"Streamers, memers and gamers." Voyage to the center of a social media platform made by the redpilled for the redpilled. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com
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| What's up QAA listeners? | |
| The fun games have begun. | |
| I found a way to connect to the internet. | |
| I'm sorry, boy. | |
| Welcome, listener, to Premium Chapter 213 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the Pilled.net episode. | |
| As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rakitansky, Julian Field, and Travis View. | |
| We live under the tyrannical rule of a despotic few. | |
| Massive social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok control our minds, pacifying us with daily blue pills, exactly like in Brave New World and 1984. | |
| For these shadowy overlords, we dance, sing, laugh, and cry to obtain their version of company script, likes, replies, and maybe even a sub or two. | |
| But a small band of rebels struggle just out of sight to restore freedom to the galaxy. | |
| Above their headquarters, a scuffed flag carries their name, PILD.net. | |
| They are, in their own words, quote, a new and growing social media network focused on giving the freedom of choice, speech, and expression, regardless of political views. | |
| On Pill.net, you can quote, Pill.net was founded in July 2018 and launched in March of 2020 by two mats, Matthew Brown and Matthew Webster. | |
| groups, send direct messages and support your favorite content creators without worrying | |
| about you or them being censored, punished, banned, booted or deplatformed for differing | |
| political viewpoints. | |
| Pill.net was founded in July 2018 and launched in March of 2020 by two Mats, Matthew Brown | |
| and Matthew Webster. | |
| Both men are from Minnesota and appear to be in their 30s. | |
| Here's Brown appearing in an intro video they posted to the platform's TikTok. | |
| For the listener, imagine the all-white scene in The Matrix where Morpheus explains stuff to Neo. | |
| But in this one, you're Neo, and Morpheus is a corn-fed guy in an ill-fitting suit. | |
| This is the Matrix Alpha, the early access. | |
| Step in the virtual haven of PILD.net, where you remain an individual. | |
| You are in control. | |
| Experience all that PILD.net has to offer. | |
| Create dynamic topics with videos, links, text, anything you want. | |
| Load topics. | |
| Activate filters. | |
| Get verified. | |
| Go live. | |
| Escape the onslaught of ads and privacy scares. | |
| Let's get back to what social media was meant to be on Pill.net. | |
| I mean, not bad for them. | |
| Some nice graphics, I would say. | |
| Yeah, some after effects work in there. | |
| It's not too shabby. | |
| My favorite is when there's like a little like a neon kind of keyboard shape that appears and he puts out his little hands and twiddles them as if he were typing. | |
| Well, at first I was like, why is he holding his hands like that? | |
| But then I think he's just trying to copy exactly what Laurence Fishburne was doing in The Matrix. | |
| He's even got like the purple suit on, but he's paired it with kind of like a beige button down underneath. | |
| And it just really, it sort of throws the whole thing off. | |
| You need that black button down, that purple tie. | |
| If you're going for the Morpheus thing, you might as well have gone the extra two steps and gotten the shirt and the tie, right? | |
| I would have. | |
| Okay. | |
| All right. | |
| I guess this is a guide to copying the Matrix in your content by Jake. | |
| If you're gonna copy it, copy it correctly. | |
| Don't 75% copy. | |
| Well, you were giving them some nice input and then you kind of switched to negativity. | |
| Well, that's what you get from me. | |
| A little bit of sweet, a little bit of sour. | |
| Uh-huh, yeah. | |
| Spicy stuff. | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Now, I've been following Pill.net and its streaming video offshoot Foxhole.app for a couple of years now, watching it grow in the margins, home to a bizarre set of small- and medium-time QAnon influencers. | |
| Somewhat prominent figures associated with the platform include Zac Payne, aka RedPill78, Sevirenon, by far the most prolific QAnon rapper, Jordan Sather, Woke Societies, and John Herald, aka Patel Patriot. | |
| Then there are a slew of lesser knowns, like Based Amy, Salty Cracker, Johnny Dangerously, Some Bitch I Know, and a sexagenarian simply known as Hat, whose logo is a cartoon cowboy hat with a face. | |
| My favorite one! | |
| Yeah, we'll get into him. | |
| The structure of the website is pretty chaotic. | |
| Notables are organized in three categories. | |
| Streamers, Memers, and Gamers. | |
| And, of course, the second half of the episode is Jake in the Land of Gamers. | |
| Let's put it that way. | |
| Let's go. | |
| A double sidebar and double top bar jostle for attention, and then there are obscure categories like Games, which is a small collection of red-pilled browser games, and RSS, which comes pre-configured with the RSS feed of the Gateway Pundit. | |
| So, I tested that. | |
| You can kind of put in any RSS you want. | |
| So, like, I think they're thinking, like, you never have to leave, right? | |
| You can get your news here as well. | |
| It can help us, like, share news because the RSS feed has been input, but as a result, it clogs up a lot of the UI space, and that's a pretty big issue throughout is just how Horrible this website is to navigate it's very hard to get back to what you were looking at because if you go forward and backwards It'll just scroll you right up to the top So if you're trying to like bounce off somewhere in the feed to somewhere else It's designed in a way that even the browser with the like open new tab with this link doesn't work So you can't just hold alt and fair warning If you do get sort of booted back to the top the video that you were watching will still be playing Yes | |
