Hey guys, this one's a doozy! I thought this story was worthy of being told. I already feel better having written it all out.
But if long-winded diatribes aren't your cup of tea, I won't be offended if you skip this one. ngl though, it's got some juicy bits. I'd love to know how all of this jives with the experiences and observations of many of you out there.
Despite having dedicated myself to r/conspiracy for over a decade, and despite my only prior “infraction” being laughable, I was issued a 7-day suspension by the reddit admins on November 2, 2020. The suspension came one day before the election, and completely cut me off from the community of now nearly 1.5 million subscribers of which I was at the helm.
No valid reason was ever given for this suspension, which came down one day before Big Tech and the Mockingbird Media orchestrated the most egregious election conspiracy in modern times. If this doesn’t at the very least raise an eyebrow or two, I don’t know what else will.
The night of the election Trump essentially told us they were stealing it. The next morning it was stupidly obvious what was happening. The ballots were flowing in for Biden. This was our moment to shine. The biggest conspiracy in a generation was literally unfolding in front of us, and we were the conspiracy theorists on the front lines! As an officer, I could shut up and watch from the rear in safety. But I could also charge, light brigade style, onto the front lines of the digital information war. I didn’t have to think twice.
The conspiracy theorist has traditionally backed the underdog. In many cases, it’s the underdog who is being conspired against. On the morning after the election, when the steal began in earnest, Trump officially became the underdog. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t a plant as is often claimed. But even if he were playing that role, it’s still our obligation to call out a blatantly fraudulent election when we see it, no matter who the “good and bad” guys actually are.
I watched with increased frustration over the following week as r/conspiracy plunged into chaos in my absence. To be blunt, I was the only mod who was consistently cleaning up the “meta” attacks against our community that had previously swamped the comment sections before our rule changes.
These tactics came back with a vengeance when I was gone. In some respects, that week was a preview of what r/conspiracy would eventually become after my eventual banishment. I was well aware that the 7-day suspension typically preceded a permanent ban for the “troublesome” users on reddit. I had seen it happen many times before.
After the election, the admins immediately contacted the r/conspiracy mod team with the instruction that questioning the election results would be forbidden site-wide.
Without me around to push back at such insanity, the remaining mod team complied and temporarily forbade this content on our forum. I essentially watched a practice coup of r/conspiracy unfold before my eyes. This was their plan for the future of the sub. It was time to initiate my contingency plan.
I’m not mincing words here. The fact that the reddit admins suspended me for a week on the day before the election theft is extremely compelling circumstantial evidence that reddit was complicit in the 2020 election conspiracy. In addition, I was specifically targeted so I couldn’t facilitate sounding the alarm in its immediate aftermath.
Temporarily barred from my own community, I immediately got to work. When r/the_donald was eliminated by reddit years earlier, their community moved off-site to the “.win” domain. Today it can be found at “patriots.win.” Several other censored reddit communities also migrated to .win over the years, such as consumeproduct.win and greatawakening.win. I was regularly asked if r/conspiracy would ever make a space there “just in case.”
After my election suspension, it was time. I contacted the .win admins on November 4. Within a few days, “conspiracies.win” was in the works. At the time I thought I was making a backup for r/conspiracy. It ended up being a backup for me and a refuge for other r/conspiracy veterans sacrificed by the reddit thought police.
When I finally returned to r/conspiracy one week later, I started cleaning house. The gaslighting from accounts that were attacking anyone daring to question the election’s integrity was off the charts. The personal attacks were off the charts. And the rule violations were off the charts.
And still, my commitment to defending our right to discuss the unfolding election conspiracy on a conspiracy forum was mischaracterized as fanatical support for Trump. What was actually occurring was my realization that we were living through perhaps the most comprehensive political conspiracy in modern US history. As the head mod of a substantial conspiracy forum, it would be unconscionable for me to sit on my hands and kowtow to the digital Stasi.
