize it’s a perk to give attention instead of functionality.  It’s like a channel ❤️ on a comment on steroids.  An ego booster.  These people are not under fire from trolls so much as there to do the whining for likes and shares since the cult leader is busy live streaming.

3)  Linking to other social media - YouTube is the bread and butter, but you need to keep access to all parts of the rabbit hole.  Every major social media platform is bombarded with links to YouTube.  While your ads for products promote ads for something tangible, this is your advertising for the YouTube content.  Social media platforms like what used to be Facebook and what used to be Twitter don’t algorithmically check YouTube links.  This is also a golden opportunity to pump up the ego of the MLM middle tier.  Zach is famous for comments like, “Support this young man’s channel, he’s doing great work for the community!!”  More like, “I can’t believe this fish is still on the hook!!  More free advertisement for me!!”

The main purpose of all this - to generate as much traffic as possible.  Having a rotating crop of freshly supplied MLM middle tier to seek out the lower tier since invading others legitimate channels by trolling their content is too much work for the leader.

Returning to that link, it’s super outdated.  But it does show that actual monetary ad revenue for a new conspiracy channel is not anything to get excited about, which I believe is accurate.  The MLM middle tier isn’t supposed to know and understand this.  Big YouTube channels pop up on some of the most remarkably idiotic content, and the lure of making it big like that is lingering in the mind of the cognitively impaired, never realizing they are more likely to be struck by lightning simultaneously while they win a million dollars in the lottery.  At the bottom, a list of so called similar channels.  Our friendly algorithms have picked some rather odd choices there.  That’s not important to our lesson here.  What is important is the worm in the brain that allying yourself with similar content is necessary.  So, who better to ally yourself with than other conspiracy content?  That’s the actual similar content.  Even the more feeble minded make that connection, especially when spurred on by the top tier.

Also in that link, a review of what the channels content is.  That’s a fail, a big time fail.  Legitimate YouTube wants your content to reach as many people as possible.  They really don’t care if Draft Kings gets ads on bogus sports picks.  A potential MLM middle tier is probably already involved in some other pseudoscience and scam content.  Healing crystals and spirituality, the weirder thoughts in the cryptocurrency world, homeopathy, sovereign citizen content, etc….  What do you think happens to them when a site like this recommends Gematria Effect News as a similar channel?  They’re going to think it’s a good idea.

No, YouTube is not the source of the income itself.  It’s the biggest part of the economic framework.  It’s the marketing and how the product of hatred is advertised.  The MLM middle tier with their wrenches and mostly unseen blogs and their videos with less than 1000 views are asking for donations via Superchat, PayPal and Patreon subscriptions.  These middle tier people are a huge asset in the overall economy, constantly having been badgered into how constitutional rights are being violated when they really aren’t.  When a bot gets censored, they don’t fight back.  The MLM middle tier does.  Naturally they haven’t received any real monetary compensation for their effort - the YouTube system isn’t designed for that.  The end result is more frustration and continued cycling through the feedback loop of being disillusioned and disenfranchised.  

This is why there are people who consistently post content that is wrong about every single topic.  Sure, it’s heavily boosted by bot generated content.  That traffic is the Nigerian Prince spam email of modern times.  But it’s far more effective to have a real human with real emotions (as misguided as they are) fighting back.

Hyperindividualism, Toxic Narcissism, Social Media and Gematria

More psychology today instead of finances and economics.

In accounting, your balance sheet represents a snapshot of where you are at today.  Your profit and loss statements represent how the company is doing that leads to that snapshot.  Notice that the P&L part is pluralized.  Statements, not statement.  It’s not entirely fair to assess the health of a company by one year’s statement alone.  Trends are important, the company that had one bad year because they didn’t get that big contract that they expected, or a key person passed away, is not as bad off as a company that continually hemorrhages cash.

The tricky part is the timing.  Deciding when to pay attention to the problems and let it go or make changes.  Humans, and this odd need for attention do a particularly bad job of looking at the long term big picture.  In the Decade A - well it’s not too hot yet, climate changes is bullshit.  Decade B - more people are talking about this, maybe there’s something to it, ah we’ll be fine.  Decade C - starting to think they’re on to something.  Gosh I hope somebody fixes this so I don’t have to worry about it.  Decade D - maybe I should do more to help, but gosh this sucks.  Decade E - holy shit, the planet’s on fire.  Why didn’t anybody do anything about this decades ago?

In the grifting world, you bypass any concern for whatever decade your in.  Our accountants may be in a position that they are heavily invested in fudging the numbers to disguise that they never realized that nothing is going to save the failing company - those financial statements if honestly presented show the reality doesn’t match the dialogue.  So they do the grifter thing.  Pick a scapegoat, psychologically project their own problems on others, muddy the waters, double down - anything to avoid the harsh reality that the slow burn has caught up to them.  Maybe they can get away with getting caught being handled with, “Uh, I’m sorry?!?”

