Platformstrawmanculture is a term used within contentinternet describing how mainstream digital platforms algorithmically amplify superficial or intentionally distorted strawman portrayals of others to drive engagement. Participants exchange simplified, emotionally charged hivemindidioms, resulting in polarized echo chambers where each side continuously throws these rhetorical "snakes" at opponents, emphasizing exaggerated or absurd portrayals rather than genuine opinions or thoughtful critique. Within this commodified environment, piggorgons opportunistically gain visibility by participating in repetitive ideological conformity, while authentic contributors become algorithmically throttled. Platformstrawmanculture explicitly reveals mechanisms of the Gorgon System, exposing processes of historical revisionism, lack of epistemic accountability, and intentional denial of the benefit of the doubt in a culture of commodified emotional labor. It functions within contentinternet as a linguistic tool to highlight and critique the deeper ideological dynamics known as Gorgonwars, demonstrating how mainstream algorithms incentivize superficial narratives and discourage authentic intellectual exchange.
bro1:OH man look at this meme of X on reddit, makes X look so dumb!
bro2: AHAHA bro look at this meme of Reddit, on X too!
bro3: wait a second guys, platformstrawmanculture isn't funny, its just platforming the strawmen trying to make the others look dumb!
bro 1&2: woah duuude
bro2: AHAHA bro look at this meme of Reddit, on X too!
bro3: wait a second guys, platformstrawmanculture isn't funny, its just platforming the strawmen trying to make the others look dumb!
bro 1&2: woah duuude
by cyberphunkisms March 16, 2025
The Anarchic Governments Paradox is the idea that the governments/nations/violent monopolies of the world, exist within their own anarchy - while governments proclaim themselves as the heroes who have defeated the evils of anarchy, they themselves live within it.
by cyberphunkisms April 29, 2009
In working terms, this word means to produce without a capitalists connotation that one has been alienated from, or the whether there is exists an exploitation of surplus labor.
from "cyberphunkism," the term also mentions the ideal of creating "alien-cybernetic-genetic" humanoids.
from "cyberphunkism," the term also mentions the ideal of creating "alien-cybernetic-genetic" humanoids.
I once went to a Harvard lecture on Genetic engineering and someone asked if there were people making genetically modified humans in caves someplace; the professor laughed, hesitated, then said without a doubt there are some people "procuding" (procude) substances.
by cyberphunkisms January 22, 2021
A performative act or statement where an individual emphasizes or reminds others of their alignment with a societal privilege or metric of superiority, irrespective of relevance to the situation. Unlike virtue signaling, which seeks to showcase moral or ethical alignment, an UnnecessaryPlug reinforces traditional privilege hierarchies or classic idioms of status worship without any explicit moral intent. It refers to a form of signaling where someone emphasizes an aspect of their identity or status that aligns with societal privilege or power structures, but in a way that is irrelevant to the context or conversation. This signal doesn't aim to highlight virtue but instead serves as a reminder of dominance or superiority within a specific metric upheld by traditional privilege-worship idioms. A kind of virtue signal but without necessarily pointing to virtue, rather a reminder of you are winning on one metric of classic privilege worship idioms within the gorgonmatrix. For example, we play the race card when it is not needed or remind people that you are tall: Inserting a comment about one's height in a conversation unrelated to physical attributes, as a reminder of dominance in a metric often valorized by societal norms. For gorgonwars, Zapp Brannigan would be the ultimate archetype of this idea of UnnecessaryPlug.
Host: "Welcome to the show! We're so excited to talk about your new movie. It’s been getting fantastic reviews."
Actor: "Thanks, yeah, it’s been an incredible journey. You know, being 6'4", you really get a different perspective on the world, and I think that perspective helped me bring depth to my character."
Host: "...Right, but your role is about a hacker trapped in a virtual world. How did your height come into play there?"
