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Mermaid Autopsy
Jun 9, 2001

twistedmentat posted:

Wasn't that the one that used the Wyoming Incident as a starting point?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UghBGvPepSQ

That's it! http://ilovehappycube.webs.com/thestorysofar.htm

quote:

Anyway, I posted the video to Google and then linked to it from SA. It became incredibly popular and appeared on a ton of blogs. The most intelligent discussion about it seemed to be at Unfiction.com. ViralDetector (The Detector) helped me by registering there and posting as a plant. I wrote most of the more literature-based stuff (GMiller's blog, The Masks We Wear, So Tired). Soon we released the second and third videos. They were made the same way as the previous ones.

We made up a huge mythology around the videos using stuff from Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Greek Mythology, Lovecraft, Modern Conspiracy Theories, Thelema, etc. OC_James worked on most of the mythology, though it became severely altered by the people "interacting" with the story. We pretty much played along with what the players seemed to want, and handed out some arbitrary tasks to people. It should be noted that me and OC_James live in Anderson.

Anyway, we wanted to do all nine videos, but interest in the videos and "game" were waning. We did Children stuff to knock up attention. When I noticed there were 59 people viewing the forums (a high for some time), I sent ViralDetector in to post "YOU WANNA KNOW WHUT" and "FARTZ". Truth be told, we were getting pretty bored by the end with everyone else.

A lot of the stuff we did was basic psychology. We're all goons (now), but OC_James has a name he will not give away to anyone and pretty much hates the internet. I think this was the longest he's been on the internet in about a year.

edit: Shmark's just excitable.

. . . .
Also, a reason we told people to look at "outside sources" was that we were just getting lazy and people were able to come up with most of the mythology on their own.

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Illuminti
Dec 3, 2005

Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

Prester Jane posted:

I constantly see posters in this thread insisting that it would be trivially easy to either imitate Q's posting style or conduct a parallel scam. I don't know how to tell you this, but y'all have no idea what you're talking about. Just because gullible people exist and can be corralled into groups at doesn't mean that you have the insight or psychological wherewithal to manipulate large groups of gullible people. It's actually a real skillset and requires a base-level of inherent talent that simply cannot be taught.

And if you disagree let's see a single one of you put up or shut up. Let's see someone actually imitate a Qanon individual well enough to get some kind of traction/following. Because I'm just going to lay it out to you strait- at best you are going to get two or three days into the project and realize you have absolutely no idea what you're doing before you just quietly abandon the entire project.

I agree with you with regards to cult leaders or true believers posting on the message boards that actually have to interact with people. In the former case, face to face and in the later at least engaging with them via the boards. That would require a specific skill set that you may not even be aware you have.

But impersonating Q......I don't think it's the same thing. It doesn't take much effort to craft a Q drop that could conceivably have been written by Q. And that's it, there's no manipulation or psychology you need to be aware of. The Qultists do it all themselves, They're a hivemind. It basically doesn't matter what Q says, the hivemind converts it into whatever it currently wants.

So I reckon with some good timing it would be remarkably easy with cause a schism and pilfer off a load of followers. You'd only have to check in once a week, write some more gibberish and post it with a picture of a ceral box next to a battery and by the time you returned the week after the Qultists would have written a million words with accompanying diagrams explaining what you meant.

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

Illuminti posted:

I agree with you with regards to cult leaders or true believers posting on the message boards that actually have to interact with people. In the former case, face to face and in the later at least engaging with them via the boards. That would require a specific skill set that you may not even be aware you have.

But impersonating Q......I don't think it's the same thing. It doesn't take much effort to craft a Q drop that could conceivably have been written by Q. And that's it, there's no manipulation or psychology you need to be aware of. The Qultists do it all themselves, They're a hivemind. It basically doesn't matter what Q says, the hivemind converts it into whatever it currently wants.

So I reckon with some good timing it would be remarkably easy with cause a schism and pilfer off a load of followers. You'd only have to check in once a week, write some more gibberish and post it with a picture of a ceral box next to a battery and by the time you returned the week after the Qultists would have written a million words with accompanying diagrams explaining what you meant.