I began to pin the public election fraud hearings that were occurring on a regular basis. I made sure the election conspiracy discussion was being regularly featured on r/conspiracy. Was I responsible for trying to focus r/conspiracy’s attention on the election fraud? Guilty as charged. If didn’t do it, the conversation would’ve been almost completely absent on the forum.
Even if election fraud had little or zero merit, we had every right to discuss it. The fact that this right was immediately curtailed emitted the most fetid stench imaginable. The rest of the mod team already showed their true colors by submitting to the admins’ ridiculous demands in my brief absence after the election. They assuredly would continue the same trend.
When election night surveillance footage of indisputable fraud from Georgia was released, I officially launched conspiracies.win. I submitted that footage as the new forum’s inaugural thread. I soon announced conspiracies.win to the broader r/conspiracy community, and the refugees began pouring in. The initial announcement attracted some degree of attention, including a nod from Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies who enthusiastically cheered on the reddit exodus.
The rest of the r/conspiracy mod team wasn’t on board. They seemed to think I was trying to “replace” r/conspiracy by moving it to a potential honeypot. In fairness, there has long been speculation that the .win domain is precisely such a honeypot.
All I knew is that I reached out to them and they were unilaterally giving me complete control over conspiracies.win. It really felt like a fresh start and a seriously viable alternate to reddit’s degeneracy. If there were ulterior motives in “allowing” me to establish a backup .win shortly before my ban then I’ve yet to see them manifest.
As I continued sharing election fraud content, the attacks and threats against me reached heights that challenged the peak of Russiagate mania. During the months after the election, a significant chunk of the threads on the front page of r/topmindsofreddit were specifically directed at me. I had now become a singular “threat to democracy” to the narrative managers. The disconnect was striking: the admins were removing comments on r/conspiracy that “misgendered” public figures, and yet they were permitting all manners of harassment and against us.
Over the years, I reported this behavior to the admins countless times. It would only increase in severity. Many of these threats were very graphic and included detailed messages directed at me and my family. Almost nothing was ever done. Entire communities on reddit were dedicated to harassing us. At first they denied it. When it became abundunatly clear they were getting away with it, they finally started admitting it. These are the same individuals that complain that I was a “tyrant” that banned hundreds of “genuine” users from r/conspiracy, only to later gloat that I had banned dozens of their own alt accounts.
I continued sharing information about the various aspects of the election conspiracy, which were piling in as quickly as the ballots late on election night. Whenever live election hearings were held, I made sure to pin them at the top of the sub. These threads were routinely brigaded by the TMORs and their ilk.
Multiple aspects of the election were appearing to be fraudulent. Soon my pattern recognition senses began tingling in earnest, and this time concerning the “Italygate” aspect of the conspiracy. While I felt the details of Italygate to be unreasonably fanciful, namely that rogue US and Italian officials had “stolen” the election through cyber warfare, I couldn’t help but notice the response to Italygate threads had all of the hallmarks of those same topics that hit just a little too close to home.
This suggested that some aspect of Italygate had merit and therefore needed to be silenced or discredited in a blatantly coordinated fashion. This became even more obvious when I pinned an Italygate thread at the top and r/conspiracy.
What happened next was one of the strangest things I’ve ever witnessed on reddit. The thread wasn’t just brigaded, it was obliterated. This digital assault lasted for many days. Users were writing only in Italian, bizarre comments from apparent bots were showing up days later...something strange was happening to that thread.
For the record, I posted very little, if at all about the upcoming “march” to the Capitol. It smelled suspicious. I was more focused at the time by the more feasible approach to the fraud, namely the Constitutional remedy of allowing the state legislatures to analyze the election and determine themselves if any fraud had occurred and if they had the right electors after all.
I was prepared for Senators and Congressmen alike to request a simple overview of the election for a couple of weeks before certification. This was the furthest cry from “stealing an election” imaginable, despite the chorus of unhinged claims to the contrary. Instead, I watched in abject disappointment at perhaps the stupidest and sloppiest false flag in US history. They let several hundred protesters and provocateurs into the Capitol, shot one of them, and then said, “That was scary! Whelp, we can’t review the election now!”
