Unmasked: man behind cult set to replace QAnon

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Dave Troy 🇺🇸
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OK, this is good. One less idiotic metastasizing thing to deal with. "Sabmyk" is just a weirdo Berlin artist. Am sure it will take a while to burn out, but this is how these things are killed.

Unmasked: man behind cult set to replace QAnon
The creator of the rapidly growing ‘Sabmyk Network’ is revealed to be a Berlin art dealer with a record of media manipulation
theguardian.com
12:08 PM · Mar 20, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/20/revealed-man-behind-fast-growing-cult-becoming-the-new-qanon-sabmyk-network


The mysterious individual behind a new and rapidly growing online disinformation network targeting followers of QAnon, the far-right cult, can be revealed as a Berlin-based artist with a history of social media manipulation, a prominent anti-racism group claims.

Since Donald Trump left the White House, QAnon’s vast online community has been in a state of flux as it comes to terms with the reality that its conspiracy theories – such as the former US president being destined to defeat a cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles – amount to nothing.

That may explain why significant numbers have turned to a new far-right network, found mostly on the Telegram messaging app, that is growing quickly in the UK and globally and has amassed more than one million subscribers so far this year.

Called the Sabmyk Network, like QAnon it is a convoluted conspiracy theory that features fantastical elements and is headed by a mysterious messianic figure. Since its emergence there has been widespread speculation about who that figure might be. The person who first posted as “Q” has never been positively identified.

This week the British anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate will unmask Sabmyk’s leader, who it claims is 45-year-old German art dealer Sebastian Bieniek. It says Bieniek – who has not responded to questions from the Observer – has a history of creating online conspiracies and even wrote a book in 2011 called RealFake that detailed a campaign to deceptively promote his work.

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[Lunabell]

1. I suppose there's money to be made in leading a cult.

People are so easily led. I'm so thankful to be a critical thinker and a skeptic.

[Biophilic]

2. Maybe if there are enough of these idiot creations they will all just drown themselves in

worthless information. We humans have a tendency to do exactly that. Over extend until we kill ourselves off. Perhaps this could happen sooner with these people rather than later.