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The Confirmed Hoax Fallacy An Old Argument Raises Its Ignorant Head Yet Again TEMPORAL RECON JUN 8
I was recently invited to write an essay by someone who I respect greatly in their own personal search for truth. He asked that, while an update to Conviction of a Time Traveler is not necessarily in the offing, he did wonder if I might be amenable to a friendly reminder of the evidence provided in COATT nearly a decade ago now.
What spurred his request was that he had noticed recently that several people online had been echoing the ‘confirmed hoax’ trope when discussions would might around to the John Titor series of posts which occurred online back in 2000/2001.
His noticing of this false argument was nothing new; I had also noticed it crop up from time to time over the last 20 years. I hold the ‘confirmed hoax’ argument in special and particular disdain. Why?
Primarily because evidence exists and was provided in Conviction of a Time Traveler in 2009 that Titor was legitimate and, ironically enough, was read by many of the so-called experts espousing the ‘confirmed hoax’ lie. So when these fake experts tell you that the Titor story was a ‘confirmed hoax,’ they are lying to you.
Conviction of a Time Traveler provided new and original evidence that has never, to date, been debunked since its publication; a full 14 years. The evidence provided (which many of these lazy forum participants are aware of) pointed to one, inexorable and inescapable conclusion: Titor was legit. But this evidence, while never disproven, is always ignored. Why is that? We’ll put a pin in that…
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Ironically, not only has the evidence documented in Conviction of a Time Traveler never been debunked, but it has also even been plagiarized by lazy authors who can’t be bothered to do original research or, lacking the intellectual horsepower necessary to do even that, fail to provide appropriate attribution to their source material.
So what of this, ‘Confirmed Hoax’ claim? Is it true? HAS the John Titor episode actually been ‘confirmed’ as a hoax?
When someone in a position of pretend authority declares from their cardboard pedestal that the John Titor story is a ‘Confirmed Hoax,’ have you ever noticed they never provide the person who did the confirming?
“Confirmed hoax?” ‘Confirmed’ by whom, pray tell?
When the term ‘Confirmed Hoax’ is used, what imagery comes to mind? I dare say it implies that some sort of shadowy group of learned scholars sat around a big wooden table, carefully assessed and addressed the claims. All the evidence and counter-arguments were carefully measured while hidden away in some stone castle somewhere until a white puff of smoke curls over its stone-tiled rooftops, declaring to the world once and for all,
“Our confirmation is complete. John Titor was a hoax!”
Bullshit.
Here’s the dirty little secret of the ‘Confirmed Hoax’ statements: they are actually shorthand for,
“I don’t have the intellectual capacity to argue in favor or against, so in order to come off like some sort of authority and maintain my fake position of authority, I’ll just take the safest position and simply declare that the Titor story is a hoax, that it was ‘confirmed’ and let’s please just move on to some other topic.”
‘Confirmed Hoax,’ is a coward’s gambit, a bet, that there won’t be anyone to come along to rock the boat and topple these posers off their flimsy stage of pretend authority.
This was the environment I walked into when I first published Conviction of a Time Traveler in 2010, and apparently, it hasn’t changed in 15 years.
When I first posted on Paranormalis (IIRC) announcing that I had written a book that documented the evidence in favor of Titor’s veracity, the then-reigning Titor authority (‘Darby’) haughtily pronounced, “Present your evidence and we’ll discuss it.”
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It was in that moment that I chose a path that nobody before me had ever embarked upon. I said, “No.”
Nobody had ever said ‘no’ before. There are pages and pages of forum posts by people before me who discovered some of the same bits and pieces that I discovered that pointed to Titor’s truth. And they were excited to show what they had discovered! And, owing to their excitement, and unfortunately, their naivete, they excitedly shared their evidence, wrongfully believing that the forums’ leadership was interested in getting to the bottom of the Titor episode.
Little did they suspect that ‘Darby’ and others were acting as gatekeepers of truth, whose sole purpose was to establish and maintain a lid on the narrative that was the John Titor episode. He, and his ilk gaslighted and bullied these poor naifs into silence by using their fake authority to debunk and explain away the very real evidence they had discovered.
That is, until COATT was published.
Unfortunately for these enemies of Truth, the internet is forever. In my research leading up to the publication of Conviction of a Time Traveler, I had the benefit of not only studying Titor’s posts, but also all the follow-on discussions after their departure.
I reviewed literally years of online forum content and, as I did so, I made a very curious observation: in all the years of discussion after Titor departed, not one piece of evidence ever (ever) caused ‘Darby’ or any of the other fake authorities to question their ‘it’s a hoax!’ position. They NEVER saw a piece of evidence that they didn’t dismiss, mock, ignore or explain away with contortions of logic that would make Wetzel’s Pretzels blush. This is in stark contrast to how someone who was truly in search of truth would act.
If ‘Darby’ and the others truly were curious, isn’t this a little odd? Really? Not ONE piece of evidence ever caused ‘Darby’ to pause and say, “hmm, that’s interesting…”
Not once, ever.
And there are years of forum posts to confirm this.
So, when Darby commanded from his perch of fake authority that I ‘present my evidence so that we might discuss it’ I laughed in his face [paraphrasing],
“No. A real discussion of the evidence hasn’t occurred here for years, and I do not recognize your so-called position as some sort of ‘expert’ on the Titor story. LITERALLY EVERYTHING there is to learn, or study, is published in the Titor posts for all to read. You hold no special knowledge, no special position, no special nothing. I do not submit to your fake authority. You want to learn about Titor, read the book.”
Or words to that effect, anyway…
In the end, the evidence provided in COATT was so unassailable and the argument so solid that ‘Darby’ and his ilk suddenly became more and more quiet as they slowly realized I wasn’t going to wilt under their “authoritay.” Eventually, they slinked away with their rhetorical tails tucked.
But this was not the end of the story! Because ‘time travel’ had become quite the pet interest of mine (owing to the further evidence I discovered after publication), that I continued to post online in various discussion forums. I even wrote numerous essays on a variety of topics, all spurred on by the ‘time travel’ question and all its implications.
Fast Forward Fast forwarding to today, we’re back at the ‘confirmed hoax’ argument again. What was once offered up (“HOAX!”) by Darby and others, is now cold soup served by the latest crop of fake authorities. And what happens when fake authority utters the ‘Confirmed Hoax’ discussion-brake? The same thing that happened a decade ago: the earnest neophyte shrugs their shoulders secure in the false belief that others smarter than they have studied the topic and arrived at some irrefutable conclusion; no further discussion necessary (or allowed). They have no idea just how close they came to uncovering something truly fantastic, had they only relied on their own judgment instead of the know-nothing proclamations of others.
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Which brings me to why I wrote COATT in the first place. Instead of simply doing my research and arriving at my own (private) conclusion, I realized that too many people were believing fake authority and ignoring Titor’s warnings about our future. Once I realized that Titor was legitimate (caveated, of course), how could I NOT share my findings? The stakes were simply too high.