There has been dozens of copycats, none of them really work. Hive minds aren't real. Q works because he's telling people what they want to hear mixed with that ARG stuff that has proven popular across a bunch of stuff, it's all very stupid but it's a bunch of stuff that only works because it's building off an understanding of the world that was already very stupid. Like it's not just random, it's as the title says: pizzagate extended universe. If you tried it you'd fail for basically the same reasons you'd fail to get your painting in an art museum after looking at some impressionist piece and saying "my kid could draw this!"

Helen Highwater
Feb 19, 2014

And furthermore
Grimey Drawer

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:

123.47 Hz corresponds to the note B2. B2 is a stealth bomber which avoids detection by reflecting radio waves.
That's pretty much the opposite of how stealth tech works. Reflecting radio waves would make the plane more visible to radar, not less. The stealth coatings and planforms are there to absorb radio waves and mask heat sources.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Helen Highwater posted:

That's pretty much the opposite of how stealth tech works. Reflecting radio waves would make the plane more visible to radar, not less. The stealth coatings and planforms are there to absorb radio waves and mask heat sources.

While radio absorbing coatings are of course used, there will always be EM reflections at any boundary between different materials, so the shape of stealth planes is designed to reflect the incident waves out into space rather right back at the transmitter (which is what most objects do)

Illuminti
Dec 3, 2005

Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Hive minds aren't real.
It was obviously a metaphor

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Q works because he's telling people what they want to hear mixed with that ARG stuff that has proven popular across a bunch of stuff, it's all very stupid but it's a bunch of stuff that only works because it's building off an understanding of the world that was already very stupid. Like it's not just random, it's as the title says: pizzagate extended universe.
Ok so if you had a knowledge, as you seem to do, of what people want to hear from Q then really there is nothing to stop someone with a halfway understanding of doing a very good Q impression. So I was wrong about just posting random poo poo, but the idea of impressonating him is still plausible.

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

If you tried it you'd fail for basically the same reasons you'd fail to get your painting in an art museum after looking at some impressionist piece and saying "my kid could draw this!"

Nah, I wouldn't go that far, yes I was wrong about just posting crap and they'd buy it but frankly you'd have a hell of a lot more leeway with the Qultist than with artists. Come on he literally gave himself away as a fraud the other day and they worked their way around it. The equivalent of me hanging my crap up in the tate and then 1000's of art critics spending days discussing why not only is it not a piece of poo poo, it's actually better than Monet.

sub supau
Aug 28, 2007

didn't tobleronetriangular straight-up say the reason he quit was because, at least in part, it was fuckin psychologically exhausting to even pretend to be that consistently crazy on a part-time basis?

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Yea, I posted the Nightmind vid on it because he goes into just dense it got and it just kept going and going. No wonder they got burnt out.

Did you know there's a whole other thing connected to the Haunted Zelda cart that goes beyond simply Ben Drowned? I wonder if that was started by the same guy or others just using it as a starting point for their own ARG.

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out
Who is Q?
Who are you?
Who is reading?
They tell you Q is hard
But they will soon see
We are prepared
We will [make] poo poo up
We will stop them
TO[GET]HER
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
M420>69
What is 69?
When is the 69th?
Think Emails
Together we can fake it
G

A series of small sentence fragments, occasionally repeating the first word several times. Mix stuff that's easy to decypher with total gibberish. Include 'hints' towards the meaning of the gibberish (Usually in the form of simple questions). Make grandiose statements about our imminent victory and how 'we' are better than 'them'. Rest is mostly flavour

Gum fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Jul 9, 2018

Aumanor
Nov 9, 2012

Illuminti posted:

It was obviously a metaphor

Ok so if you had a knowledge, as you seem to do, of what people want to hear from Q then really there is nothing to stop someone with a halfway understanding of doing a very good Q impression. So I was wrong about just posting random poo poo, but the idea of impressonating him is still plausible.


Nah, I wouldn't go that far, yes I was wrong about just posting crap and they'd buy it but frankly you'd have a hell of a lot more leeway with the Qultist than with artists. Come on he literally gave himself away as a fraud the other day and they worked their way around it. The equivalent of me hanging my crap up in the tate and then 1000's of art critics spending days discussing why not only is it not a piece of poo poo, it's actually better than Monet.

At this point you'd need to do something about SerialBrain2 to make any impersonation work

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Gum posted:

Who is Q?
Who are you?
Who is reading?
They tell you Q is hard
But they will soon see
We are prepared
We will [make] poo poo up
We will stop them
TO[GET]HER
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
M420>69
What is 69?
When is the 69th?
Think Emails
Together we can fake it
G

Nice.

