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"Phases of An SJW Takeover"

1. SJW CRITICISM – A popular IP is criticized by SJWs for being racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, and a smattering of other things. This will often manifest in media articles and academic papers which push this false narrative. This phase can take place over the course of years, or even decades.

2. IP IS ABOUT TO UNDERGO REBOOT – or reimagining, or remake, or whatever term is fashionable at the time. The rebooted production will tout “firsts,” first female, first person of color, first LGBTQ+, etc., even if the IP has already had them before. They do this to contrast their new version as far more virtuous and progressive than the previous version, which they spent years or decades labeling as racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, etc.

3. THE BARNACLING – SJWs barnacle themselves to the IP within the production, and start transforming the IP from its original form. SJWs sometimes refer to this strategy as entryism. Production staff make claims that long time customers will stay with the IP no matter what the changes are. SJWs outside of the production barnacle themselves to the customer base, and start lecturing long time customers. Shill media SJWs write articles pontificating about how diversity is good business and touting diversity “firsts,” without regard to the fact that the IP may have already been diverse for years or decades.

4. CUSTOMER CRITICISM – Long time customers of the IP voice legitimate criticism of the new direction.

5. SJW RESPONSE TO CUSTOMER CRITICISM – A large customer backlash is created when SJWs both inside of the production, and outside of it in the customer base and shill media, falsely accuse critics of being racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, etc., usually to protect a criticized political message being pushed by the newly transformed IP that the customer base is criticizing. SJWs will also attempt to stigmatize use of the term “SJW” as a pejorative, so that you’re unable to identify the problem and articulate points. SJWs will completely ignore female, people of color, and LGBTQ+ critics, and/or marginalize their voices.

6. DISMISSING AND IGNORING THE BACKLASH – Shill media publishes pieces declaring that the backlash doesn’t exist. Shill media also publishes pieces instructing others to ignore the “tiny vocal minority,” some of whom used to be the old “gatekeepers” of the community.

7. SUPPRESSING THE BACKLASH – Blogs, internet forums, social media, and other websites delete or otherwise “redact” critical comments and posts in discussion forums under the aegis of “hate speech,” and may even engage in the complete banning of accounts. Some websites remove their comments sections altogether.

8. BACKLASH INTENSIFIES – As an inevitable side effect of suppression the Streisand Effect takes hold, as customers seek out other venues to express their criticism, and some publish their own, growing the backlash exponentially.

9. HATE HOAXES, FALSE FLAGS & CLONED ACCOUNTS – The rank and file SJW activists in the customer base get heavily involved in shouting down critics, and creating hate hoaxes and false flags in an effort to discredit those critics. Such efforts are also intended to be picked up by shill media outlets, which will then report on them to further mischaracterize the critical customers. SJWs will create cloned social media and discussion forum accounts that mimic known critical voices, in an attempt to discredit them and/or divert payments/donations for products or causes away from the critical customer. SJWs will often operate hidden forums where these tactics are organized.

10. ESCALATION OF ATTACKS – SJWs will report posts as spam or a violation of rules, and attempt to get social media accounts suspended, and posts deleted. SJWs will start to send out false press releases to rival websites in an effort to discredit their critical competitors. SJWs will begin to search through public records such as child support or foreclosures in an effort to embarrass loud voices, a practice known as doxing. SJWs will send out phishing attempts in an effort to gain personal information. SJWs may attempt to contact the workplaces of loud voices, in an attempt to punish critical customers financially for speaking out. SJWs may attack normal people with physical violence.

11. IP FAILURES – The IP starts to falter as customers start to drift away and sales begin to plummet. This is either due to a drop in quality of the IP, or the poor treatment of the customers, or a combination of both.

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12. THE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS – A female member of the production (it could also be a member of the LGBTQ+ community) is granted victim status over a fishy event in order to deflect from the failures of the IP, and shame critical customers into silence. The damsel in distress is used as a political pawn both by the SJWs inside the IP, and the SJWs outside of the IP in the customer base and shill media. If the first Damsel In Distress doesn’t quite work, another one will come.

13. DESPERATE PLEAS FOR COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT – “White Knights” in the shill media call for creative authorities to smack down the backlash, and restore control of the narrative in response to The Damsel In Distress event. Shill media publishes multiple articles with the same talking points and catchphrases such as “toxic fan base” or “bad faith” in an effort to mischaracterize the customer base. Major news outlets report on the story, and quote those “think” pieces as authoritative.

14. ANSWERING THE CALL – Celebrity and creative cast & crew SJWs inside of the IP answer the shill media’s call, and make public statements admonishing critical customers, typically over false accusations. Critical customers will respond to the admonishments, and SJWs will call that response “abuse” and/or “harassment,” sometimes alluding to the notion that “creatives” deserve special consideration. Remember, what SJWs call “abuse” and/or “harassment” when customers do it, they call “activism” when they do it.

