Forgotten / Memory-holed Psyops - What things do you believe were pushed heavily into public consciousness only to be forgotten that they were pushed at all?

[Smoltine Kiminal]

obvious but do you remember when your neighbours where screaming at you because you dont wear some mask and wanted your kids taken away so they can be injected with gene treatment? now they all pretend that never happened

pizzagate

not a psyop

 

[FunkTism]

• January 6 riot people encourages those to go into the building,

I forgot to mention I was right....again 274 Times.

Where is my medal?!
Oh, here it is...

not a psyop

I think he was more saying it was Memory-holed quickly, not that it was not true.
And there were Pyops around covering Pizzagate.

 

[NoReturn]

Ice bucket challenge. Something humiliating and potentially dangerous for anyone with a heart condition. The way it was pushed in workplaces I found very odd. I refused to do it and was really harangued over it. It become a symbol of compliance somehow. Before it the Kony2012 stuff, which has already been mentioned, felt similar. It would be really interesting to go back and look at the language that was used to push both these events - I will vet you’d find similar patterns to Covid (same phrasing used across multiple outlets etc.)

"Storm Area 51"

I fully believe this was some sort of dry run for whatever shenanigans they tried to pull with the Jan 6 "insurrection".

Someone already pointed out that "flash mobs" were probably either dry-runs (or at least helpful research for) things like what we have with the modern form of protests.
I think these social things were very similar, they "normalized" participation with the crowd and made sharing the activity with the whole internet seem like a normal thing to do. If you went back to 1980 and you told someone "We filmed ourselves dunking a bucket of ice on Gary from accounting and sent the video to every major news station" people would look at you side-eyed.

Before Facebook made it big it was rare for someone to share their real name on the internet, yet alone upload photos that could be used to identify them in real life. This practice used to be heavily discouraged and people - even complete normies - would even advise each others to avoid doing this at all costs. I even remember TV segments warning about this exact thing.

It was also altered as a result of "As a ______"-type "arguments" being normalized.
Remember this?

Believe it or not, "There are no girls on the internet" was once actually a similar sentiment. There were no girls on the internet because on the internet you were just your words and your images. This anon explained it rather crassly, but decently, back in 2012:

This has now long since been lost, but "As a ________" used to be frowned upon. Sure, that wasn't the rule everywhere, but it was a decent general rule of thumb.

Carpal tunnel was a big scare in the 90s/ early 00s. It was supposed to affect a huge amount of new people the more that computer keyboards were used and was being hyped up as a big future problem. I haven't heard anyone talk about it in years.

I've got another one for you: Heavy children's backpacks.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350603002622

The concerns went away when schools started switching to laptops, but there was a period of time there where children were carrying around bags weighing like 15% of their body weight. I distinctly remember listening to a conversation between a parent and a teacher where the parent said the weight and number of books was ridiculous, but the teacher said the school wouldn't let her store the children's books in the classrooms.

 

[The Gene Genie]

At this point I'd consider the whole COVID thing forgotten. Most people want to just pretend like that insane shit never even happened.

 

[NoReturn]

At this point I'd consider the whole COVID thing forgotten. Most people want to just pretend like that insane shit never even happened.

I won't forget. I'm too bitter. I'm going to be one of those crazy people who rants about the history books being wrong.

 

[William Murderface]

The Iraq War and weapons of mass destruction. Regardless of what you think our real reason of going into Iraq was (I know oil is a big one, but I personally have never found that as a satisfactory explanation and the mystery of why it did happened still bothers me to this day), I think we can all agree that that there were no WMDs and the Bush administration knew it, but sold that to the American people. So we got a war built on a lie that lasted the better part of 15 years, killed tens of thousands of young men and physically or mentally scared hundreds of thousands more, impacted two generations, and now... is competely forgotten. No one is angry, no one talks about it, people barely think of it, no one has demanded Cheney's head on a pike. The Boomers never let go of Vietnam, but late Gen X and Millennials are just fine with their cousins coming back from the Middle East mentally ill junkies missing an arm.

Cheney and Rumsfeld had been wanting to invade Iraq since GW1 ended and Bush was stupid enough to listen to them. And so we lied to the world and invaded Iraq. But there were a few other things to consider:

1) Saddam had been screwing around with the terms of the Cease Fire since the ink was drying on the paper back in 1991 and had been shooting SAMs at Allied planes in the No Fly Zones for years.
2) Saddam not only possessed WMD in the past but had willingly used them in the Iran-Iraq War and then against the Kurds after GW1. It wasn't a huge leap for most of the CIA analysts to figure the reports were accurate about just what he still had.
3) There are any number of accounts by troops who rolled into Iraq in 2003 of their CBR counters going off and large trucks being taken out of known NBC sites under guard with secret loads. Obviously anecdote is not singular for evidence, but after a while it does seem to indicate a trend.
4) Saddam was paying the families of all kinds of Islamic terrorists who hit Western and Israeli targets and our tolerance for terror was a bit low after 9/11.