The grifting on the internet is the short con.  What are people talking about today?  What can I throw shade on today?  I’m never actually going to put the effort into buying the Eiffel Tower, upgrading it and selling it for an overpriced amount.  It’s just a matter of finding the right gullible people to convince that’s the plan and to invest in my pyramid scheme for them to purchase their very own genuine Eiffel Tower.

Some of the more entertaining movies about con men are the long con.  The group of lovable rogues hatches and executes a brilliant scheme.  The Sting, Ocean’s 11, House of Games.  These movies would be much shorter if it wasn’t the long con.  But they do have scenes of the short con, a plot device to show how skillful these guys are.

Hyperindividualism is how people insist that they are all edgy and cool by displays of their individuality.

https://brill.com/display/book/9789004444836/BP000044.xml

Getting those piercings was fun in college, but as a job seeker in a professional office, maybe you need to give up on that.  Maybe that garter snake was a fun and different pet, but the herpetology got creepy and weird when you insisted that you should be allowed to be an individual and NEEDED a black mamba.  But Dad, that garter snake is boring!  How dare the city for having a law about not possessing dangerous wildlife!

No wonder there’s a mental health crisis in our youth.  There’s an encouragement to allow individuals to be individuals and there’s a line in the sand society draws that you shouldn’t cross.  And all the while the internet grifters encourage the division - what makes you the coolest TODAY?

The psychological slow burn is how this has been building up for a long time.  Employment - fight tooth and nail to be making maximum salary and perks, the dream of home ownership and freedom that money brings.  And even giving up and faking interest in a job just to pretend to fit in and get a paycheck that your capabilities don’t deserve.  The opposing ends of the spectrum lure the middle class to the ends.  Garter snake versus black mamba versus no snake at all.

I’m skeptical on the quoted percentages of toxic narcissists.  There’s a link between Hyperindividualism and narcissists.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783345/#:~:text=Some%20studies%20have%20provided%20empirical,lead%20to%20narcissism%20%5B41%5D.

I think there’s not just the math of more people x the expected percent of narcissists, but an increase in narcissists by percent.  The grifters are magnifying identifying as an individual versus a member of a society. Now you can’t just settle for being the coolest person in your family, now you have to out cool everyone on social media.  Your confirmation bias got you this far, so let’s do the last thing you should, and ally yourself with grifters on social media.  The grifters on the internet have no intention of paying attention to the long term consequences.

Gematria is in a phase currently of settling in to build up for a new round of major shitstorms going on.  They are quiet, too quiet.  The sports pickers are just picking sports.  The crypto bros are just doing crypto.  The Jesus is coming soon guys are just Jesusing.  The spiritual synchronicity crowd is just synchronizing.  What isn’t changing is the fresh crop of not the most stable personalities having experienced a mix of happy versus tortured childhoods.  And all it takes is one more unseen event, the next crisis, for the cycle to start anew.  The next big hoax that isn’t a hoax will have some tiny and insignificant numbers.  And no amount of government funded therapy mambas is going to be enough to drag upcoming generations from the miasma of polarizing content.

Online Scams - It’s Not Just Fun and Games With Gematria

I'm going to take some time to go over the financial aspects of the conspiracy grifting world.  There’s no doubt I would have made a pretty effective grifter if I chose to take that path.  Every time some progress has been made something happens to counter it.

I’ve often said that in contrast to the 419 advanced fee scam (Nigerian Prince) that these days it’s way easier.  In the olden days you received a fax or email, which even with mass marketing to millions narrowed the further effort down to a select few - those gullible enough to reply.  Now, with the never ending push of conspiracy content the target audience can find the old rabbit hole and come to you.

Some statistics from the FTC bear out the increasing exponential impact:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2022/01/social-media-gold-mine-scammers-2021

Your politicians love to complain about the cost of immediate projects.  How much to send to the war in the Ukraine.  How much to fund the problems with immigration.  What to do about interest rates and inflation.  When something like gematria sports picks comes along it just seems odd and weird.  Why bother paying attention to something that’s utter nonsense that nobody would be foolish enough to believe?

Well there’s this thing called math, and enough people get involved and will continue to be involved in believing in something too good to be true.

When prices are set for food, part of the cost is already factored in for loss due to pests, disease and product expiration.  When cars are priced for sale, the math on odds of a mandated safety recall are factored in.  Insurance premiums are based on how many gazillion dollars the CEOs expect each year.  Everything has a hidden cost that you are paying for.

Promoters of conspiracy content rely on astute psychological understanding of human nature.  It’s not a goal to believe in the “product” for the rest of your life.  The cognitive bias of short term benefit vs. long term impact is super powerful.  Unless we are expected to evolve into a species where everyone steals from everyone else and that’s a good thing there’s no winners.

