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?

[AssignedEva]

Also the MetaVerse was less a psyop and more Meta deluding themselves into thinking VR was the next big thing. Literally everything they promised VRChat did better, faster, and somehow less gay despite it being gooner central (probably because the gooners and groomers there at least don't force you into a corporate hellhole and you can make your own private servers where you can scream nigger if you want without getting banned from the entire game).

It was a pretty sinister plan that hinged on making VR ubiquitous and non-optional.

The two fold approach was to essentially replicate Second Life in VR, and then also encourage the use of MetaVerse as a replacement to video conferencing, with the idea being therefore that office workers the world over would have to create avatars... and then just like the real world, they'd need to buy professional clothes for their little Metaverse avatars with real money if they wanted to be taken seriously in meetings. Once you've already got people paying money for the Metaverse items (as NFTs), it's trivial to sell them on other "experiences", and the MetaVerse would have a Roblox-style approach to entertainment. Later on, it'd increase to AR (Project Nazare), so you could have virtual assets appearing (and interactable) in the real world - you don't need multiple PC monitors if your AR glasses showed you holograms of multiple monitors. You could have your friends around in the medium of their Metaverse avatars - which then became a persistent cross platform identity, kinda like a Mii but also your Mii was what your international colleagues interacted with. Part of the hype was probably that the covid lockdowns were the "new normal" so it'd feed off paranoia about going out in public.

Zuck explicitly namechecked works such as Ready Player One and Snow Piercer (where the name was lifted from), inspired by the ketamine addled minds of the likes of Peter Thiel and Guillaume Verdon. The whole thing in these scenarios is that a "metaverse" replaces the internet, and much like the internet today it's pretty much non-optional to exist in modern society, and then ultimately because the world sucks so much people end up spending more time in their virtual worlds, spending real money on digital items. You'll own nothing and be happy. Who cares if you live in a bughive if you can plop on your Meta headset and lounge on a beach in Maui (which you will still need to pay a bunch of money for because of NFT-mediated scarcity). You can see the logic when you see how much people will drop for paid cosmetic items in MMORPGs, with the idea that instead of giving the money to the game company of their choice they'd instead give it all to Facebook (with a cut to game developers, who were all hosted on this platform). That's not speculation; from his 2021 letter.

The next platform will be even more immersive -- an embodied internet where you're in the experience, not just looking at it. We call this the metaverse, and it will touch every product we build. The defining quality of the metaverse will be a feeling of presence -- like you are right there with another person or in another place. Feeling truly present with another person is the ultimate dream of social technology. That is why we are focused on building this. In the metaverse, you'll be able to do almost anything you can imagine -- get together with friends and family, work, learn, play, shop, create -- as well as completely new experiences that don't really fit how we think about computers or phones today. We made a film that explores how you might use the metaverse one day. In this future, you will be able to teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the office without a commute, at a concert with friends, or in your parents' living room to catch up. This will open up more opportunity no matter where you live. You'll be able to spend more time on what matters to you, cut down time in traffic, and reduce your carbon footprint. Think about how many physical things you have today that could just be holograms in the future. Your TV, your perfect work setup with multiple monitors, your board games and more -- instead of physical things assembled in factories, they'll be holograms designed by creators around the world. You'll move across these experiences on different devices -- augmented reality glasses to stay present in the physical world, virtual reality to be fully immersed, and phones and computers to jump in from existing platforms. This isn't about spending more time on screens; it's about making the time we already spend better.

"Our hope is that within the next decade, the metaverse will reach a billion people, host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce, and support jobs for millions of creators and developers."

It failed massively because of several core reasons, one being there's literally no benefit to putting on a headset to look at 3D cartoon avatars of your colleagues over just having an Microsoft Teams call, and in fact some significant drawbacks (namely cost of hardware, privacy concerns, loss of non verbal communication and then very obvious one that wearing a VR headset for a day of meetings is uncomfortable and can set off motion sickness). Only the people in the Silicon Valley bubble really bought into the hype. Once you've lost the main way to draw normal people into the Metaverse, it remained a fringe interest for people who had VR headsets (only about 10% of US households) - and the Metaverse only works if it blows up like social media. Also, there's no haptic feedback, so it's not like plugging in to the Matrix, it's just getting neck pain, eye strain and nausea. But the aspiration was clear - Zuck wanted to replace reality and force you to pay for the privilege.