IF what Titor said were true 24 years ago, that the world was heading for an upending change in the status quo, and that many people would die as a result of it, how could I remain silent and not inform others that his warnings were something to be listened to? Perhaps people with ears to hear might take heed and make the appropriate preparations. I know I did.
But, as my friend has informed me, it appears that the fake experts have reared their ugly and useless heads once again telling us that there is ‘nothing to the Titor story’ and that it is a “confirmed hoax.”
THIS was the reason that I was recently asked to provide my evidence once again. And THIS is the reason this essay is dragging on. These pretenders to authority are like roaches; as soon as the exterminator leaves, they come out of the woodwork intent on dismantling the Truth once again. God’s work never ends, it seems, even with a 99% success rate…
So, now that we’ve got all THAT out of the way, and as a sort of transition, I’d like to bring you up to speed on what I’ve been up to since I published Conviction of a Time Traveler in 2010.
To be perfectly frank, after COATT’s publication, I thought I was done with the Titor story; I had said my piece and was perfectly willing to move on with my life and prepare for the event that causes the change in the status quo. But the annoying fact was that the Titor story itself didn’t end with the cessation of Titor’s posts in 2001.
As new evidence appeared in the months and years following publication, like dog shit on my shoe that I can’t scrape off, I could never cleanly cleave myself from the Titor story. Not that I wanted to, mind you, it is a fascinating topic, regardless of your opinion.
But what surprised me the most was that new evidence continued to appear, year after year. And, as more evidence appeared, my curiosity was consistently kept piqued and on alert. Trust me, it is exhausting.
To give you a sense of what I discovered, I can tell you that your experts are wrong and that ‘time travel’ is neither novel nor unusual; we are very literally awash in ‘time travelers.’ My research suggests that ‘time machines’ have been present in our past going as far back as 850AD. But I digress.
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Suffice it to say that the Titor rabbit hole is but one example of a massively large group of programs from an unknown number of organizations from across time. The ‘time travel’ question runs much deeper (and much farther back in time) and crosses over into more (so-called) esoteric topics than anyone gives it credit for. As I said, it’s exhausting.
My whole point here is that, even after I published in 2009, my curiosity in the topic (and its implications of yet larger vistas) did not wane. And, because of this continued and unabating curiosity, I discovered yet more evidence, crafted more theories and came to more conclusions.
A philosopher once described the acquisition of new information as an ever-expanding circle surrounding the man; a horizon where known and unknown meet where new answers only beget new questions which push the circle farther and farther out. This has been my experience over the last 15 years re the Titor narrative and the larger ‘time travel’ question. How could it be otherwise?
Unfortunately for you, you are being convinced by fools that the Titor episode is a ‘Confirmed Hoax.’ You haven’t even made the leap to the possibility that ‘time travel’ is even possible. How can you explore the implications of ‘time travel’ when you can’t even consider its reality, a fundamental starting point? I have a very strong (ehem) conviction that our collective naïveté on the subject will be violently revoked in the very near ‘future.’
The Two Camps, The Two Mistakes During my research, I observed that within the Titor commentariat there are two basic camps: the Debunkers and the True Believers.
The Debunking camp will provide any contortion of logic to maintain the ‘Titor was a hoax’ narrative.
The True Believers, on the other hand, will believe any contortion of logic that maintains their belief in The Gospel of John.
What if I told you both camps were wrong?
Now, the debunking camp will tell you that Titor must be a hoax because his predictions didn’t come true. Oh, well…his predictions didn’t come true? I guess we’re done then? Obviously, his whole purpose for posting was to make predictions like some Magic Eight Ball, right? And if those don’t pan out, well, ‘CONFIRMED HOAX!’
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On the other side of that coin, the True Believers out there, who never saw a confirmation bias they didn’t love, will tell you that Titor’s predictions didn’t come true because he changed the future. This of course is a recipe for explaining away literally any detracting evidence thus making Titor true no matter any evidence to the contrary.
Let’s take the True Believers first:
The concept of Divergence, while a handy explanation, does not/cannot explain all differences in histories away. In fact, were what Titor said was true (remember, we are True Believers for the moment and are taking Titor’s words as gospel) he absolutely must take measures to minimize divergence as much as possible and NOT allow it to span wildly. Otherwise, the entire power of the ‘time machine’ is rendered moot. I accept that Divergence is likely a real measurement necessary for the efficient execution of ‘time travel’ missions, but it should, by no means, be the magic skeleton key to explain away every question.
In fact, while divergence is very likely a real ‘thing’ or artifact or measurement of difference between world lines, the Truth is that divergence must absolutely be kept to a minimum to make any practical use of the gravity engine sitting in the back seat of your old blue Geo Metro.
So, no. Divergence cannot be the handy tool we need to contort ourselves into believing, as much as we might like to.
Now for the debunkers:
The debunkers have a variety of options available to them to argue that Titor was a ‘confirmed hoax.’ Regardless, these arguments typically boil down to two primary classes:
He has special training or knowledge, and/or
He’s just a lucky guesser.
Unfortunately for the debunkers (and those who listen to them), these explanations make a very serious error: that predictions are a relevant metric to judge Titor’s truth at all. They are not.
Serious question: Why should a ‘time traveler’ be subject to the same metrics that a psychic is to determine if his claims of ‘time travel’ are true?
The point here is that you can’t compare a horse to a whale and complain that the horse can’t swim. They are two completely different animals, and the same goes for ‘time travelers’ and psychics or tarot readers or any other domain whose reputation is dependent on the true-ness of the information they provide. Comparing Titor’s predictions to actual, experienced history is also an imperfect and inappropriate metric if one is to objectively assess Titor from a blank slate starting point. This points to a much deeper insight into the true purpose of the Titor posts, but that’s for a different day.
So, because of both these problems, any real researcher worth their salt would have to find some other way to determine the truth/falsity of the Titor narrative.
Remember, when first approaching the Titor question as an objective investigator, Titor is both equally a hoax and legitimate. Imagine Schrodinger’s cat meets Columbo…
I’ll give you this observation for free, just to get your juices flowing:
Did you notice that absolutely none of John’s predictions (event + date) came true, but all his statements concerning conditions about our future did?
Don’t you find this interesting? Or hadn’t you noticed, too blinded by the bright and shiny, attention-grabbing predictions of nuclear war?
But I am getting ahead of myself; we still haven’t provided the evidence that it’s simply more likely that Titor was an actual time traveler than some ‘hoaxer genius.’ And so we finally get to the whole point of this essay in the first place, a reminder and summary of the evidence first provided in Conviction of a Time Traveler all the way back in those halcyon days of 2010:

1. Wireless Internet: Titor correctly predicted the advent of wireless internet when we were still using dial-up modems and America Online. Cable internet connections had only just been introduced.

“My closest friend raises horses and another works for a company that maintains “wireless” Internet nodes.”
– J. Titor, Nov 7, 2000

1. YouTube becoming like ‘live theatre’: Titor correctly predicted the social evolution of YouTube and the decentralization of entertainment away from Hollywood evolving from short videos of grannies and cute kittens on Youtube to a sort of “live theatre” where actual shows would be presented by literally anyone, online, in a world that hadn’t even seen streaming services or video sharing services such as Rumble, etc.

“Yes, there is an entertainment industry. Again, it is very decentralized. The technology to express yourself with video is so readily available that many people do it all by themselves or in small groups. Much of the distribution is over the web. I would compare it theater here.”
-J. Titor

1. IBM 5100 special capabilities: The statement that kicked everything off. Titor correctly identified the secret capabilities of the very first desktop computer manufactured by IBM in the 1970’s. These capabilities were utterly unknown and unacknowledged until Titor’s appearance in 2000. Interestingly, using this information, I was able to determine the most likely candidate of Titor’s grandfather which, upon this identification, also explained why Titor had to go all the way back to 1975 to pick up a copy of the 5100 and not 1985, 1995, or ‘elsewhen.’

“I was “sent” to get an IBM computer system called the 5100. It was one the first portable computers made and it has the ability to read the older IBM programming languages in addition to APL and Basic.”
– J. Titor, Nov 15, 2000

1. VOIP: Titor correctly predicted the development of phone calls being run across the internet, again, in a time where downloading a picture over dial-up took minutes.