In that link, note that the romance scam is still a solid money maker.  The scammer invests some short term energy into pumping up the ego of the target.  You are so funny, smart, wonderful.  The romance attaboys, hiding behind a fake account that may even be the opposite gender of what you expected.  Following a script to help them through the rough spots on common skepticism.  Then, ironically, being identified as a good person, the target is hit with some tragedy that only their money can solve.  You are not a good person if you don’t send that money, whether you self identify the need to send that money immediately or suffer through more external pressure to guide you to that conclusion.  An analogy is the mega church operators and their ilk. You are not a truly religious person unless you buy the miracle spring water that will magically erase your debt.

Gematria got merged into the conspiracy world of how everything is an animal in Australia that wants to kill you.  Instead of selling a temporary feeling of joy of being a good person, the product is hatred.  You can find numbers for everything you hate.  The other political party.  The wrong religion.  Your government authorities.  Law enforcement.  You are no longer a good person if you don’t demonstrate your hatred by giving them your money.  If you’ve awakened to how it makes no sense that the results of your sports prediction weren’t really a prediction, no further effort will be wasted on you.  They are looking for someone with more staying power.  The ones that demonstrate a consistent enough hatred to keep going to present the next level of funding.  What started as jollies by analyzing your favorite team’s numbers is met with pressure to do more for the community.

The mid level believer is the kind of person who will double down instead of admitting they are wrong.  They are susceptible to the double dip, where the first scam certainly didn’t help their situation and the next get rich quick scheme seems like a good idea.  Now you aren’t even making sports picks anymore.  Now your being groomed for cryptocurrency, sovereign citizen, political donations on a large scale type scams.  You’re already armed with the cognitive bias of the gambler’s fallacy.  You are due.  Because you are a loyal hate filled person that has picked the scapegoat of the day whether that is someone of the wrong gender, skin color or sexual orientation.  The math bears out that there’s always a significant number of these.

Here’s somebody on Twitter getting gematria groomed:

 

Of course you’ve seen for yourself it’s always correct.  There’s always correct numbers.  There’s also a million times more incorrect numbers that you could have latched on to.  I looked at the profile and recent posts.  This person is now getting into crypto and political donations type content.  Using my amazing powers of gematria prediction, I expect loss of money in a significant amount, getting along with the family problems, and pressure to put out more scam content because the cause is more important than just what’s going on in your life.  The scam promoter admits to the confirmation bias.  Whatever it is I’m searching for, I’m sure to find.

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Vance Astro’s Armpits

This is a story about how old the climate change issues are, how for ages we’ve put off much needed effective changes socially to put out the current fire without concern for the upcoming fires.  Why put it off tomorrow when you can put it off today.  Out of sight out of mind.  It’s also a true story of the impact of what’s deemed as non serious literature on this teenager and how there are nuggets of wisdom in the oddest places.  At least food for thought.  Certainly more thought provoking than insisting meaningless two and three digit numbers mean something  of earth shaking significance. Within this true story are the seeds of how this person as a teen got a firmer grip on misinformation’s effect on people.

As a bit of background, Stan Lee’s letters to the Marvel Comics staff had a frivolous and fun reward for the sharp eyed clients.  If you were able to dredge up an old secure reference and be the first to point it out, you won a No Prize prize.  Bragging rights.  If you by any chance know of Vance Astro and the speech I’m about to relate, consider yourself seriously No Prized.

Teams of heroes were a popular source of storylines, adding flavor to the good guys versus the villains.  Different groups facing off, civil wars in the membership ranks, proud announcements of new members, the heartbreak of an old comrade moving on (with or without death that is never really a true death, because hey, it’s a comic book).  There’s no burden of the star in the film growing old and spending money on digital de-aging CGI.

There’s precious little new innovation in books and film.  All the good ideas are mostly taken from old material and rebranded.  Like how The Last of Us is just The Walking Dead with a twist.  What makes it worthwhile is if it’s well done.  And you never know when a story worth retelling is going to hit home for the first time as youth matures into adulthood.

The Avengers, sure we all know those guys by now.  The movies have been plastered all over cinemas and TVs for over a decade.  And oh boy those are retelling of old stories.  Anyway, there was a second group that was fairly popular called The Defenders.  The lineup featured Dr. Strange, the Hulk and Valkyrie and rotating lesser know members as needed.  Those first three, all of those are in the Avengers movies.  And there was also a Guardians of the Galaxy back then.  Their leader was Vance Astro.  So here’s a link to a preachy little bit the writers worked into the story.  Defenders #26

https://everything2.com/title/The+Defenders+%252326

Here’s the key paragraph

Holy shit, Marvel.  I’m supposed to be reading about superheroes beating up supervillains.  Why you do did to me?  Now I’m in high school absorbing different peoples attitudes towards pollution, overpopulation and the conflict between those who understand the scientific method and those who don’t.  And those that don’t care because grifting is more important than truth.

