Snapchat Under Fire

Snapchat received a devastating tweet from a Kardashian, of all people:

More than 1.2m Snapchat users signed a petition urging the company to reverse its “annoying” redesign – but it was a single tweet from Kylie Jenner that may have caused real damage.

After the celebrity tweeted “sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me” to her 24m followers, shares of the app’s parent company Snap plummeted 6% – a $1.3bn drop in market value that launched a fresh cycle of embarrassing headlines.

But some analysts and Snapchatters said this was more than just a one-day PR snafu. Facing backlash from brands and influencers and ongoing competition from Facebook and newer apps like Musical.ly, another platform hugely popular among children, Snapchat is suffering from a larger existential crisis, and it’s unclear how it will recover.

“We’re watching a company explode into bits,” said Eric Schiffer, CEO of private equity firm Patriarch Organization, arguing that the redesign scandal was the “greatest app debacle” he had ever seen in Silicon Valley: “This is a kiss of death to a brand like Snapchat with their base that has stuck with them.”

The article is phase two, because you know how the media is coordinated. Somebody is killing Snapchat.

It comes on the heels of someone crashing their servers:

Snapchat users are continuing to experience issues nearly three hours after issues were first reported with the social network and it doesn’t look like an end to the problems are in sight.

Although reports on independent outage monitor Down Detector for Snapchat has drastically fallen from a peak of over 28,000, it hasn’t changed the fact that Snapchat users are still having problems with the service…

UPDATE : Snapchat users are currently experiencing issues again this evening on the popular chat app.

Reports on independent outage monitor Down Detector for Snapchat have reached a massive 7967 reports at its peak around 8PM this evening.

If Q teaches you anything, it is that behind all of this are the elites of the Deep State, and they do it to any entity that does not further their control. I thought of that as I read this article:

It’s not just that Snap’s Snapchat app stands to gain millions of users as people flee the noxious political cloud that has enveloped Facebook like pollution on a red-alert day in Beijing. There’s an even more significant way the new president will help the company: He is stoking fears about privacy and an Orwellian surveillance state, and Snap is one of the few social media companies that doesn’t base its business model on knowing everything it can about you. So, the thinking goes, a few years down the road, maybe you’ll be able to enjoy mainstream media on Snapchat absent the worry you’ll get a midnight knock on the door.

This might be the year the cost of giving up our privacy gets too high. Until recently, most of us haven’t been overly concerned about our digital privacy. We have pretty readily exposed ourselves in order to get cool free services from Facebook, Google and myriad other companies. But new technologies are starting to eat away at our privacy in ways we’ve never before experienced. And now the Trump administration wants to guard your data about the way a cat might offer to guard a bird feeder. Trump apparently plans to let security organizations such as the National Security Agency (NSA)—and even scarier ones like Comcast—grab your data and use it just about any way they want.

We’re starting to recoil. A Pew Research survey in January found that half of Americans feel their personal information is less secure than it was five years ago, while nearly one-third are not confident the federal government will keep their personal information safe. Normally, people don’t do much about such worries, but that seems to be changing…

At some point, a vast swath of the population is going to realize we’ve been totally laid bare, and might decide to stop freely giving out personal data. A revolt like that would be tremendously costly to much of the tech industry. You pay for allegedly free services with your privacy, and then the details about you are sold to marketers, which can then precisely target you. If enough people no longer want to play that game, it’s lights-out for that business model.

That’s why Snap is the IPO of the moment. It is showing that a viable media business can be built without vacuuming up zettabytes of information about every customer. In Snap’s filing for its IPO this spring, it said it had 158 million active users last quarter and brought in revenue of $405 million for the year—six times its 2015 revenue of $59 million. The company is growing like crazy. (Disclosure: I’m collaborating on a book with Hemant Taneja of venture firm General Catalyst, an early investor in
Snap).

In fact, Snap might be growing like crazy because it doesn’t invade our privacy. Snapchat got its start by letting users send photos that quickly disappeared. It then built its business model on the idea that it is unnatural to generate data about everything we do. For thousands of years before the internet, a conversation disappeared the second it was over; no device logged everywhere you walked; when you finished the newspaper, the newspaper didn’t know which stories you read.