I would think this might qualify as the single dumbest moment in US political history, but this is in a world that accepted the official narratives of the JFK assassination and 9/11. It’s also a world that was literally convinced to shut down and psychologically damage a generation of children over a fake pandemic.
On the evening of the “insurrection,” I pinned that night’s Congressional hearing at the top of r/conspiracy. I watched live as a Senator specifically called out reddit conspiracies as contributing to the “coup” attempt. Multiple comments noted that r/conspiracy would likely be banned. It ended up being just me that got the boot, but ultimately this move would prove to be a devastating blow for the overall health of r/conspiracy, a wound that continues to fester and one that may eventually prove fatal.
On the morning of January 7, mere hours after the phrase “reddit conspiracies” was evoked in Congress, I issued my final warning to the sub, in an eerily prophetic post predicting an impending “Night of the Digital Long Knives.” I warned everyone that an unprecedented censorship purge was coming, and to prepare accordingly. Within minutes, I was issued a permanent suspension from reddit.
Although they claimed it was for “multiple” violations, they failed to cite anything tangible. Like the phrase “shoot the messenger” I can only imagine they stretched the interpretation of “Night of the Digital Long Knives” enough to claim it was a “call to violence” which it most certainly wasn’t.
I’ll be honest. I spent a decade building that reddit account and earning my position as head mod of a community 1.5 million strong. But when I finally got the ax, I felt such an overwhelming sense of relief that I’m still on that high months later. A massive burden had been lifted. I knew it was coming too. One week earlier I copied all of my decent original research and content from reddit, with links included, onto conspiracies.win. I knew I needed to document my work before it was purged.
The MSM quickly reacted to my ban. Gizmodo and The Daily Dot featured slanderous hit pieces against me. At first I wondered if it was a stretch to connect my suspension from reddit with the complaint about “reddit conspiracies” in Congress mere hours earlier. But the media talking heads quite literally made the connection for me.
The headlines speak for themselves. The modestly-sized subreddit r/donaldtrump was also purged, an expected move because it was the last sizable Trump sub left on reddit. But it’s worth pointing out that my removal was clearly the more relevant and newsworthy event, as reddit conspiracies were being blamed for the “insurrection.” Here’s my response to this drivel posing as journalism.
Removing me was no small matter. Not only was I officially given the position by the admin team, I was a PR nightmare. I exposed the entire hypocrisy of reddit. My story is a microcosm of the cancerous state of social media and Big Tech. I was undeniable proof that destructive and violent behavior was being directly encouraged by the reddit admins, emboldened by the hivemind, and reinforced by the entire structure and functionality of reddit itself. The admins needed me gone, and they needed to do it at the most “distracting” time possible. They couldn’t have picked a better moment.
Within the next few days Trump was banned from social media, and thousands more were silenced. I realized quickly that my “plight” was already old news. It’s hard to bring attention to your unjust ban when half the internet that might’ve had your back got booted next.
As was entirely expected, the narrative managers pounced with rabid glee in the immediate aftermath of my ousting. At long last, the tyrant was gone! r/topmindsofreddit, r/subredditdrama, r/drama and many other subs erupted with rampant circle-jerks delighting in my “defeat.” The r/conspiracy mod team also failed in the aftermath of my removal. A well-meaning thread announcing my suspension was pinned for days, but it was allowed to be brigaded by the censorship celebration threads that had hit the front page of r/all rejoicing that the “conspiracy king” was vanquished at long last.
The plan finally came into focus: they had flooded r/conspiracy with rule breaking comments, compelling me to clean them up and ban the offenders. Since I was the only mod who consistently dealt with these violations, they could then use our publicly available stats against me to say I was a “tyrant” that banned “hundreds” of people for disagreeing with me.
The narrative managers got to work. Whenever anyone asked why I was actually banned, they swooped in with, “It doesn’t matter, he sucked!” There’s a blisteringly obvious parallel between “I’m glad Trump is gone, he’s a meanie!” and “I’m glad axo is gone, he’s a meanie!”