“Many people use the Internet for communication and entertainment. I would say that affects our speech. We type very fast.”
– J. Titor, Feb 15, 2001

1. Soldier’s Winter Poem: Titor correctly predicted the poem, by name, “A Soldier’s Winter” and its topic. There is more to this particular prediction and statement about “A Soldier’s Winter“ than meets the eye, however.

“A Soldier’s Winter.”
-J. Titor, Feb 21, 2001

1. Second gulf war: Titor correctly predicted a second incursion into Iraq by allied forces. There is also more to this statement by Titor as well. But that’s a little advanced for right now.

“Are you really surprised to find out that Iraq has nukes now or is that just BS to whip everyone up into accepting the next war?”
-J. Titor, Feb 25, 2001

1. WMD and ‘hype’: Titor correctly predicted that the WMD story was hype and not to be believed (also, there is more to this statement than is visible on the surface). This statement’s purpose is closely related to statements #6 and #9.

“Are you really surprised to find out that Iraq has nukes now or is that just BS to whip everyone up into accepting the next war?”
-J. Titor, Feb 25, 2001

1. Optical Measurement for atomic clock: A biggie. Titor correctly predicted the development of a new sort of atomic clock and the reasons why it was an improvement over the then-current ‘radio’ method of atomic measurement (more precise).

Specifically, atomic clocks determine the length of a second by measuring the frequency of a particular atom. Cesium, Rhodium, etc. Measuring this frequency is done using something called the “radio method” which makes use of a gas and hitting that gas and atom with a microwave (the ‘radio’ part of the measurement). However, Titor claimed that a new ‘time machine’ had been developed that makes use of an optical means of measuring the atom’s frequency, an improvement. The Optical Frequency Comb was developed after Titor’s departure which enabled the measurement of an atom’s frequency optically, and which also allowed for greater precision in that measurement. Titor’s statement is a 3-fer:
He predicts an optical measurement system for atomic clocks.
He predicts the new system measures oscillation and not some other aspect.
He predicts this new system increases measurement precision and not some other aspect.
“The C206 uses 6 cesium clocks but they use an optical system to check the oscillation frequency. This makes the worldline divergence confidence much higher.”
– J. Titor, Nov 7, 2000

1. Ginger: The most enigmatic piece of evidence and what originally spurred me to look closer at this ‘confirmed hoax’ in 2010. In the very opening of Titor’s posts in 2000, someone asked three questions to allow Titor to ‘prove’ he was legitimate. Those questions were:

“1. What was the final death count in the recent India earthquake?

1. What is the "Ginger" (IT) invention?
   
2. Who wins the Stanley Cup (Hockey) this year?”
   

• M. Kolesnik, Jan 29, 2001

As you see, questions 1 and 3 are of the magic eight ball variety and are wholly inappropriate to assess Titor’s truthfulness. But we’ll extend some grace to Mr. Kolesnik as it was so early on in their discourse. And Titor demurred on answering these two questions anyway. He refused to answer the first question because he claimed he simply didn’t know. And he refused to answer the third question because he felt it to be unfair for someone to earn money using his information (pointing to a larger context of rules by which they operate).
But, the middle question, ‘…what is Ginger…’ did not violate either of those two questions so he acquiesced and answered it. He answered by saying,
“It looks like a sort of motorized scooter. What do you think IT is?”
– J. Titor, Jan 29, 2001
This answer immediately got my attention because, in 2000 when the question was asked, the answer was truly unknown, thus Mr. Kolesnik’s question. However, in 2009 when I was first looking into the Titor narrative, I knew what Ginger was because I remembered it. Hindsight truly was 20/20.
As a bit of background, during 1999 (the exact timing escapes me), a ‘viral’ marketing campaign was underway by an inventor named Dean Kamen. While never revealing what this new product was, the billboards merely asked,
“What is IT?”
or
“What is Ginger?”
That was all they said. It is obvious now, and was obvious even then, that Kamen was attempting to create a buzz for his new invention. Fair enough. It also explains why it was asked of Titor in 2000. Kamen’s ad campaign was working! People were truly wondering.
Now understand, the hype (and I use that term specifically) surrounding the Ginger ad campaign was fairly strong. Kamen predicted that his invention would reinvent how people moved about cities; it would cause their utter redesign and how they were laid out and organized. Big claims, to be sure. So strong in fact that Kamen was able to land a spot on Good Morning America where he finally revealed what his invention was.
In December of 2001, and live on the air, Kamen, with Katie Couric, revealed Ginger to the world. Ginger was none other than the Segway.
And what did Titor say it was?
“A type of motorized scooter”
And Stella says there’s nothing more to learn…
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Titor’s absolute spot-on declaration of what Kamen’s invention was nearly a year before it was unveiled hit me right between the eyes. Eight years later, I already knew that Ginger was the Segway because I remembered the event.
Here was a maniac on the internet claiming to be a ‘time traveler’ and he correctly ‘guessed’ what Ginger was a mere 2 ½ hours after it was asked and 11 months before it was officially unveiled?
It was Titor’s statement here that caused me to look deeper (much deeper, in fact) into the Titor narrative and, after exhaustive research and extensive supporting evidence, I concluded that Titor was in fact, legitimate.
Now here’s the truly interesting part of this piece of the Titor saga: you can’t find this statement about Ginger online anywhere anymore. It has been scrubbed from online sources everywhere.
Now, when I first discovered the Titor story, I saw that there appeared to be a couple different versions of the posts and I just, by chance, found a version of the posts with the Ginger reference in it. I saw that some versions had the Ginger reference, and some did not. At the time, I did not know how to understand this. But I do now.
Revisiting Old Theories As I mentioned before, hindsight is 20/20, and that is especially true when discussing ‘time travel’ and ‘time travelers.’ So, it seems oddly appropriate to provide a few examples of updated information that only revealed themselves with the fullness of time after publication.
‘leader’ In Conviction of a Time Traveler, I found the following quote especially interesting:
“The President or “leader” in 2005 I believe tried desperately to be the next Lincoln and hold the country together but many of their policies drove a larger wedge into the Bill of Rights. The President in 2009 was interested only in keeping his/her power base.”

