from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIpQiCv5h1M&lc=UgwPmVmXXTv16hXRZmp4AaABAg Ross Scott of Accursed Farms https://www.accursedfarms.com/ Highlighted comment @Accursed_Farms 3 years ago People have been emailing me about this. I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but I feel like if I don't comment I'll never stop getting emails about it. Keep in mind, I have a bachelor's in criminal justice, which emphasizes a focus on facts and evidence. I watched the video. The entire thing is hearsay by an anonymous person with no evidence posted to substantiate any claims. Instead, there's a claim, along with some loosely related fact that doesn't prove anything. It would be like if I said I caught a fish as big as a car, but he got away, but I give lots of details about a fishing spot, history of the area, some of the locals who live there, characteristics of bass, etc. It sounds related, but it doesn't substantiate anything about my claim. Now sometimes evidence is lacking in true claims, but this doesn't strike me as particularly plausible either. Once you start drifting into implying that a cult owns tv, media, news, videogames, it suggests to me a lack of understanding how how major media industries work. Cults tend to be sloppy and recruit a lot of emotionally unstable people. This is not a recipe for successful long term secrecy. Once you get into hundreds or thousands of members, allegedly at the top of industries worth billions of dollars, the probability starts approaching zero. There are cover-ups and bad behavior in major industries ALL THE TIME, but they're often in plain site with trails of evidence with a broken system that doesn't bring charges forth. The thing about bad people doing bad things is they tend to KEEP doing them until some of the skeletons in the closet start spilling out. Look into most major industries and you can find claims of abuse, settlements for wrongdoing etc. There are lots of records out in the open, but they usually don't enter the public eye until there's a major screwup or some other factor bringing things forward. If the poster's claim is true, there should be corroborating evidence all over the place. Reality tends to be boring. I imagine Iowa isn't an exception. The thirst for more interesting explanations to mundane events is something as old as humanity. I'm a big believer in Carl Sagan's quote "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." I'm seeing multiple extraordinary claims here with no evidence. Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is usually the correct one) is another useful tool. I look at it like this, what's more likely: A. There was a Pagan cult rising in power infiltrating the entertainment industry (worth hundreds of billions at the time), with chapters across the country and beyond manipulating the populace with no evidence of its existence until over 20 years until an anonymous person finally leaked something on 4chan with no evidence. B. Someone on the internet made something up for attention and tried to make it sound plausible enough for 4chan, or else maybe wasn't the most balanced person and convinced themselves into connections that aren't really there and forming a narrative from it. It's not impossible the poster is correct, but I would bet on option B myself. In my own experience, I've seen roughly ten thousand times more impressionable people likely to believe things that aren't well substantiated than I have blow-your-mind conspiracies. I post plenty of "what if" scenarios in my videos, but they're meant in fun and just seeing how far one can run with an idea. The person who posted this isn't trying to be fun, he's trying to be serious (or present the appearance of it anyway), so I'm giving a serious answer. My impression is this sounds like disinformation to me. I feel like we have enough of that these days already. If it's not, it certainly doesn't hold up well against critical analysis. To make up for being a buzzkill, I wholeheartedly recommend the movie "The Conspiracy" from 2012, it might be my favorite cult / conspiracy movie.