Thread by @dappergander

CONTENT WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGERY

Frazzledrip is making another round today in minor QAnon/Pizzagate circles, along with an image "captured from the tape" purporting to show the girl that was tortured and mutilated.

Blurred here but not later in the thread.

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#dapperdebunk

For those who do not know, frazzledrip (or sometimes frazzled.rip) is supposedly a video that shows Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin torturing, killing, skinning and eating a little girl. Hillary wears the little girl's face like a mask.

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The conspiracy theory of its existence is based on older theories, but emerged in its current form in April 2018: that the video file of the ritual, frazzled.rip, is on Anthony Weiner's laptop and over a dozen police officers that watched it were driven to suicide.

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Obviously the file does not exist, but plenty of Anons claim to have seen it, but were "so shocked" that they forgot to download it or even take screencaps.

QAnon believes there is evidence for the tape's existence everywhere, hiding in plain sight.

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https://twitter.com/dappergander/status/1278166381188599812?s=20

Occasionally, "single frames from the video" pop up, and this is what happened earlier today with this post. The memes usually summarize the theory and include testimonials from people who have seen it.

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This particular image is easily traced to the 1997 album cover for Verses Of The Bleeding by a band called Abnegation.

I do not know where the image originated, but I imagine that information is out there.

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There is a story that goes around death metal forums that the photo is connected to a pit bull attack, but that could be an urban legend into itself.

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As I said before, QAnon believes the video exists and occasionally someone "shares" it, but wouldn't you know, there's always some sort of glitch that prevents them from actually watching it.

Sometimes they link it to the Worldcorp video (an aside coming).

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ASIDE: the Worldcorp Videos have been a minor internet mystery for at least a few years.

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The video that QAnon is interested in is often titled "fatherhood," in which shakycam footage of silhouettes moving behind a frosted glass door or window is matched with horrific audio of screaming and crying.

It's loud and NSFW.

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https://twitter.com/TickTock2Q2Q/status/1330788167868444672?s=20

I looked into this video, and edits of it, several months ago.

https://twitter.com/dappergander/status/1256808825379790848?s=20

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QAnon/Pizzagate is sure the Worldcorp videos are "connected" to frazzled.rip because they evoke the same feelings of unease and revulsion for believers, and therefore the existence of Fatherhood somehow proves the existence of frazzled.rip. /ASIDE

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Other images purportedly taken from the tape have surfaced from time to time. My favorite is the one where the poster "blacked out the disturbing content" which of course turned out to be "an empty bed" and "nothing on the floor."

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And even the OG frazzled.rip image was taken from a website and run through a filter so it appeared to be from a videotape or closed-circuit TV.

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By the time a year had passed since the story "broke" on YourNewsWire (which has since rebranded as News Punch), frazzledrip was widely ridiculed on the same chan boards that had once been so instrumental in creating it.

But on Facebook and Twitter, the theory lives on.

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Other things that are not frazzledrip but are frequently shared as such are crime scene photos of the murder of Scarlett Keeling, the Grindhouse Trailer called "Thanksgiving" by Eli Roth, and EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAS EVER BEEN POSTED ON THE SUBJECT BECAUSE IT ISN'T REAL.

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If you want to get a sense of how cyclical the conspiracy theory is, I recommend the following search: "frazzledrip i have seen it"

It has a surge about once a month, and in between, a small number of accounts who send out the exact same tweets every day.

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This tweet from July 2020 is like a frazzledrip greatest hits, including the images I talked about in this very thread, along with one I've never seen before replacing the classic Abnegation album cover, but the same text under it.

I'm going to look into this for a sec.

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A few minutes of searching reveals the image in question has been recycled through a handful of different conspiracies.

The earliest use I can find is an anti-abortion blog from 2013.

See? Research. It's not that hard, QAnon.

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So this has been a rough thread. I want to thank everyone who's given it a read.

Like any piece of QAnon, this is woven into other theories I won't go into here, like Spirit Cooking and cannibalclub and etc etc

tl;dr frazzled.rip isn't real & QAnon isn't real.

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