• J. Titor, Feb 19, 2001

And it wasn’t necessarily the full content of Titor’s statement here, it was those damn quotes around the word ‘leader.’ Why would he put quotes around a word so simple in its definition? In COATT, I surmised that Titor was referring to Obama at the time for a variety of reasons. Namely the very high coincidence factor between facts surrounding Obama and Lincoln. My own belief also was that Titor would not consider Obama as the rightful leader of the United States due to the known problems with his birth certificate, thus making him ineligible for the Presidency. Thus, Titor wrote ‘leader’ with those quotes around it indicating his misgivings.
Of course, here we are 24 years after Titor’s statement and 12 years after I wrote COATT, and I have now come to a different conclusion about the quotation marks around the word ‘leader’. I now surmise that Titor was referring to Biden and not Obama when he wrote that. Because I personally didn’t have a ‘time machine’ at the time, I never could have expected the dementia patient currently ‘in’ the White House and supposedly ‘leading’ the country. For anyone watching, it is patently obvious that Mr. Biden isn’t ‘leading’ anything. So, in the context of this and our current national situation, those quotation marks sure make a hell of a lot more sense now, don’t you think? This reassessment obviously puts a giant bullseye on the 2024-2025 time period for what Titor commented upon in 2000.
So, yes. I have reassessed this particular conclusion since publishing Conviction of a Time Traveler due to the slow passage of time and its equally slow revelation of Truth.
Gates Another interesting comment by Titor had to do with Bill Gates. Recall that in 2000/2001, Bill Gates was ‘merely’ the CEO of Microsoft. He was among the richest men in the world and many news stories of the time commented upon this fact. Almost kind of like Elon Musk’s notoriety in both scope and scale. So, as such, a forum participant named ‘Joe’ asked Titor for any information regarding Bill Gates’ future. Titor’s response?
“This I do know but I won’t discuss.”
-J. Titor, Feb 23, 2001
An interesting, if not completely unhelpful, answer. Wouldn’t you say?
Considering we now know how Gates has morphed from Tech Titan selling mediocre products to Farmland baron, GMO mosquito breeder and mRNA advocate and (alleged) mass murderer in India and elsewhere in the third world, Titor’s statement that he does know about Gates’ future rings true.
In fact, what was also a bit interesting was when someone later pressed him on any information regarding Gates’ future. To which he responded,
Just curious, why is he of such interest?
-J Titor, Mar 5, 2001
Considering what we know now about Gates and his predilections (his ‘wife’ deserted him upon revelation of his visits to Epstein Island), I’m willing to bet that John was naturally curious as to why Gates, of all people, was of such interest to the forum participants that they would ask twice about him. Coincidence? Or did Titor suspect a mole from a different program in the forum? Who knows. His curiosity about their curiosity in Gates is interesting, nothing more.
Conclusion And there you have (some of) it. A summary of some of the evidence documented in Conviction of a Time Traveler written nearly 15 years ago. The evidence contained in that small book has never been debunked or disproven. It has been plagiarized by some and ignored by others. If you were unaware of COATT and are a regular participant in the online discussions about ‘time travel,’ you should ask yourself why the ‘leadership’ on those forums never mention COATT. Curious, don’t you think?
The reason I wrote COATT in the first place was because, after I had done my own research to satiate my own personal curiosity, I realized that some people online were downplaying his posts’ importance in the hopes that they could dissuade people from believing in Titor and the possibility of ‘time travel.’
I saw this dishonesty and decided to fight back against it by merely providing the information I discovered. From my point of view, Titor was warning us about a very severe time in our future that would upend the status quo and was to be a highly dangerous one.
Taken at face value (always a good starting point), Titor’s warnings merited being taken seriously. Had the naysayer’s deceit been left unanswered, how many of you would have failed to prepare for what is just around the corner? You have prepared, haven’t you?
And yes, as is readily obvious to many, those hard times are right around the corner. Looking at Titor’s statements 24 years later and simply looking around at the state of America and the world, do his statements seem so outlandish now?
John’s ‘final’ words to the forum in March of 2001 ring eerily prescient now:
Bring a gas can with you when the car dies on the side of the road.
-J. Titor, Mar 23, 2001
It is my sincerest hope that my small book project (and the essays that followed) spurred you to think twice about the world we live in and take the necessary actions you feel you should to keep you and your family safe for the world’s awakening and rebirth.
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This is from a blog post by Nyalra, best known for writing the game NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD. He and composer Aiobahn, who previously worked together on the songs INTERNET OVERDOSE and INTERNET YAMERO, wrote and produced Miko’s new original, Sakura Day's.
In the blog, Nyalra shares his inspiration for the lyrics, revealing that he's a big fan of u/Kanauru. I thought his perspective on the concept of VTubers as "self-aware 2D characters" was kind of interesting too.
I’ve included the full translated article below, followed by a TLDR. The section about Kanauru is in bold.

