I don't know why I bother, but I guess it's therapy in a way to at least attempt to make a point. This post is an attempt to explain once more but in different words what I see happening to this community.
When I say community, I refer to the loose collection of avatars and identities which congregate around a topic online. In this case it's anything to do with the greater 'conspiracy' space. This includes past, present, alternative, official, red/blue/black/white/grey pilled, and any stage of cryto/zoo/litho based stuff including but not limited UFO/UAPs, corruption, corporate whistleblowers, espionage, military or civilian, and otherwise.
There are many different places that you can go and some are more popular than others. Some are much more active, and some are more reactive to the news than others.
However, I feel like they are all quite hollowed out these days. It's like many of them died, retired, or have been controlled or sold out.
The number of unique threads these days is dwindling, and amongst the collection of different sites they are all beginning to show the same general content. Many of the times this is done through reposting the exact same articles or threads across all the sites at once. These are then flooded and promoted and take up the discussion and attention of the communities.
At other times, you will see the same kind of comments prolifically cast across the communities and all forming the general consensus. This is most noticeable if you visit a bunch of sites frequently enough (every other day at least) and you have been to many of these places (at least 5-6+ to compare) and you visit for a long enough time.
Most people will say it is because of MSM and it is, but it is also because these kinds of communities are the news....
This place....is a channel for 80% corporate/military/foreign/religious/etc control and less than 20% organic.
All the sites are. Every single website, forum, and mass social media group is.....
I don't know how to find anything original these days. It's like it's vanished. There is no single website that doesn't have these issues.
I have to on discords...same thing.
We like to talk about communism....but let's actually pause for a moment and consider that our minds are being made extremely communal.....
When was the last original post you saw on here that wasnt originally from another rehashed source??
I think almost everything is just a repost now.
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This is dead internet theory but it's worse than that....it's dead culture
Realizing and making peace with culture death is a tricky one- but culture is only dead where you find screens (which is a tad unfortunate since they're damn near everywhere). Culture had been chipped away with the dawn of the TV, and it's only accelerated exponentially with the dawn of the smart phone. People staring at the rest of the world through a screen, waiting for something to happen rather than interacting with the world around them is how culture died. Culture grinds to a halt and rots when everyone is a bystander.
I recommend joining group activities that necessitate not having screens out. Paddle boarding, hiking (even though plenty of assholes are still taking pictures), martial arts, yoga... You'll find there are still interesting people with a sense of culture doing activities that discourage being glued to their phones. If you continue to search for culture on the internet, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed for reasons you already nailed.
Tbh, I think I only visit this place out of habit at this point. I guess it's nice reassurance that there are others out there who see the existential fuckery for what it is, but ultimately you're right- these places are controlled and nothing is organic anyway.
Yeah I definitely come here out of habit....well that and a hope. I hope that there are real to god honest people who have positions to make a difference or leak out some news....so I come searching for it.