So I’ve been posting on Substack, like a blog, instead of here. The reason for that is simple, I wanted to see if people would see it when I then posted links to my writing on Social Media. And they did.
If I post links to this website, people won’t see them as much. A Scientific Experiment and while not 100% scientific, it told me enough of what I needed to know.
But I digress…
I’m here to talk about a specific incident on Youtube that warrants documentation. It’s a microcosm of what’s going wrong in our Society right now, and something that I believe won’t make an appearance on anyone else’s radar provided they’re out of my Circle of Influence (or whatever the shit it’s called).
So I’ve subscribed and followed and quite liked this content creator, 74 gear, on Youtube. He’s a pilot, of BIG planes, and while not ex-military is also from the south (Dallas) and prone to conservative views along with a leaning toward blindly following authority.
I’ve never had a serious issue with his content before, even when he’s played dumb about certain global events or their impact on innocent people in society. Then he posted this: Stupidest Way to Get on No-Fly List
It’s essentially showing a video of a woman “causing a scene” on a jetway as ICE agents are detaining her friend.
Kelsey (74gear), before he starts repeating himself, clearly thinks that the ICE agents are fine, what they’re doing is fine, the woman they are arresting must have been in the wrong and the woman protesting this arrest is the clear and obvious problem.
He tries to relate it to his main content theme by talking about what a disruptive presence this woman would then be on his plane, but that (to me) is far beside the point. He openly and unabashedly supports what ICE is doing in this video. The implied support of ICE, in general, is even more troublesome.
So I was highly bothered by this video and his attitude. Then I started reading the comments. Oof.
At the time I started reading, it was still on Day One (11 days ago) and there were 2,200 comments. I left a comment shaming both Kelsey and the cesspit of commentors, to this day it was 7 likes, and then I moved on. I told Wifeage about it, she left her own comment and moved on. She DID reassure me that there were more like me and her, people that disagree with Kelsey platforming and supporting ICE and denouncing not just the content and its nature, but the overall MAGA-ism in general.
Then I went looking for these folks, and what I found was TROUBLING, to say the least.
Today I loaded up all 2,461 comments, opened the majority of the replies (~25% of the comments had one) and looked for patterns.
The first pattern I noticed was that while the post was still fresh, on the day, the majority of comments that get replies are comments AGAINST ICE.
Another pattern was that the majority, over 90%, of comments were in support of either ICE or were against The Woman in the video.
But with the comments that garnered replies, I found the vast majority weren’t just coming in to defend ICE. Over 90% had little or nothing to do with The Woman, some were about The Friend, but ALL were about ICE when defending anything that was denouncing Kelsey or ICE.
Of these, the majority were from SIX accounts:
TWO of them have zero information and highly unique usernames that exist nowhere else on the internet.
TWO show open support for Nazi/North Korean songs on sonichits.com.
TWO have content on their channels, though both are highly-specific (nothing but playlists made from Cars songs/film clips, etc).
ONE has a presence online as a DJ, Author and Famous Gynecologist from Mexico City.
So I’m just going to come out and say it. These are either AI accounts, powered by or supplemented by AI, or they are humans that are contracted to target specific posts and specific comments.
Oh, and the replies from these accounts are 90% vague and show little to no relation to the comment they are replying to other than open and complete support of ICE. They don’t argue specific points, they don’t argue with specific anecdotal information and they don’t even account for more than a short sentence unless they are copy-pasting things that only claim the original comment is “Nonsense” and 100% rebutting anything said about ICE.
Bearing in mind, of course, that the comments denouncing either Kelsey’s support or ICE openly have many and varied takes, with many and varied ways of stating such support.
OF NOTE is that the comments that were highly-articulate and well-written received NO REPLY (including mine). Wifeage got a reply from a suspected BOT which read as follows:
Wifeage: You do know ICE has ki11ed people indiscriminately… right?
@rhynosouris710: The interfering with ICE is just a really bad idea
None of these accounts replied to anything replying to them, with the exception of vague and undirected things like saying to me, “You’re a complete fool!” with lots of emojis.
No debate, no point-making, no rebuttal of specific incidents. Nothing of substance, nothing of anything remotely-intelligent.
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So if I come right out and state that my very-unscientific findings show that BOTS and MAGA-funded puppets are targeting specific comments that are openly-against ICE, then I can also come right out and ask a follow-up, very important, question:
WHY? Why does ICE need to have BOTS and supporters reply to comments with useless and empty statements?
Nobody on this post that’s against ICE and their kidnapping, murder and torture of innocents needs a BOT. None of them need to have a small handful of accounts go through a post like this and target any of the comments in support of ICE. Why do they need to do this?
Media Manipulation is Real.
We’re at a point in history where it’s more and more obvious to us what is being done to us. Those In Power openly lie, cheat and do corruption, among other Very Bad Things, and then they tell you that it’s not what they’re doing.
For example, ICE shoots someone dead. An unarmed human attempting to comply with ICE’s orders is shot. KILLED. And they are later branded “terrorist” and “criminal” and their actions are described as “dangerous” and “attempting harm” despite contradicting video and personal evidence from multiple sources.
Good, Pretti, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, they were not terrorists. None of them were attempting to harm government agents. ALL of them were shot, point-blank, and killed. NO charges have been filed, NO ONE has been held responsible and NO enquiries have been brought by superiors. NOTHING has been done about any of them. Yet we were all told differently by The President and all of his loyal underlings.
And now they need BOTS in YT comments.
It’d be embarrassing if it wasn’t FUCKING HORRIFIC. It’s fucking horrifying. I am horrified. I am disgusted. And I am writing this shit down here where no one can delete it, control access to it, or to otherwise censor it.
FUCK ICE. It’s wrong, it’s bad, and if you think otherwise either educate yourself or be Wrong and Bad too.