OMG TRUMP SAID NICE! Q is telling us the 69th day of 2019 it will all go down...Finally Hillary will get justice for all the children she's eaten!

I am angry that Qults are getting upset at ICE for the camps, but because they think its to funnel the children for the consumption of the Deep State.

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
The biggest problem with being Q2 is getting the big names and the bots to support you. Just posting Q-like nonsense won't automatically get you that, however well-crafted it is. A sufficiently large amount of grass roots GA support would only work if it managed to get them to amplify it, otherwise they'll just fall back in line with whichever Q they're currently on.

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short


TetsuoTW posted:

didn't tobleronetriangular straight-up say the reason he quit was because, at least in part, it was fuckin psychologically exhausting to even pretend to be that consistently crazy on a part-time basis?

Pretty much, yeah. He started catching himself thinking like that normally and decided to throw in the towel.

nepetaMisekiryoiki
Jun 13, 2018

人造人間集中する碇
Do we already forget they have been several Q? Several time people have taken over the tripcode or password, and at least a few time it no longer same guy.

Don't go saying Q impossible to clone or steer, just need right oppurtunity to impersonate.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Yeah part of the issue with trying to imitate Q at the moment is that there's already the current Q personality, so it's going to be harder to get people to buy into store-brand Q when Q Classic exists.

You could argue though that the fact that new big conspiracies keep cropping up means that they do have a life cycle where people burn out on one and become open to attraction to a new one, and that once one gains inertia it becomes self sustaining for the course of its life.

hitchensgoespop
Oct 22, 2008
Wait a minute...tobleronetriangular was fake????

Feinne
Oct 9, 2007

When you fall, get right back up again.

hitchensgoespop posted:

Wait a minute...tobleronetriangular was fake????

Yes he was a piece of elaborate forums performance art, it was truly amazing.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

hitchensgoespop posted:

Wait a minute...tobleronetriangular was fake????

:allears:

i was not expecting to witness this particular epiphany today

Sergg
Sep 19, 2005

I was rejected by the:

hitchensgoespop posted:

Wait a minute...tobleronetriangular was fake????

It's like finding out Santa Claus isn't real.

hitchensgoespop
Oct 22, 2008

GreyjoyBastard posted:

:allears:

i was not expecting to witness this particular epiphany today

Ok, this may tip me over the edge...

Kyoon?

And yes I'm.deeply invested in forums headcases

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe
Qanon just seems like newspaper crosswords for the mentally ill.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

hitchensgoespop posted:

Ok, this may tip me over the edge...

Kyoon?

And yes I'm.deeply invested in forums headcases

as far as i know kyoon was, is, and always shall be the real deal

Sergg
Sep 19, 2005

I was rejected by the:

hitchensgoespop posted:

Ok, this may tip me over the edge...

Kyoon?

And yes I'm.deeply invested in forums headcases

Kyoon is real and mentally ill AFAIK. Toblerone Triangular was an elaborate fakeposting troll who very cleverly mimicked a schizophrenic man. There are days when I wonder if his long-game troll was actually the real him off his meds and the later character was actually just him on meds wanting to rehabilitate his image.

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016

Sergg posted:

Kyoon is real and mentally ill AFAIK. Toblerone Triangular was an elaborate fakeposting troll who very cleverly mimicked a schizophrenic man. There are days when I wonder if his long-game troll was actually the real him off his meds and the later character was actually just him on meds wanting to rehabilitate his image.

knowing SA it's probably the latter

Parakeet vs. Phone
Nov 6, 2009
Since we're bringing up ARGs, is anyone else familiar with Lake City Quiet Pills? I heard about it awhile back in some unsolved mysteries circles. It's on my mind since it really feels like a training run for Q. Summary is that a dude started "accidentally" posting weird codes of random letters and numbers on, I think, a sketchy porn image host/forum (so, probably stick to unsolved mystery places if you feel like researching).

Redditors went and Nostradamused a whole airport novel story about a group of mercenaries getting back together for a big party to commemorate the founder's death...which then morphed into it all being code for them doing the Assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh.

There's still a few diehards who think it's true despite some really obvious tells that it's bullshit.