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15. THE FINAL PUSH – Shill media entities, and rank and file SJWs tell long time customers to go find something else if they don’t like it anymore, in a last ditch effort to push critics out of the “community” once and for all. “Don’t like it, don’t buy it.” They will also engage in Gaslighting, a method of psychologically manipulating an adversary into thinking that they’re crazy. This will oftentimes come in the form of the SJW saying that their brand of politics has always been in the IP from the very beginning.

16. IP BLEEDING – The IP starts to hemorrhage money, as long time customers begin to abandon the IP in droves.

17. CUSTOMER BASE OBLITERATION – The customer base is utterly destroyed, leaving behind only the small handful of SJWs who don’t make any purchases.

18. THE END – The new incarnation of the IP comes to an end. Since the majority of the customer base has abandoned it, there’s no more controversy or discussion about it. It’s over. The best case scenario is that the original IP is largely forgotten with the exception of a few die-hards who still carry the torch. The worst case scenario is that the new incarnation of the IP overwrites the original, and the original IP is forgotten altogether and overshadowed by the new incarnation in all future shill media mentions.

19. MIGRATION – The SJW is primarily interested in popular IPs that have a large audience, which can serve as a vehicle to spread their political message as widely as possible. Therefore, the remaining SJWs jump ship from the decimated IP, to devour a new IP that is popular and undergoing a transitional phase that they can barnacle themselves to through entryism.

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20. REBIRTH – The process begins again, in the newly targeted IP. If normal creators have jumped ship from the targeted IP and start fresh in their own endeavors, SJWs will chase them down on the internet and in real life, to endlessly harass them in an effort to destroy their ability to make that new effort a success. The new effort will be maligned with the help of the SJW legacy media.

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I'd say the number of SJW in our society is greater than you think. The consumer base for SJW products is actually quite big, though they are quite young (so.... don't be a SJW CEO if you sell shavers).
I'd also argue that most of non-sjw are not that bright, and, given enough time lapse, they do end up buying the most recent rendition of the sjw-hijacked IP products.
Both new ST series are extremely SJW-friendly - the gay to non-gay crew ratio is nearly 50%. At some point, we'll see a legit gay ST rendition, where non-gays will be a minority (that's when it will fail, I think).

I do agree that sjw should create new IPs rather than hijack old ones, but we live in the remake era - creativity is shunned, while remakes are money makers. There's sufficient evidence that sequels of most popular IPs are a big hit as well, so here we are.

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I'd say the number of SJW in our society is greater than you think


LOL that's not how you spell "Trump supporters", I bet you were one of those people that believed that Hillary had a 99% chance of beating Trump.
The beauty of it is is that Trump supporters aren't necessarily Republican, but more like rational thinking people, ie realz > feelz which is the total opposite mindset to the SJW groupthink.

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In my opinion, both Trump supporters and Hillary supporters are equally moronic - and no, I'm not a Bernie bro.

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I am right with you!! The supporters on both sides are equally dumb and irrational.

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A sad tale. I don't mind creators of either political stripe but the current trends line up very well with your post. It is a very low point in behavior for the Left. Thankfully, this doesn't shine on the less popular IPs so there are still some honest ones delivering quality entertainment. A shrinking category.

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Have some MC Gold, sir! 🥇

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Guess you were one of those folks who supported Charlotteville attacks and Praises Donald Trump wow People deserve to have a voice and you're mad you got fanservice in TROS wow stop living in the past and be more forward-thinking you

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You are afflicted with a mental disorder known as "Trump Derangement Syndrome." How did that impeachment turn out for ya? LMAO!

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Im liberatartian i beileve in equality for all also I applaud mitt Romney being a smart politician for once not letting the Radical Republicans or Dems getting to him im not voting for Trump or whomever the libs select(Unless its Tulsi ) both parties are radical impeachment or not idc dude and is a radical and idiot

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"Im liberatartian"
How can you be Libertarian when you can't even fvcking spell it?

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Oh you mean where the girl died and wasn't hit by the car due to video evidence and she actually died because she was about 400 pounds and any stress including running for a happy meal would have put her in the morgue?

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oh look another Trumper Boomer

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Sorry not a boomer thanks for assuming millennial coomer.

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well your trumper enjoy your neo- nazi leader reign wihich will be over soon

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Yep it'll be over in 2024 and the democrap party will continue to collapse and then the next republican will be voted in 2024...hoping by 2028 won't be a single trigglypuff SJW left.

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This stuff is brilliant observation.

I noticed it in the 90s.

I used to be a huge reader and started to notice that science fiction and fantasy novels were moving away from having a strong male lead. Soon, I stopped reading because so many books had female lead characters, but were written by men. I though the characters terrible for that reason, they were men in thought and action, but with a female name. That then started happening in many movies back then. It was the tiny "kickass" female being up giant guys, etc and that became obnoxious quickly.

What I want to know is, how is all of the stuff you noticed so sweeping?

I am a creative person, I paint, I have written several novels, and there is no way I'm going to accidentally create the same types of situations that everyone else has. That does not happen with creative people. It does happen if you're a writer and you are issues assignments.

For instance, some writers work for companies and they are "employees" and the publisher will say "vampires are hot and you MUST write as vampire novel" and that's not art exactly. Meanwhile, some authors are creative and will dream up their own original story.

