My first open source psyop - postmortem - Defender’s Corner
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Etymologynerd (Adam Aleksic) is a youtuber / science communicator who makes videos about linguistics, cultural trends, and propaganda.
Etymologynerd (Adam Aleksic) is a youtuber / science communicator who makes videos about linguistics, cultural trends, and propaganda1. “tpot” stands for “this part of twitter”. It’s a specific subculture I’ve been part of for the past year2. A few days ago he made a video about tpot. This video first went viral on tiktok, then it blew up on tpot. This is very exciting for me because it’s our first successful open memetics experiment! Q: What were we testing? A: We wanted to know if tpot could “hear” etymologynerd,3 and whether they would endorse or reject his description of them. In…
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