With no one left to push back, the narrative managers descended onto r/conspiracy with a vengeance and soon usurped the forum. With a largely indifferent and inactive mod team, r/conspiracy has been essentially thrown to the wolves. I was one of many thousands punished for the “crime” of being interested in discussing conspiracy theories instead of mocking them. I wasn’t special. They targeted me simply because I was an actual conspiracy theorist who just so happened to be placed in charge of a substantial conspiracy forum on a site otherwise devoted to propaganda.
The deleterious effect of my removal continues to spread. Rule-breaking “meta” comments fill the threads again, because no mod is willing to clean them up and face the coordinated backlash for merely protecting the community. In almost six months, there have been no more AMAs on r/conspiracy. Documentaries are no longer being featured, a fun and constructive process which takes the least bit of effort.
The regular Round Table discussions have also ceased, which is unfortunate because this feature was a fantastic chance for coordinated research. Perhaps it was a bit too effective, as these threads tended to avoid being drowned out and lost in the fray.
And finally, the monthly “transparency reports” that I painstakingly put together to document all of the admin “Anti-Evil” removals on our sub have stopped completely, which should come as no surprise at all.
At first I wondered: why didn’t more genuine r/conspiracy users speak up about what was happening? Didn’t anyone else see that rule breaking comments attacking the r/conspiracy community exploded immediately after I was gone? Didn’t anyone miss the featured documentary threads or the round tables? Didn’t anyone want to know what content the reddit admins were purging and what punishments were being doled out? I soon realized that it wasn’t that nobody cared, it’s just that practically everyone who did care was also purged during this time. No nuance to the narrative would be permitted.
That’s how they control the record. I suspect that many of the continued “complaints” about me originate from bot accounts programmed to spring into action by mentions of my user name. Try to mention me on r/conspiracy today: you will still bring all of the rats out of the woodwork. They remain dedicated to making sure the “axo-as-tyrant” meme persists. But they’re slipping. Like with Trump’s absence, perhaps we all needed to see just how bad things would be without us.
They’re hoping the new generation won’t remember what r/conspiracy, reddit, and the internet in general used to be about. Well, the joke’s on them, because there are still enough of us that do remember, and we are more passionate now in our convictions than ever before. I have hope for the younger generations too.
I was no longer compatible with the current broken paradigm. I was almost certainly right about vaccines, COVID, and the 2020 election fraud. These disturbing truths will eventually be acknowledged and addressed. When they are, those who accurately called out the script likely won’t be afforded their due accolades and redemption. The damage was already done through their initial silencing. But hopefully we as a society can learn from our tragic mistakes.
I cut my teeth during an exciting era of the internet, a product of a different time. I believe in a free, open and decentralized web. Instead, we currently find ourselves living in a post-Truth, post-conspiracy society. Now that everything is a conspiracy, nothing is a conspiracy. The semantic satiation is complete. With the absurdity of the COVID hoax and the 2020 election fraud, up is now down, and violent protests are peaceful.
It’s coming into focus with breathtaking clarity. We see now that life itself is the ultimate conspiracy, and the information war represents the front line of this cosmic struggle. It has been one of the great privileges of my life to serve as a digital soldier on the front lines of this fight. The archaic and moribund power structures are fading fast into utter irrelevancy, and we are witnessing their dying gasps and spasms.
As for me, a massive psychological burden has been lifted since I left reddit. I no longer log in to obsessive threats on a daily basis. I no longer have to combat armies of trolls and shills dedicated to slandering and harassing me and my community. And my conscience is clear! I spoke my truth when I saw it, and I used my platform to protect the freedom to safely speculate about conspiracy theories without being subjected to mass mob persecution. I have zero regrets.
Since my ban, I’ve reignited hobbies and passions that I’d been neglecting. I still post on conspiracies.win, but that forum is in good hands now if I were to ever leave, and I continue to take pride in that smaller but blossoming and refreshingly stimulating community.
If the admins ever decide it’s r/conspiracy’s time to go, our new community will be waiting with open arms. However, if the admins do decide to purge r/conspiracy, it will essentially be committing seppuku. r/conspiracy is the demonstrably the last vestige of what once made reddit great.