Back in 1975 when this was produced the fossil fuel industry was already ass deep in lying about the science to make money.  Almost 50 years ago, and it’s blatantly obvious to people today that even if they don’t trust the scientific consensus SOMETHING IS WRONG.  Gone are the days when I could grab a comic book and sit outside on a plastic lounge chair and read.  I have to be careful about taking my senior dog for a walk, because it’s just too fucking hot.  A 10 minute drive from work back home isn’t enough for the car AC to cool off the blistering heat on the steering wheel completely.  Air conditioning is a necessity, not a luxury.

Add to this (and let me assure you, it sucks to have great long term memory), Vance’s speech was presented to a young boy who breaks down crying about the awful future that awaits us.  “But that couldn’t really happen here, could it?”  It’s a time travel story, and Doctor Strange assured the boy it’s just a POSSIBLE future.

I found that comic book recap by Google searching for VANCE ASTRO ARMPIT.  If I were a conspiracy grifter I’d call that predictive programming where 50 year old material shows the future with somewhat frightening accuracy.  I’d also throw in a whine about how you don’t hear the ozone layer stuff anymore.  We did put out that fire, but the dry tinder is still there in the whole population/pollution/economic impact problems.

The grifters do not want you to understand that a comic book boy is now an avatar for scientific expertise.  How a fluffy superhero story has more relevance to the world than their free speech of stupid ideas.  The more chaos there is, the more background noise that exists to ignore the science side in the battle of good science versus making money, the better.

It’s hard to imagine what these conspiracy theory Avengers have for an Endgame.  A world where those who steal the best are the winners is a loss.  If that story were to get rebranded today it would replace dry armpits and ozone with disinformation, climate change and vaccinations.  The little boy in the comic will be crying about not knowing who to believe.  And Dr. Strange will step in and point out that at least you’ll get gematria sports picks, so it’s not all bad, eh?

Rebranding

Twitter is now X.  Facebook is Meta.  Lots of other corporate entities have rebranded over time.

A true rebranding is a fresh start.  It might start with a name change, yet usually indicates dropping the old and bringing in the new.  A radio station might change their name.  New management comes in and after doing some market studies decides that the audience numbers are suffering and instead of Classic Rock it’s time to go with lots of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and that more modern set.

Twitter in particular doesn’t seem like a true rebranding to me, more like an attempt to disassociate from recent turmoil and financial problems.  A reliance on how forgetful people are about how due diligence on digging into the past is important instead of the old conspiracy method of claiming, “I never said that.”  Yes.  Yes you did.  But it’s all just a show to present what your new audience wants to hear.  About how they can become rich and famous by giving you money.

The term is soft rebrand.  Your not totally throwing out the old and making a fresh start.  It’s just a name change with new packaging.  In the old TV days they studied how many shows for a series needed to be produced for a successful run in syndication.  A famous example being Star Trek, which was right at the borderline.  The old rule of thumb was 100 episodes or four seasons.  The average memory has enough time to forget enough about a single episode during the run, so by the time the 108th and last episode finishes and season 1, episode 1 comes back on it’s fresh enough for entertainment value long enough to get butts on the couch long enough to be influenced by the commercials.

So far, there’s only been one true rebranding in the gematria conspiracy theory gang.  When Hubbard dropped the Illuminati/Freemason/Cabal storylines in the FTFT blog and changed to the current Gematria Effect News brand.  Now it’s Jesuits this, Jesuits that, Jesuits everywhere.  With generous commercial slots for reminding the audience that it’s really the “you know who I’m really talking about”.  The subliminal scapegoating of anti-semitism.

I’ve noticed lately that there’s been some dabbling in the rebranding arena from the mid-level tier of the MLM structure.  The kind of people who have been around for years as opposed to moving on to the greener pastures of slightly more lucid conspiracy content.  (Let’s face it, a YouTube channel dedicated to how much you love guns simply because you love guns is a lot more sane sounding.)  It’s all about engagement and keeping butts on the couch long enough to get them lost in the rabbit hole.  Sincere sounding messages are put out about how they’ve changed, usually to be more spiritual and loving than they used to be.  Anecdotal “evidence” provided for the motivation includes run ins with law enforcement, concern over viewer counts on videos, reasons to suddenly get back into gambling.  That evidence may or may not be true.  The advertisers don’t care.  Only now the advertisers are grifters instead of somebody trying to sell something more or less legitimate.  I’ve personally scambaited a couple of them.  The girl down on her luck because she was raped by her father.  The biker chick who has the husband thrown in jail.  There’s a bunch who just go for the old fashioned selling of porn.  All eager to like videos long enough to post a couple comments to see if the ad makes an impact on the unsuspecting.

A soft rebrand is never on the lines of someone talking about how they’ve given up on conspiracy content completely.  It’s always limited to how much I don’t like So and So today.  If there is a hard rebrand they don’t rage quit and announce they are quitting because of So and So.  They just slink away into the night.