| You can play as many videos as you want as far as I can tell. | |
| Like you could just have a ton of different videos running on the same kind of feed just yelling over each other. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oftentimes just having one stream open makes you feel like that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| There's a meme creator which you can use to add text to images alongside more conventional social media features like groups, DMs, and alerts. | |
| Reactions to posts are limited to a red pill, the equivalent of a like or upvote, and a blue pill, which is, of course, thumbs down. | |
| A downvote. | |
| On the ones I was looking at, the thing that I saw at the top, there was another sort of metric which was like, agree and disagree. | |
| What? | |
| I don't know if I saw that, no. | |
| Maybe that was just on the gamer things, but it was like, yeah, it was like, you hovered over it and it was like, agree, and then the downvote was like, disagree. | |
| I think that, you know, what's happening there is that you're hovering over the pills, but maybe they're not loading in or something. | |
| And it's an explanation, because even in, like, the intro to their old website, they're like, remember, the red pill is good and the blue pill is bad. | |
| Like, it's not easy to kind of fully grasp, I think. | |
| Yeah, that's it. | |
| It was just a red, it looked like a red circle and a blue circle, or sort of like a cylinder shape. | |
| Yeah, that's it. | |
| It is. | |
| Those are the pills, yeah. | |
| Okay, so they just did not load on my Edge browser, I guess? | |
| No, no, no, they loaded, but they're just, at the top of the post, they're just like a neon outline of a pill. | |
| Yes, yes, yes, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. | |
| Okay, so see, even you were confused, and you're very familiar with the red and blue pill. | |
| Sure. | |
| There's also a section dedicated to gold pills, which is the digital currency of the site through which you can donate or subscribe to specific channels. | |
| Now, you can pay for these in US dollars, but there's also an option to use cryptocurrency through Monarch, which is a crypto wallet app run by a guy called Robert Beatles, an early investor in Gab and Pilled.net. | |
| Beatles also used to have a podcast called Crypto Beatles, on which he supposedly covered fintech and the crypto space, but guests included QAnon influencers, and the last episode he posted in September of 2021 was titled, Commie Vax Mandates, Stolen Elections, America Circling the Drain, But There Is Hope. | |
| Seriously. | |
| That doesn't sound like he's focusing too much on crypto. | |
| I think he got so mad he, like, rage quit his own podcast. | |
| Doesn't sound like he's focusing too much on hope, either. | |
| No, well, seriously, there is, though. | |
| But seriously! | |
| Hey, come on, man. | |
| His crypto wallet app is promoted quite a bit on Pilled.net, and the companies once put out a press statement explaining that they partnered due to, quote, both companies being a proponent for free speech, expression, and American values. | |
| Anyways, here's a video explaining how the gold pills work. | |
| Welcome in, this is going to be a tutorial all about gold pills. | |
| So we're back on the homepage again and we've seen these gold pills all over the site. | |
| What are they? | |
| How do I buy them? | |
| How do I use them? | |
| We've got these buttons over here on the left, a little bank account at the top. | |
| There's a gold pill under every topic. | |
| Let's go to the store first and we'll go over here and check it out. | |
| This is where you can purchase all of your gold pills. | |
| One gold pill equals one cent. | |
| It's basically like arcade money. | |
| It's not crypto or anything. | |
| It's just a way for you to transfer your dollars into a gold pill so you can support your favorite memers, people that make great topics on the post, or your content creators. | |
| They'll show up right there in that little bank account at the top of the screen. | |
| You just put your card info in right there, click pay, and voila, you're done. | |
| And voila, we've got all your information. | |
| I mean, I think arcade money is not a good example, because as soon as you buy arcade money, you've wasted your money. | |
| You can't get the dollars back out with it. | |
| Whereas here, like, you know, the kind of creators who you donate to, they can take money out, like, they can convert their gold pills back into dollars, I believe, and basically, you know, get paid. | |
| Oh, you can get paid off the gold. | |
| So they're going back to precious metals. | |
| So, consistent with, you know, other conservative ideology. | |
| But they've made like little drawings for the different levels of gold pills you can buy. | |
| And the first one is an ashtray with a cigar, which is weird because the gold pills are under the cigar. | |
| The second one's a coffee, like one of those like drip coffee containers. | |
| Third one is a cooler. | |
| Then we have a swimming pool. | |
| Then we have a whole back of a pickup truck. | |
| And the last one is just a cargo container size with gold pills coming out. | |
| How much does the cargo container cost? | |
| $85.41. | |
| Yeah, this looks like the cash shop on, like, a free-to-play cryptic MMO. | |
| Like, you're Neverwinter, you're Star Trek Online. | |
| I'm familiar to a shop that looks like this. | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | |
| I've spent money on these types of things. | |
| For sure. | |
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