Snap’s proposition is that it can win your loyalty by giving you back your privacy. In that way, the past might turn out to be the future—and that future will come quickly if we find ourselves hiding from the Trumpstapo.

And now somebody is trying to kill it. It shows you a few things. Those Kardashian broads are Machine entities. It is why they are mentioned on the news, and probably why they have so many followers – the machine provides them.

And that is the sound of my mind blowing in real time.

I am just realizing a local Deep State intel asset who I ID’d and whose twitter I follow was gushing about the Kardashians repeatedly. They were weird, generic tweets, not related to anything specific, talking about how great Keeping Up With The Kardashians is, and how Kim K is “killing it.”

I thought at the time that if the show was interesting and they saw it, they would tweet about something specific. It was weird to me, because why would an intel asset follow those bimbos, and tweet so generically about them? It hit me as odd, but as with so many things, I assumed I was missing something and moved on, telling myself that maybe the twitter was just a cover twitter account. But in reality, I suspect the machine probably sends out orders to the entire network, to send tweets about such things.

Note that the TIPS program wanted to turn 1 in 24 people into assets of the government’s domestic intel network, and that was just the civilian assets, not counting the intel officers to run them, and it was just to start. Add in the intel officers running them, local LE assets, Federal LE assets, FD assets, government assets from Postal workers to DA office employees, sworn domestic Intel agents, parolee informants, criminal informants, and civilian assets of other agencies down to local PD, all rolled up under one rubric, and you could be looking at 20 million people or more committed to the objectives of the network they joined.

Imagine one text sent to all of them, telling them at a specific time to mention on social media some new social butterfly like Kim Kardashian, who agreed to be their asset. suddenly that social personality is trending at the top of Yahoo, Google, twitter, and all the other front pages. Then they add in media coverage from their Operation Mockingbird assets in the media, and suddenly that personality has fifty followers for each machine asset. Imagine if r/K could get that kind of coverage overnight. Imagine how you could affect elections, and alter stock prices, and drive people to use one social media platform over another. That is the power of the Deep State to control the narrative for power, and money, and more influence.

They follow that plan and they have a social media influencer to spread their word and crush their opposition with a single tweet. I’ll bet they short the stocks too, making hundreds of millions on the way down. They can influence elections, drive customers, and all the while fuel the network and increase their power.

Does your hot girlfriend think she could put up a social media account, post hot workout pics, and one day organically build the audience to make the same $80 million a year like Kim K? She can be ten time hotter than Kim K, and she’ll never do it – unless she becomes a machine entity and gets machine support. And if she ever got close on her own, I would bet they would pull strings on Twitter to kill her followers behind her back.

And notice how the media and the social influencers are coordinated. It is quite a machine.

But it opens a vulnerability, and since professional foreign intel are probably several steps ahead of me, I assume they have already exploited it. If you know Deep State assets will follow and tweet about Deep State Social Media assets and Deep State-topics in coordinated fashion to make them trend and further Deep State objectives, a search through tweets for those who exhibit repeated patterns of tweeting in coordinated fashion about certain personalities, hashtags, and keywords/topics, augmented by exploiting social media network connections to link operators since many know each other, could assign everyone a statistical likelihood of being Deep State and eventually unravel the network. If the God Emperor wants the network, all he needs to do is call the Owl and have him write the program to track it down.

It would be interesting to know who was tweeting about all those businesses dropping their associations with the NRA yesterday, because you know that was Deep State turbocharged – and each of those businesses are Deep-State-owned.

So if this network began as some sort of ostensible response to 9/11, they would now be sacrificing their national security purpose in order to maintain control over the informational battlefield with respect to our own citizens. Meaning they now view our own citizenry’s opinions, investing strategies, and purchasing decisions as more of a threat to their power than radical Islamist terrorism and Russian espionage.

And in doing so they would be destroying the very American Dream, that everyone is on even ground competitively, and anyone can rise to any heights with enough ability, effort, and determination.

Q is right. Nothing is by coincidence, and if this isn’t dealt with by the God Emperor, the American dream is officially dead.

Spread r/K Theory, because the Deep State won’t help promote it