No Facebook, No Instagram, No Snapchat, No 4Chan, No Whatsapp, No Discord, No Twitter X, No Tik Tok, No Myspace, No Signal, No Telegram, None of That
I'm on Google Maps, Youtube, used to be on Reddit, still on Blogspot, Amazon, Print Media, Street Promotion, Distribution, and good ol Physical Reality. So far that's how I been doin it.
If you think you see me anywhere else, it's probably fraud or a catfish. Jacob Katel here reporting live from the identity theft capital of America. I don't live in Oakland Park, or NMB, or Waco, TX and I never have. I don't own any property anywhere. I've never worked in California. I've never took unemployment, got a big tax refund, or been on welfare. Swampdog was a pen name for about one year as a newspaper website freelancer over ten years ago and never since. I don't get social security. I did not max out that Walmart card. I'm not rich or even close. I have lived in a crime filled county for decades with a unique name as a citizen. I live week to week like everyone else.
Lies always spread faster than the truth and Miami is full of liars. Some things are true because I like to have fun, but there are always at least three sides to every story, and only one of them is real.
Im not anti social media, it's pretty cool that everyone can get their story out there now, i'm just not on it and i don't follow anybody. I've seen most of the apps and they all suck. I don't lurk. I don't finsta. I don't give a fuck. If I need to see some video or whatever I just google it. In the past fifteen years, the whole world has fallen for the redefinition of the word "friends," which used to be more than just people who follow eachother, and the new meaning of the word "followers," which used to be a major insult.
Follower used to be the lowest form of idiot. "If all your friends jumped off a building, would you do it too?"
I gotta say, a few corporations run by a few people shouldn't have so much control over how so many people think and act.
The social programming, a/b testing, psychological experiments on mass populations of Americans by private and sometimes multinational corporations and foreign governments, weaponization of human networks, algorithmification of information, and mathematic foryoupagetuitiveness have gotten out of hand. Just clear your fuckin cookies already, restart your history, and think for yourself, dumbass
Every time you hear about everybody getting fed nothing but violent car crash videos, it's a social experiment. The major apps know exactly what all the most famous people are stuck on. And in some back office somewhere, 23 year old dorks who are themselves controlled by some dork overlords, manipulate what the most watched people are exposed to, and they laugh oh how they laugh. It's the new MK Ultra. The quest for mind control in a perpetual media-dosing of the human psyche. The apps want you to think they're smarter than you so that when they tell you what to do, you believe them. They want all the leaders to be followers.
Algorithms are not intelligent or powerful. They are weak sortation mechanisms created in an OCD wet dream of labeling and organizing. You're nothing but a sock in a giant sock drawer to them. They don't "know" you. They just apply statistical confidence ratings to surface broad, highly generalized truths via niches and subcategory trees. Overall, We The People like butts, fights, cats, and laughs.
They use a combination of Jungian and Freudian psychologies to pretend they can read your mind, when all they are doing is feeding you more of the shit you watch based on how long you look at it as compared to all the other people out there who look at the same things as you, and then the exact opposite.
It's a funny business.
But the funniest thing of all is that if everybody blocked all ads to their devices at the same time, it would completely destabilize the global digital ad economy that so many complain about in one fell swoop. Think about it. Think about anything, for yourself. That's what brains are for.
On the extremely unlikely chance that Joe Rogan is reading this. Joe, I bet you won't tell everybody block all ads on all devices for a day and let's see what happens....sort of an Orson Welles bit.
There is a unifying factor to all culture today and it's called mass stupification, a communist control ideology of reporting what everyone else is up to, and the individualist breaking fixation with brainwash via social criticism, the double minded simultaneous visual obsession with tragedy and comedy, and response addiction.
Duplicity reward system. Lie like a bug all snug in a rug. The forked tongue. The watch me watch you tell you know who about what he said she said.
It's all designed and engineered bullshit for the purpose of creating microplastics, which is why even though technology is fun and cool as shit, i try not to fall for the tricks and traps.
The people and the fans and the content are not the problem. It's the corporations controlling the software.
I like listening to comedy podcasts, posting photos, and uploading videos as much as everybody else, i just opt out of as much of the lame shit as humanly possible.
There is no conspiracy. It's all right there in the Terms Of Service.