My point being that there's a lot of Q types posting around the Internet. I know there are a least a few bots/people posting random number strings on Reddit. Cicada 3301 was a thing, plus a few other ARGs that kicked off and went nowhere. There are a few weird websites and social accounts that are art projects, deep trolls or legitimate mentally ill people. They all draw in small crowds and then people usually move on. Q just hit the right brand of conspiracy for the alt-right at the right time, and got signal boosted.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Sergg posted:

Kyoon is real and mentally ill AFAIK. Toblerone Triangular was an elaborate fakeposting troll who very cleverly mimicked a schizophrenic man. There are days when I wonder if his long-game troll was actually the real him off his meds and the later character was actually just him on meds wanting to rehabilitate his image.

The shift was too abrupt for that. You can't go from talking about purestrain gold to explaining how your entire purpoted worldview was constructed by researching real schizophrenic patterns and taking cues from audience participation on a dime like that. It takes a long period of readjustment for medicated paranoiacs and schizophrenics to be able to get a real sense of perspective on their previous thought patterns.

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!




Morbid Hound
You could theoretically replace Q but only with something that filled the same "actually Trump is good and real and strong and my friend" emotional needs that the Q conspiracy theory fulfills. Q is not in the lead or in control. The performer isn't writing the show, the audience is.

Prester Jane
Nov 4, 2008

by Hand Knit

Lurdiak posted:

The shift was too abrupt for that. You can't go from talking about purestrain gold to explaining how your entire purpoted worldview was constructed by researching real schizophrenic patterns and taking cues from audience participation on a dime like that. It takes a long period of readjustment for medicated paranoiacs and schizophrenics to be able to get a real sense of perspective on their previous thought patterns.

I want to second this. In my case the path from ranting conspiracy theorist to medicated schizophrenic with some grip on reality was about two and a half years- all of that in active therapy as well as monthly meetings with my psychiatrist to adjust my medication.

Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.

If I were Q and wanted to drop the bit I would start posting that oh poo poo we are actually losing against the deep state, if [highly specific Trump prediction] doesn't happen in 36 hours it's all over

And then a few hours later post something very frantic-sounding but otherwise impenetrable

And then nothing

But I figure this would probably set off a couple shooting sprees so maybe not.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Goon Danton posted:

If I were Q and wanted to drop the bit I would start posting that oh poo poo we are actually losing against the deep state, if [highly specific Trump prediction] doesn't happen in 36 hours it's all over

And then a few hours later post something very frantic-sounding but otherwise impenetrable

And then nothing

But I figure this would probably set off a couple shooting sprees so maybe not.

Yeah that might actually cause deaths. Either mass shootings or suicides.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


All Q (who is almost certainly more than one person) would need to do is stop updating. People would get worried, but then say TRUST THE PLAN and then they'd eventually just move on.

Your Gay Uncle
Feb 16, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

twistedmentat posted:

So in the :tinfoil: mocking FB group, some guy just Kramered in and is all "Lol i can't believe you think people actually believe this stuff!" implying that no none actually believes Hillary Clinton and Jane Fonda are cutting childrens faces off in Satanic rituals and its all just a big lark and all the millions of posts online about Qanon and other CTs is just some massive creative endevor. He was laughed at and pointed out that yes, a lot of people take this stuff seriously, to a point that they live their lives based on that, and the guy who went to Comet Ping Pong with a gun sure as hell took it seriously. They simply said "well, of course there's going to be a few crazies!".

A very large chunk of society believes whole heartedly in conspiracy theories! Basically all of Conservative dogma is conspiracy theories! They may have not embraced the really crazy stuff but the idea that Undocumented Immigrants are coming to steal jobs and kill everyone is just as flagrantly false as anything.

Okay, Qults trying to make sense of Trumps nutty speech where he claimed to of beaten Elton John in everything even though he didn't do anything is really up there in insanity.

Is there a link to this group ?

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

pr0p posted:

Maybe there have been a couple but I know a goon made The Wyoming Incident videos/backstory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBHkW0aKHRc

Which is still going, sort of, it updated in the last year or so

CelestialScribe
Jan 16, 2008

twistedmentat posted:

So in the :tinfoil: mocking FB group, some guy just Kramered in and is all "Lol i can't believe you think people actually believe this stuff!" implying that no none actually believes Hillary Clinton and Jane Fonda are cutting childrens faces off in Satanic rituals and its all just a big lark and all the millions of posts online about Qanon and other CTs is just some massive creative endevor. He was laughed at and pointed out that yes, a lot of people take this stuff seriously, to a point that they live their lives based on that, and the guy who went to Comet Ping Pong with a gun sure as hell took it seriously. They simply said "well, of course there's going to be a few crazies!".