Mostly.  The recent rebrands have been renaming the YouTube channel without much change in the actual content.  It’s still about whining about how evil the world is.  Attempts to do a hard rebrand and attacking an entrenched gematria guru always backfire.  New entrants into the pyramid scheme are pressured to attack.  There’s a weird entire economy surrounding conspiracy content where the constant attacks add to the lack of coherence in the overall message.

If you’re interested in genuine research into the disinformation world there’s an opportunity to find some blatant hypocrisy here.  My all time favorite is the Gematrinator posting on blog about how Zach started making accurate sports picks like crazy years ago.  The day after he joined the comments of a Zach Attack video complaining about how much of a pain in the ass he is.  Highly unlikely the rebranding lasted a matter of hours, not even a few days.

To be fair, the newest versions of long timer content are a lot less openly hateful and violent.  In that respect, some progress has been made.  Whether this is a sign of users mellowing or not - ??  It’s not that certain.  Weird is ok.  Being weird doesn’t directly interrupt the lives of others too much.

(And change your channel name as much as you want.  If you don’t join the internet equivalent of a convent we’ll still find you in the comments sections of other videos.)

Bullying In the Truth Community

One of the features of reading through truth so called community posts on social media is division within the ranks; petty squabbling over nonissues and infighting over who is more important to the movement.  I call this The Shill Game, where the cups covering the balls (or shills) are constantly moved around and it’s impossible to predict where the actual target it is.  Nobody ever truly wins this game.  But by accident or design it helps the grifters a lot.  The target audience is already cognitively impaired and is constantly pressured to keep toeing the line, following the rules.  And those rules can change on a daily basis.

Precious little in the truth so called community changes the rules so much.  One person has a screen full of dozens of ciphers.  One person arbitrarily declares that the reduction cipher is the “purest” and using more than the four base ciphers is not legit.  One person finds synchronicity on hundreds of years old events.  One person makes a narrative about predicting the future claiming that the old events aren’t as important as declaring a 90+ year old person in poor health is about to die since the mainstream media declared their hospitalization.  But hey, you where only 67 days off .  That must mean something, right?

And the sports gematria is the worst.  A reasonably rational person can instantly identify a problem with how the Lions and Colts both equal 69 and 66 in the most commonly used ciphers.  A person that is more likely to not recognize this as a problem is the kind of person that went through high school with bad grades and being issued reinforcement that they aren’t performing well.  Psychologically, they are placed into a setting where they receive positive reinforcement for being right on a trivial event.  An event that is nudged along by increasing the statistical chance to create the right answer.  And the methods to create the correct answer are so vast that it gets to the point that it’s impossible to not get a “right” answer.

By changing the rules daily.  Never accepting being wrong.  And toeing the line on who is your current choice for not being a shill.

I’ve been totally not surprised to be reading that there’s a bunch of harassment and bullying ongoing in the -48 crowd with the passing of that cult leader.  This is totally natural as there’s a rush to fill the vacuum by those that are fully aware of the way the grift works and those that qualify as true believers.  The true believers have lost their prime source of positive reinforcement.  They’ve lost that main source of being told they are right all the time.

The chicken or the egg coming first doesn’t matter.  Whether the conspiracy mentality bleeds over into real life or real life pressure turns you to belief in conspiracies, there is a link between being a real life pain in the ass and an online conspiracy spouting bad ass who is never wrong.  And here we see another problem with the mix.  How social media historically has mishandled conspiracy content.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-14751-001

I would like to check that link thoroughly to verify it looks like a legitimate study.  No way am I going to put that much effort into it.  On the surface it looks fine, but it’s blocked off from full view unless I click more links.  Even that short blurb in the abstract isn’t written in normal English.  It’s science talk.  Your going to get a heavy dose of standard deviations, psychology terms and things way outside a high school education for the average kid.  Historically, I personally do a terrible job of communicating higher end concepts.  I’m not the only one, so at least I have that going for me.  It’s way too easy for me to fall into the trap of assuming people know what I’m talking about when I’m just getting a vacant stare, hoping the awkward conversation ends.  I’m also guilty of just giving up on what I deem to be a hopeless situation.

Real life workplace, school, social contact - it’s a never ending battle on dealing with one side that’s a pain in the ass being force fed bad information and constantly being showered with praise even when colossally wrong about important issues and a more knowledgeable community who can’t effectively communicate the correct information.  It doesn’t help when the experts are being attacked because the Alex Jones’s of the world are directing the attacks, going after the experts that can debunk the bullshit.

Compare these statements:

“While the efficacy of H2SO4 on dissolution of plumbing congestion is not to be denied, its corrosive attributes make it an overall less than worthy ultimate answer.”

Vs.

“Don’t use acid for plumbing problems, it eats the hell out of the pipes.”

In the gematria world:

“Astute grifters use psychological techniques to motivate and exploit their target audience.”

