Vigilant Citizen

Vigilant Citizen is a website that is dedicated to discovering the hidden "symbolism"(?) in the popular media, usually involving the Illuminati. The outlet is heavily socially Conservative and is always talking about how Socialism is taking over the world [1] So really, it's Infowars but for popular media.

Not to be confused with The Vigilant Christian
Some dare call it
Conspiracy
What THEY don't want
you to know!
Sheeple wakers
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Religious crankery

Articles on Vigilant Citizen wouldn't be out of place on CBN. [2] [3] Vigilant Citizen makes Pat Robertson jealous with the amount of moral panic and pearl clutching.

The problem with "symbolism"

Most of the "symbolism" isn't even remotely related to Freemasonry at all (conspiracy theorists consider Freemasons and the Illuminati to be the same.) For example, the Pentagram, while mistakenly related to Satanism, is actually a Pagan symbol. The magical thing about symbolism is it's very subjective, so while everyone else sees a stupid music video, Vigilant Citizen sees the impending Satanic apocalypse [4]

"Sources" for the crankery

Most of the articles on Vigilant Citizen refer to "Project Monarch" and "Sex-kitten programming," which are terms that were used by promoters of the Satanic Ritual Abuse conspiracy theory. Brice Taylor,[5] Cathy O'Brien and Fritz SpringmeierFile:Wikipedia's W.svg popularized these terms amongst conspiracy theorists.

gollark: Yes.
gollark: The WHY which esobot supports is the nonJIT version.
gollark: WHY (the compiler) is very fast. Code it outputs is not fast.
gollark: Basically, the WHYJIT compiler reads your code, adds a busy loop and makes a shellscript containing that code and the entire C compiler which, when run, unpacks the C compiler, uses it to compile the C, and executes the output.
gollark: Also, it has a JIT version.

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References
  1. The Economist 2015 Cover is Filled With Cryptic Symbols and Dire Predictions A magazine cover proves the end times are near
  2. Beyoncé Accused of “Extreme Witchcraft” by Ex-Drummer
  3. “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” Will Be Extremely Satanic
  4. The Blatant Occult Symbolism of “Up” by Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert
  5. http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/11/1196-brice-taylor.html?m=1
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