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

I feel like the war on women isn't talked about as much. About a decade ago leftist were all about how right wing men wanted to put women back in the kitchen and have 10 kids. How they didn't want to have girls participate in manly things like sports. But ever since they started openly supporting trans people in sports and lettings kids transition it's kind of ceased. I suppose when you have a group of people supporting men in dresses taking medals and jobs away from real women the narrative doesn't work anymore.

 

[big pauper]

Here's one for you--computer viruses, circa late 1990s and early 2000s. Stuff like ILOVEYOU wreaked havoc on Windows computers (not Macs) despite it being extremely obvious by modern standards.

IT still has to tell shit-for-brains woman/DEI employees not to fall for phishing emails and every once in a while some new malware surfaces, but the idea of the computer virus was this big thing, lurking everywhere to destroy everything without warning, and would be the plot of everything from movies to children's books. And then it just disappeared.

It's not that computer viruses disappeared, just mostly got rebranded as malware, but the whole big "thing" over them kind of vanished.

viruses in the colloquial sense don't exist anymore because windows added user permissions. until vista an attacker could just run programs on your computer through a web browser without you knowing, that was microsoft approved software development. you used to get infected from just visiting a website because they used ActiveX to run arbitrary code that just downloaded a DLL with a virus in it directly into your windows folder. windows xp had basically negative security. nowadays theres an antivirus built into windows and like six levels of "are you sure you want to do this" preventing that. the browser will ask you if its downloading files, windows won't let you put executables in dangerous places, and even if you manage to install and run blatant malware it wont run as an administrator without asking permission

ozempic and wegovy etc, work by expelling toxins from the body, hence the heavy and severe digestive issues people have; their gut flaora has become accustomed to the toxins through homeostasis, and removing them suddenly causes a negative reaction.

nigga it's a receptor agonist for a signalling hormone your body makes when you eat. it's a "glucagon-like peptide 1" receptor agonist. that's why they call them "glp-1 drugs" and why people on the drug have problems eating.

actually no, no. sorry. what am i thinking. it's expelling heavy metals and parasites, that's how you lose weight. It's all the lead and cadmium in your blood, that's what makes you fat.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

literally no benefit to putting on a headset to look at 3D cartoon avatars of your colleagues

The fact that it was advertised with what looked like a bootleg Mii (in the early 2020s) didn't help much.

 

[Mad as a Swan]

the MetaVerse

The Metaverse was big corpo seeing big numbers of VR chat and thinking they could monetize that (ie take something that is free and have people pay for it)

 

[Spunt]

I know I know, another tedious COVID take. But nobody will examine the death toll of the lockdowns.

I have connections in the far North of Scotland. The landscape, while beautiful, is bleak and windswept. It's cold and wet and very isolating. That's why the Scots drink so much, it's a lonely existence and it helps you not to feel the cold so much. What employment there was pre-pandemic was backbreaking and low-paid (sheep farming, oil industry, tourism). So what kept these people sane? Their sense of community. The Scots Gaelic language, music and traditional crafts. Presbyterian religion. Everything in those places depended on that, and tourism, and it was ALL destroyed by COVID lockdowns.

Most choirs, orchestras and literature groups didn't meet for 2 years and disbanded. Most of the leaders of those groups were ancient Boomers and older who couldn't use technology (and half the places out there have shit or even no internet). Many of them, depressed by the lack of social contact, just gave up and died, and the clubs and societies they ran never re-opened. The venues that hosted them went bankrupt. The tourism industry collapsed, every restaurant and hotel went bankrupt and afterwards nobody had the capital to re-open them.

Post-lockdown, the Far North of Scotland had no jobs, no culture, no hope, no future. The kids had been off school for 2 years and got no qualifications, turning to drugs and crime. The notorious "county lines" child slavery drug gangs that plague the UK reached Inverness for the first time, getting 10-year-olds into drug debt and enslaving them as drug mules. Even the forestry and oil and gas industries had huge layoffs because of reduced demand. The local football club went bust. There were no jobs, and nothing to do.

Except kill yourself.

The Far North's suicide and alcoholism rates soared and never came down even after lockdown ended. Suicide has replaced heart disease as the #1 killer of people under 50. There's a huge suspension bridge just north of Inverness and someone yeets themselves off it every other day on average. When you arrive into Inverness airport, you are presented with 2 posters telling you not to kill yourself before you reach baggage claim, and another 2 advertising an alcoholism hotline. The despair seeps into these places, and the more rural, the worse it is.