 

[CowBoyCormack]

Cheney and Rumsfeld had been wanting to invade Iraq since GW1 ended and Bush was stupid enough to listen to them. And so we lied to the world and invaded Iraq. But there were a few other things to consider:

1) Saddam had been screwing around with the terms of the Cease Fire since the ink was drying on the paper back in 1991 and had been shooting SAMs at Allied planes in the No Fly Zones for years.
2) Saddam not only possessed WMD in the past but had willingly used them in the Iran-Iraq War and then against the Kurds after GW1. It wasn't a huge leap for most of the CIA analysts to figure the reports were accurate about just what he still had.
3) There are any number of accounts by troops who rolled into Iraq in 2003 of their CBR counters going off and large trucks being taken out of known NBC sites under guard with secret loads. Obviously anecdote is not singular for evidence, but after a while it does seem to indicate a trend.
4) Saddam was paying the families of all kinds of Islamic terrorists who hit Western and Israeli targets and our tolerance for terror was a bit low after 9/11.

Happy someone actually brought this up. Its recent history, but very interesting.

Its not just Cheney and Rumsfeld wanting this;

but for some additional things to consider:

Before 9/11, the common way to address terrorism was cloak and dagger. Consider the CIA, 007 type things, targeted assassinations, maybe supporting local forces, black hawk down, etc. The US would "tolerate" these terrorist regimes, like Iraq, Libya, Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea, and would nab their agents when they could relying on intelligence. The other approach, was actually overthrowing these regimes.

We're likely going to move back into the cloak and dagger phase of combating terrorism, but at the time, with increasingly powerful WMDs, the globalized jihad, etc- people just thought that 'maybe itll be better and cheaper not to have these regimes existing'

For the WMDs, these also include chemical weapons, and for Saddam- he had dismantled his (arguably), but the CIA basically stated that, while he didn't have any active ones, he still had the capabilities to make them, and probably would later when there was less focus on Iraq. If there is a lie, its that 'WMD's was portrayed as nukes to the American public, when WMDs is a very broad term'.

You add in the fact that Saddam was paying terrorist's family's pensions openly (Gaddaffi too), that he tried to car bomb Bush Sr when he was visiting the gulf post-presidency, etc, and you can see more of the motivation to invade Iraq.

"the world and terrorism is about to get much more complex, we shouldn't have these states openly supporting terrorism"

Maybe a parallel would be 'should Israel invade Iran to stop Hamas from getting funding and support?'. I won't answer that one, but that would be how to contextualize the past situation to the present.

The invasion wasn't successful and was horribly bungled, but 'war for oil' is far too simplistic an explanation.

 

[Bootylicious Bootyhole]

There were a lot of runner up COVID prototypes that were pushed hard for a brief while and then forgotten in the blink of an eye.

SARS

Mad Cow

Bird Flu

Swine Flu

SIV

Ebola

Whatever the fuck those thawed antarctic worms supposedly had

The return of mumps and measles

But for whatever reason, none of those ever really stuck.

I'm pretty sure the Y2K scare and 2012 Mayan apocalypse count as well, given how hard they were pushed at the time and almost nobody talks about them anymore.

I'm pretty sure the whole trooning out your kids for clout thing will be an attempted memoryhole, but unfortunately for those types they codified their sins in stone via a number of documentaries, and that only ensures they will never be forgotten by those of us who will not forgive them for what they've done.

 

[stares at error messages]

At this point I'd consider the whole COVID thing forgotten. Most people want to just pretend like that insane shit never even happened.

Goyum are base animals that have no higher moral function. They are like wantons discovering their genitals.

 

[Dysnomia]

There were a lot of runner up COVID prototypes that were pushed hard for a brief while and then forgotten in the blink of an eye.

SARS

Mad Cow

Bird Flu

Swine Flu

SIV

Ebola

Whatever the fuck those thawed antarctic worms supposedly had

The return of mumps and measles

But for whatever reason, none of those ever really stuck.

I'm pretty sure the Y2K scare and 2012 Mayan apocalypse count as well, given how hard they were pushed at the time and almost nobody talks about them anymore.

I'm pretty sure the whole trooning out your kids for clout thing will be an attempted memoryhole, but unfortunately for those types they codified their sins in stone via a number of documentaries, and that only ensures they will never be forgotten by those of us who will not forgive them for what they've done.

Don't forget monkey pox. They even tried to prevent offending anyone by styling it Mpox. Adoption was a mixed bag. Fuck Wikipedia. The original US case I heard about I think was in the 90s. A girl was infected because she had contact with a prairie dog that had been previously housed with those giant African rats that are used to detect land mines. Monkey pox was found in lab monkeys in the 50s and no one knows exactly where it came from. Probably wherever the monkeys came from. But there weren't any known huge outbreaks until later. I personally don't think it was a failed attempt at germ warfare. It was more likely that someone bought some sketchy monkeys from some sketchy poachers.

