While we find ourselves stuck somewhere between clown world and mumbo jumbo times, let us take a moment to appreciate the event horizon we approach: The mid-term elections and the crazy carny state fair mayhem unfolding across the states. The doubling down of the exhausted MSM and watching it become overreach in real time. A meme was shunned, demonized, explained away, written off, and banished in record time. a false-flag used to cover up another false-flag that managed to take down a social platform, and thousands of illegal immigrants approach the U.S. border one can only hope they're bringing all the music and food that only diversity provides.
This place isn't indexed on Google, and any sudden growth of post and thread frequency is often a response to something. With the first NPC threads and any happenings since then, the raids have been stepped up to levels not seen since the 2016 election or the events leading up to and during the second exodus. A lot of nonsense gets posted, no doubt for screencaps to help pad out whatever hit piece for whichever website or think tank is preparing. Among the approaches that frequently overlap include:
- Fedposting
- Forced memes
- Derailment
- An inability to refer to the President of the United States as anything but his name
- Personal army requests
- Reddit spacing
- Using sage as a downvote
- Unwarranted hostility as opposed to disagreement (especially in the NPC threads where teamwork and positive reinforcement kept them up at night)
- Perpetually broken shift keys
- Topic dilution
- Lowest common denominator language devoid of context as an attempt to blend in (works best in numbers)
- Buzzwords and jargon that always seem out of place
- Rewording your reply (even someone else's) and thrown back at you. Go ahead, try asking some of the shills if they're paid per post or hour
The obfuscation of board lore and culture, such as getting upset at smug anime girls and a disdain for gets, is one of the few approaches that has been toned down lately. Otherwise, its just quantity across quality across the board. You can point these out, and most will continue uninterrupted and continue to stand out with ease. Due to the quantity over quality approach, it is often to see shills replying to other shills not only in slide threads but meaningful ones. Despite frequent instances of behavior There are goons, bots, chicom bots, Shareblue and our special guests who seem to be a rouges gallery of low-energy, bottom shelf champions who move from thread to thread.
Among the usual gang of idiots are 'Thanks for admitting _', Goreposter, That one guy who posts about nothing directed at no one in particular, 'don't vote', the one guy who writes paragraphs that look like ransom letters, and Shrekposter but he's been MIA for a while.
Some apply what people point out about their posts made entirely of sore thumbs and adapt. Some are bold enough to not only flaunt it, but will even go so far to report you because: reasons. They will eat up post count, contribute nothing, will razzle with dazzle long enough until having to baffle with bullshit, unrelated pictures that resemble old threads of yore where you upload the nth pick in your folder, repeat what people tell him off with in previous threads but directed at others, type the same words in every thread either because there is a keylogger at their work station, and then accuse you of spamming for good measure. That one poster who accuses everyone of being imkamfy deserves an honorable mention, because only between clown world and mumbo jumbo times is it him hoping someone remembers and posts a pic of that mug of his and his soul is finally at rest.
One by one, every corner of the Internet is compromise and subverted. The very existence of this place spits in the face of people who stand to benefit everything that is wrong with the world we find ourselves in, and undermines so much of what they've desperately to keep in motion. I wish you all the best of intelligence moving forward, because luck runs out when we need it the most.
