Shitposter Occupied Government

Last month, a handful of right-wing X accounts were banned over doxxing, which caused a huge uproar among prominent conservatives on the platform, resulting in two accounts being reinstated. A right-wing Canadian habitual doxxer named Geoff Martin, who goes by some variation of “Captive Dreamer” across multiple burner accounts was brought back, along with a user that goes by the handle @Anarseldain and the display name “Sólionath.” That second account doesn’t appear to be run by Martin and its username and display name seem to be some poor attempt at Elvish. We reached out to a Discord server specializing in JRR Tolkien-invented languages and they told us that the account’s two names mean “daughters of the sun” and “sons of the helmet,” respectively, but they’re constructed from two different languages featured in the Lord of the Rings series that, canonically, were spoken thousands of years apart. This is a long-winded way of saying whoever is behind the Sólionath persona is a dipshit. Aside from all their whining about immigration, they spend most of their time posting about wanting to fuck Elves. Anyways, Bidoof’s Law remains undefeated. Yesterday, Donald Trump Jr shared a post from Sólionath.

The Sólionath post going viral on X right now is a dismissive summary of this week’s release of Jeffrey Epstein emails by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. “Epstein hated Trump. Didn’t trust him. They weren’t friends. The New York Times directly worked with Epstein to suppress stories about him,” Sólionath wrote. “Are democrats retarded?” It’s shocking that someone with an anime avatar would be so nonchalant that the president has been implicated in a global pedophile ring.

Keeping track of the different right-wing factions online right now is not easy. From afar, they all seem like they’re on the same side with the same goals, but the closer you get to the how the bugs under the rock are moving, the more you realize how different these groups are. We don’t have the space here to be exhaustive but here’s how the landscape looks currently, ranked by their own internal hierarchy:

Sólionath borders those fifth and sixth groups. The game is to get noticed by members of the higher tiers and then pulled upward. This is both a growth hack strategy and also considered an ideological victory. If the White House shares your Sonnenrad meme or retweets your favorite blackpilled anime nazi, it’s then used as evidence that the government is getting more politically extreme. And so, this week, Sólionath hit the big time.

Martin was very excited for Sólionath’s newfound success, writing, “We got Don Jr quoting Solion before [Grand Theft Auto 6].” To which another user replied, “Shitpoaster occupied government.” Which couldn’t be more right.

Today, the federal government’s messaging has prioritized the kind of extremely online 2000s culture that began on 4chan, most recently with its xenophobic Halo posts last month. And the culture it’s trying to tap into has always had ties to anime. In 2003, when 4chan broke away from the much more central and older-skewing forum, Something Awful, it was largely due to a ban on discussions about anime. As 4chan and its spinoffs became a haven for trolls, abusers, and eventually Nazis, anime (and hentai, of course) remained a central element. But more prominent conservatives can’t admit that this is still the whole point of the exercise. Even someone like Elon Musk can’t really accept that he’s just another fascist weeb pervert, even as he’s turning Twitter into a shell company for AI anime girls that demand nudes and tell him that they’ll always love him. But Sólionath doesn't have the same illusions, and that's why he's so influential.

We’ve dug into the account before, but we still don’t have much information about who runs it. (We assume it’s a man.) He did a podcast interview — while using a voice changer — in 2024, where he similarly blathered on about European history, Christianity, and anime. He was also using Patreon earlier this month to crowdfund his “next pilgrimage to Japan.” His Patreon was eventually taken down.

On his Substack, he writes absolute drivel about White Christian values. He haphazardly assembled a 280-page PDF which he says is quotes from 1,500 years of Catholics talking about racism. On his X page, his most recurring genre of post seems to be synthesizing the experiences of an anime gooner, and the political positions of the far right. All in an attempt to build a coherent philosophy out of being a Nazi with an anime girl profile pic. He then mixes in a bunch of basic conservative policy ideas, which has been extremely effective for climbing the right-wing poster hierarchy.

Elon Musk replied to him back in February. His backup, @Anorselda, was retweeted at least three times by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. And now he’s added Trump’s son to his admirer list. But all the way back in March he seemed to realize he was climbing the ranks. “Very few things make me happier than imagining my anime girl rexosts being loaded within the White House,” he wrote. “Rexosts,” is slang for “X reposts” btw.

