Thread by @SaturnaliaSund1

Hello friends! I'm glad u enjoyed my last thread on esoteric Chris-Chanity! The story has developed some since then, and it has been justly pointed out I focused more on occultism than conspiracy. So come on, let's investigate the abyss this tale verges on, Chris-Chanspiracy.

Where were you when you first saw the name Chris Chan? I know where I was, it was 2011, I was 14, and I was on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Their article on Chris is what kicked his whole saga off all the way back in 2007. How far we've come.

Now, pls read this post by the conspicuously absent Crypto Cuttlefish. My views do not represent theirs obviously, but all credit to them for the ideas I'm bout to plagiarize

So, ED was founded in the early 2000s by Girlvynil, noted US Department of Energy counterintelligence officer (who, precipitously, holds a "Q" clearance).

A little odd no? ED's cultural cachet cannot be overstated, it's the link between the truly old-school web 1.0 culture though to 4chan/somethingawful/kiwifarms, all the way to the present day. Anything trollish, anarchic, fun, cruel, "extremely online", etc exists in it's shadow.

We'll get into what came out of this in a bit, but let's think about the inchoate forces which fed into it. The obvious progression is back to Livejournal, earlier than that Usenet, then back to ARPANET. Skipped a few steps maybe, but the intangible aspects track.

As cuttlefish points out, the mindgames and petty tortures honed in newsgroups and homemade blogs became the genesis for the very concept of social networking.

Stories lost to time. My own dad was big into usenet, and, tellingly, his favorite story is about.. trolling. He'd ask boomer farmers "if their town had an elevator" on alt.agriculture, and then laugh at them when they said yes (meaning a grain elevator, no tall buildings)

But there was a cruel side, a side so bleak it's rarely seen anymore. Maybe on some messed up discord or something, but social networks feel "cleaner". There isn't an alt.suicide.holiday on 4chan.

And again, Cuttlefish is right on the money as to where this came from. Let's think about Synanon, a notoriously violent and abusive cult that was huge in California/early Silicon Valley, and to some extent still exists.

Born out of pseudoscientific drug treatment methods, Synanon billed itself as a modern alternative to stuff like Alcoholics Anonymous. Their methods though, were essentially identical to trauma-based mind control, eerily reminiscent of MK-program tactics employed in the same area

A truly mindblowing number of celebrities and business/tech figures were all in attendance, whether to cure alcoholism/drug abuse, or worse, sent as children. Pictured is Henry Miller, who's whole Big Sur/Esalen Institute vibe would directly inform the Silicon Valley mindset.

Synanon propagated itself by setting up "therapeutic boarding schools" or "troubled teen" camps all across the US, many of which are still in operation. The infamous Elan School was one of these.

As a kid in Utah (where many of the current schools are located) I heard urban legends about these. Do a minor crime, instead of going to juvie, samoans (lol) would come to your house in the middle of the night, basically kidnap you. It's kinda true!

So, Synanon's tactic for privatized MK-Ultra? First, gathering vast amounts of information about you, hopes, fears, shames, etc. Then, "The Game", aka "general meeting". Like a Maoist struggle session, one scapegoat would be singled out to be verbally harrassed and beaten.

Remind you of anything?

Ominous then, given the hazy lineage of substance abuse institute mind-control to internet culture, that 4chan's name field defaults to Anonymous. Same goes for the poorly understood and often spoofed hacker group, was this an accident?

Speaking of Anonymous, let's turn our gaze to what emerged from ED. I'm sure you remember the Chanology protests of 2007. Started by ED cofounder OlDirtyBtard. Note strange resonance of cult tactics vs cult tactics, ED/4chan/SA drama crew vs Scientology.

I'd contend this internet crowdsourced protest movement drew more attention than most assume, I think it's fair to speculate that this provided a regime change blueprint still directly applied today.

One just has to turn to the next big "extremely online" protest movements, say, those against the SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA bills. As a young /x/-browsing lolbertarian these were particularly special to me, but in retrospect they loom sinister.

While on the surface it's organization seemed authentically grassroots, it doesn't take much pondering to realize they were organized with hard power and big money from the beginning.

The NGO complex funding and coordinating the movement goes deep. The Electronic Frontier Foundation obviously played a critical role via funding. While their story is again too long to recount, few organizations glow as hard as they do.

Their founder John Perry Barlow's influence over the internet cannot be overstated, finger in every pot. Curious then, how he's been adjacent to intel ops since the 60's via the Grateful Dead, all the way up to providing "advisory" services to the CIA until his death.

We'll get back to them later, let's look at the direct coordinators of the protests, "Fight for the Future". No surprise, if you even cursorily follow their funding it ends up in the same place as 9/10 powerful nonprofits, the Ford Foundation, Arabella Advisors, the Mellon family

They've even been prominently accused of being an "astroturf" organization representing entrenched business interests, neat! And obviously they coordinated part of the Hong Kong protests lol.

It doesn't take much of a leap in logic to see where this goes. Would love to track interlocks from these guys to Occupy Wall Street (and our current crop of suspiciously wealthy influencers who emerged).

You know what comes next. Somethingawful trolls in Benghazi, the optimist spirit of social media activism jolted awake among Azov Battalion and Jabhat al-Nusra.

Eerie, to remember similarly dashed hopes; the cyberpunks of the 90s, Hakim Bey reading khaote-raver-coders lost in a sea of spooks, speculative capital, and worse.

But we've strayed very far afield. Back to Chris Chan (remember that's what this is about?). The recent pathological obsession of Christorians, the final boss of his Saga, Ms. Janke.

By now I'm sure you've heard her parents are "glowies". But what does that mean? Let's take a look at her dad. Assuming he's not lying, he's an ex member of DEVGRU. Not just a seal, actual DEVGRU.

Not a huge leap to assume he knows and does real shit huh? I've long considered "ex" members of the security/intel apparatus to be more dangerous than active ones, for they retain their networks but lose oversight. Who's to say if an intel agent is ever "ex"? Not their assets.

He's a cybersecurity professional too. Information on his companies and what they do is sparse, but it's interesting he's into longevity, common theme among elite technocrats. Tied to shopify too, so billionaire connects.

"Silent Circle" looks neat, what do they do? I'm not sure, but they earned a giant, lucrative contract. Why? They're the only company given top ratings by... the EFF. Huh, we were just talking about those guys.

This is about as far as I've gone, and I'm late for my long overdue canoing. But let's go max paranoid, what could we draw from this?

Could trolling like this, of Chris Chan, essentially be like baby's first MK project? Is there a difference between being socialized online and being MK'd?

Can socialization like this, the founding tenet of social media itself, have been meant all along to facilitate regime change ops, or worse? Say it no longer needs to be done directly, spreading as organically arising, self-propagating, fully compartmentalized psyop?

Is this all very silly? I don't know, but try not to torture people for distributed Burrougshian Control networks, and if you do definitely don't do it for free.