Sakura Day's: On Lyrics and Self-Aware 2D Characters

Original Article in Japanese: https://note.com/nyalra2/n/n731438a24fbf
Author: Nyalra
Date: May 30, 2024
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I have a strong interest and admiration for the potential of VTubers as "self-aware 2D characters."
Recently, I had the opportunity to write the lyrics for Sakura Miko's new song, "Sakura Day's." Aiobahn composed the music. As usual, I simply wrote lyrics to his finished song, and he never made any changes to my lyrics either. Perhaps because of the mutual trust we have in each other's work, we don't say much. This was the case again this time. It goes without saying that Aiobahn's music is flawless. However, the moment I heard the intro to this song, I was convinced it would be Aiobahn's signature song for this year. It's the culmination of the pop, cute, slightly melancholic, and somewhat "eroge" sound he's been striving for the past year or two.
Therefore, the first thing I do is come up with a theme based on the instrumental track Aiobahn sends me. Since this song is obviously for Mikochi (Sakura Miko), I first need to understand her. There were some things I already knew about her, and I especially wanted to focus on her love for bishoujo games.
Since I was born a man, I've always wanted to try writing lyrics from the perspective of a bishoujo game heroine. From there, I decided to explore the concept of VTubers as an evolution of these heroines, with the ability to speak and interact beyond the pre-determined lines within the game world. In the song, there's a line that says "the heroine can only walk a predetermined scenario," but outside the song, she's not a game character, but a VTuber, allowing for infinite, unexpected conversations. I found hope in this structure.
From the perspective of a "self-aware bishoujo character," Mikochi is truly amazing. Her comedic timing, natural wit, and most importantly, her ability to entertain her audience truly showcase the potential of 2D characters. Her fans must surely enjoy spending time with her.
The ultimate inspiration came from Kanauru's video.
I absolutely love Kanauru's work, and the video where Mikochi wakes you up like a childhood friend saying "Good morning~" perfectly captured the essence of a "childhood friend heroine." I was impressed by Mikochi's "otaku-friendliness," being able to deliver such a quintessentially 2D line. Before I knew it, the lyrics were complete. It's more like an image of "Mikochi as a new possibility for bishoujo game heroines" rather than just a character song for Mikochi. Both concepts share the fate of speaking from within a window, whether it's a browser window or a game window, and never being able to truly step out.
My frequent use of sounds like "Lalala" and "Rirarira" is a remnant of my process of listing "la" sounds when I first receive a melody because I lack musical knowledge. I believe that a beautiful girl pronouncing "la" sounds is closer to the essence of music than a regular old guy like me simply putting lyrics onto it, so I kept them in. I do this in other unreleased songs as well. Shalalala♪
By the way, since I was abroad, I hadn't seen the video before it was released. So, as a viewer, I was just as impressed by the visuals as everyone else. After all, when the CG shows up in the chorus, it's just great, right?
I once wrote in a previous post that I was touched by a comment in a stream that said "Please remain as a god on the screen forever." That was a fleeting moment during Mikochi's "Exit 8" stream that I happened to catch while writing the lyrics.
With her back to the camera to focus on the game, she wasn't looking at the comment section. In that gap, an emotional fan posted "Please remain as a god on the screen forever." Everyone has dreamed of praying to a self-aware 2D character (a sacred being worthy of worship).
In that moment, she was truly an avatar, a priestess that made otaku feel the 'presence of a god.' It was wonderful. I'm incredibly proud to have been involved in writing the lyrics for this song.

TLDR:

• The inspiration behind the lyrics: Nyalra draws inspiration from Kanauru's video where Miko wakes up the viewer as if she were a childhood friend. Her portrayal of this classic character archetype resonated with him and influenced the lyrics.
• The power of self-aware 2D characters: He believes that VTubers, as self-aware 2D characters, have the potential to transcend the limitations of traditional video game heroines and offer a more engaging and interactive experience for viewers.
• Sakura Miko - a god on the screen: He praises Miko, highlighting her comedic timing, natural wit, and ability to connect with her audience. He mentions being deeply moved by a 35P once commenting "Please remain as a god on the screen forever."

