вЂњI had been writing the same kind of stuff long before QAnon existed,вЂќ he said, вЂњbut now that QAnon exists, it seems like QAnon.вЂќ For example, he published blind items about the NXIVM cult, in which women were branded and referred to as slaves, long before its leaders were indicted for sex trafficking in 2018. When I spoke with Enty recently, he suggested that readers may now simply see his style of celebrity gossip in a different light, given their cultural immersion in right-wing conspiracy theories. He far more often writes up standard gossip, about cheating and drug use and embarrassing mishaps, and he has never endorsed the view that Democratic politicians and Hollywood celebrities are blood-drinking pedophiles who deserve to be executed. Enty has also shown an interest in some of the same famous people who fascinate QAnon devotees-for instance, the Swedish DJ Avicii, believed by conspiracy theorists to have been murdered because of his knowledge of a child-trafficking ring.Д«ut this represents just a sliver of EntyвЂ™s offerings. ( PajibaвЂ™s Kayleigh Donaldson referred to his site as вЂњQAnon CentralвЂќ back in May.) Enty started writing in 2006, and many of his blind items have been lurid and impossible to prove there is plenty of murder and Satanism, and he once had a three-part story about an A-list actor who would purchase huge pieces of fresh fish, then wrap them up and throw them out in public bathrooms. The idea that Enty has been pulled into the QAnon conspiracy theory had been floating around for a while.

Read: Have you heard? Gossip is actually good and useful But according to the story, вЂњgossip fans and QAnoners share a core belief: that behind closed doors, celebrities are doing unspeakable things.вЂќ Some have apparently been disturbed by the siteвЂ™s recent, gossipy posts about Bill Gates, and by others alleging that Hollywood stars are participating in a вЂњrape club.вЂќ вЂњItвЂ™s really disturbing to see this right-wing conspiracy-theory bullshit show up in gossip,вЂќ one former fan told Notopoulos. Now it seems to come with responsibility.Д®arlier this month, BuzzFeed NewsвЂ™s Katie Notopoulos reported on concerns among longtime fans of the anonymous, omniscient-seeming blogger Enty, who runs a popular blind-item blog called Crazy Days and Nights. Reading and sharing gossip used to be a mindless escape. WeвЂ™re experiencing an epistemological crisis, smart people keep telling me, so you have to wonder whether the habit of passing around possibly made-up information about famous people and their secret lives is contributing to whatever that precisely is. Maybe celebrity gossip has a different character now, amid ceaseless worries over disinformation and conspiracist thinking. No one on the planet could possibly be harmed by this hypothetical exchange with the woman who cuts my hair. For example, letвЂ™s say I told the woman who cuts my hair (whom I am always trying to entertain) that Jay-Z supposedly threatened to have Chris Brown murdered because Chris Brown keeps claiming to be part of the Illuminati, and Jay-Z is often associated with the Illuminati, and also Jay-Z doesnвЂ™t want anyone to think that he would ever hang out with Chris Brown even if they were both in the same, centuries-old secret society, which theyвЂ™re not. The idea that celebrity gossip could ever be dangerous is silly. Gossiping about celebrities is fun because you donвЂ™t know them personally and therefore you canвЂ™t hurt their feelings or directly ruin their lives.

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