Before Candice Owens took on a role as a pundit she was going to be a gamergate personality a la Anita Sarkeesian. At the time, her goal was to advocate and create a company and software that "ends anonymity on the internet," making everything you post trackable back to your real life name, in order to stop the evil bad sexist Gamergate video game players who were making fun of Zoe Quinn. Then suddenly and magically she became a "leading" MAGA voice, only to turn on Trump at the drop of a hat. In my opinion she's nothing but a social engineer and I would not be the least surprised if she were connected to some sort of intelligence agency.
I remember her software thing, she said she was being attacked for it, calling it anti-doxing? if so that does fill in some blanks. Plausible for sure. Her and VR are typical "forced compromise" characters, where you support them and then they are super-vocal about issues where you don't agree, forcing you to compromise or else reticent to support anything openly again, twice shy, jaded. So the op works, even when it fails.
I think that maybe initially they were like that, but then when Trump got in in '16 they did a major reallocation of resources. Owens, Alex Jones, and a whole host of other hangers-on did nothing but parrot Trump as hard as they could for a few years, all (I think) in the hopes of stealing some of the loyalty so that the movement weakened when they turned on him. Almost all of these e-celeb types do it, and it makes the less savvy MAGA supporters have doubts.
Before Candice Owens took on a role as a pundit she was going to be a gamergate personality a la Anita Sarkeesian. At the time, her goal was to advocate and create a company and software that "ends anonymity on the internet," making everything you post trackable back to your real life name, in order to stop the evil bad sexist Gamergate video game players who were making fun of Zoe Quinn. Then suddenly and magically she became a "leading" MAGA voice, only to turn on Trump at the drop of a hat. In my opinion she's nothing but a social engineer and I would not be the least surprised if she were connected to some sort of intelligence agency.
I remember her software thing, she said she was being attacked for it, calling it anti-doxing? if so that does fill in some blanks. Plausible for sure. Her and VR are typical "forced compromise" characters, where you support them and then they are super-vocal about issues where you don't agree, forcing you to compromise or else reticent to support anything openly again, twice shy, jaded. So the op works, even when it fails.
I think that maybe initially they were like that, but then when Trump got in in '16 they did a major reallocation of resources. Owens, Alex Jones, and a whole host of other hangers-on did nothing but parrot Trump as hard as they could for a few years, all (I think) in the hopes of stealing some of the loyalty so that the movement weakened when they turned on him. Almost all of these e-celeb types do it, and it makes the less savvy MAGA supporters have doubts.