My remarks from 2016 are more accurate than ever
What was once a war on citizen journalism has become like trying to hold back a tsunami
What you missed…
Recently, Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson teamed up on social media to siphon public donations into their shady “charity” for the victims of the Maui “wildfires” — which happens to involve the same police chief that was in charge in Las Vegas during the deadliest mass shooting in American history. What an unlucky police chief, eh?
Instead of raising millions of dollars from around the world, people on TikTok called them out as hypocrites and scammers, they raised a measly $5000, which mostly came in big multi-hundred dollar chunks that raised even more eyebrows.
Oprah owns a massive estate in Maui and were apparently unaffected by the disaster, leading to conspiracy theories which the mainstream media has been trying to distort and deflect.
Are you noticing it?
Mainstream media all but ignored the Maui wildfires for days while TikTok was blowing up with footage and testimony from ordinary people, just like they ignored the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, which was also quickly forgotten. TikTok has become the #1 source of real-time journalism in the world, and it’s not even close. Despite 24 hour news coverage, the media is constantly ignoring the biggest stories in the world, droning on about bullshit instead. When they’re forced to respond by overwhelming buzz on social media, they act totally dumb, muddle the facts, lie profusely, show very little interest, and quickly kill the story with bland assurances that the proper officials are doing their best.
For me, this is a very familiar trend.
Back in December of 2016, Donald Trump had just beaten Hillary Clinton and the world didn’t know what to make of it. Russia, Russia, Russia! said the mainstream media. Alex Jones! Fake news! Somebody had to take the blame.
I gave credit to #GamerGate as the cultural force most responsible. It fired up an anti-establishment whirlwind that has never stopped. In hindsight, I was dead-on.
What I wrote in 2016
[The following is a direct quotation from my article, From #GamerGate to President Trump, which you can still find here]
We can now see that #GamerGate is the true turning point. It’s where the neofeminist, neoliberal establishment went too far and got too lazy in their corruption, and accidentally provoked a grassroots cultural backlash which ultimately exposed the modus operandi of the entire leftist agenda for the millennial generation. It wasn’t Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich, Stefan Molyneux, or Milo Yionnaopplosujlus.
The pattern has since repeated itself a thousand times:
Something fishy/corrupt is discovered by victims and/or citizen journalists who demand coverage by the media.
The journalists recoil away, hiding and strategizing while keeping silent.
More attention is drawn to the issue due to the suspicious silence — especially since we live in a clickbait culture where every little controversy is usually turned into headlines immediately.
Somebody in the media or connected to the issue blurts out an inappropriate reaction to the public pressure, showing a contempt for the public and disregard for the issue.
Due to the Streisand Effect, more onlookers become aware and get involved in the citizen journalism efforts, creating an ad hoc crowdsourced reporting system to expose the truth virally.
The media finally releases a coordinated propaganda/smear campaign across multiple publications simultaneously against the citizen journalists themselves, not addressing the original issue as important, and instead doing damage control and creating the “Official Narrative”.
The Official Narrative is now used to abuse and marginalize any critics of the original issue, or critics of those corrupt publications.
Ask yourself: how many times can this pattern repeat itself until a new subclass of online citizens is created? People who constantly work together to expose the media instead of trusting it? The #GamerGate revolution is one of skepticism, fact-checking, networking, and signal boosting. Introduce WikiLeaks and a handful of prominent, charismatic figures and you’ve got yourself an unstoppable movement built to spread virally despite a predictable conspiracy of silence.
The culture war between the #GamerGate generation (age 23-40) and the establishment media has gotten more sophisticated since then. Whether it’s because of the danger posed by this group to the corrupt establishment (as #PizzaGate is now proving), or simply an old leftist gameplan that refuses to stop spiraling into stupidity — many hoax stories from fake rape stories to fake KKK stories have been used to demonize the prime gamer demographic of normal, innocent white men who want honest politics, honest reporting, and honest culture.
The original article continues from there, giving examples.
What I realized that most didn’t
Whenever the average person catches on to a conspiracy (usually thanks to citizen journalism,) the mainstream gatekeepers of information have to work against their own readers to downplay interest and kill stories that would traditionally have become hard-hitting, sensational news. Reporters abandoned their duty to investigate and present facts, and instead wait for instructions from higher up. The cycle I mention was still hidden back then, but it’s blatant by now.
The good news is that, just like with #GamerGate, no amount of spinning, twisting, and smearing the citizen journalists actually works. They can only create a bubble for themselves, where everything is the opposite of reality, and get further out of touch with what real people believe. The bad news is that, because they’ve lost control of the narrative, they’ve resorted to bankrupting, censoring, and killing all of us. Whoops.