Vs.

“I’m important because Zachary Hubbard said so.”

And over the past decade that’s all it has taken.  Support the cause I give you an attaboy.  Stop paying me, or question what I say on even whether 69,66 means Colts or Lions, you are a worthless shill, controlled opposition less than human piece of garbage.

Culture Wars - Barbie, Beer, Boycotts and Building Blocks

There were things in the past that two sides chose to oppose each other on.  There are opposing sides on today’s hot topics.  There will be opposing sides in the future.  All Culture War topics are not created equal and like gematria dumbing it down to a manageable level for the critical thinking challenged, some things explode way out of proportion to their actual relevance.

Returning to one of my old favorites, Scientology - the product being sold is a complete sham.  You did not actually have the souls of angry dead aliens that needed expensive classes to be removed.  The indoctrination happens slowly over time.  You never hear the infamous Xenu story until you’ve been exposed to some slightly more lucid topics.  Maybe you got some benefit from their anti-drug program.  Maybe you dislike psychiatrists and fell for that selling point.  Maybe you fell for the celebrity endorsements and thought your acting career would take off.  Hey, it worked for Cruise, Travolta and Alley, why not me?          

Those with a logic and evidence based outlook often do the eye roll thing when a Culture War topic takes off and develops a life of its own beyond its true significance.  Like it is some hill you choose to die on significance.  Arguably, something consistently proven to be a harmful long term sham like Scientology deserves to be boycotted if governments behave ineffectually.  Still arguably, but less arguably is what happens when people get fired up over things like beer and toys.

The Barbie movie is the current big issue, and don’t let your inner Dunning Kruger get in the way of thinking it doesn’t have an impact on people other than yourself.  If conservatives get their way Barbie will be banned in all forms except a monogamous housewife spending all her time in the Barbie custom kitchen and the Talking Barbie pull cord only espouses traditional Christian values.  At least from the way they talk about it.  In reality, it’s just another arbitrary scapegoat.  Barbies, when I worked for Toys R Us, were not the money marker.  It was the custom kitchen, clothes, the car and the fringe things in the Barbie World that were the real profit producers.  Putting a GI Joe in a pink car was something that just wasn’t meant to be done.  No real Barbie lover would dare do that and at least admit it in public.

They start the kiddies off young with the Purity fallacy, appealing to the purity dichotomy of boys doing boy things and girls doing girl things.  Mark did his thing, Shania did her thing and never the Twain shall meet.  After growing up, and moving beyond toys, now as a voting age person instead of an appeal to nostalgia to market selling tickets to a movie it’s the end of the world since no true Republican would have anything to do with Barbie.  The funny thing is, if you dig around in history pretty much every toy has been advertised in some way that can be deemed as offensive.  The slow witted just fall for the rhetoric that’s being pushed by the top of the food chain.  The only real solution is no toys at all.

This all or nothing except when I expose my hypocrisy mentality is more emphatic with the Bud Light culture war boycott.  Hopefully you don’t give your children beer since they aren’t allowed to play with toys any more.  No voting age types have put a hit on Bud Light, successfully knocking it off the number one spot on best selling beer list.  Funny thing is Modelo is the new number one.  And everywhere outside the United States is owned by Anheuser-Busch who also owns Bud Light.  If you don’t mind that obvious hypocrisy, if you dig deep enough you can find advertisers try to be inclusive to as much different culture as possible and have at one time or another done something that could set off the boycott brigades.  The only real solution is to not drink any beer at all if you really think Bud Light is so bad.  But the beer situation gets worse.  Now there’s a frivolous lawsuit by a presidential candidate because his state’s pension funds took a hit because his side got his idiots fired up about Bud Light and they lost money.  No true Republican would not sue for creating a problem by making a mountain out of a molehill.

Let’s not forget that you can’t have a culture war without an opposing side.  The liberal response invariably overcompensates by endless talking about these trivial issues, like a big cloud of no true Democrat would ever… arguments to attempt to counter the gung ho attitude of the other side.  Giving the pointless argument fuel and oxygen.  The endless psychological pressure of choosing one side or another by the example of how you spend your money.  The only real winners are the grifters who keep bringing up both sides, going with the flow of what is getting the most engagement.

The real solution is an understanding of building blocks and how the whole is sum of its parts, and not good or bad based on one individual component.  So, I return to my vaccine analogy.  The gematria crowd affiliated themselves with the anti-science crowd.  When Covid hit, the first significant pandemic in quite awhile they climbed on to the Covid is a Hoax bandwagon.  Giving oxygen and fuel to the social media discourse that still doesn’t just linger but like an unruly child screams out for attention, interrupting the adult after dinner talk.  Every single vaccine that ever was, ever is and ever will be is made of chemicals.  No individual element is good or bad, it’s how they are combined that makes a difference.  If your argument is based on boycotting chemicals you don’t like, the only real solution you have, just like not ever drinking beer again, not ever playing with toys again,  is to boycott ever eating again.  Of course there’s “bad” chemicals in your everyday stuff.  Have you ever heard of 💩?

