Ever wondered where these rumours about the demise of Star Trek come from. A YouTube has spent the last few months laying an elaborate trap for some of the most vocal Star Trek detractors whose channels are are full of videos that have info from anonymous sources.
What a surprise that they simply spout anything anyone tells them. Absolutely fascinating.
I’m going to counter-argue this. Full disclosure I subscribe to Doomcock and Midnight’s Edge channels, I find them informative, this does not imply I believe or even endorse their narrative.
Firstly, they always qualify their ‘insider leaks’ where they have not been able to independently verify. That doesn’t give them a pass, but nor does it give anyone who watches a pass to blindly believe them either. In the recent video Doomcock even specifically mentions that as it’s from 4Chan, given history, it is not to be trusted, but ‘other’ insiders have led him to believe there may be some credibility.
Secondly, not all leaks turn out to be true, this is simply the nature of the game. But in terms of previous leaks on Star Trek, they’ve sometimes been right, and certainly in terms of Star Wars they have mostly been right. Therefore you can’t conclude that all Doomcock’s insider leaks are ‘made up’ and without merit.
There has to also be an understanding of how this all works. All insiders are often anonymous, it’s tremendously difficult to verify, and it’s impossible to implicitly trust the information. This is because leaks have different purposes. Disgruntled employees with an agenda, representatives trying to leverage a position, an indirect way of revealing insider information, to achieve an internal goal, deliberate misinformation to stir trouble. Leaking information can equally be a goal of disclosing incorrect info, as opposed to correct information. It depends on the agenda. In fact, if you think about it an anonymous insider who gives enough credibility based on knowledge and clues to employment is more than likely a planted story, because genuine leaks, the leaker would be massively disposed to avoid being identified given the nature of the information, and repercussions.
Likewise, a stitch-up like described in this video, has its own agenda. Deliberate traps like this create nothing positive. Creating a lie to get someone to repeat the lie, so you can call them a liar, and therefore assume that everything else they say is a lie is just completely ridiculous FWIW I’ve seen this guys videos before, and I find his channel bland and boring. Here he’s fallen into the bitter trap, of using his platform to attack a competitor on the same platform, and this is just a downward spiral, he’s already lost the game.