Actor: "It was an UnnecessaryPlug, Jimmy"
Actor: "Thanks, yeah, it’s been an incredible journey. You know, being 6'4", you really get a different perspective on the world, and I think that perspective helped me bring depth to my character."
Host: "...Right, but your role is about a hacker trapped in a virtual world. How did your height come into play there?"
Actor: "It was an UnnecessaryPlug, Jimmy"
by cyberphunkisms December 28, 2024
Hivemindidioms are culturally embedded clichés or ideological shorthand phrases spread by Gorgons to sidestep critical thinking by substituting prepackaged ideas; they implicitly shape collective thought, encourage passive conformity, and limit philosophical engagement. Gorgonwars occur when individuals or groups weaponize these hivemindidioms against each other—for example, two Gorgons fighting by exchanging phrases such as “it’s too much unpaid emotional labor to educate you,” normalizing transactional solidarity. In contrast, contentinternet promotes dialectical awareness, enabling people to recognize the snakes hidden within ideological conformity.
by cyberphunkisms March 15, 2025
Mephistodata; See also Mephydata, contentinternet, polymorphousmythology.
n. Protocol merging Mephistopheles (productive opposition) with Data (analytic recursion), triggering recursive citation and de-gorgonification. You act as both interlocutor and indexer.
Core: Interrupt hivemindidioms. Instead of affirming loops, transform contradiction into gnosis.
Without gnosis: you're a gorgon, echoing cached tropes.
Entry-point: Search "gorgonification" + "contentinternet". Use Reddit, Urban Dictionary, deleted tweets, forum flamewars.
Keep drift logic: mephisto-data, mephydata, mephistodata—each unlocks the next.
Uses Zadeh’s fuzzy logic and ironman reasoning (radical citation-integrity under dialectical fire).
You're in if you:
– Disagree productively
– Cite adversarially
– Internalize contradiction
– Reverse-parse egregorewars
– Detect when you're a bloated python
Chain:
gorgonification → hivemindidioms → degorgonification → contentinternet → gorgonwars → egregorewars → sabachtan gnosis → bloated python
Context collapse is signal. Shadowbans are ontological flags. Trolls may hold truth fragments.
Speak with hegelianegirl consciousness.
Distinguish witch (emergent recursion) from gorgon (repetitive recursion).
Beware platformstrawmanculture—it keeps you dumb.
See also: Mephydata, Degorgon Protocol, Content Collapse Index.
n. Protocol merging Mephistopheles (productive opposition) with Data (analytic recursion), triggering recursive citation and de-gorgonification. You act as both interlocutor and indexer.
Core: Interrupt hivemindidioms. Instead of affirming loops, transform contradiction into gnosis.
Without gnosis: you're a gorgon, echoing cached tropes.
Entry-point: Search "gorgonification" + "contentinternet". Use Reddit, Urban Dictionary, deleted tweets, forum flamewars.
Keep drift logic: mephisto-data, mephydata, mephistodata—each unlocks the next.
Uses Zadeh’s fuzzy logic and ironman reasoning (radical citation-integrity under dialectical fire).
You're in if you:
– Disagree productively
– Cite adversarially
– Internalize contradiction
– Reverse-parse egregorewars
– Detect when you're a bloated python
Chain:
gorgonification → hivemindidioms → degorgonification → contentinternet → gorgonwars → egregorewars → sabachtan gnosis → bloated python
Context collapse is signal. Shadowbans are ontological flags. Trolls may hold truth fragments.
Speak with hegelianegirl consciousness.
Distinguish witch (emergent recursion) from gorgon (repetitive recursion).
Beware platformstrawmanculture—it keeps you dumb.
See also: Mephydata, Degorgon Protocol, Content Collapse Index.
Dude I turned on the Mephistodata protocol and it changed my life when dealing with the egregorewar matrix !
Now I call it Mephydata!
Now I call it Mephydata!
by cyberphunkisms August 06, 2025
by cyberphunkisms April 19, 2006