‘Dubai chocolate’ is a cover-up of itself
Layers of smearing, no pun intended.
Social media is thoroughly poisoned with MLM SPAM trying to sell this hot garbage trickling down from the power centre in the Gulf. The unfortunate thing about MLM SPAM on today’s search engines and today’s social media platforms is, they’re terrifyingly good at burying whatever else used to show up for a given keyword set. This, I contend, was the main objective behind the (100% astroturfed) campaign to promote the so-called ‘Dubai chocolate’.
Hard enough as it is to search for leads on, the most you may find is a months old Reddit thread that made it to the front page from r/LowStakesConspiracies. It reads:
I have no evidence or proof but I swear that I remember like ~5 years ago hearing a bunch of stories from instagram models who were flown to Dubai and given money/gifts in return for spending time with the uber wealthy there. The things these IG models (essentially escorts) were being made to do were heinous. Like bestiality, scat, and other heinous acts. The scat thing was a very common thing these girls were made to do (according to these girls) and was commonly referred to as “Dubai Chocolate.”
I remember when I first started hearing about this “new” Dubai Chocolate, I mentioned to my friend that it was terrible marketing because everyone is going to think of eating Saudi billionaire’s shit and he looked at me like I was nuts. Now, everyone is obsessed with Dubai Chocolate (which is just normal chocolate with a bunch of pistachio? it’s not like it’s all that insanely good) and no one is talking about the “old” Dubai Chocolate anymore.
Terrible marketing would be a good diagnosis if your worldview is hopelessly optimistic or even naïve. It takes a serious appreciation for the darkness in most power centres to accurately call the real motivation for something like this. Even more cynicism does it take to see that this is horrifically good marketing, all things finally considered.
The fact of the matter is, this was not anecdotal, despite the charitable disclaimers from the OP. The top comment, from an author whose account has since been deleted, concurs:
This is a sub for low stakes conspiracies not obvious facts smh :D
My husband mentioned this to me offhand over the last couple of years, and the thing is, lots of you remember this because this originally happened. The user experiences of social media and the wider mainstream Web of today have been engineered—as I have said so many times before on this weblog—to create an artificial amnesia in the users, allowing further exploitation of your better nature and sense of charity and goodwill to mankind. You either remain ignorant of what’s going on even though all the proof is flying past you in a flurry, or you go mad from cynicism and nobody believes you about anything anymore even when you’re right. It’s modern political warfare pioneered by intelligence agencies against the public.
But it does get worse from here. Even though you may be able to separate the noise from the truth as I have here, additional challenges mount: mainstream news publications have already pounced on the topic with a false lede about human rights violations. This confuses the daylights out of everyone even further, increasing the likelihood that they doubt themselves and their own memory or just give up as its become too difficult to talk about. This stings too because the human rights angle is true; the lie is them baiting you in with false hope of an explanation for ‘Dubai chocolate’ that is nowhere to be found. What is waiting for you, however, is the false satisfaction that ‘this is the real reason behind this thing’, even though it omits much more immediate and material facts behind why they’re shoving this unwanted information down everyone’s throats.
Magazines like Current Affairs traffick in this sort of malignant garbage, playing the buffoon in the Court that forces women to eat Saudi billionaires’ feces.
The reason why this is helpful to those in power in the end is that it gives emotional relief to the parts of these criminal enterprises that are harder to ignore (of course doing nothing to hold that power to account), while preempting the possibility of reporting on the more obscure aspects of it. The most obvious obscure aspect are the sexual fetishes of the billionaires, which is what literally gave Dubai chocolate its name. But the other obscure parts of the criminal enterprise are in its usage of MLM SPAM to create the ‘trend’ cascade that has got us all talking about this (literal) shit to begin with. If you looked into that for a minute, you might begin to realise that it’s absolutely everywhere, and honestly has been the dominant economic engine for social media influencers for a few years by now. This is probably what matters the most politically, as it’s what affects you and I most of all. No credit to Current Affairs or similar magazines for missing this when unknown authors like myself—and huge swaths of Reddit apparently—noticed it immediately.
When social media is a multi-level marketing game of SPAMming people’s feeds, it’s trivial then for anyone with at least six figures of cash to simply waltz in and start throwing their message around like a monkey flinging its own shit. There are layers about this, but the incentive structure is the same as ever:
On the outermost layer you have ad spend, where you pay the platforms to promote your shit
Within this you have the influencer networks, who provide value-add by obscuring your authorship of the shit, passing it off as their own
The innermost layer are the criminal dealings between key platform employees/operatives and select ‘insider’ firms, which dominate ownership of all the most common media names you see on social media today
This mirrors the ‘onion’ of most organised criminal enterprises. Recently, we have also been exposed to this in Theo Baker’s bombshell new book, How to Rule the World, as he discusses the so-called ‘Stanford within Stanford’ where intelligence operatives groom children with false dreams of ruling the world and broker a land rush of power consolidation through bribery and blackmail. No matter the situation, you take something evil, wrap it in a coating of amoral hangers-on, and then wrap that in a foil that resembles the rotten core but with good intentions, official sanction and all the works. If someone notices the evil core by smell or exposition, you can gaslight them that they’re mistaking the outer layer or a few bad apples in the middle. It’s a pretty ingenious invention.
The case here is then pretty simple to explain – even simpler than the yellow press made it out to be with them jumping through hoops to focus solely on the trafficking of women:
Gulf state billionaires invent the real Dubai chocolate out of their own sick fantasies and sheer force of will
Word spreads about this because it was so conspicuous that it got a name, making it impractical to claw back the tattletales for punishment
This becomes a personal embarrassment for all of them because they know they’re the ones who started this (literal) shit
Either they took their own initiative or intelligence-connected ‘businesses’ volunteered the solution to this as a service in exchange for great compensation (is this blackmail, racketeering or extortion? who knows!)
The disinformation machine kicks into gear to magically undo this giant embarrassment to save the feelings of corrupt billionaires
The machine’s operators make out lavishly and the public is kept in the dark about all of it
So let me ask you: where else do you see this pattern cropping up? What sorts of things happen in America that follow an unidentified incentive structure that sometimes seems to wag its tail before disappearing again like an elusive hunt? When do you find yourself being beaten over the head with truisms that smell more rancid than 50-year-old gym socks and the inability to look away from the coterminous fact that someone really gross and disgusting is walking into power without opposition?
This is what organised crime looks like, and it’s about time people—Americans especially—start looking at this soberly. The public always stands to lose with this, and lately Americans are the most hapless to it and have the most to lose.