I had Claude write a python script to scrape monthly data from the 4plebs API for uses of "qanon" and output it as a graph. Then I had it get Google Trends data for Qanon. I then overlaid the graphs.What is shown is that "hylic" had almost no use on /x/, which began to change with a small uptick exactly during the first Q drop. Qanon interest rose with uses of "hylic" here. "Hylic" had an off-set peak a few months after Qanon's peak, but while Qanon's interest collapsed, Hylic has a stable plateau here.QAnon acted as a pipeline that introduced large numbers of people to quasi-Gnostic thinking, and "hylic" became the lasting linguistic residue of that moment.I cannot in honest confidence state anything more than this as fact. Take this data as you will.
Probably because of the Israelis pushing this stuff
>>42403444Trips for truth.However, before hylic, we used NPC. It got big during the whole mass discovery of aphantasia and the fact most people lack an internal monologue. Except, the phenomenon was heavily misrepresented, and people with multimodal forms of internal monologue, mixed with pictures, motions, and internal speach, were discounted, namely because the researcher who presented the original study had such a limited and narrow scope of what he considered to be internal monologue, that it basically wrote most forms of internal monologue off as non existent.The researcher was very open about this, but unusually smug about it as well.I forget his name. I've read his papers and watched interviews back around 2015 when it first started hitting the mainstream.The ideal of NPC isn't new. But the uptick of actual pzombies reeeing about others being pzombies in conjunction to politics is actually a new thing.
>>42403528 contWhat really kicked off the phenomenon en mass into public acceptance, however, was the covid lock downs. Despite ample evidence that something fucky was going on, it was amazing that only about 1 out of 3 people refused to play along. It was amazing watching people's entire world views shift suddenly as political narratives shifted on the TV and Twatter in real time. Denying they did and said things they were screaming at me and others about weeks or even days before. You can see it now as well with MAGA, screaming about trannies, a group that has always been shown as being particularly passive to the point it was talked about in Silence of the Lambs, with Hannibal Lector talking about it, along with other psychological and criminal psychology, of which was really well researched. I've watched people suddenly shift from saying my exes were weak and pathetic, to saying they were roided psychopaths itching to kill everyone around them overnight, missing the sociopath sitting right in front of them.The phenomenon is interesting.Humans are overwhelmingly tribal, and most are simply incapable of differentiating classes of people from individual instances. This is the true definition of the NPC, the Hylic, or, as I like to call them, the collective souled.
>>42403444Nice hylic thread…. In all seriousness though Qanon is more aligned with mainstream apocalyptic Christian ideology or religious views than Gnosticism imo.
>>42403444noticed this too, but i wouldn’t make the mistake of correlating “qanon” and “hylic”, save for the psychological need it fulfills in people’s brains. knowledge is power, right? people like to latch onto things when they make sense, and if it’s catchy, it’s even better since linguistic superiority is gained, e.g, as when it’s used as an insult (i.e., “I not only learned a new word, but I’m also using it against you!”. “qanon” similarly fulfills this need of linguistic superiority by creating the illusion of ‘organization’ or having privileged knowledge, when there is no real indication or evidence of the sort.both “qanon” and “hylic” roll off the tongue, almost as easily as “nigger” or “faggot”, but the overton window is a lot less stringent so it becomes a way to speak accurately about something without doing injustice to how you really feel about it. in other words when 4chan learned about gnostics it was over - “hylic”, being a fancy word that can take the place of ‘npc’ or ‘normie’, gave anons the chance to wield a novel term in a bid to differentiate themselves from outsiders and remain ‘in-the-know’ and ‘ahead of the curve’, while still remaining a heard. the word “hylic” itself isn’t even new, just archaic enough to sound slick in “current year”, giving some edge to banter that has lost its shine over time, while also being a little too niche to be used in the pure mainstream. thing is, those words (like “normie” “npc” “mogging” “sloppa” “wageslave” “chad” “based” etc etc the list goes on) that escape containment, get ported to other platforms, and ironically start to be used by normies since 4chan is a clearnet site and half the users are also redditors or discord admins with “current thing” mentality. it’s how 4chan culture ends up in the hands of journos - only a few years until we start seeing Buzzfeed quizzes about the Demiurge
>>42403444>Gnosticism is pushed by glowiesWOAH NO WAY REALLY?
>>42403528>can't have muh chillun!You are failed normalfag and typical narcissistic foidThere nothing special about you
>>42406854What is their goal? Is this why most annoying internet gnostics vibrate on a fear frequency?
>>42406896>What is their goal?I would assume to make people believe gnosticism, as it would distract from the truth and lead people into a self hating destruction.
This is actually pretty interesting. Thanks anon.