But as it turns out, unless you live in a third world country where disease spreads like crazy, monkey pox mainly affects gay men who refuse to play Spelunker with a condom on. Once it became a "gay" disease in the west, but not a life threatening crisis like AIDS was, no one gave a giant pouched rat's ass.

 

[74164978231]

Cheney and Rumsfeld had been wanting to invade Iraq since GW1 ended and Bush was stupid enough to listen to them. And so we lied to the world and invaded Iraq. But there were a few other things to consider:

Cheney and Rumsfeld wherent the ones with a hardon for Iraq, it was literally the jews. Paul Wolfowitz is the sole reason the US invaded Iraq in 2003.

W, Clinton, Obama/Biden none of those retards cared about running the country. All 4 of those dipshits just wanted the title and prestige and happily left running the country and foreign affairs up to god knows who.

here were a lot of runner up COVID prototypes that were pushed hard for a brief while and then forgotten in the blink of an eye.

SARS

Mad Cow

Bird Flu

Swine Flu

SIV

Ebola

Whatever the fuck those thawed antarctic worms supposedly had

The return of mumps and measles

I was actually talking about this at work with someone the other day.

They tried to make SARS a thing but it didnt take.

They tried to make Zika a thing but it didnt take.

They tried to make Ebola a thing but it didnt take.

But then chinaflu comes along and they finally won.

 

[Johnny Silverhand]

Surprised no one has talked about the Las Vegas Shooting, which went out of the news cycle as people started to question it.

I knew a guy who worked in security at that hotel and was there that night. He absolutely swears up and down that he distinctly heard overlapping volleys of beltfed machine gun fire. He said the last he'd heard anything like that was when he was stationed overseas in the middle east. He said the official narrative was total bullshit and this was 100% a cover up.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

South Korean mass trampling.

That was memory-holed at lightning speed and the odd events that occurred during that time.
The biggest give away that it was a cover up was the shoes.

 

[Fats McGee]

Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change
Very Successful - Still going on

Learning about this history of "climate science" was a big factor in blackpilling me to the gullibility of the average person. It's honestly hilarious how much of an obvious fearmongering psyop this has been since the beginning.

"Guys! It's the BIG FREEZE! We're headed for another ice age! We're all gonna die under a sheet of snow!" says the scientist.

"We were wrong! It's not a big freeze, it's GLOBAL WARMING! That's right! The icecaps will melt, the ocean will rise! Those who don't drown will burn!" The scientist screams, before fainting.

"It's actually climate change, chud. Global warming was never meant to be literal. The climate is CHANGING, because of us. Just... Stop having conveniences and stop living comfortably, okay? I'm going to take your gas stoves, your farm fresh foods, and your car you need to get to work 45 miles away. We have to kill ourselves for the planet!" He says, revealing his true motivation - power.

And people actually fucking fall for this shit.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

Does origin of life and mainstream scientific nay-sayers count?

 

[Twix Eatr]

Ice bucket challenge. Something humiliating and potentially dangerous for anyone with a heart condition. The way it was pushed in workplaces I found very odd. I refused to do it and was really harangued over it. It become a symbol of compliance somehow. Before it the Kony2012 stuff, which has already been mentioned, felt similar. It would be really interesting to go back and look at the language that was used to push both these events - I will vet you’d find similar patterns to Covid (same phrasing used across multiple outlets etc.)

I did it and challenged the girls I knew with the biggest tits. Fuck it.

The COVID shit I don't buy into like everyone else. It honestly just seemed like we were exposed for how unprepared we were for something on such a large scale. And then companies and rich people profited off it like they always do. Covering your face with a piece of cloth is not some new, invented technique to reduce viral spread. Neither is staying home when sick. If this was bubonic, we'd be fucked.

Most of the shit in this thread are super reaches and too conspiratorial for me. This isn't a known psyop, but I swear American History X was just a deliberate move to precondition Americans to not recognize the great replacement in our country, how problematic blacks are, immigration issues, etc.

Like seriously, what is he saying that isn't correct or reasonable? I remember watching this as a kid and thinking he was super reasonable with most of what he did. Then of course I recoiled at agreeing with a neo-Nazi. But every single thing he's saying is the correct opinion throughout, but framed as the worst stance possible.

His Dad is supposed to be bad because he said, "it's nigger bullshit" at the dinner table. But his Dad, a fireman, gets shot and killed putting out a fire in some crack den by a black gangbanger. He started his skin head gang because whites were sick of being jumped by black and Mexican gangs. Even at the end, his little brother gets shot to death in the school bathroom over nothing by some black gangbanger. Over and over and over, it's a bunch of shit that'd reasonably make you sick of black people.