And nobody will talk about it. A contact of mine used to be a very active member of the Scottish National Party, but quit in disgust when their leadership were presented with a report saying that a full lockdown would destroy the Far North beyond the possibility of repair, but they went ahead anyway and refused to publish it. To this day, nobody will talk about the cost of lockdown, especially in places like the Far North where far more lives were lost to the lockdown than would have been lost to the virus even in a worst case scenario.

They're just hoping everyone forgets. But the Far North can't forget, they live in that devastated landscape to this day. The SNP lost all their MPs and MSPs in the Far North over this and they STILL won't talk about it.

I imagine it's similar in the remote, rural parts of wherever you life. Nobody will talk about it, despite people STILL dying to it.

 

[Pedophobe]

Not a psyop I don't think, but what happened to those two astronauts that were stuck in space for months?
There was a distress signal saying something had gone wrong, which NASA denied, then admitted it was a training exercise followed by them getting stuck in space.

Then they were saved, possible CGI of the touchdown, possible body doubles used for the interview and it all went quiet.

If you're referring to astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, they flew to the International Space Station on a test flight of the new Boeing Starliner but there were some problems with the spaceship so they chilled on the station for a few months, then came home on a SpaceX ship because NASA was worried the Boeing ship might break (it didn't).

It all went quiet after that because there was nothing else sensational to report.

 

[Free Alex Jones]

Post-lockdown, the Far North of Scotland had no jobs, no culture, no hope, no future

Which is completely unlike pre-lockdown, where no doubt Thurso and Elgin were a hotbed of high paying technical and finance jobs.
Also, Inverness is a lovely place and jobs are aplenty right now. Indeed, the women serving in the pancake place on Church St. had recently just moved up from Paisley after they couldn't get staff locally.

 

[Spunt]

Which is completely unlike pre-lockdown, where no doubt Thurso and Elgin were a hotbed of high paying technical and finance jobs.
Also, Inverness is a lovely place and jobs are aplenty right now. Indeed, the women serving in the pancake place on Church St. had recently just moved up from Paisley after they couldn't get staff locally.

It was never good, but there were jobs. Badly paid blue collar or hospitality jobs, but jobs.

Inverness has recovered a bit (but they've started busing in Afghans so enjoy that while it lasts) and still has its fun little independent shops but places like Kyle, Dingwall and Strathpeffer are still turbo-fucked. I went on holiday to Strathpeffer in May (best time of the year to visit, it's warm without you being eaten alive by midges) and I was the only guest at the hotel. Every takeaway I visited heard my accent, worked out that I was an actual tourist and treated me like Royalty. Pre-lockdown, if you showed up in those places with an English accent you'd be treated like dogshit, but they're so desperate for tourists, ANY tourists, that they'll even roll out the red carpet for the Auld Enemy.

They may even be nice to Americans, things are that bad.

 

[teriyakiburns]

then came home on a SpaceX ship because NASA was worried the Boeing ship might break (it didn't).

Bullshit it didn't. It had multiple thruster failures while docking, likely due to a design flaw in seals in the thruster fuel system, and multiple helium leaks. They sent it back empty because it was operating outside of its redundancy constraints and they had no way of knowing what else might go wrong. It hasn't flown again since because of these issues.

 

[TyrasGuard]

And nobody will talk about it.

Probably the only thing that hurts more than this are the people that actively repeat the narrative "many people died!", "I know someone who died from covid!"

A question that I would love to ask them is, "was it worth it?". Even if Covid was everything they said it was, was the sacrifice worth it?

I would love to see them try to quantify it, to compare the price paid to the outcome reached.

 

[Pedophobe]

Bullshit it didn't. It had multiple thruster failures while docking, likely due to a design flaw in seals in the thruster fuel system, and multiple helium leaks. They sent it back empty because it was operating outside of its redundancy constraints and they had no way of knowing what else might go wrong. It hasn't flown again since because of these issues.

Right but it did return safely, which is what I meant by that.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Right but it did return safely, which is what I meant by that.

Oh, well, fair enough.

 

[Xavier Renegade Angel]

The owner od the Patriots getting "massages" by underaged

 

[Duane Dibbley]

If you're referring to astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, they flew to the International Space Station on a test flight of the new Boeing Starliner but there were some problems with the spaceship so they chilled on the station for a few months, then came home on a SpaceX ship because NASA was worried the Boeing ship might break (it didn't).