As I mentioned, I find it amazing that nearly ALL movies, TV, and books that are fun and creative have gone this feminist route. Creatively, it is impossible.

I got banned recently for saying who I think it is, but I think there's a conspiracy to weaken the public by the people who control the media. OR, it's something like the CIA. They have bankrolled movies in the past and so why not? But, I can't think of a government motive unless again, it's to take the fight out of males through confusion and pressure from women.

What is your thought on why this is so wide spread?

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This interview from a KGB defector from 20 years ago explains what has been going for the last 50 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA

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I'm watching now.

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He was wrong about some things.

Thomas Jefferson, Franklin, and Paigne, but especially Jefferson, wanted free healthcare, free schooling, etc for all the people. He wrote about this in his collection of letter. The ideas got defeated by other rich people involved in the formation of the county.

The idea there is that rich people/royalty will maybe have an original member of quality. So, maybe the first king was an awesome and ingenious guy. But, his family after him did nothing great, were average, and maybe far worse but because they are part of that family, they stay rich and powerful. The rich families have the money to promote their average people and idiots. Meanwhile the founding fathers believes in the "Natural Born Genius" which meant that great people pop up in poor families, to really rotten families, etc and are oppressed due to birth. Jefferson wanted to support everyone with basic needs, healthcare, etc so that natural born geniuses wouldn't have to struggle to survive and could get to work soon.

Jefferson also believed that all the wealth of rich people after death should go to the state. And, that all people should be given land because that's the basic way to make money.

All of that is a Communist revolution. And some people call the American Revolution a preCommunist one.

Now, almost all European states have what America was supposed to have.

So, America turned out fucked up and does not offer equality. The idea of equality is MUCH older than Marxism.

I believe the conspiracies to subvert the culture are due to the mideast religious group that controls our media. They are a hate group and are supremacists. It is in their psychological interest to destroy families, etc to promote their own.

I recently read that Koreans are obsessed with reading this hate group's "religious" texts because they would like to be sinister dominating money makes. I was shocked.

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I noticed it too. The 'wokeness' in books started in the early 90s and increased during the following 20 years. In movies, it arrived 10-15 years later. In Anime, I have noticed the pattern increasing during the 2000s, reaching a peak in 2005-2010 and heavily decreasing in the last 4-5 years.

I use to play some little game when I read a novel: I try to date the novel using the level of wokeness as a carbon-14 test. Usually I can guess the year it was written with a 3-4 years error. Last time, this weekend. I was reading 'Wamphyri' from Brian Lumley. The novel is not woke, so I guessed it was written before the 90s. However, the main character shows some annoying moral righteousness, and then you had the nasty antagonist portrayed as vicious, violent and unpleasant, a guy who spends the whole time hating, hating a lot.

It's the same character pattern you can find in woke character archetypes, but here the nasty character... is Russian instead of the usual western white male in post-90s works, while the moral one is the British one. My guess was the novel was written in late 80s, I said 87 or 88.

I checked the year, 1989. One year error. Not bad for my woke-14 test. But as an interesting fact, the pattern was already there.

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With regard to the causes, I don't think it's a conspiracy or anything similar, though. I think Wokeness is spreading the way religions do. Every religion tries to control media and education, because it's the most effective way to obtain new converts. But it's not something organized, it's more like the natural development of a religious cult.

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The Brian Lumley vampire novels certainly aren't woke, but they don't have a strong male hero either. But anyway, I don't even read novels anymore because most have a female hero, written by a man, and I hate those characters.

Perhaps there's books out there but I have stopped looking.

However, I like your idea about this being a cultural semi religious thing, but I still don't know. For instance, I used to do a lot of paintings and I have written several novels, for fun. They are hard to get published and I have crazy hours working in my field which I enjoy, but still I wrote them. I wrote and painted what I wanted to. People who have read my stuff said they could tell I wrote it. So, I can't imagine a whole giant group of people writing the SAME THING over and over. It does not seem possible given the creative process.

I believe authors are being told what to write or they will not get published.

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What does IP mean? Can't you just call it a "franchise?"

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It means Intellectual Property. No, I'm not dumming down my posts.

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Ok, because normally the term "IP" makes me think of computer locations, not Intellectual Property.

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When I hear IP, I think of Independence Port in City of Heroes.

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You spelled 'dumbing' wrong.

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This is amazing. You should put this on a blog so people can share it on twitter and facebook.

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I can see what you mean by all this, and it makes me very sad about what's happening to beloved franchises out there these days :`(.

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Can we tax this dude every time he writes SJW? We could all afford a first class world trip with the profits.

BTW, I think you forgot the first point

1: Uptight conservative ruins everyone's anticipation of a new show by writing a 50 page manifesto on how SJW's are ruining franchises on the basis of a new show he hasn't even seen yet.

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2: SJW attacks critic of SJWs in attempt to gaslight.

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Tell these embittered dykes and morons to fuck off!

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Tell these social INjustice dykes to fuck off...

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They have already taken over, they won.

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