This is somethings I've always wondered at. Why do people give time, attention and money to grifluencers? It really amazes me. Recently some self proclaimed Trad Catholic Conservative E-girl got outed as a adulterous hypocrite, to keep it simple, she was one of those 'trad egirl influencers' and got married to some sucker, claimed to be a virgin while posting online against pre-martial relations, made him wait for marriage, all while sleeping around with her boss who was a married man... this is all public information and the details are much much worse.

Firstly, I feel really bad for the man she married, on one hand no one should have to go through such a horrible thing, on the other hand, why did this Catholic man marry an e-girl?

A broken clock is still right twice a day and I think this quote by pearl davis is relevant (even though she is not someone you should take advice from on many things)


Basically why would a traditional catholic man marry a women who does this things? It doesn't make sense, if she has a big social media following (big red flag she likes attention), posts inappropriate (big red flag) pictures of herself, has claws (big red flag) etc then why would you believe her self proclaimed 'tradnes'. And this is not the first time some 'trad' grifter has done this. I don't follow any of these people but when they implode and the truth comes out I tend to hear about it. This problem with fake Catholic e-girls is not new, this is like the 5th or 6th time now...

And it's not just about the e-girls, there are plenty of grifluencer men who claim to be trad/conservative or whatever, but their own actions/words should tell people the opposite. So why do people bother watching their podcasts, donating them money etc? It's as if these superficial liars are a perfect magnet to attract lukewarm surface level trads.

And I know this is a problem because I tend to hear negative comments against 'trad larpers' or 'trads wives' because they all get exposed as fakes and the normie internet populace mistakenly believes that these grifluencers are actually trads which in turn gives real trads a bad name.

But there is a bit of truth to the insult of 'trad con' because many so called trads do not act like it, etc ladies dressing immodestly for mass (more so in sspx/indult). A lot of guys are turned away from the Church because of this, people who are supposed to be examples of good Catholic virtue instead seem not too different from secular people.

This person predicated it, but yet why do so many fall for these psy ops?

Because they put their faith in human beings instead of putting their faith in God. All politicians today are "false messiahs" and all of these online political commentators are just "gatekeeping shills" but that doesn't stop most people from "voting", "subscribing", and "donating money" to these slimy con artists.

Even many Traditional Catholics foolishly follow "theological grifluencers" like Michael Matt, Chris Ferrara, Taylor Marshall, and Matt Fradd. Allegiance and support for these pieces of human garbage by the gullible laity will never end until the gullible laity stop looking to them for any solutions and stop listening to their commentary on the "latest pointless negative news stories". The "stories" themselves are just meant to provoke anger in people who follow them. Then when the people get angry, they desperately cling to anyone who is publicly angry with the stories too (e.g. Matt, Ferrara, Marshall), only these "theological grifluencers" aren't really angry. They pretend to be angry so their gullible lay subscribers/supporters continue to follow them. 

The gullible laity see, hear, or read something by these master manipulators and think to themselves: "Hey, he's right! I'm glad he let me know about this [insert whatever pointless negative news story that is being discussed at the moment]! He feels just like I feel! I like this guy because he tells it like it is so I'm going to subscribe to his channel so he keeps me informed of the bad stuff going on!" 

And so these Catholic grifluencers get richer and richer, the pointless negative news stories keep coming and coming, and nothing ever gets any better. Everything only gets worse but NOW these grifluencers have the gullible laity HOOKED on their every commentary. So now the LAST THING these so-called "Catholics who care and just want to bring you the news" want is for things to get better. That's because the grifluencers THRIVE on EVERY latest negative news story, whether it's theological or secular. This is their charade and they know it. It's the gullible ones who don't know it but every Catholic who notices and then breaks away from their charade brings the Matts and the Marshalls less and less money. 

Does anyone think that Catholic grifluencers are any different from secular/political grifluencers? I hope not.

BTW: Sam Seder is an arrogant and insufferable (((Marxist))) grifluencer but the only thing he was good for was videos of him refuting the talking points of Libertarians who would call into his show. Those videos can be watched for free online anyway.

I'm not entirely sure that they do.  I believe that they create a "perception" of popularity and large following for certain individuals who are effectively "on the payroll".  If anyone were in fact a real threat to them, they have 100 ways to get rid of them (discredit them, honeypot them, blackmail them, threaten them, plant child porn on their computer and perp walk them out the door, and -- as a last resort -- kill them) or else 100 ways to reduce if not entirely eliminate their influence by way of many different types of shadow-banning, using algorithms to make some people un-follow you (and they don't notice) and never having you show up in any of the "For You" type streams on X which keep switching to be the default view.

Then, there are SOME weak-minded types who fall either for the arguments or the personal charisma of the grifter, or else get sucked in by the "lemming effect", aka human respect.

But I don't even think they care if 95% of the public are "onto them".  So long as they make the 95% THINK they are only in the minority, they're too afraid and/or unable to organiza against them.  And they don't even mind if 50% of that 95% figure this out, that they really aren't in the minority, since they then get demoralized by ... "haha, we know that you know that we did 9/11 or raped and murdered children, but not a darn thing will be done about it and you're impotent and have to just watch is thrive and flourish".