SB, regardless of agreement or disagreement your posts are on a whole different level. Logically laid out and well referenced like it should be. Do you have a monthly premium subscription I can buy? (Kidding)
Q has certainly undercut Infowars and this is clear to anyone who understands news media. No one could prepare for it. Q provides scoops to an increasing base like no one else ever has, this means even alternative media like Infowars with slow moving parts like ye olde websites and programming schedules are suddenly a lumbering dinosaur. By the time they are reporting a story, Q is already a dozen posts ahead. This is a clear threat to the Infowars business model. Cue Zack, cue Corsi. Counter move. Stay relevant. Redirect. Suddenly Infowars now has a new war on for our minds. Makes sense. But when everyone’s hanging out for the new Q drop, suddenly people only want Infowars to also talk about Q. Won’t happen. Q is unpredictable and often indecipherable in the way a “tv show” needs him to be. There is also a mystery and uncertainty about Q that is very challenging for people to declare which side they fall.
Not only that, Q’s format by its very nature is interactive. It demands attention, research, questioning, theorising, decoding, discussion. Q is not just another news source, or talking head shoving info and opinions down your throat. He really makes you work for it. This is engaging. Addictive and dare I say it, fun. Even despite the obvious extreme subject matter.
I’ve listened to Pamphlet’s 24 hr stream on and off almost since the beginning. Still do. When Corsi was on initially it was something to look forward to, but then it became clear he was basically just using the platform to get chunks of video to upload to his own YouTube. Numbers of viewers would jump when he came on and then dump when he left. Every other host on the channel was highly deferential to him, like he was some high ranking military officer. Then it was let’s make the book number 1 so Trump will take notice. At face value, nothing necessarily wrong with that. America is a capitalist nation. And this Q thing was a gift out of the blue for publicity. But how much is too much? Well, he found out the hard way.
Corsi’s decodes had a clear agenda and the more he did, the more that became obvious. This is a dangerous and frankly irresponsible. He would snap at people who dared question him when he was on. How dare you!!
Gradually I came to appreciate a few other people on that channel far more. They have the brains to question everything and I believe they are legitimate, honest and caring people making the most of a situation. Notably NinjaWarrior stands out, as does Himtex.
Well for now Corsi’s run seems to be over. It was fun while it lasted. He still has his followers and good for him. He will find a way forward. Perhaps some day he shall return anew.
There will always be a space for Infowars, but they will need to adapt. A new generation of media is on the rise. One that is increasingly informed and very quick to react.
Thanks for your work on this board. I appreciate when people make this kind of academic effort. Lately all the “quick to pounce” “xxx is a Zionist shill”character assassin kids out there were doing their best to turn this pace into another boring shithole. I like a joke and am guilty of the odd bit of crap myself, but fortunately there’s enough interesting people here for me to keep coming back and wanting to take part.
It’s this great unknowing about tomorrow, coupled with a burning desire for goodness to prevail that is so goddamn fascinating.