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Reddit user: chrisolivertimes
Date: 2017
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"For those of you just tuning in: Cosmic afuckery is afoot and the ones behind the deception are the same ones that've driven our society for thousands of years. Our religions are their religions. Our art is their art. Our media is their media and our science is their science. Technology is not being invented but slowly introduced as it best suits their needs. The internet is no exception.

Why are we all on reddit? Do you think the "Digg 2.0 migration" was an accident? That a successful web company would shoot itself in the foot so painfully-obviously so? What about the admins behind this site? Do you feel they live up to their promises or that they give a shit about the reddit community in general? (The only thing I've ever seen get their attention was the great reddit blackout of 2015.) Or were we all subtely herded here to consolidate where and how propaganda is seen?

I've been putzing around this site (under a dozen different accounts) for over eight years now. During that time, I've created subreddits of varying degrees of success (one of which the admins liked enough to claim credit for ), moderated a default sub, created four bots, lots of custom data services for specific subs, and a little companion playlister site. I've been around and done my time.


reddit voting is not organic.

Visit r/MandelaEffect and notice how many top-voted comments are dismissing the change. Ditto, r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix. Go suggest something outside of the desired narrative in r/conspiracy or r/news and see how quickly it's downvoted away. It's a double-edged form of control: push the undesired comments way down or hide them behind a [+] while pushing the wanted opinion to the top with a nice, big number next to it. _Oooh, look at that, 24.3k magic points! They must be so right! _


Advanced AI is at play.

And we're training it as we use their tech.

Notice how so many threads follow the same patterns of one commenter explaining why something is 'wrong' immediately followed by another commenter saying how right they are? Currently they're trying to disguise this as the work of "shills" (at least in the more political subs) but you can see this same pattern everywhere.


Some posts are targeted at individuals.

It's happened to me. Was just flipping through posts in r/all one day when I saw a title that reminded me of my ex-fiance. Opened it up and there she was, the girl who would've never let me publically post a picture of her to the internet. I spent a solid week asking myself what are the damn odds?

Why are uninteresting pics so highly-upvoted in r/pics? Why are unfunny things so highly-ranked in r/funny? Now you know, they're not there for you.


The admins are well-aware of what's going on.

I have two personal experiences here. The first was before my awakening when I was still using the account u/goata_vigoda. I'd dug deep enough into the rabbithole to know 9/11 sure-as-shit didn't happen as we're told (but not deep enough to realize I was supposed to know such things.) I had come across the (controlled opposition) group _Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth _and noticed that r/ae911truth had no mods and just a forwarding page to r/conspiratard. That dog won't hunt, monsignor, so I followed standard protocol in r/redditrequest to become a mod.

Empty sub, no mods, no content. An open-and-close case of an available sub, right? I was ignored. I don't much like being ignored, so I kept sending the moderation team of r/redditrequest a message once a week. I was polite for the first 4 or 5 messages but finally just told them that I'd be automating (botting) my future messages because why the hell not?

I was still ignored until literally immediately after my awakening. After a month of nothing, the sub was suddenly mine. I replied letting them know how obvious their timing was and abandoned the sub after removing the forwarding page.

My second example also comes directly after my awakening. The first tactic that was thrown at me was that I was a hacker. That I'd hacked radd.it, the u/radd_it account, and that I was just pretending to be the same person. After _demon_strating which bots were mine, three out of four of them were banned within minutes. Poof, account suspended, all gone.

I laughed a good laugh because once again the timing was painfully-obvious and one of those bots (u/raddit-bot) was the only thing keeping r/Music from being a constant repeated loop of top 40 artists among many other little tasks. They also took out u/BotWatchman whose sole purpose was to remove all the noise from the unhelpful bots that plague this site. It was used in about a dozen default and 200 other subs when it was banned making it one of the more popular mod-bots. (And a quick shoutout to u/flair_your_post_bot for the sake of completeness. We remember you, fallen bots!)

But the shining bit of light? u/PlaylisterBot survived and I can't help but ask myself why? The only thing that separates that bot from my other three is that it was once explicitly discussed with and approved by an admin. I can only assume there are some sort of "cosmic rules" at play here-- and the enemy lives by its rules. Somehow this little exception has to be related to why some of them cannot directly answer 'yes' to "are completely human?"


The rest of the internet is no different.

Please allow me to quote Katye West for the first and last time: Google is lying to you. Facebook is lying to you. CNN is lying to you. This is their technology and it was given to us for a reason."


Does anyone remember this user? He had a lot of interesting topics he talked about. I haven't seen him active since 2 years ago which is a bummer.

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[–] Soulgiver 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which part do you disagree with?

[–] BobbyBandwidth 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Soulgiver 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get it. It would be wild for him if true, but I fail to see/find any proof of this particular story. (The fiancé part)

[–] gorillakitty 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely the ex fiancee part. But the underlying premise is a bit wonky, like he's attributing all these events to something magical in the universe reaching out to all of us through the internet. And the parts about stuff suddenly happening after his "awakening."