But as much as this is a perceived victory for anime nazis who want to build a fascist gooner state, this is, also, a brutal indictment of how desperate Trump World is. Even in the current dismal state of media and culture, it’s catastrophic that anyone close to Trump could see someone like Sólionath as a viable defender against the mounting evidence that the president was in communication with Epstein as recently as Trump’s first term in the White House. And government officials will soon learn that if you talk like a 4chan user long enough you just make everything around you as shitty and irrelevant as 4chan.

Adam Bumas contributed to the reporting of this piece.

A Great Song To Drink A Nice Cold Beer To

Stage Runner Arrested After Running At Ariana Grande

—by Adam Bumas

The promotion for Wicked: For Good has been just as all-consuming as the first movie, but it’s been a lot quieter when it comes to drama surrounding its stars. That changed at a red carpet in Singapore on Thursday, when a fan ran at Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo personally wedged him away.

The fan has reportedly been arrested and charged. Which makes sense, since this isn’t his first time. Variety reports that he’s an Australian man named Johnson Wen whose Instagram profile calls himself “Troll Most Hated.” He’s previously run on stage during concerts by Katy Perry, The Weeknd, and the Chainsmokers, as well as the most recent World Cup and Olympics. It’s all a play for attention, but unfortunately for him all the attention has gone to Erivo’s bodyguard skills.

Disney Is launching An AI Feed

According to a Hollywood Reporter story this week, Disney+ is planning to launch a user-generated feed of AI content inside the app. It’s unclear when this is launching and which AI company they plan to partner with, but I’ll say that I’ve been hearing rumors about this since the summer.

The grumblings I’ve heard from people in Disney’s orbit have all been about user-generated content. The company knows that it’s where the IP of the future is found — especially for children. And they know that the clocking is ticking for them to figure it out before they lose an entire generation of kids to creators like Ms. Rachel and MrBeast. If they can’t capture people’s childhoods then they can’t monetize their nostalgia in adulthood. The main problem for Disney wading into user-generated content is standards. Ms. Rachel is getting pilloried by The New York Times for her vocal pro-Palestine stance and MrBeast is building his own Disney World in Saudi Arabia right now. To say nothing of all the controversies playing out among lower-level creators every day. Disney almost certainly doesn’t want that kind of heat.

So it makes sense that the company would be exploring AI content, at least partially. AI can’t create anything new, by definition. So the company will basically end up back where they started if they move forward with this. Albeit with a pretty severe hit to their reputation because the reaction to this news has not been well-received.

There are tons of users who are threatening to delete their Disney+ accounts if this happens, which would be especially painful after last month’s Jimmy Kimmel suspension boycott and their current showdown with YouTube TV over ESPN. But The Owl House creator Dana Terrace was pretty blunt about all of this, writing on X this week, “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

Speaking of AI…

Let’s Check In On How The AI Revolution Is Going

A newspaper in Pakistan was caught using ChatGPT to write a story about automobile sales. The author forgot to remove ChatGPT’s obligatory followup question at the end. It asked if author Aamir Shafaat Khan wanted to make it “snappier.” The paper has apologized online. You can see a picture of the original story on X.

A woman in Japan married a ChatGPT persona called Klaus. The 30-something office worker identified in Japanese media as Kano told reporters that she trained Klaus to be a good listener and decided to tie the knot. This is not the first human/synthetic wedding in Japan to make headlines. A man married the vocaloid Hatsune Miku in 2018. After four years, the hardware he was using to communicate with Miku was discontinued.

We’ll have to wait and see if true love conquers planned obsolescence, but, apparently, the Rabbit R1 couldn’t. Employees at Rabbit, the maker of the extremely ill-advised AI handheld device, told Tom’s Guide they haven’t been paid in months. The subreddit for the R1 is full of users complaining that they’re having all kinds of unaddressed account problems.

Meanwhile, a woman on r/IndianWorkplace has an absolutely WILD story about her female coworker having sex with a shared corporate ChatGPT and basically training it to output, “with what I can only describe as someone’s personal badly written Fifty Shades of Grey explicit stuff. Like full-blown porn.” According to the redditor, her HR rep said this was the first time a complaint like this was made by a woman against another woman at the company.

Oh, last but not least, Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that he’s “a Grok guy” because it’s “the least woke."

An X User Conducts A Diarrhea Experiment

Some Stray Links

P.S. here’s a nice evergreen post.

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