\Translated and summarized with assistance from Google Gemini*
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Hey workouts community,
I created a functional fitness exercise database in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets for strength training – it’s a resource to help keep all of your strength training exercises organized and quickly accessed in an easy-to-use spreadsheet for your workouts (https://www.reddit.com/personaltraining/s/cvI4jUYMcv). I am constantly updating the exercise database each month with new equipment, exercises, and search filters - so I wanted to share a quick summary of the additions to the database for June.
The highlight of this update is adding the Pull Up Bar as a new primary equipment item and its associated 44 new exercises, as well as adding 37 new box step up variations. A full breakdown of all of the updates in version 1.7 is listed below, as well as the free download link to get your updated copy of the database.
More about the exercise database:
It is time consuming to sift through all the exercise information available on the internet (multiple exercise databases, YouTube videos, fitness pages/social media), so I made this to have all of the data in one spreadsheet that can be quickly filtered for your exercise search. The database has more than 25 search filters available for over 1400 + functional exercises - allowing you to find the information you need in seconds when designing fitness programs or learning new movement patterns.
The fitness library also includes exercises using the barbell, dumbbells, kettlebells, gymnastics rings, parallette bars, calisthenics, clubbells, indian clubs, maces, the bulgarian bag, the strongman sandbag, the landmine attachment, suspension trainer, sliders and other functional equipment that you may not have used for your current workouts. All exercises requiring you to move, stabilize, and develop functional and pain free strength.
In this version 1.7 update, I have added the following to the exercise database:

• Added “Pull Up Bar” to the “Primary Equipment” category heading.
• Added 44 new pull up bar exercises.
• Added 37 new box step up exercises.
• Added 9 new kettlebell pistol squat variations.
• Added 6 new alternating dumbbell bench press variations.
• Added 4 new macebell cossack squat variations.
• Renamed eccentric exercise variations.
• Renamed ½ or 1 to Half or Single in name description for database consistency.

Enjoy the updated exercise database and feel free to follow along on twitter to stay up to date with the latest version (https://twitter.com/strength2o).
YouTube Tutorial Video:
https://youtu.be/9jW0il570Wg?si=DqA-i5hoko3sCSPz
Download Free Copy MS Excel / Google Sheets (best viewed on tablet/laptop or PC):
https://strengthtoovercome.com/functional-fitness-exercise-database

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1. Zack Bia’s connection to the 616god
Yesterday, I made a post about Zack Bia. I mentioned how “6:16 in L.A” makes references to Zack Bia at the end of the song.

You playin' dirty with propaganda, it blow up on ya
You're playin' dirty with Zack Bia and Twitter bots

After continuing research into Zack Bia, his clothing brand, Psychworld, was found. Psychworld is a clothing brand founded in 2018 by Zack Bia that grailed.com describes as the following: “Founded by multi-hyphenate DJ and producer Zack Bia, the streetwear brand trades on exclusivity and elusiveness.”
Drake appears to be involved with Psychworld, at least on the modeling side. There are multiple pictures of Drake modeling Psychworld apparel on their Instagram.
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While scrolling through Psychworld’s Instagram, there was a post which referenced apparel with the number “616.”
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This post has been mentioned before when “6:16 in L.A.” dropped. Previously, nothing was found relevant to the song. I dug a little deeper in case something was missed. I started by following the accounts tagged on the post, dvlgng and slowthai.
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dvlgng is an account for a clothing brand called 616 Clothing. Since dvlgang was tagged in Psychworld’s post, and Psychworld advertised selling 616 Clothing, it appears that the companies did a collaboration.
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2. What is 616 Clothing?
616 Clothing is a brand affiliated with UK rapper Milkavelli. Milkavelli describes himself as the “616god.” He uses the number “616” in a lot of his posts because it is affiliated with his crew, 616. 616 is a crew of rappers in the UK.
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Milkavelli also regularly references cults and being anti-religious through his social media. The image below is one example of one of his posts.
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I started looking up “milkavelli” to find more information on him. I found the following posts, which are all alleged and unproven. The first poster's username has been censored.
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Then, I found this news article. One of Milkavelli’s alleged friends, Ceon Broughton, has an overturned manslaughter conviction for filming “his girlfriend dying from a drugs overdose at Bestival.” Milkavelli posted a picture of him and Ceon together with the caption, “Reunited with my actual twin. Theres no feeling so great.”
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Louella Fletcher-Michie died in 2017 after overdosing on 2C. There have been theories that "toosie" is a double entendre reference to 2C.
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3. Conclusion
Why is “6:16 in L.A.” referring to Milk? I don’t know yet, but I am guessing the 616 crew was in L.A. and did... something. Milkavelli appears to have taken a break from the Internet in 2018. Although he still posts on Instagram, he has not updated his Twitter since February 2018. Although it may not be relevant, I would like to throw out that it appears he was visiting L.A. in February/March 2018, and the Delilah incident happened in March 2018. Again, this does not inherently mean anything, just a potential lead.
I also believe this is why there is such a heavy emphasis on God in "6:16 in L.A." Milk uses a lot of devil and cult iconography in his posts and art. If this song was referencing Milk/616, of course Kendrick would likewise bring up religion as an allusion.
One last thing: ever since my research on Zack Bia began, I have become almost positive “6:16 in L.A.” is a warning shot to both Drake and Zack. I believe it is possible Zack Bia is so intertwined in Drake’s mess that whatever is going on behind the scenes may bring him down too. I wasn’t sure until I had a revelation. The opening of “6:16 in L.A.” is not referring just to Drake. It’s also referring to Zack Bia.
Zack Bia claims Virgil Abloh is his mentor and friend. In the video of Hasan Piker discussing Zack Bia, his Wikipedia description shows the following.
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Today, Zack Bia’s Wikipedia page is not as descriptive, but still describes Abloh as his mentor and friend. It is the only other sentence in his “Personal life” section besides his dating history.
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Also, one of his first Instagram posts is a pair of shoes seemingly signed by Virgil Abloh.
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Virgil Abloh is the founder of the luxury brand Off-White. Zack Bia appears to be a massive fan of Off-White because of this.
Zack Bia is also known as a professional “fame fucker,” in the words of Olivia Rodrigo. He is known for seeking out the biggest stars to befriend and network them. Some stars, like Drake, are so big they could even be described as the Sun.