It all went quiet after that because there was nothing else sensational to report.

Holy hand-wave, Batman.

They didn't chill up there, they were stuck. There was political argie-bargie over whether the Russians could rescue them, which the yanks declined. They both looked like shit when they returned home, some suspecting it wasn't them at all.
There was the distress signal sent, which NASA denied, then claimed was just a training exercise, all within the time-window of their capsule/shuttle/spaceship going U/S.

There was more coverage about six dogs going to the edge of the atmosphere for 10 seconds than there was about this.
That event was brushed under the carpet quick time when people realised it was all a load of old bollocks as well.

Space, the final frontier, the exploration of which should fascinate the world as exploration of old has for time immemorial, has more psy-ops and bollocks than any discovery in history.

 

[Pedophobe]

Holy hand-wave, Batman.

I think you might be referring to a different event. When did this happen?

 

[Ryo Ma]

I don't really see anyone talking about the multiple crashing chemical trains across White America

 

[CowBoyCormack]

Post-lockdown, the Far North of Scotland had no jobs, no culture, no hope, no future. The kids had been off school for 2 years and got no qualifications, turning to drugs and crime. The notorious "county lines" child slavery drug gangs that plague the UK reached Inverness for the first time, getting 10-year-olds into drug debt and enslaving them as drug mules. Even the forestry and oil and gas industries had huge layoffs because of reduced demand. The local football club went bust. There were no jobs, and nothing to do.

Its not so much about the deaths, but relates to the same concept that you have here.

Im a teacher and for students currently going through grade school and middle school, while each new generation of teachers always harps on about how the current generation of students is the worst theyve seen (really its a progressive decline for reasons Im not going to get into),

this current generation which was young when the lockdowns started, and went through 2 to 3 years of distance learning (mind you, this is where their formative education, or lack of education starts) where their parents basically homeschooled them, themselves, with video classes to sleep through, to supplement;

they're completely fucked. They have zero reading comprehension, can barely read, have essentially no discipline, haven't been properly socialized, etc.

Its on an entirely different scale from what Ive seen, and I do blame the lockdowns in major part (past the overall decline weve been observing over the decade).

For homeschooling, either you wind up quite smart if you have good tutors and teachers, or you wind up just fucking off, playing games, your parents ignoring you but giving you a homework book when theyre off at work, and you wind up retarded (several teenagers I knew who were homeschooled in elementary only to get thrust into high school and who wound up very, very low performing).

Thats a mass of students today, thanks to the pandemic.

 

[Squanto Airi]

I feel like the war on women isn't talked about as much. About a decade ago leftist were all about how right wing men wanted to put women back in the kitchen and have 10 kids. How they didn't want to have girls participate in manly things like sports. But ever since they started openly supporting trans people in sports and lettings kids transition it's kind of ceased. I suppose when you have a group of people supporting men in dresses taking medals and jobs away from real women the narrative doesn't work anymore.

Considering just a few years ago the leftoids flipped out on the Chiefs kicker doing a speech on trad stuff, it still goes on. It only gets directed at whites and the occasional "Asian" (jeet). The arabs and Africans though, they get to keep their views on women.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

So here's one that's kind of forgotten, albeit it's part of the broader present day topic of ICE and muh immigration. Anyone else remember Arizona Derangement Syndrome, as I like to call it?

Back in 2010, Arizona was a particular U.S. state that actually enacted [rightfully] its immigration laws against the wetbacks, and thus this caused a huge shitstorm in the media. The current thing for the leftoids to protest was Arizona and how it was an authoritarian Nazi state.

Mind you, Obama was president at the time, so most of the animosity fell towards Arizona's leadership and immigration agents. People I knew on social media were changing their profile photos to "Fuck Arizona" or various anti-Arizona images. Some insanely retarded buck-broken faggots were calling to boycott AriZona iced tea, despite the iced tea being manufactured in New York. People were making posts like, "I was planning on visiting Arizona, but not anymore since they're an evil oppressive authoritarian state that doesn't welcome immigrants." For like a good several months or so, the mainstream normie left was rapidly hostile and aggressive towards anything and everything Arizona-related.

Then the gay marriage debate as well as focus on passing Obamacare accelerated more in 2011, and everyone kinda moved on.