And of course, they make the white guys in prison rape him in the shower, but the black guy in prison saves him from the brothers killing him. It's a total inversion of reality.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

At this point I'd consider the whole COVID thing forgotten. Most people want to just pretend like that insane shit never even happened.

In a decade, it'll be in some contemporary textbook either in its full realized form of horror, a Zoomer 9/11 if you will, or shoved to the appendix as a footnote.

 

[Stoneheart]

Mad Cow

well that got solved pretty easy, just dont feed cows with powdered animal brain...
it was also the scariest shit ever.

 

[AssignedEva]

Corporate memphis

That's not really a psyop or something that got memoryholed, that's just a trend that got ran into the ground.

You can see something similar with psychedelic design. It first originated in about 1966 with the Big Five San Francisco poster designers like Victor Moscoso and Wes Wilson, mostly making posters for for music/festivals or as protest art

It's basically a style that lifts heavily from Art Nouveau. The flowing, liquid designs were a dramatic departure from the ordered grid based International Style that dominated graphic design at the time, and resonated with the growing counter cultural movement, backlash against modernism and the "Victorian Revival" popular at the time. Also the print industry in general was undergoing a revolution with offset lithography and fluorescent dyes making these sorts of styles possible to mass produce cheaply.

By 1970 the trend had caught on enough that large organisations were commissioning designers to create psychedelic adverts

Don't forget a lot of would-be artists end up doing commercial work. You can kind of see that these designs are slightly neutered/diluted compared to the really "out there" early examples, because those squares just don't get what the hip happening cats are all about, daddy-o. Very rapidly it started being kind of corny, so you see a shift back to the grid system (which never really went away) and a more heavy borrowing of structured geometrical shapes borrowing from art deco, with cut back nods to psychedlia in flowey flourished fonts

So the main "trend" pretty much ran its course within about 5-7 years, although lingered on for a while after. Plenty of design looked nothing like this, by the way, but at the same time plenty of recent design didn't look like Corporate Memphis.

Flat design started taking off around 2010 as a response to then ubiquitous skeumorphism and Web 2.0 gloss. Rather than having chunky textured or glossy logos, which had caught on to try and make technology seem more "friendly", flat minimalism was the cutting edge because it stood out and looked different. So you get stuff like Windows Metro. Also, HTML5 started really taking off and around 2011 or so browsers could reliably display SVGs inline and even animate them - also smartphones and tablets gaining popularity meant there was now a greater emphasis on responsive design - vectors scale more reliably with faster load times. There was also a renewed interest in midcentury designers like Charley Harper, thanks to Mad Men. You can see the confluence of these factors going on with stuff like the kurzgesagt channel (screenshot from their first video in 2013), and various infographics that started cropping up around then. The real turning point came around 2017 when Hinge hired an artist who took inspiration from said midcentury designer Charley Harper. "Humaaans" was also a free design library launched around this point.

The common whimsical graphic up until about then was a riff on the 1930s rubberband style (think like Betty Boop, and then think about how many pizza places you saw with a happy pizza slice with a face and arms and legs drawn in that style). This was becoming a bit played out, but meanwhile the CalArts noodle arm style was increasingly popular in animation. So this all sort of merged together to create Facebook's Alegria design language as part of their rebrand (also in 2017). You'll actually note a bit of texture creeping back in as by this point flat design with completely solid colours was a bit passé, and risograph printing had grown in popularity in trendy art circles (hence grainy gradients)

The unnatural skintones were great for implying diversity without being controversial, and the weird proportions were helpful for fitting figures into the tight compositions on things like Facebook banners (genuinely a stated rationale). This particular art style is also really easy to replicate, especially with platforms like Blush meaning you can just drag-and-drop to make your own corporate memphis Frankenstein. So it got everywhere, and people got sick of it. Rather than being an innovative new design style, it was now the basic slop any company slapped on their website graphics - indeed, Facebook actually started retiring Alegria in 2020.

I feel like Corporate Memphis firmly died off after the pandemic, you don't tend to see it anywhere as frequently as you used to - so much like psychedelia it lasted about 5-7 years. It's not been "gone" long enough to be revived, so it's just something incredibly unfashionable. Kinda like 90s clip art was in the 2000s

 

[potato in mah painus]

pizzagate
Corporate memphis
the horrible things done to a child especially with her face got cutted apart found on a computer

I have never seen a more rapid and extreme case of censorship across the internet then I did for pizzagate. Just about every single website nuked that off the face of the earth, with the only site left willing to allow it be posted getting a complete blacklisting by all payment processors (Voat.co if any of you remember it, not even archives of the site exist any more.).

Then Epstein happened. Vindicating everything researched.