A NOTE ON THE VIBE SHIFT VS THE DISCORD VIBE
A NOTE ON THE VIBE SHIFT VS THE DISCORD VIBE
Hardly any compromise at all.
THE SNITCH ASS INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
We entered Super Secret Sleeper Cell and some other jettisoned enclaves between midnight and dawn and graffitied one thing on the upper wall of the ‘shadowland’ before leaving: ‘SEE YOU IN TREBLINKA BITCH’. Around it a kind of glossy wreath of clues has since grown:
gossip harvesting
doxxic-value speculation (sterile doxxing as praxis nihilism)
paywalled self-slave mentality (paying the Other to produce no content for a reformist meme movement in an off-site gloom)
an intense obsession with angelicism as opposed to any actually existing reformism (i.e. angels are the Marxian base)
lower quality discourse than the clearnet (nonintuitively so)
#superrare logical gems (a discussion of angelicism clones and GPT-3 languages for example, are the clones actual AI and why not?)
an extreme obsession with Dimes Square (centred around Honor Levy, and including a fabular and Disney-like conspiracy tying together Dimes, Mathew Barney, Ella Emhoff and the Cremaster Series, plus Caroline Biden and H.L.)
that is, the discussion often gravitated around a kind of enamoured gimped out myth-making and active concentration on what from the Discord’s pov should be a secondary and not primary source (angelicism is focused on, but not cheugy ass reformism)
the persistently expressed idea that angelicism is a unified authorship (lone gunman theory of 21st century semiotics) betraying a necessarily pessimistic belief in the absence of any possible artistic or musical telepathy (reformism itself, retro-Marxian extinct Leftism, etc)
finally, an interest in ‘dead internet theory’ but/and only glimpses of how this would tie in with an angelicity of the internet itself (angelicism as post-matter iteration already fully automated)
The general vibe across recent Discords was on first glance a kind of wish fulfilment zone for cacklers with mods presiding over a top layer encouraging with varied and customizable ‘like’ buttons and essentially refusing to interrupt the pure data (gossip) accumulation cascade. Why not? Gossip is now more than ever quantic power.
In some ways the spaces are admirably formal and lethally soft-data-obsessed. That is, we may agree that such spaces are necessarily beyond the retro-ethical and instead act as architectural sifting grounds for new memeographic forms, badly. These are fake gutter-tier Platonic khori. So much is already known.
In other words, at one level of the supposedly new interface, the gateway to the alternative to the clearnet is being presented at first glance as nothing but neural accumulation and gossip-euphoria freeplay. Create a Discord and sit back and watch as it links up with subscriber lists on Patreon and allows one to create an illusion of $momentum. But when it comes to metrics as an indicator of anything like ‘influence’ in all its high-grain multi-dimensionality, we can always recall that Adam Schiff has 2.9M followers on Twitter. Influence itself the wildfire of angelicism for all time.
INFLUENCE IS RESONANCE, NOT QUANTITY, NOR JUST QUALITY
The Discord servers self-present like a sprawling open chat version of DMs and yet there’s something about the one-on-one in dms that is contractual (meta-ethical), retaining more traces of the Levinasian face-to-face even though these traces may be equally anonymous and wild.
We assumed in advance that the Discord holding bays were a place of retreat from the noise of the internet, a kind of facing door for what takes place after legacy media institutions round out their fade. Having sent a query, we can confirm this is no different to dreaming that the unconscious and its vulgarities will vanish overnight after a violent political revolution. We know from experience the opposite is the Real. It is an ongoing matter of entertainment that most ‘leftists’ in the mode of these spaces are still literally hallucinating an external communist trajectory (let’s call it ‘web3’ for now).
The labour structures here are in any case explicitly Nixonian rather than those of the final klout entourage of Saint-Just, except the ratfucking never takes place. Endless dossiers of interrupted surface interpretations are opened out and then abandoned. There is none of the mystery and endless whoosh-romance of dms. There is no atmosphere of the analytic demand. There is only sense-disorientation and a secret love of angelicism, no sense of magical conversion, only paid-for-research-for-an-absent-Other.
THE VIBE SHIFT DOESN’T NEED A DISCORD NETWORK
In terms of the the discord vibe vs the vibe shift scene vibe (angelicism, Honor, Wretched Worm, Walt, Sierra, Contain, Janie, paul (from bible), angelicellectuals, the clones, soph, Buum, Poolboy, lowiqrafman, Dean Kissick ascended, etc and so on) there are several big differences, as already indicated. When the vibe shift worked as a magical cavalcade in early June 2021, there was almost no co-ordination between the parts. There was neither research nor ‘do not research’. What’s limiting about ‘research’ or its negation is the lack of faith in something like an actual telepathic singularity (Ereignis).
It seems to us that elsewhere there is a kind of inner plummeting because nobody actually believes that work is still possible. This is why the doxxing axis in Discord is a played out remnant from the cancel culture wars of ~2017-18 and why when faced with the angelicist block, they can do nothing to demean all real powers of theoretical gossip in this century as it is. Empty gossip accumulation as vacant metric power can therefore be separated out from intelligere angeli. The vibe shift is an endless pure prayer power of open secrets. Nobody was ever their identity, before or after this.
Removing the sort of magical sovereignty of anonymity would not only be inactive as a gesture, as has already been shown, but a severe underestimation of AI (angelic intelligence as Gestell and challenge). We can call it internal communism, the only kind available, as opposed to the cruel meme optimism of reformist interventionisms of last century. For us, we who do not exist at all, you could say there is no intervention. But there is a shift, as was already done and seen. It’s why the overall effect is of tadpoles nibbling at the Eternal Seraphic Piranha.
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