Off-white Sunseeker at the Marina

Zack Bia is the off-white sunseeker.
Also, coincidentally, today is Zack Bia's birthday. Happy birthday to the 6/9 god!

In this post I explain how the Titan Implosion stunt signalled the date for Global Financial Crash next year--
18 June 2023-- Titan submersible went missing during the 111st anniv of the Titanic Disaster
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22 June-- Day 1199 of the Corona Pandemic
9 months 11 days after 11 Sep= 11/9
Titan Submersible wreckage was found
TITAN SUBMERSIBLE WRECKAGE FOUND= 322
The pilot had the unlikely name of STOCKTON RUSH--- STOCK RUSH
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22 June 2023-- Titan Submersible wreckage was found
22 Months 3 days later--
25 April 2025-- my prediction for a Global Financial Crash
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25 April 2025= 119 Months after Dow Jones 119th birthday
TWENTY FIVE APRIL TWENTY TWENTY FIVE PENSION FUNDS CRASH= 666
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25 April= Day 115 of the Year
FREEMASONS= 115
STOCK MARKET CRASHES= 115
DOW CRASHES= 115
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99 MONTH STOCK MARKET SUPER BOOM ENDS ON TWENTY FIVE APRIL TWENTY TWENTY FIVE= 911
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25 Jan 2017 --Dow hit 20,000 points for the first time ever
This was the start of the 8 year Super boom as 'predicted' in this 2010 article---
'Super boom' will push Dow over 38,000, Hirsch predicts - InvestmentNews
exactly 99 months later--
25 April 2025
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16 May 2024-- the Dow Jones hit 40,000 points for the first time ever
11 months 9 days later--
25 April 2025
Anzac Day
GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM COLLAPSED ON ANZAC DAY TWENTY TWENTY FIVE= 666
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TWENTY FIRST SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY FOUR -- THE MOTHER OF ALL SHORT SQUEEZES= 911
21 Sep 2024= Mother Of All Short Squeezes
STOCK EXCHANGE= 216
216 days later--
25 April 2025
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22 June 2023-- Titan Submersible wreckage was found
Same day-- Crimean Bridge was blown Up
CRIMEAN BRIDGE EXPLODES= 116
GLOBAL RESET= 116
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Same day--- King Charles horse Desert Hero wins at Ascot
HORSE DESERT HERO= 223
Same day-- $100 Million Lottery in Australia--Powerball 1414
The first two numbers drawn were predictably 22 & 3
this is classic signalling-- proving Lotteries are fixed
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22 June 1941-- Hitler invaded Russia during WW2-- Operation Barbarossa
22 June 2001-- Operation Dark Winter--global smallpox bioterrorist simulation exercise
OPERATION DARK WINTER= 115
STOCK MARKET CRASHES= 115
FREEMASONS= 115
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keep an eye on 22 June this year--
22 June= 22/6
BLACK SWAN EVENT= 226
AIRPLANE CRASH= 226
ZAPORIZHZHIA PLANT= 226
DEATH OF A JAPANESE EMPRESS= 226
119 days after her son Emperor Naruhito's birthday Feb 23= 2/23-- Skull & bones date
TWENTY SECOND JUNE TWENTY TWENTY FOUR DEATH OF EX JAPANESE EMPRESS MICHIKO= 888
888 Asian lucky number
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Alex Jones Infowars Liquidation is making headlines
LIQUIDATION is code for THE BIG SHORT
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22 June--Prediction--Alex Jones headline
TWENTY TWO JUNE TWENTY TWENTY FOUR ALEX JONES IS FORCED TO LIQUIDATE INFOWARS= 911
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21 Sep-- my prediction for the Mother Of All Short Squeezes
223 days after Alex Jones birthday
TWENTY FIRST SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY FOUR -- THE MOTHER OF ALL SHORT SQUEEZES= 911
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21 Sep 2024= Mother Of All Short Squeezes
STOCK EXCHANGE= 216
216 days later--
25 April 2025