Even in my absence, even with a lackluster mod team, even with the inundation of shills like never before, and even with the front page of r/all consistently pumping out propaganda, there’s still some quality information to be found at r/conspiracy if you know where to look. For example, some excellent original research on the Las Vegas Shooting was recently pinned by the mods. This is arguably the first quality content featured by r/conspiracy in almost half a year.
Many of my threads from conspiracies.win also manage to occasionally get reposted onto r/conspiracy by folks that still use reddit, like this recent story of Putin calling out the US Government’s hypocrisy regarding January 6. The OP of this thread lifted my title and content straight from conspiracies.win, only to have it rocket to #1 on r/conspiracy. Note the sense of delusional disconnect oozing from the top comments. I love that I’m continuing to give grief to the narrative managers from beyond the grave.
r/conspiracy remains a player. Dare I suggest, is someone on the admin team a “good” guy? Removing me actually protected me, too. I felt dangerously close to being doxxed by these psychopaths. In some ways they prevented the situation from getting out of hand by releasing me.
I often wonder...is there a reddit whistleblower out there?
What actually went down before, during, and after the 2020 election? Why was I suspended for a week just one day before the election? Why did reddit threaten anyone who questioned the election with a site-wide ban? Why was Italygate and other seemingly fanciful theories so controversial and so aggressively attacked?
Why did a Senator call out “reddit conspiracies” in Congress? Why was my account permanently suspended mere hours later? What reddit conspiracies was she referring to? Who told her to use that phrase? The only large subreddit featuring election conspiracies at the time was r/conspiracy, and I was literally the only one highlighting the subject. Was her comment aimed at me?
Did the reddit admins coordinate with the US government concerning the November election and the January false flag at the Capitol? How much coordination exists between the reddit admins and these government agencies? How much coordination exists between the reddit admins and toxic communities dedicated to harassing users of their own website?
And now it’s finally beginning to emerge that there was direct FBI involvement in the Capitol false flag. Genuine and verifiable irregularities in the 2020 election are exploding. The public’s consciousness is shifting. The masks are coming off. Something tells me many of these questions will be answered, and some sooner than you might think.
I have much more to say. They may have confiscated my megaphone, but I will keep broadcasting the truth as I see it until my last breath, with or without it. To all of those who supported me and joined us on the quest for truth and freedom, I love you all more than you’ll ever know. I can’t wait to join hands on the other side!
It is indeed darkest before dawn, and I can already see the sun’s rays on the horizon...
That read was worth my time. Thanks.
A few comments, and the first one is a suggestion.
you should write a book
this should be mandatory reading for anyone using the .win communities.
Ghislaine Maxwell. What more can you tell us. I'd take your speculation over the nothingness that currently exists. To me, she's the key to this whole puzzle. Figuring out exactly what she was up to on reddit, then following the money/connections/communications from her on, IMO, exposes the entire ruling class/elites/deep state/nwo/illuminati (take your pic or fill in your own).
Number 3 may be worthy of its own post, but you hinted at it in yours, and like I said, IMO, she's the smoke, and where there's smoke there's fire.
I've always had much respect for you Axo and was well aware of how much energy you spent keeping the lights on at r/conspiracy. Your work and those of others like you have undoubtedly changed the lives of thousands, if not millions of people.
All you need is exposure to one original thought for it to start a chain of events that culminate in a full fledged awakening to how the world actually works.
If you ever wonder how many people benefited from access to this information, I assure you the number must be huge.
Nice post, theres a lot to unpack here.
As a regular at r/conspiracy i was aware of many of these things, yet they became even more relevant when you put them into this context.
I could spend days replying to many of the details of your post, for additional context,
But for today, i would just ask people to read a post i recently made about vaccines...
https://old.reddit.com/r/NoNewNormal/comments/niaiz4/understanding_how_sketchy_vaccines_rough_terrain/
It took a while to get through it bit wow. Thanks for sharing. Being able to see what is brigades is very interesting.