This may not be the right place for it, but I didn't know where else to post this. I just got an ad for an...interesting YouTube video from a channel called
Elzzie.
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Here's the transcript:
Between the woman in the video looking like the lovechild of Izzzyzzz and
PhilosophyTube and the script that sounds like it was written by an average Twitter user, my initial thoughts were that some breadtube-type with too much time and money on their hands actually got delusional enough to think they had a bid at the presidency.
That is, until I looked at the rest of the channel:
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Yes, those are videos about how UFOs are going to take over the government and abolish the electoral college.
There's also a
website linked in the description of each video and in the about section with even more "unique" ideas. Apparently Elzzie is part of the Federalist Party, named after the party of the same name that dissolved in the early 1800s. Here's what the website has to say about it:
Like the talking points in the racism video, it doesn't sound too out there, but then we move on to the "Platform" section. It claims that we should use robot dogs to patrol the border, "Build underground cities in response to climate change," "create a voting website using blockchain technology," "redistribute plantation land to indigenous peoples," "decriminalize all consensual sex work, including prostitution, among adults," and that "UFOs are welcome to coexist in the United States of America" and "The aliens are known as angels in the Abrahamic religions." What makes it weirder is that there are some pretty standard talking points couched in between all this lunacy. Most of the stuff about abortion, taxes, and banning conversion therapy are pretty standard American leftist talking points, they don't support banning guns, only saying we should "raise the age to buy guns to 21," and they link to sources to back up or expand on different claims (although most of them just seem to be wikipedia).
There's a
discord server I haven't joined that apparently has about a thousand members, a merch store with nothing on offer, and a contact email. I couldn't find anything else of note on the website or the YouTube page.
I honestly don't know what to make of this. If it was just the conspiracy stuff, I'd think it was just irreverent for the sake of it or maybe some kind of ARG, but something about that racism video and some of the other talking points struck me as being too sincere. If it was just that video, I could honestly believe some breadtube-type was trying to be president, but the conspiracy shit goes against that theory. The channel as a whole makes me think it's just a prank, like, "let's see if we can get people to vote for someone who believes in all this crazy stuff just because they also spout Twitter talking points lol."
There's also the possibility that this is someone who's a genuine nut. It's not like there aren't lolcows on this site with more insane beliefs than this, or some pretty crazy political parties like the LaRouche Movement, but the production values, especially on the website, make me strongly doubt this person is legit insane. Genuine crackpots tend to have "graphic design is my passion" levels of presentation. The website and YouTube channel are too clean for this to be some lone wackjob, but Elzzie seems to be the only person attached to this "party." The fact that the videos are so short and are running as ads make me think that this is for some other purpose. If it turns out they are serious about all this, then they would be some prime lolcow material, but I'm not hedging my bets on it.
So, that's where I'm at right now. I don't believe this is legit, but I still don't know who's behind it and why.