A very large chunk of society believes whole heartedly in conspiracy theories! Basically all of Conservative dogma is conspiracy theories! They may have not embraced the really crazy stuff but the idea that Undocumented Immigrants are coming to steal jobs and kill everyone is just as flagrantly false as anything.

Okay, Qults trying to make sense of Trumps nutty speech where he claimed to of beaten Elton John in everything even though he didn't do anything is really up there in insanity.

twistedmentat posted:

So in the :tinfoil: mocking FB group, some guy just Kramered in and is all "Lol i can't believe you think people actually believe this stuff!" implying that no none actually believes Hillary Clinton and Jane Fonda are cutting childrens faces off in Satanic rituals and its all just a big lark and all the millions of posts online about Qanon and other CTs is just some massive creative endevor. He was laughed at and pointed out that yes, a lot of people take this stuff seriously, to a point that they live their lives based on that, and the guy who went to Comet Ping Pong with a gun sure as hell took it seriously. They simply said "well, of course there's going to be a few crazies!".

A very large chunk of society believes whole heartedly in conspiracy theories! Basically all of Conservative dogma is conspiracy theories! They may have not embraced the really crazy stuff but the idea that Undocumented Immigrants are coming to steal jobs and kill everyone is just as flagrantly false as anything.

Okay, Qults trying to make sense of Trumps nutty speech where he claimed to of beaten Elton John in everything even though he didn't do anything is really up there in insanity.

What is the name of this fb group. I must know immediately.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

CelestialScribe posted:

What is the name of this fb group. I must know immediately.

Conspiracy Theorists Say The Darndest Things

CelestialScribe
Jan 16, 2008
Bless you.

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord
I mentioned even the quaintest and mildest conspercy theory of the Mandela effect getting scary radicalized and boy are they ratcheting that up. They are definitely going to shoot up cern. There just can’t be nonviolent conspiracy anymore

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/8yd1k6/cern_opening_portal_to_hell_caused_mandela_effect/

quote:


CERN may open a portal to other dimensions where Jesus & Satan dwell BUT there are no other timelines with other versions of us. GOD the "Master Architect" simply "programmed" for every possible reality "dynamically" IMO.

By dynamically I mean in TIME & SPACE too, which means Time Travel can obviously alter our timeline.

CERN is collecting Antimatter which is basically, Chaos & Evil in nature, everyone needs to be more mindful & fight the negative, evil & chaotic tendencies that are rising in all of us as a result. Creating more chaos & evil in everyone around the world, is the way demons possess the weak willed IMO.

If & when Satan & the Fallen Angels come back, hopefully they learned from their past mistakes & "teach mankind" in a way GOD may not be offended by.

HAARP weather control, geo engineering using Chemtrails, Agenda 21, terrorism, etc, etc is all related to creating Chaos & Evil energy on Earth that helps usher in the Antichrist, Satan & Fallen Angels back into our dimension IMO.

Gen. Ripper
Jan 12, 2013


I checked the top posts on that Mandela Effect reddit and :laffo:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEff...e=MandelaEffect

quote:

I'm currently packing for a move. My husband and I are heavily streamlining our VHS collection. I found my old Berenstein Bears VHS and the official labels say both Stein and Stain. Stain appears on the front label while Stein appears on the side. Also, and of less consequence, the label my mom put on the plastic video cover reads Stein.

I'm literally shaking.

Anyone who knows how is free to test these images. They are totally unaltered.

"Guys, how do misprints work??"

Corsair Pool Boy
Dec 17, 2004
College Slice

Gen. Ripper posted:

I checked the top posts on that Mandela Effect reddit and :laffo:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEff...e=MandelaEffect


"Guys, how do misprints work??"

There's NO WAY his mom got the name wrong

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Polygynous
Dec 13, 2006
welp
Stormy Daniels was arrested at a strip club I guess, so all the pizzagate and q poo poo is real?

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1017497454835478528

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