When the interview starts, the powermod immediately asserts in a tense tone that he wants to get this over with quickly, and then is interrupted mid-sentence by Orion, who basically just starts screwing with him. Between Orion's antics the powermod manages to succinctly state that his contract work for reddit was minimal and extremely ordinary, and then he spends several minutes ridiculing the idea that he could possibly be an intelligence asset. He does not actually provide the audience with any new information. Here’s a link to the interview.
https://youtu.be/CxM2Gp1DoNg
Ten minutes into the interview Orion decides to press the powermod on a certain incident which cannot be mentioned on reddit. He gets several sentences out to the powermods horror, and then is unsurprisingly kicked from the stream. But there's something strange about the audio here, and that’s what I want to talk about.
https://streamable.com/sevavi
During the last turbulent moments of the interview, you can clearly hear a man’s voice saying “shut it down” twice. I’ve provided a clip above, and I think it is fairly indisputable. You can check it against the original recording to see that I have not tampered with the clip. As you can also see in the original video, there is no one in that voice chat other than the powermod and Orion. This leaves two possibilities. Either the voice is coming from some kind of speaker near the powermod, or it is coming from someone standing with him in the room.
What I find most disturbing about this voice is its tone. This certainly does not sound to me a friend or fellow mod frantically telling him to get out of a bad situation. It sounds to me like a professional giving a command. It seems possible to me that we just caught a glimpse of some form of corporate handler.
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