Narrative Warfare: Arkhaven On The Attack

This looks interesting.

The Project Asteroid Production Leader puts out a call for more volunteers.

Impact Day approaches!

The asteroid is picking up momentum and increasing in size. A few brave souls are needed to help us guide the asteroid toward its intended target.

We need the help of a few volunteers with Photoshop (and ideally Illustrator) and some experience using Photoshop. You'll be expected to put in at least six hours work per week, but if you want to spend a little more time helping push back in the culture war then that's great.

Some of the work is basic but time consuming, whereas other aspects are more technical. We value people with little experience but a strong drive to help more than people with little determination but a lot of skill. If you'd like to be part of helping take down the dinosaurs of comics publishing then contact us for more information.

Email voxday AT gmail DOT com if you're willing and able, and I'll forward your contact information to the project leader.

This refers to some project at Arkhaven Comics that the Supreme Dark Lord, Vox Day, says will be a devastating blow to the converged competition.

I would like for that to be true, but we'll see soon enough.

Vox Day isn't stupid. He knows full well the scope and scale that his enemies operate at, and his Arkhaven operation has to work like an insurgency to be effective against it. If he is not aware of how cult-like the fandom for the competition is by now, then he hasn't paid attention whatsover--despite it being in his interests to do so--to how brands operate as cults and use cult psychology to attract and retain loyal paypigs who will eat the slop no matter how foul it tastes or how much they dislike it.

Therefore I think what is coming isn't so much a move to attract those Brand Cultists as it is an attack on their idols. Imagine, if you will, a narrative attack that reframes the Brand Cults' idols as low-status ineffecutal losers that have to grift to survive because they're tools of a managerial class playing the idols' fans as suckers. That's well within Vox Day's capabilities, as well as those of his collaborators.

Imagine a narrative that puts plain all of the contradictions in the fake mythology of these idols, and smashing like a hammer. That too is within Arkhaven's capabilities.

I expect, however, that what actually hits will be something I did not anticipate and devastates like the sucker punch it is meant to be. Imagine fighting a MMA guy that cross-trained as a stage magician, and he's using his magic trickery to rope-a-dope you out of position to get one-shot to the mat. That's what I think will happen here.

In any event, I look forward to what this turns out to be, and I hope that I am not disappointed.