Good luck with that not eating thing.

How Gematria Fits Into The Culture War

 Culture War Wikipedia

Also take a side trap on their link to wedge issues if you have an extra couple minutes.

For the most part the higher level gematria users remain politically neutral.  Naturally, since grifting has been a major part of the program this makes a lot of sense.  You don’t want to antagonize roughly half of your target audience.  But what they do use is make the hot topic wedge issues a primary talking point.  Nonstop.

Personally as a pro cooperation type of guy I hate wedge issues and how they are handled.  Instead of open debate about topics that are genuinely arguable from both sides having some good points inevitably it turns into an all out nothing package deal.  Maybe the losing side gets thrown a few bones and table scraps.  In general there is gridlock where the losers seek to regain control becoming more important for the control than the underlying ideas behind their “culture”.

A hugely oversimplified example, the liberals want to help the poor with social programs geared towards giving them money.  The conservatives believe in capitalism and earning money.  So the conservatives would prefer less government oversight and cutting free lunch programs for school kids, the liberals would prefer writing off student loan debt and funding aid overseas.  There’s always a valid negative to these sides.  Better educated children happy with school should be a plus, money sent to malnourished children in another continent could be used at home.  And through massive propaganda campaigns in the never ending cycle of having control and trying to maintain it versus losing control and trying to get it back a lot of resources that could be better spent on both sides of the culture war get wasted.

Somebody super crazy gung ho one side or the other is a perfect candidate for political grifting, where the campaign fundraising is the goal instead of the means to get policies put in place.  After a gematria newbie gets a taste of the success of easily manufacturing numbers to support something less life altering, like a sports championship, it’s only natural that left to their own cognitive biases they will wander to other aspects of their lives.  And since the gematria topics based on ness headlines are supercharged wedge issue items they get a heavy dose of “pick one side or the other” with a heaping helping of “everything is evil, don’t worry about the other side’s talking points because I have flimsy evidence that shows that I’m right all the time.”

Your semi regular reminder that based on gematria, everyone alive now, lived in the past and will live in the future is evil.  Or good.   But finding evil is a lot more fun so let’s roll with that.

Everybody is paying a hidden cost for the culture war, the cost of wasted resources.  Once the line has been cast and the fish first bite there’s a rush for the grifting economy to suck as much out of the mark while the sun is still shining on the row boat.  Whether the fish on the line is a teen without enough to have the life experiences to recognize that something that sounds too good to be true is too good to be true.  Whether the fish is an elderly person with declining mental faculties who has voted for a single party their entire life.  Whether the the fish is genuinely mentally disturbed.  These are the kinds of people that are beset with enormous psychological pressure that to be a good person it’s not just good enough to be a good person, but evil needs to be found and eradicated to be a good person.  So give me some $$ on some sports picks to fund defeating evil.

Along the way, arbitrary scapegoats are created.  All scapegoats are not created equal.  Some rise to the top by being at least somewhat of a celebrity.  Some are completely uncalled for.  Did we really need a bitter and hate filled gematria grifter claiming Gabby Petito was the Antichrist (or at least there was some sort of “ritual sacrifice” involved)?  No.  Do we really need free speech allowing these comments?  No, but it’s historically something that’s always happened.  So we live with it, although now thanks to the Internet there’s an historical record of how picking an arbitrary scapegoat works for grifting short term.  Getting people fired up about wedge issues in the current news has worked wonders for a long time.  Now thanks to the Internet and Antisocial Media that people use for news instead of real news both sides of the culture war are losing resources that could better be spent on cooperating.

Paradoxically free speech in its current form is ruining your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.  Good luck figuring out how to fund stopping climate change.  Good luck figuring out how to golf in 110 degree daily temperatures.  Good luck trying to fund your allies during the next war a dictator starts.  Good luck not just funding the free school lunch program, but actually finding the food for the program.

A good start is to take a step back at least every once in awhile to be a good person instead of the myth of funding politics to eradicate the other evil people.  Misinformation researchers have a phrase for this.

Go touch some grass.

How The Hollywood Elites Ruined the World

The real reason I had taken a lengthy break was I was working on my most mind boggling decode ever.  Like movie hype: 

                         Based on true events

Now I have to explain the first of what is going to be many distractions.  Cocaine Bear - based on true events!  Sound of Freedom - based on true events!  Braveheart- based on true events!  And, numerous gematria clowns introduce their current video as the most mind boggling decode ever, until next week’s most mind boggling decode ever.

As a young, lower middle class movie watcher the theater experience was a joy.  Not so much for the movie at times, but the air conditioning.  As one of the last households to get a window unit AC the chance to not bake while watching mid summer TV, oh boy that was the life.  

Now you should keep in mind that a gematria decode needs to dumb it down to statistically insignificant numerical talking points, so let’s get the numerology all out of the way here to present the rest of the material uninterrupted by that.  Climate Change, Cult Classic and Credit Cards - CC.  CC = 48.  Hoax = 48.  Tickets = 48.  B-Movie = 96 which is 48x2 (because ya gotta through in a make up your own rules type number to encourage others that without real rules you get to make up whatever rules you want)

To be allowed to sit in the theater, you need to buy a ticket.  And doing that you are now a sheeple being part of the problem.  You’ve fallen for the plan and that’s why record breaking temperatures are the new normal.

The movie is just bread and circuses to get you hooked on air conditioning.  Historically people have watched some mind numbingly dumb movies that make it big - the cult classic.  Clearly the film isn’t anything resembling art, but why would it have to be good when the cool air is the real selling point?

It’s even worse than you think.  It’s deliberately bad so that the cool air becomes more memorable than the content of the film.  The only parts of the movie the guys are going to remember are the boobs and the blood.  And there’s another distraction break - you often have to bring up racism in a decode so people easily confused by biases get the subliminal bump to remember that they have had their lives ruined by <insert scapegoat here>.  Misogyny works the same way.  And why exactly are the girls there?  They don’t want to see this crappy movie.  It’s a date.  And how do you keep your date interested in staying through the movie instead of bailing at the first sign of gore?  Date numerology.  No, no, wait - 

Popcorn

And what do we know about popcorn?  It’s made of chemical elements.  And it blows up when heated.  What else blew up?  THE BIG BANG.

Every subatomic particle that ever was, is and will be including YOU may have gotten rearranged in weird ways was created in the Big Bang.  Every piece of popcorn is a result of the Big Bang.

Back to date night.  You don’t want to appear cheap, so you suck it up and buy the popcorn.  But instead of two small popcorns because you really can’t afford it you buy a large for her and act all noble and generous.  But it’s more than she can eat, so you think she might share.  But there’s that darn cheap looking problem again.

So you turn to the conspiracy world for inspiration

You steal some.  Maybe she takes a bathroom break, or is distracted covering her eyes by a particularly bloody scene.  Whatever, you get a taste of the popcorn, you like it, and now you’re officially part of the bread (popcorn) and circuses (movie) loving complex that loves AC and stealing.

Now you’ve done it, and you get married.  She pretended to be interested in the now cult classic and you have to watch romantic comedies for the rest of your time together.  At home.  In your central air conditioning upgrade.  With more popcorn?  Hell no.  Now it’s kale and veggie platters and the celery doesn’t even have peanut butter.  So once every month you and the guys plot out an excuse to have a cult classic movie night for the nostalgia.  Now it’s beer and popcorn while the significant others think you are preparing a report for the Monday work group meeting.

Back to the Big Bang.  All intelligent life (and conspiracy theorists) that will ever exist was created then.  And shocking - popcorn is a self perpetuating intelligent life form disguised as a snack.  Astrophysicists look for signs of life by examining chemical signatures, like if an exoplanet has signs that radioactive isotopes exist that only could have come from nuclear fission.  Actually, they are looking for popcorn.  Enough popcorn gets made it eventually pulls itself into a massive popcorn star, a neutron star made of nothing but popcorn.  Eventually the gravitational pull of all the popcorn stars fuse them together.  All matter returns to a universal central point.  Then there’s a new Big Bang - the Great Reset.

Really, think about it.  What are they called movie stars?  Popcorn stars.  You take on credit card debt to buy AC for your home.  Because popcorn wants you to.  Climate change?  Popcorn wants it hot enough to pop without a microwave or other human made devices.  Eventually we’ll stop producing traditional food crops like, well corn, and produce nothing but popcorn.  Because it’s more fun to steal popcorn than to produce regular corn.

The real Hollywood Elites are the ones that make the B-movies, not the blockbusters.  The Roger Cormans that make a movie because <gasp> it’s entertaining, at least superficially.  All driven by power mad hyper intelligent popcorn with its new Big Bang agenda.  You’re now paying for your movies with a debit card (credit card) because it’s part of plan, not convenient.

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As strange as it seems this is not that far off of Qanon style content.  It’s all gibberish and on the whole makes no sense.  But it throws out little hooks to grab at those who can’t grasp the difference in fiction and reality.  Gender inequality (racism), stupid take on science, a completely non existent conspiracy driven by a cabal, popular culture references.  You just never know what the hive collective will latch on to and blow out of proportion.  No good truther will call out another on the contradictions or lack of coherence.  Pizzagate, gematria, the self proclaimed Queen says you don’t need to pay your bills, blah, blah blah.  A lot of it driven by the gravitational pull of grift magnetism.  If you’re gullible enough to believe that two and three digit numbers have anything to do with astrophysics, you’re gullible enough to think you don’t need to pay off your mortgage.